Interventions: Time, Temporality and Violence in International Relations : (de) Fatalizing the Present, Forging Radical Alternatives (2016, Hardcover) ebook PDF, MOBI, DOC
9780415712712 0415712718 This book 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 book argues the present as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear and calls for an interruption of final ends and final meanings. The scholars look at different parts of the world to consider the ways people participate in shaping their societies while disrupting the violent strategies of expediency, including laws and democratic institutions that abstract their everyday struggles and, consequently, betray them. Examining these shattering experiences of betrayal provides a way to trace how imaginations become captive and how the "everyday politics of expediency" re-animate a faith that takes people towards a revolution that is neither about redemption or erasure but about a new writing. The authors and artists look at the logics of violence: wars, imprisonments, slaughtering, and increasing levels of unemployment and poverty. They engage with slavery, social death, revolutions, and the temporal transformations wrought by neoliberalism, to analyse how people and things are transformed. This ground breaking new work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial 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 book argues the present as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. Defatalizing the present , or thinking of the present as self-interrupting, irrevocably ruptured, and discontinuous , requires multiple forms of struggle that articulate multiple figures for projects without a telos. It calls for an interruption of final ends and final meanings. The scholars look at different parts of the world to consider the ways people participate in shaping their societies while disrupting the violent strategies of expediency, including laws and democratic institutions that abstract their everyday struggles and, consequently, betray them. Starting with an examination of these shattering experiences of betrayal provides a way to trace how imaginations become captive and how the "everyday politics of expediency" re-animate a faith that takes people towards a revolution that is neither about redemption or erasure but about a new writing. These authors and artists examine the logics of violence: wars, imprisonments, slaughtering, and increasing levels of unemployment and poverty. They engage with slavery, social death, revolutions, and the temporal transformations wrought by neoliberalism, to analyze how people and things are transformed. They look at global uprisings and shattering experiences that have led people to organize against and intervene in repressive mechanisms. If the project of radical transformation demands this disruption and unruliness, and if we are to avoid repeating the expedient institutionalization and appropriations of relations, then defatalizing the present demands an aesthetic politics, including creative theorizations that sustain alternative fragments of imaginations other than the dominant ones. This groundbreaking new work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial studies., Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors - critical theorists, artists, and poets - theorize and speak from the vantage point of the anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial event. They investigate an array of experiences and structures of violence - oppression, neocolonization, slavery, war, poverty and exploitation - focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization and disrupting dominant modes of how we understand present times. This edited volume takes IR in a new direction, defatalizing the ways in which we think about dominant narratives of violence, 'peace' and 'liberation', and renewing what it means to decolonize today's world. It challenges us to confront violence and suffering and articulates another way to think the world, arguing for an understanding of the 'present' as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. And it calls for a disruption of the "everyday politics of expediency" in the guise of neoliberalism and security. This volume reorients the ethical and political assumptions that affectively, imaginatively, and practically captivate us, simultaneously unsettling the familiar, but dubious, promises of a modernity that decimates political life. Re-animating an international political, the authors evoke people's struggles and movements that are neither about redemption nor erasure, but a suspension of time for radical new beginnings.
9780415712712 0415712718 This book 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 book argues the present as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear and calls for an interruption of final ends and final meanings. The scholars look at different parts of the world to consider the ways people participate in shaping their societies while disrupting the violent strategies of expediency, including laws and democratic institutions that abstract their everyday struggles and, consequently, betray them. Examining these shattering experiences of betrayal provides a way to trace how imaginations become captive and how the "everyday politics of expediency" re-animate a faith that takes people towards a revolution that is neither about redemption or erasure but about a new writing. The authors and artists look at the logics of violence: wars, imprisonments, slaughtering, and increasing levels of unemployment and poverty. They engage with slavery, social death, revolutions, and the temporal transformations wrought by neoliberalism, to analyse how people and things are transformed. This ground breaking new work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial 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 book argues the present as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. Defatalizing the present , or thinking of the present as self-interrupting, irrevocably ruptured, and discontinuous , requires multiple forms of struggle that articulate multiple figures for projects without a telos. It calls for an interruption of final ends and final meanings. The scholars look at different parts of the world to consider the ways people participate in shaping their societies while disrupting the violent strategies of expediency, including laws and democratic institutions that abstract their everyday struggles and, consequently, betray them. Starting with an examination of these shattering experiences of betrayal provides a way to trace how imaginations become captive and how the "everyday politics of expediency" re-animate a faith that takes people towards a revolution that is neither about redemption or erasure but about a new writing. These authors and artists examine the logics of violence: wars, imprisonments, slaughtering, and increasing levels of unemployment and poverty. They engage with slavery, social death, revolutions, and the temporal transformations wrought by neoliberalism, to analyze how people and things are transformed. They look at global uprisings and shattering experiences that have led people to organize against and intervene in repressive mechanisms. If the project of radical transformation demands this disruption and unruliness, and if we are to avoid repeating the expedient institutionalization and appropriations of relations, then defatalizing the present demands an aesthetic politics, including creative theorizations that sustain alternative fragments of imaginations other than the dominant ones. This groundbreaking new work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international relations theory and postcolonial studies., Time transforms the way we see world politics and insinuates itself into the ways we act. In this groundbreaking volume, Agathangelou and Killian bring together scholars from a range of disciplines to tackle time and temporality in international relations. The authors - critical theorists, artists, and poets - theorize and speak from the vantage point of the anticolonial, postcolonial, and decolonial event. They investigate an array of experiences and structures of violence - oppression, neocolonization, slavery, war, poverty and exploitation - focusing on the tensions produced by histories of slavery and colonization and disrupting dominant modes of how we understand present times. This edited volume takes IR in a new direction, defatalizing the ways in which we think about dominant narratives of violence, 'peace' and 'liberation', and renewing what it means to decolonize today's world. It challenges us to confront violence and suffering and articulates another way to think the world, arguing for an understanding of the 'present' as a vulnerable space through which radically different temporal experiences appear. And it calls for a disruption of the "everyday politics of expediency" in the guise of neoliberalism and security. This volume reorients the ethical and political assumptions that affectively, imaginatively, and practically captivate us, simultaneously unsettling the familiar, but dubious, promises of a modernity that decimates political life. Re-animating an international political, the authors evoke people's struggles and movements that are neither about redemption nor erasure, but a suspension of time for radical new beginnings.