Book Series

Interventions

Series Editor: Jenny Edkins, Nick Vaughan-Williams

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, "knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting" In this spirit The Edkins - Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world recycled in IR's traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA

The series aims to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural and post-colonial traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics.

Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

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Politics and the Art of Commemoration

Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain

By Katherine Hite

Series: Interventions

Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between...

Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
Feminist International Relations

'Exquisite Corpse'

By Marysia Zalewski

Series: Interventions

This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which...

Published March 18th 2013 by Routledge
The Persistence of Nationalism

From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters

By Angharad Closs Stephens

Series: Interventions

This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. The book offers a detailed study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism to go beyond nationalism often...

Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
More Than Just War

Narratives of the Just War and Military Life

By Charles Jones

Series: Interventions

This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many...

Published February 27th 2013 by Routledge
The Politics of Speed

Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World

By Simon Glezos

Series: Interventions

Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...

Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
The Politics of Exile

By Elizabeth Dauphinee

Series: Interventions

Written in both autoethnographical and narrative form, The Politics of Exile offers unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath. Exploring themes of personal and civilizational guilt, of displaced and fractured...

Published January 22nd 2013 by Routledge
Politics of Urbanism

Seeing Like a City

By Warren Magnusson

Series: Interventions

To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political...

Published December 16th 2012 by Routledge
Postcolonial Theory and International Relations

A Critical Introduction

Edited by Sanjay Seth

Series: Interventions

What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International...

Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
Democratic Futures

Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion

By Milja Kurki

Series: Interventions

Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But what kinds of models of democracy do democracy promoters promote? This book examines in detail the conceptual orders that underpin democracy...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics

The Scars of Violence

By Brent Steele

Series: Interventions

In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of ‘accountability’. In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has...

Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge