Table Of ContentThe Politics of Evasion
Burgeoning national security programs; thickening borders; WikiLeaks and
Anonymous; immigrant rights rallies; the Occupy Movement; student protests;
neoliberal austerity; global financial crises – these developments underscore that
the fable of a hope-filled post-cold war globalization has faded away. In its place
looms the prospect of states and corporations transforming a permanent war on
terror into a permanent war on society. How, at the critical juncture of a post-
globalization era, will policymakers and power-holders in leading states and
corporations of the global North choose to pursue power and control? What
possibilities and limits do activists and communities face for progressive political
action to counter this power inside and outside the state?
This book is a sustained dialogue between author and political theorist, Robert
Latham and Mr V, a policy analyst from a state in the global North. Mr V is
sympathetic to the pursuit of justice, rights and freedom by activists and
movements but also mindful of the challenges of states in pursuing security and
order in the current social and political moment. He seeks a return to the
progressive, welfare-oriented state associated with the twentieth century. The
dialogue offers an in-depth consideration of whether this is possible and how a
progressive politics might require a different approach to social organization,
power and collective life.
Exploring key ideas, such as sovereignty, activism, neoliberalism, Anarchism,
migration, intervention, citizenship, security, political resistance and transformation,
and justice, this book will be of interest to academics and students of Political
Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Law, Geography, Media and Communication,
and Cultural Studies.
Robert Latham teaches in the Political Science, Communication and Culture,
and Social and Political Thought programs at York University in Toronto, Canada.
He has published widely on topics including political economy, security, digital
activism, technologies of border surveillance, critical theories of sovereignty,
transnational relations, migration, and multiculturalism.
Interventions
Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-
Williams, University of Warwick
The series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages
with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic
and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first
five years we have published 60 volumes.
We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working
within broad critical post-structural traditions have chosen to make their
interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the
series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other
disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in
international politics.
We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just 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
Critical Theorists and International Universality, Ethics and
Relations International Relations
Edited by Jenny Edkins and A grammatical reading
Nick Vaughan-Williams Véronique Pin-Fat
Ethics as Foreign Policy The Time of the City
Britain, the EU and the other Politics, philosophy, and genre
Dan Bulley Michael J. Shapiro
Governing Sustainable Development Beyond Biopolitics
Partnership, protest and power at the Theory, violence and horror in
world summit world politics
Carl Death François Debrix and
Alexander D. Barder
Insuring Security
Biopolitics, security and risk The Politics of Speed
Luis Lobo-Guerrero Capitalism, the state and war in an
accelerating world
Foucault and International Simon Glezos
Relations
New critical engagements Politics and the Art of
Edited by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Commemoration
Doug Stokes Memorials to struggle in Latin
America and Spain
International Relations and Katherine Hite
Non-Western Thought
Imperialism, colonialism and Indian Foreign Policy
investigations of global modernity The politics of postcolonial identity
Edited by Robbie Shilliam Priya Chacko
Autobiographical International Politics of the Event
Relations Time, movement, becoming
I, IR Tom Lundborg
Edited by Naeem Inayatullah
Theorising Post-Conflict
War and Rape Reconciliation
Law, memory and justice Agonism, restitution and repair
Nicola Henry Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch
Madness in International Relations Europe’s Encounter with Islam
Psychology, security and the global The secular and the postsecular
governance of mental health Luca Mavelli
Alison Howell
Re-Thinking International Relations
Spatiality, Sovereignty and Theory via Deconstruction
Carl Schmitt Badredine Arfi
Geographies of the nomos
Edited by Stephen Legg The New Violent Cartography
Geo-analysis after the aesthetic turn
Politics of Urbanism Edited by Sam Okoth Opondo and
Seeing like a city Michael J. Shapiro
Warren Magnusson
Insuring War
Sovereignty, security and risk
Luis Lobo-Guerrero
International Relations, Meaning Postcolonial Theory
and Mimesis A critical introduction
Necati Polat Edited by Sanjay Seth
The Postcolonial Subject More than Just War
Claiming politics/governing others in Narratives of the just war and
late modernity military life
