This paper uses the work of Samuel Beckett to reflect on the in-between positionality of International Political Sociology (IPS) and offers a field guide to help scholars, students, and thinkers embrace this disposition more energetically. It makes the case for a more balanced transdisciplinarity that keeps the field of inquiry open while attending to the international, the political, and the social at the same time and in equal measure. The power of this in-between approach is that it forces thinkers in IPS to constantly look at the horrors of our contemporary world without turning away. Through the ambivalent position of the “happy wreck,” this paper explores the need to do something about these horrors (e.g., diagnose, act, intervene) while fully acknowledging that such actions always produce new forms of violence and exclusion. To help thinkers in IPS inhabit this challenging space of inquiry more confidently, the paper makes four suggestions: (i) broadening our emotional responses to the horrors of the world; (ii) resisting resolution through non-cathartic dispositions; (iii) pursuing slow research to contest dominant rhetorics of crisis and emergency; and (iv) re-imagining shared conditions of vulnerability.

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等待国际政治社会学：生活在两地之间的实地指南

本文利用塞缪尔·贝克特（Samuel Beckett）的工作来反思国际政治社会学（IPS）的中间地位，并提供实地指南，以帮助学者，学生和思想家更加积极地接受这一倾向。它要求更加均衡的跨学科性，使探究领域保持开放，而同时又平等地参加国际，政治和社会活动。这种介于两者之间的方法的强大之处在于，它迫使IPS中的思想家们不停地审视着我们当代世界的恐怖。通过“快乐残骸”的矛盾立场，本文探索了对这些恐怖行为（例如，诊断，行动，干预）采取行动的必要性，同时充分认识到此类行动总是会产生新形式的暴力和排斥。为了帮助IPS中的思想家更自信地居住在这个充满挑战的探究空间中，本文提出了四个建议：（i）将我们对世界恐怖的情感反应扩大；（ii）通过非导流的方式抵制决议；（iii）进行缓慢的研究，以抗衡危机和紧急情况的主流措辞；（iv）重新设想脆弱性的共同条件。