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Vol. 1 Critical spaces, theoretical resources -- Vol. 2 Empirical interventions 1: economy, development, identity -- Vol. 3 Empirical interventions 2: movement, violence and accountability -- Vol. 4 The future of critical international relations: protest, aesthetics, pedagogy.

Prompted by Elizabeth Dauphinee's The Politics of Exile, the article explores the political potential of novel ways of writing in international relations. It begins by examining attempts to distinguish between narrative writing and academic writing, fiction and non-fiction, and to give an account of what narrative might be and how it might work. It argues that although distinctions between narrative writing and academic writing cannot hold, there are nevertheless ways of judging the practical political effects that writing can produce. It briefly examines feminist, postcolonial and other international relations scholars who collect other people's stories or tell their own, and points to an instructive body of work in fiction and literary non-fiction beyond the discipline. It argues that writing that disrupts linear forms of temporality and instead inhabits 'trauma time' can open the possibility of an aesthetic political practice, and suggests that we foster such a creative practice in international relations.

The faces of the missing are held aloft on placards in demonstrations or posted on walls in the aftermath of disappearances. They appear massed on the pages of newspapers and in the displays of genocide museums. Often nothing more than family snapshots given a public place, such images can be compelling. Although photographs of atrocity and war have frequently been discussed, little attention has been paid to these other images: images that do not show suffering but still seem, at least potentially, to be politically effective. How do these photographs work? What form of personhood do they instantiate and what politics do they point to? How are they different from other photographs? This article examines what might be special about a photograph, especially a photograph of a face, and how its political impact might be understood. Drawing on Lacanian psychoanalytic concepts of trauma and subjectivity, the article suggests that a photograph embodies in its very temporal structure a personhood that is inimical to contemporary structures of sovereign power. The destabilizing political potential of a photograph, like that of certain forms of literary text, could be understood as arising from its potential as an encounter with the trauma that inhabits sovereign power and sovereign subjectivity but that is generally concealed. The account presented offers an alternative approach to the analysis of the politics of a photograph and gestures toward other manifestations of personhood and politics.

"In recent years we have witnessed an increasing convergence of work in International Politics and Performance Studies around the troubled and often troubling, relationship between politics and aesthetics. Whilst examination of political aesthetics, aesthetic politics, and politics of aesthetic practice has been central to research in both disciplines for some time, the emergence of a distinctive performative turn in International Politics and a critical return to the centrality of politics and the concept of the political in Performance Studies highlights the importance of investigating the productivity of bringing the methods and approaches of the two fields of enquiry into dialogue and mutual relation. Exploring a wide range of issues including rioting, youth driven protests, border security practices and the significance of cultural awareness in war, this text provides an accessible and cutting edge survey of the intersection of international politics and performance examining issues surrounding the politics of appearance, image, event and place and discusses the development and deployment of innovative critical and creative research methods, from auto ethnography to site specific theatre making, from philosophical aesthetics to the aesthetic thought of new securities scenario planning The book's focus throughout is on the materiality of performance practices on the politics of making, spectating, and participating in a variety of modes as political actors and audiences whilst also seeking to explicate the performative dynamics of creative and critical thinking. Structured thematically and framed by a detailed introduction and conclusion, the focus is on producing a dialogue between contributors and providing an essential reference point in this developing field. This work is essential reading for students of politics and performance and will be of great interest to students and scholars of IR performance studies and cultural studies "--

For International Relations scholars, discussions of globalization inevitably turn to questions of sovereignty. How much control does a country have over its borders, people and economy? Where does that authority come from? Sovereign Lives explores these changes through reading of humanitarian intervention, human rights discourses, securitization, refugees, the fragmentation of identities and the practices of development

Duncan Bell: Introduction. Memory, trauma and world politics. - S. 1-29 Part I Bartelson, Jens: We could remember it for you wholesale. Myths, monuments and the constitution of national memories. - S. 33-53 Winter, Jay: Notes on the memory boom. War, remembrance, and the uses of the past. - S. 54-73 Olick, Jeffrey K. ; Demetriou, Chares: From theodicy to ressentiment. Trauma and the ages of compensation;. - S. 74-95 Part II Edkins, Jenny: Remembering relationality. Trauma time and politics. - S. 99-115 Fierke, K.M.: Bewitched by the past. Social memory, trauma and international relations. - S. 116-134 Ray, Larry: Mourning, melancholia and violence. - S. 135-154 Part III Meskell, Lynn: Trauma culture. Remembering and forgetting in the new South Africa. - S. 157-175 Feuchtwang, Stephan: Memorials to injustice.- S. 176-194 Bleiker, Roland ; Hoang, Young-Ju: Remembering and forgetting the Korean War. From trauma to reconciliation. - S. 195-212 Zehfuss, Maja: Remembering to forget/forgetting to remember. - S. 213-230