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 antinomies, contradictions, paradoxes, dilemmas, and inconsistencies dogging their approaches. A serious critical assessment of the logic behind these strategies is however lacking. This new work addresses this issue by seeking to reformulate IR theory in an original way.
Arfi begins by providing...
International Relations (IR) theorists have ceaselessly sought to understand, explain, and transform the experienced reality of international polit...
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 of peace. The operation of those schemes has given rise to a curious, if not innocent, association between practices of statehood and practices of risk, which are theorised here under the label of 'insurantial sovereignty'. The book draws on the British experience of using maritime insurance as an...
Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governmen...
In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of 'celebrity' forms of global humanitarianism and charity work. This text examines this new phenomenon, arguing that celebrity humanitarianism legitimates, and indeed promotes, neoliberal capitalism and global inequality."
In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of 'celebrity' forms of global humanitarianism and charity work. This text examines thi...
This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as 'postcolonial' states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated.
Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a 'restarting of time'.
Through his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and...
This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as 'postcolonial' states in August 1947 ...
This text offers a critical analysis of gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami context in Indonesia. It challenges the terms of the debate in gender mainstreaming and disaster reconstruction efforts and offers an important contribution for the discussion of what 'feminisms and disasters' could be.
This text offers a critical analysis of gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami context in Indonesia. It challenges the terms of the deba...
The volume enacts deconstructive challenge to Strauss' political philosophy which unsettles the fundamental assumptions it relies upon. In doing so, it exposes the securitising imperative underpinning Straussian thought and the Straussian interventions.
The volume enacts deconstructive challenge to Strauss' political philosophy which unsettles the fundamental assumptions it relies upon. In doing so, i...
Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the heart of the global political economy. Despite the WTO's centrality and the growing popularity of methods utilizing discourse theory, no other text has yet demonstrated how these two fields of learning can be productively combined. The book seeks to move beyond existing literatures that assume the WTO to be a structure, institution or normative framework, in order to enquire into the discursive processes of identity formation that make the WTO both...
Writing Global Trade Governance operationalises a key post-structuralist methodology in order to expand understanding on the institution at the hea...
This book is an introduction to the field of semiotics specifically directed to students of the Bible as well as to biblical scholars trained in other methodologies. The primary focus is on what semiotics is now-how contemporary scholars actually approach the Bible semiotically. Attention is given to the history and varieties of semiotic theory, because as it has influenced the work of more recent thinkers, and because postmodern reappraisals of semiotics call for rereading of biblical texts. The book is organized according to topics ('Sign', 'Message', 'Text', etc.), which provide a way...
This book is an introduction to the field of semiotics specifically directed to students of the Bible as well as to biblical scholars trained in ot...
Written in an autoethnographical narrative form, this book offers a unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject, in the context of the Bosnian War and its aftermath.
Written in an autoethnographical narrative form, this book offers a unique insight into the complex encounter of researcher with research subject, in ...
