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
Studying the Agency of Being Governed
1st Edition
Edited
By Stina Hansson, Sofie Hellberg, Maria Stern
February 06, 2017
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 ...
The Politics of Haunting and Memory in International Relations
1st Edition
By Jessica Auchter
February 06, 2017
International Relations has traditionally focused on conflict and war, but the effects of violence including dead bodies and memorialization practices have largely been considered beyond the purview of the field. Drawing on Jacques Derrida’s notion of hauntology to consider the politics of life and...
Global Powers of Horror: Security, Politics, and the Body in Pieces
1st Edition
By Francois Debrix
December 27, 2016
Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror’s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror’s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of ...
Ruling the Margins: Colonial Power and Administrative Rule in the Past and Present
1st Edition
By Prem Kumar Rajaram
November 16, 2016
Administrative rule is a type of rule centered on devising and implementing regulations governing how we live and how we conduct ourselves economically and politically, and sometimes culturally. The principle feature of this type of rule is the important question about how things should be arranged...
European-East Asian Borders in Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Joyce C.H. Liu, Nick Vaughan-Williams
November 08, 2016
European-East Asian Borders is an international, trans-disciplinary volume that breaks new ground in the study of borders and bordering practices in global politics. It explores the insights and limitations of border theory developed primarily in the European context to a range of historical and ...
Genre and the (Post-)Communist Woman: Analyzing Transformations of the Central and Eastern European Female Ideal
1st Edition
Edited
By Florentina C.Andreescu, Michael Shapiro
November 08, 2016
This work is a critical intervention into the archive of female identity; it reflects on the ways in which the Central and Eastern European female ideal was constructed, represented, and embodied in communist societies and on its transformation resulting from the political, economic, and social ...
Globalization, Difference, and Human Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Mustapha Kamal Pasha
November 08, 2016
Globalization, Difference, and Human Security seeks to advance critical human security studies by re-framing the concept of human security in terms of the thematic of difference. Drawing together a wide range of contributors, the volume is framed, among others, around the following key questions: ...
On Schmitt and Space
1st Edition
By Claudio Minca, Rory Rowan
November 03, 2016
This book represents the first comprehensive study of the influential German legal and political thinker Carl Schmitt’s spatial thought, offering the first systematic examination from a Geographic perspective of one of the most important political thinkers of the twentieth century. It charts the ...
Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq: Encountering the Abyss
1st Edition
By Aggie Hirst
October 10, 2016
The political philosophy of Leo Strauss has been the subject of significant scholarly and media attention in recent years, particularly in the context of the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Allegations that a group of Strauss-inspired Neo-conservatives intervened in the foreign policy ...
Memory and Trauma in International Relations: Theories, Cases and Debates
1st Edition
Edited
By Erica Resende, Dovile Budryte
October 10, 2016
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 ...
Politics of Violence: Militancy, International Politics, Killing in the name
1st Edition
By Charlotte Heath-Kelly
October 10, 2016
Critical thinkers like Foucault, Benjamin, Derrida and Žižek 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 ...
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations: The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb
1st Edition
By Alina Sajed
October 10, 2016
Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. This book explores the reality of the lives of North ...