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Interventions


About the Series

The Interventions Series provides a globally recognised forum for high quality, innovative, and interdisciplinary research in international politics. In 15 years, we have published 150 volumes authored or edited by a diverse network of leading scholars across all career stages.

We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working with critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, decolonial, psychoanalytic, and cultural approaches have chosen to make their interventions, and to present original analyses of politically significant topics.

All titles in the Series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, geography, politics, and other disciplines, and provide situated historical, empirical, and textual studies in international politics.

This combination of theoretically-informed, empirically-grounded work is a hallmark of the Series, which continues to shape key debates across arts, humanities, and social sciences.

We warmly invite proposals for a variety of books from both established and up-and-coming authors including: single-authored/edited survey/textbooks; ‘big idea’ research monographs; edited books on cutting edge topics; and the very best doctoral theses converted into research monographs.

We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: please contact us for advice or proposal guidelines.

Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors:

‘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

 

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Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics Rethinking the Ontology of the Political Subject

Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics: Rethinking the Ontology of the Political Subject

1st Edition

By Andreja Zevnik
October 26, 2017

This book aims to re-think the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political, and does so by exploring the potentiality of Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal existence, by focusing on ...

Political Aesthetics Culture, Critique and the Everyday

Political Aesthetics: Culture, Critique and the Everyday

1st Edition

Edited By Arundhati Virmani
October 26, 2017

Political Aesthetics highlights the complex and ambiguous connections of aesthetics with social, cultural and political experiences in contemporary societies. If today aesthetics seems a rather overused term, mixing a variety of historical realities and complex personal states of being, its ...

Politics in Emotion The Song of Telangana

Politics in Emotion: The Song of Telangana

1st Edition

By Himadeep Muppidi
October 26, 2017

The work focuses on a subaltern local sovereignty movement called "Telangana" in India. Over the last ten years, this movement has engaged in a massive political mobilization, including strikes, rallies, work stoppages, occupation of public spaces, electoral contests, 200 and more political ...

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

The Biopolitics of Lifestyle: Foucault, Ethics and Healthy Choices

1st Edition

By Christopher Mayes
October 26, 2017

A growing sense of urgency over obesity at the national and international level has led to a proliferation of medical and non-medical interventions into the daily lives of individuals and populations. This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure ...

Politics and Suicide The philosophy of political self-destruction

Politics and Suicide: The philosophy of political self-destruction

1st Edition

By Nicholas Michelsen
October 13, 2017

Politics and Suicide argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined. It contends that practices like suicide-bombing do not simply embody a strange or abnormal ‘suicidal’ ...

The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism

The Emancipatory Project of Posthumanism

1st Edition

By Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden
August 31, 2017

This is the first book to make the argument for an emancipatory project from within a posthuman framework. Responding to critics, Cudworth and Hobden argue that while some posthumanisms may be less critical, it is possible to develop a political programme from a posthuman perspective. Cudworth and ...

Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa The Case of NATO in Libya

Military Intervention in the Middle East and North Africa: The Case of NATO in Libya

1st Edition

By Susannah O'Sullivan
August 25, 2017

This book contributes to an increasingly important branch of critical security studies that combines insights from critical geopolitics and postcolonial critique by making an argument about the geographies of violence and their differential impact in contemporary security practices, including but ...

Politics of Visibility and Belonging From Russia´s “Homosexual Propaganda” Laws to the Ukraine War

Politics of Visibility and Belonging: From Russia´s “Homosexual Propaganda” Laws to the Ukraine War

1st Edition

By Emil Edenborg
July 13, 2017

In this book, Edenborg studies contemporary conflicts of community as enacted in Russian media, from the ‘homosexual propaganda’ laws to the Sochi Olympics and the Ukraine war, and explores the role of visibility in the production and contestation of belonging to a political community. The book ...

Biopolitical Disaster

Biopolitical Disaster

1st Edition

Edited By Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Marie Wiebe
July 11, 2017

Biopolitical Disaster employs a grounded analysis of the production and lived-experience of biopolitical life in order to illustrate how disaster production and response are intimately interconnected. The book is organized into four parts, each revealing how socio-environmental consequences of ...

Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police

Reforming 21st Century Peacekeeping Operations: Governmentalities of Security, Protection, and Police

1st Edition

By Marc. G Doucet
July 11, 2017

This book considers contemporary international interventions with a specific focus on analyzing the frameworks that have guided recent peacekeeping operations led by the United Nations. Drawing from the work of Michel Foucault and Foucauldian-inspired approaches in the field of International ...

The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

The Political Afterlife of Sites of Monumental Destruction: Reconstructing Affect in Mostar and New York

1st Edition

By Andrea Connor
June 08, 2017

What happens when a monumental thing is physically destroyed? Is its "life" as a socially significant, presencing thing at an end? Or might the process of destruction work to enhance its symbolic force, mediating work and presencing power? In this book Andrea Connor traces the ‘afterlife’ of two ...

Negotiating Corruption NGOs, Governance and Hybridity in West Africa

Negotiating Corruption: NGOs, Governance and Hybridity in West Africa

1st Edition

By Laura Routley
June 16, 2017

Negotiating Corruption demands that we think again about corruption in Africa. It problematises the framing of African corruption as a phenomenon that emerges from a clash between two sets of norms. Moreover, it highlights the colonial legacies of this frame, which situates African corruption ...

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