The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politics, and dismantling the face is also a politics.
This book explores the politics of such diverse issues as images and faces in photographs and portraits; expressive faces; psychology and neuroscience; face recognition; face blindness; facial injury, disfigurement and face transplants through questions such as:
What it might mean to dismantle the face, and what politics this might entail, in practical terms?
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The face is central to contemporary politics. In Deleuze and Guattari's work on faciality we find an assertion that the face is a particular politi...
The aim of the book is to reveal spaces of resistance and contestation through an engagement with political theory, literature and film from the postcolonial world, focusing mainly on the Middle East and South Asia.
The aim of the book is to reveal spaces of resistance and contestation through an engagement with political theory, literature and film from the postc...
The Politics of Speed engages with the struggles over speed in diverse issue areas, including democratic governance, warfare, capitalism, globalization, and cosmopolitanism and transnational activism and, though Deleuze and Guattari are the primary theoretical influences, employs a diverse theoretical canon of both classical (Bergson, Nietzsche, Marx, Schumpeter and Kant, ) as well as contemporary writers (David Harvey, Paul Virilio, Sheldon Wolin, William Scheuerman, Aiwha Ong, Martha Nussbaum, Wendy Brown and Richard Rorty). However, despite this diversity of theoretical and empirical...
The Politics of Speed engages with the struggles over speed in diverse issue areas, including democratic governance, warfare, capitalism, globalizatio...
Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states, 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 support activity, and the conceptions of democracy that democracy promoters, consciously or inadvertently, work with. Such an examination is not only timely but much-needed in today s context of multiple democratic and financial crises. Contestation over democracy s meaning is returning, but how is this...
Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states, international organisations, and amongst many NGO actors. But wha...
The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing India's foreign and security policies as representational practices which produce India's identity as a postcolonial nation-state helps to illuminate the conditions of possibility in which foreign policy is made.
The rise of India as a major power has generated new interest in understanding the drivers of its foreign policy. This book argues that analysing Indi...
The issue of the sensual perception in Michel Foucault's thought has been a source of prolific discussion for quite some time. This work seeks to challenge this portrait by presenting an alternative view of Foucault as a thinker for whom the sound, voice, and listening, the auditory-sonorous, actually did matter.
The issue of the sensual perception in Michel Foucault's thought has been a source of prolific discussion for quite some time. This work seeks to chal...
This title uses a Foucauldian lens to consider the ethics of the scholarly and institutional discourses associated with the apparently divergent market and legal cosmopolitan visions of Europe.
This title uses a Foucauldian lens to consider the ethics of the scholarly and institutional discourses associated with the apparently divergent marke...
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 and brought to bear on key concepts such as sovereignty, the state, peace, law, justice, ethics, and supranationality. The mainstream characteristically dismisses the narrativity that accompanies these concepts as derivative, tending to treat meaning attributable to them as static. The work shows how...
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis is an innovative assessment of the uses of theory in making sense of international politics, opening up n...
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 front pages of newspapers the world over, and prompted a number of scholarly debates on Muslims' capacity to comply with the seemingly neutral and pluralistic rules of European secularity. Luca Mavelli argues that this perspective has prevented an in-depth reflection on the limits of Europe's...
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...
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental rationalities and socio-economic conditions that valorise it as a noble and necessary cultural practice.
Combining theoretical research with primary data gathered during volunteering programs in Guatemala and Ghana, the author argues that although volunteer tourism may not trigger social change, provide meaningful encounters with difference, or offer professional expertise, as the brochure discourse and the scholarly literature on...
This work explores the increasingly popular phenomenon of volunteer tourism in the Global South, paying particular attention to the governmental ra...
