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
Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics: Problems and alternatives
1st Edition
By Shine Choi
October 10, 2016
The global consensus in academic, specialist and public realms is that North Korea is a problem: its nuclear ambitions pose a threat to international security, its levels of poverty indicate a humanitarian crisis and its political repression signals a failed state. This book examines the cultural ...
War, Police and Assemblages of Intervention
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Bachmann, Colleen Bell, Caroline Holmqvist
October 10, 2016
This book reflects on the way in which war and police/policing intersect in contemporary Western-led interventions in the global South. The volume combines empirically oriented work with ground-breaking theoretical insights and aims to collect, for the first time, thoughts on how war and ...
The Grammar of Politics and Performance
1st Edition
Edited
By Shirin M Rai, Janelle Reinelt
May 31, 2016
This volume brings together important work at the intersection of politics and performance studies. While the languages of theatre and performance have long been deployed by other disciplines, these are seldom deployed seriously and pursued systematically to discover the actual nature of the ...
Researching War: Feminist Methods, Ethics and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Annick T. R. Wibben
May 17, 2016
Researching War provides a unique overview of varied feminist contributions to the study of war through case studies from around the world. Written by well-respected scholars, each chapter explicitly showcases the role of feminist methodological, ethical and political commitments in the research ...
Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition
1st Edition
By Ted Svensson
April 21, 2016
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 ...
Critical Imaginations in International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Reiko Shindo
February 17, 2016
This exciting new text brings together in one volume an overview of the many reflections on how we might address the problems and limitations of a state-centred approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR). The book is structured into chapters on key concepts, with each providing an ...
Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in Indonesia: Negotiating Normativity through Gender Mainstreaming Initiatives in Aceh
1st Edition
By Marjaana Jauhola
October 06, 2015
This book offers a critical analysis of gender mainstreaming initiatives in the post-tsunami context in Indonesia. Aiming to challenge the terms of the debate in gender mainstreaming and disaster reconstruction efforts, Jauhola offers an important contribution for the discussion of what ‘feminisms ...
More Than Just War: Narratives of the Just War and Military Life
1st Edition
By Charles Jones
September 29, 2015
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 ...
Visual Politics and North Korea: Seeing is Believing
1st Edition
By David Shim
September 29, 2015
In the realm of international relations, there are seemingly few states like North Korea. Whether it is the country’s human rights situation, its precarious everyday life or its so-called foreign policy of coercion and nuclear brinkmanship, no matter what this ‘pariah’ nation says and does it ...
Jacques Lacan: Between Psychoanalysis and Politics
1st Edition
Edited
By Samo Tomšič, Andreja Zevnik
August 31, 2015
A charismatic and controversial figure, Lacan is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century and his work has revolutionized a range of fields. The volume aims to introduce Lacan’s vast opus to the field of international politics in a coherent and approachable manner. The volume is&...
Sexualities in World Politics: How LGBTQ claims shape International Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Manuela Lavinas Picq, Markus Thiel
June 03, 2015
As LGBTQ claims acquire global relevance, how do sexual politics impact the study of International Relations? This book argues that LGBTQ perspectives are not only an inherent part of world politics but can also influence IR theory-making. LGBTQ politics have simultaneously gained international ...
Face Politics
1st Edition
By Jenny Edkins
April 06, 2015
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 ...