Books in the Interventions series

This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity.

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-centered approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR).

This volume explores the virtual explosion of narrative writing in contemporary academic international politics.

Researching War provides a unique overview of varied feminist contributions to the study of war through case studies from around the world.

As scholars and publics look for alternatives to what is understood as a violent Western world order, many claim that China can provide such an alternative through the Chinese dream of a harmonious world.

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-centered approach in the discipline of International Relations (IR).

This book re-thinks the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political by exploring the potentiality of a monist ontology in a Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework. It concerns a different ontology and a non-dualist understanding of political and legal being, focusing on the questions: how to think alternative notions of existence and what their political, social and legal implications are? This book will be of interest to postgraduates and scholars working on critical normative ideas in international politics, critical security studies and critical legal studies.

This work brings together critical theorists, artists, and poets using time and temporality as the conceptual framework for investigating a diverse array of experiences and structures of oppression and exploitation in International Relations, focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization, disrupting dominant modes of understanding our present times.

This edited volume draws on the work of theorists who have used biopower as a frame of reference for their analyses in order to examine the ruinous consequences that often result from the (de)regulation of subjects through technologies of power.

This volume draws together some of the leading scholars in the field to examine how Marxism was interpreted in East Asia, how it had its effects on the complex historical processes in East Asian countries.

In this visual age, images and visual artefacts shape international events and our understanding of them. Photographs, film and television influence how we view and approach phenomena as diverse as war, diplomacy, financial crises and election campaigns. This book offers the first comprehensive engagement with visual global politics.

This is a broad ranging introduction to 21st century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives.

This volume argues that while the phenomenon of `emergence¿ was celebrated as the conquest of more authority for Brazil on the global stage, the discourses about Brazil as a global player were also perpetuating a spatiotemporal structure that rewards some societies at the expense of many others.

This volume draws on a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality to explore how EU civil society funding policies depoliticise civil society organisations. It questions whether international civil society funding always depoliticises civil society organisations, as literature on governmentality and international civil society policies argues.

A growing number of scholars have sought to re-centre emotions in our study of international politics. This volume is aimed at filling that gap, proceeding from the assumption that a nuanced understanding of emotions can only enhance our engagement with contemporary conflict and war.

This work seeks to illuminate the various ways in which the management of imperial or hegemonic spaces contribute to the emergence of more coercive apparatuses of state control.

This work focuses on the biopolitical use of lifestyle to govern individual choice and secure population health from the threat of obesity. The characterization of obesity as a threat to society caused by the cumulative effect of individual lifestyles has led to the politicization of daily choices, habits and practices as potential threats.

This work seeks to highlight that an understanding of aesthetic practices is essential to the analysis of politics and political processes

Politics and Suicide draws heavily on the work of Deleuze and Guattari and argues that whilst the historical lineage of suicidal politics is recognised, the fundamental significance of autodestruction to the political remains under examined.

This book re-thinks the way in which the subject is inscribed in the modern political by exploring the potentiality of a monist ontology in a Lacano-Deleuzian theoretical framework.