Making things international, 2. Catalysts and reactions / Mark B. Salter, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Salter, Mark B., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International relations--Philosophy.

International relations.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Globalization.

World politics--21st century.

World politics.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 364 pages ; 27 cm

Other Title:

Catalysts and reactions

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Drawing widely from contemporary social and critical thought, Making Things International 2 offers provocative interventions into debates about causality, connection, and politics through the notion of assemblage. Political assemblages, especially those that cross national borders, can be catalyzed by a host of surprising sparks. Present-day global systems are complex and interdependent, but the worn tools of traditional international relations theory are unsuited to the task of understanding how objects, ideas, and people come together to create, dispute, solve, or perhaps cause these political configurations. Contributors to this volume bring to their work a new sensitivity toward issues of power, authority, control, and sovereignty. The companion volume, Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion, used things, stuff, and objects in motion to capture the material dynamics of global politics and to demonstrate the importance of the material. This volume builds on that conversation by examining objects that incite political assemblages. Specific subjects include fighter jets, smartphones, tents, HTTP cookies, representations of North Korea, and histories of the diplomatic cable, the orange prison jumpsuit, and container shipping. Contributors: Rune Saugmann Andersen, U of Helsinki; Josef Teboho Ansorge; Claudia Aradau, King's College London; Helen Arfvidsson; Alexander D. Barder, Florida International U; Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics; Peter Chambers; Shine Choi, Seoul National U; Sagi Cohen; Thomas N. Cooke; Anna Feigenbaum, Bournemouth U; Andreas Folkers, Goethe-U Frankfurt; Fabian Frenzel, U of Leicester; Kyle Grayson, Newcastle U; Nicky Gregson, Durham U; David Grondin, U of Ottawa; Xavier Guillaume, U of Edinburgh; Emily Lindsay Jackson, Acadia U; Miguel de Larrinaga, U of Ottawa; Debbie Lisle, Queen's U Belfast; Mary Manjikian, Regent U; Nadine Marquardt, Goethe-U Frankfurt; Patrick McCurdy, U of Ottawa; Adam Sandor; Nisha Shah, U of Ottawa; Julian Stenmanns, Goethe-U Frankfurt; Casper Sylvest, U of Southern Denmark; Rens van Munster, Danish Institute for International Studies; Elspeth Van Veeren, U of Bristol; Srdjan Vucetic, U of Ottawa; Juha A. Vuori, U of Turku; Tobias Wille."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter / Srdjan Vucetic

Military Manuals / Josef Teboho Ansorge and Tarak Barkawi

Barbed Wire / Alexander D. Barder

Protest Camps / Anna Feigenbaum, Fabian Frenzel, and Patrick McCurdy

Tent / Andreas Folkers and Nadine Marquardt

Benches / Emily Lindsay Jackson

Secrets / David Grondin and Nisha Shah

Grey / Shine Choi

Orange Prison Jumpsuit / Elspeth Van Veeren

Flags / Rune Saugmann Andersen, Xavier Guillaume, and Juha A. Vuori

Container Scanning Unit / Julian Stenmanns

Diplomatic Cable / Tobias Wille

The Yellow Car / Debbie Lisle

Smartphone / Peter Chambers

Hotlines and International Crisis / Claudia Aradau

Cookies / Thomas N. Cooke

The Atom / Casper Sylvest and Rens van Munster

Asbestos / Nicky Gregson

Dirt / Mary Manjikian

Shit / Sagi Cohen

Burning Cars / Helen Arfvidsson

Tear Gas / Miguel de Larrinaga

Drones / Kyle Grayson

4 x 4s / Adam Sandor.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780816696291

0816696292

9780816696307

0816696306

OCLC:

928613488