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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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1-10 of 24 results in Interventions

  1. The New Violent Cartography

    Geo-Analysis after the Aesthetic Turn

    Edited by Samson Opondo, Michael Shapiro

    Series: Interventions

    This edited volume seeks to propose and examine different, though related, critical responses to modern cultures of war among other cultural practices of statecraft. Taken together, these essays present a space of creative engagement with the political and draw on a broad range of cultural contexts...

    Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Insuring War

    Sovereignty, Security and Risk

    By Luis Lobo-Guerrero

    Series: Interventions

    Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed to the waging of war and the preservation...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  3. International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis

    By Necati Polat

    Series: Interventions

    International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis is an innovative assessment of the uses of theory in making sense of international politics, opening up new pathways to thinking about the basics of the study area. Insights drawn from an interdisciplinary corpus of critical scholarship are synthesized...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Europe's Encounter with Islam

    The Secular and the Postsecular

    By Luca Mavelli

    Series: Interventions

    In the last few years, the Muslim presence in Europe has been increasingly perceived as ‘problematic’. Events such as the French ban on headscarves in public schools, the publication of the so-called ‘Danish cartoons’, and the speech of Pope Benedict XVI at the University of Regensburg have hit the...

    Published March 13th 2012 by Routledge

  5. Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction

    By Badredine Arfi

    Series: Interventions

    International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international politics. Running through all these attempts is a persistent, yet unquestioned, quest by theorists to develop strategies to eliminate or reduce the...

    Published March 12th 2012 by Routledge

  6. International Relations and Non-Western Thought

    Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity

    Edited by Robbie Shilliam

    Series: Interventions

    International Relations, as a discipline, tends to focus upon European and Western canons of modern social and political thought. Alternatively, this book explores the global imperial and colonial context within which knowledge of modernity has been developed. The chapters sketch out the...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Insuring Security

    Biopolitics, security and risk

    By Luis Lobo-Guerrero

    Series: Interventions

    Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is known about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation

    Agonism, Restitution & Repair

    Edited by Alexander Hirsch

    Series: Interventions

    The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge

  9. Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt

    Geographies of the Nomos

    Edited by Stephen Legg

    Series: Interventions

    The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification...

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge

  10. Politics of the Event

    Time, Movement, Becoming

    By Tom Lundborg

    Series: Interventions

    Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event with the example of 9/11 as an historical event,...

    Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity
    By Vivienne Jabri
    To Be Published June 28th 2012
  2. Foucault & the Politics of Hearing
    By Lauri Siisiäinen
    To Be Published July 10th 2012
  3. Volunteer Tourism in the Global South: Giving Back in Neoliberal Times
    By Wanda Vrasti
    To Be Published August 8th 2012
  4. Cosmopolitan Government in Europe: Citizens and Entrepreneurs in Postnational Politics
    By Owen Parker
    To Be Published August 14th 2012
  5. Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
    By Francois Debrix, Alexander Barder
    To Be Published August 14th 2012
  6. Postcolonial Theory & International Relations: A Comprehensive Introduction
    Edited by Sanjay Seth
    To Be Published August 31st 2012
  7. Deleuze & Fascism: Securitisation, War & Aesthetics
    Edited by Brad Evans, Julian Reid
    To Be Published August 31st 2012
  8. Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition
    By Ted Svensson
    To Be Published August 31st 2012
  9. Interpretive Approaches to Global Climate Governance: (De-)Constructing the Greenhouse
    Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe, Benjamin Stephan
    To Be Published August 31st 2012
  10. Persistent Nationalisms: From Imagined Communities to Urban Encounters
    By Angharad Closs Stephens
    To Be Published August 31st 2012

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