Interventions
About the Book 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:
- Jenny Edkins ([email protected]) and
- Nick Vaughan-Williams ([email protected]).
‘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
Democratic Futures: Re-Visioning Democracy Promotion
1st Edition
By Milja Kurki
January 29, 2013
Democracy promotion has been an influential policy agenda in many Western states and 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 ...
Postcolonial Theory and International Relations: A Critical Introduction
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanjay Seth
January 29, 2013
What can postcolonialism tell us about international relations? What can international relations tell us about postcolonialism? In recent years, postcolonial perspectives and insights have challenged our conventional understanding of international politics. Postcolonial Theory and International ...
Alternative Accountabilities in Global Politics: The Scars of Violence
1st Edition
By Brent J. Steele
December 18, 2012
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 ...
Politics of Urbanism: Seeing Like a City
1st Edition
By Warren Magnusson
December 14, 2012
To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political ...
Celebrity Humanitarianism: The Ideology of Global Charity
1st Edition
By Ilan Kapoor
December 04, 2012
In the last two decades especially, we have witnessed the rise of ‘celebrity’ forms of global humanitarianism and charity work, spearheaded by entertainment stars, billionaires, and activist NGOs (e.g. Bob Geldof, Bono, Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Bill Gates, George Soros, Save Darfur, Medeçins Sans ...
Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn
1st Edition
By Michael Shapiro
October 18, 2012
This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways. Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and ...
Insuring Security: Biopolitics, security and risk
1st Edition
By Luis Lobo-Guerrero
August 15, 2012
Insurance is the world’s largest economic industry, providing a form of security that more than triples global defence expenditure. However, little is known about the form of security insurance provides. This book offers a genealogical interrogation of the relationship between security and risk ...
The Postcolonial Subject: Claiming Politics/Governing Others in Late Modernity
1st Edition
By Vivienne Jabri
August 11, 2012
This book places the lens on postcolonial agency and resistance in a social and geopolitical context that has witnessed great transformations in international politics. What does postcolonial politics mean in a late modern context of interventions that seek to govern postcolonial populations? ...
Beyond Biopolitics: Theory, Violence, and Horror in World Politics
1st Edition
By Francois Debrix, Alexander Barder
July 26, 2012
Beyond Biopolitics exposes the conceptual limits of critical biopolitical approaches to violence, war, and terror in the post-9/11-War on Terror era. This volume shows that such popular international political theories rely upon frames of representation that leave out of focus a series of extreme ...
Europe's Encounter with Islam: The Secular and the Postsecular
1st Edition
By Luca Mavelli
April 18, 2012
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...
International Relations and Non-Western Thought: Imperialism, Colonialism and Investigations of Global Modernity
1st Edition
Edited
By Robbie Shilliam
February 23, 2012
International Relations, as a discipline, tends to focus upon European and Western canons of modern social and political thought. Alternatively, this book explores the global imperial and colonial context within which knowledge of modernity has been developed. The chapters sketch out the ...
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geographies of the Nomos
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephen Legg
December 15, 2011
The writings of Carl Schmitt are now indissociable from both an historical period and a contemporary moment. He will forever be remembered for his association with the National Socialists of 1930s Germany, and as the figure whose writings on sovereignty, politics, and the law provided justification...