International Relations and States of Exception : Margins, Peripheries, and Excluded Bodies

ISBN-13: 9780415776943 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 272 str.

Shampa Biswas;Sheila Nair

Opis

International Relations holds a state-centric understanding of global politics and quite literally misses many of the most marginalized populations of the world, unprotected by state discourses and practices.

Drawing on Georgio Agamben’s work on the state of exception and extending his analysis beyond the juridical, this collection highlights the complicated ways in which the logics of sovereignty and capital are reconfiguring global spaces with frightening material consequences for many people around the world, raising issues that need urgent attention.

Focusing on the margins and peripheries of global politics, this volume addresses key issues within international relations including migration, sovereignty, state security, war on terror, globalization, political economy, race and ethnicity, labor, space, culture and identity. It presents theory and sophisticated analyses of how contemporary international relations works through the production of ‘exceptions’, with case studies on political detainees, refugees, asylum-seekers, poor migrants, sweatshop workers, and unassimilated indigenous populations in South and Southeast Asia, Australia, Latin America and North America

This book is an important intervention in critical international relations. It will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, anthropology, critical geography, cultural studies, political sociology and philosophy.

O autorze

Shampa Biswas is Associate Professor of Politics and Director of Global Studies at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A. Dr. Biswas has worked and published extensively in the areas of postcolonial international relations, critical security studies and the politics of development.

Sheila Nair is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University, USA. Dr. Nair co-edited the volume, Power, Postcolonialism and International Relations: Reading Race, Gender and Class (Routledge 2002). She has also written and published on postcolonial human rights and protest movements, nationalism, and Malaysian politics among other topics.