Vivienne Jabri Charles A. Jones
Foucault and the Politics of Hearing Deleuze & Fascism
Lauri Siisiäinen Security: war: aesthetics
Edited by Brad Evans and Julian Reid
Volunteer Tourism in the Global
South Feminist International Relations
Giving back in neoliberal times ‘Exquisite Corpse’
Wanda Vrasti Marysia Zalewski
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe The Persistence of Nationalism
Citizens and entrepreneurs in From imagined communities to urban
postnational politics encounters
Owen Parker Angharad Closs Stephens
Studies in the Trans-Disciplinary Interpretive Approaches to Global
Method Climate Governance
After the aesthetic turn Reconstructing the greenhouse
Michael J. Shapiro Edited by Chris Methmann, Delf Rothe
and Benjamin Stephan
Alternative Accountabilities in
Global Politics Postcolonial Encounters in
The scars of violence International Relations
Brent J. Steele The Politics of Transgression in the
Maghred
Celebrity Humanitarianism Alina Sajed
The ideology of global charity
Ilan Kapoor Post-Tsunami Reconstruction in
Indonesia
Deconstructing International Negotiating normativity through
Politics gender mainstreaming initiatives in
Michael Dillon Aceh
Marjaana Jauhola
The Politics of Exile
Elizabeth Dauphinee Leo Strauss and the Invasion of Iraq
Encountering the abyss
Democratic Futures Aggie Hirst
Revisioning democracy promotion
Milja Kurki
Production of Postcolonial India Memory and Trauma in
and Pakistan International Relations
Meanings of partition Theories, cases, and debates
Ted Svensson Edited by Erica Resende and
Dovile Budryte
War, Identity and the Liberal State
Everyday experiences of the Critical Environmental Politics
geopolitical in the armed forces Edited by Carl Death
Victoria M. Basham
Democracy Promotion
Writing Global Trade Governance A critical introduction
Discourse and the WTO Jeff Bridoux and Milja Kurki
Michael Strange
International Intervention in a
Politics of Violence Secular Age
Militancy, international politics, Re-enchanting humanity?
killing in the name Audra Mitchell
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
The Politics of Haunting and
Ontology and World Politics Memory in International Relations
Void universalism I Jessica Auchter
Sergei Prozorov
European-East Asian Borders in
Theory of the Political Subject Translation
Void universalism II Edited by Joyce C.H. Liu and
Sergei Prozorov Nick Vaughan-Williams
Visual Politics and North Korea Genre and the (Post)Communist
Seeing is believing Woman
David Shim Analyzing transformations of the
Central and Eastern European female
Globalization, Difference and ideal
Human Security Edited by Florentina C. Andreescu
Edited by Mustapha Kamal Pasha and Michael Shapiro
Imagining World Politics Studying the Agency of Being
Sihar & Shenya, A fable for our times Governed
L.H.M Ling Edited by Stina Hansson,
Sofie Hellberg Maria Stern
International Politics and
Performance Politics of Emotion
Critical aesthetics and creative practice The Song of Telangana
Edited by Jenny Edkins and Himadeep Muppidi
Adrian Kear
Ruling the Margins Emotions, Politics and War
Colonial power and administrative Edited by Linda Åhäll and
rule in the past and present Thomas Gregory
Prem Kumar Rajaram
Jacques Lacan
Race and Racism in International Between Psychoanalysis and Politics
Relations Edited by Samo Tomšič and
Confronting the global colour line Andreja Zevnik
Alexander Anievas, Nivi Manchanda
and Robbie Shilliam The Value of Resilience
Securing Life in the 21st Century
The Grammar of Politics and Chris Zebrowski
Performance
Edited by Shirin M. Rai and Political Aesthetics
Janelle Reinelt Culture, Critique and the Everyday
Arundhati Virmani
War, Police and Assemblages of
Intervention Walzer, Just War and Iraq
Edited by Jan Bachman, Colleen Bell Ethics as Response
and Caroline Holmqvist Ronan O’Callaghan
Re-Imagining North Korea in Politics and Suicide
International Politics The philosophy of political
Problematizations and alternatives self-destruction
Shine Choi Nicholas Michelsen
On Schmitt and Space Late Modern Palestine
Claudio Minca and Rory Rowan The subject and representation of the
second intifada
Face Politics Junka-Aikio
Jenny Edkins
Negotiating Corruption
Empire Within NGOs, governance and hybridity in
International hierarchy and its imperial West Africa
laboratories of governance Laura Routley
Alexander D. Barder
The Biopolitics of Lifestyle
Sexual Politics and International Foucault, ethics and healthy choices
Relations Christopher Mayes
How LGBTQ claims shape
International Relations Critical Imaginations in
Edited by Manuela Lavinas Picq and International Relations
Markus Thiel Aoileann Ní Mhurchú and
Reiko Shindo
Time, Temporality and Violence in The Politics of Evasion
International Relations A post-globalization dialogue along
(De)fatalizing the present, forging the edge of the state
radical alternatives Robert Latham
Edited by Anna M. Agathangelou and
Kyle Killian Researching War
Feminist methods, ethics and politics
Lacan, Deleuze and World Politics Edited by Annick T. R. Wibben
Rethinking the ontology of the
political subject
Andreja Zevnik
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The Politics of Evasion
A post-globalization dialogue along
the edge of the state
Robert Latham
