This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. It offers a study of how contemporary attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, citizenship, globalism and multiculturalism go beyond nationalism and reproduce key aspects of a nationalist imaginary.
This is a book about the difficulties of thinking and acting politically in ways that refuse the politics of nationalism. It offers a study of how con...
In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of 'accountability'. In this innovative new work, Steele shows how we might recognize how an alternative form of accountability in global politics has been present for some time, and that, furthermore, this form's continued presence remains one of the most politically powerful, if not endurable, possibilities for resistance in the near future.
In fields such as politics, international relations, public administration and international law, there is a rapidly growing interest in the topic of ...
This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency particularly those who endeavour to embark on grounded empirical research by rendering explicit some key challenges, tensions, dilemmas, and confluences that such endeavours elicit. Indeed, the contributions in this volume reflect the growing tendency in governmentality studies to shift focus to empirically grounded studies. The volume thus explicitly aims to move from theory to practice, and to step back from the more top-down governmentality studies approach to one that examines how one...
This edited volume seeks to provide guidance on how we can approach questions of governing and agency particularly those who endeavour to embark on...
This work seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of the international dimension of trauma and memory and its manifestations in various cultural contexts.
Drawing together contributions and case studies from scholars around the globe, the book explores the international political dimension of feeling, suffering, forgetting, remembering and memorializing traumatic events and to investigate how they function as social practices for overcoming trauma and creating social change. Divided into two sections, the book maps out the different theoretical debates and...
This work seeks to provide a comprehensive and accessible survey of the international dimension of trauma and memory and its manifestations...
This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenomenology of war. Recent public debate about war has leaned heavily on a just-war tradition dating back many centuries. This book examines...
This book raises questions about the just war tradition through a critical examination of its revival and by juxtaposing it with a literary phenome...
This 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 suicides (including a number of public self-immolations) and media battles.
This work focuses on a subaltern local sovereignty movement called 'Telangana' in India. Over the last ten years, this movement has engaged in a massi...
International intervention is not just about saving human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity s place in the universe.
This book explores the Western secular beliefs that underpin contemporary practices of intervention most importantly, beliefs about life, death and the dominance of humanity. These beliefs shape a wide range of practices: the idea that human beings should intervene when human lives are at stake; analyses of violence and harm; practices of intervention and peace-building; and logics of killing and letting die. Ironically, however, the Western secular desire...
International intervention is not just about saving human lives: it is also an attempt to secure humanity s place in the universe.
Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and i ek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting the implicit violence within political and economic structures. But in an era of international terrorism and counter-terrorism, should we not also reverse the question to ask what is political about violence? Using interviews with ex-militants from Italian leftist struggle of the 1970s and the Cypriot anti-colonial militancy of the 1950s, Heath-Kelly explores the political utility of violence. Studies of conflict and international politics rarely...
Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and i ek have long challenged the liberal separation of violence and politics by highlighting th...
Globalization, Difference, and Human Security" seeks to advance Critical Human Security Studies by reframing the concept of human security in terms of the thematic of difference. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, each chapter is framed around the following questions:
What are the principal interconnections between cultural disintegration and new registers of ethnic, religious, or sectarian conflicts?
What are the contradictory effects of top-down globalization and the emergence of transcultural identities?
Is multiculturalism an adequate...
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Globalization, Difference, and Human Security" seeks to advance Critical Human Security Studies by reframing the concept of human security in ter...
