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
Ontology and World Politics: Void Universalism I
1st Edition
By Sergei Prozorov
September 26, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective. Ontology and World Politics presents a new approach to political universalism, grounded in the ...
Theory of the Political Subject: Void Universalism II
1st Edition
By Sergei Prozorov
September 26, 2013
Together these two companion volumes develop an innovative theory of world politics, grounded in the reinterpretation of the concepts of ‘world’ and ‘politics’ from an ontological perspective. Theory of the Political Subject continues the project of reconstruction of political universalism begun ...
Theorizing Post-Conflict Reconciliation: Agonism, Restitution & Repair
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Hirsch
August 07, 2013
The founding of truth commissions, legal tribunals, and public confessionals in places like South Africa, Australia, Yugoslavia, and Chile have attempted to heal wounds and bring about reconciliation in societies divided by a history of violence and conflict. This volume asks how many of the ...
Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to struggle in Latin America and Spain
1st Edition
By Katherine Hite
July 26, 2013
Memorials are proliferating throughout the globe. States recognize the political value of memorials: memorials can convey national unity, a sense of overcoming violent legacies, a commitment to political stability or the strengthening of democracy. Memorials represent fitful negotiations between ...
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis
1st Edition
By Necati Polat
July 08, 2013
International Relations, Meaning and Mimesis is an innovative assessment of the uses of theory in making sense of international politics, opening up new pathways to thinking about the basics of the study area. Insights drawn from an interdisciplinary corpus of critical scholarship are synthesized...
Re-Thinking International Relations Theory via Deconstruction
1st Edition
By Badredine Arfi
July 08, 2013
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 ...
Politics of the Event: Time, Movement, Becoming
1st Edition
By Tom Lundborg
June 21, 2013
Despite occupying a central role and frequently being used in the study of international politics, the concept of the "event" remains in many ways unchallenged and unexplored. By combining the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and his concept of the event with the example of 9/11 as an historical event,...
Foucault and International Relations: New Critical Engagements
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicholas Kiersey, Doug Stokes
May 31, 2013
The recent debate about biopolitics in International Relations (IR) theory may well prove to be one of the most provocative and rewarding engagements with the concept of power in the history of the discipline. Building on Foucault's arguments concerning the role played by the concept of security in...
Feminist International Relations: 'Exquisite Corpse'
1st Edition
By Marysia Zalewski
May 03, 2013
This book offers a contemporary intervention in the field of feminism/international relations. Partly inspired by Surrealism, the book is written in a series of vignettes and draws on a variety of approaches inviting readers in to inhabit the text. It is a politically engaged book, though one which...
The Politics of Exile
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Dauphinee
March 15, 2013
"The most thought-provoking and refreshing work on Bosnia and the former Yugoslavia in a long time.It is certainly an immense contribution to the broadening schools within international relations." Times Higher Education (THE). Written in both autoethnographical and ...
The Politics of Speed: Capitalism, the State and War in an Accelerating World
1st Edition
By Simon Glezos
February 27, 2013
Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant...
Deconstructing International Politics
1st Edition
By Michael Dillon
January 30, 2013
Michael Dillon is internationally regarded for his contributions by political philosophers, international relations scholars and security studies experts, as well as by philosophers more broadly. It is difficult to overrate his importance to the development of critical deconstructive approaches not...