International Politics and Performance: Critical Aesthetics and Creative Practice

296 Pages·2013·4.98 MB·English

by  Jenny Edkins

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International Politics and Performance
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D Jenny Edkins is Professorof International Politics at Aberystwyth University.
Adrian Kear is Professor of Theatre and Performance at Aberystwyth
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Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University and Nick Vaughan-Williams,
University of Warwick
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A grammatical reading Doug Stokes
Véronique Pin-Fat
International Relations and
Non-Western Thought
The Time of the City Imperialism, colonialism and
Politics, philosophy, and genre investigations of global modernity
Michael J. Shapiro Edited by Robbie Shilliam
Autobiographical International Theorising Post-Conflict
Relations Reconciliation
I, IR Agonism, restitution and repair
Edited by Naeem Inayatullah Edited by Alexander Keller Hirsch
War and Rape Europe’s Encounter with Islam
Law, memory and justice The secular and the postsecular
Nicola Henry Luca Mavelli
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0 Psychology, security and the global
2 Theory via Deconstruction
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Giving back in neoliberal times
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The politics of postcolonial identity
Priya Chacko Cosmopolitan Government in
Europe
Politics of the Event Citizens and entrepreneurs in
Time, movement, becoming postnational politics
Tom Lundborg Owen Parker
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 with
The scars of violence International Relations
Brent J. Steele The politics of transgression
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Marysia Zalewski killing in the name
Charlotte Heath-Kelly
The Persistence of Nationalism
From imagined communities to Ontology and World Politics
urban encounters Void universalism I
Angharad Closs Stephens Sergei Prozorov
Theory of the Political Subject International Politics and
Void universalism II Performance
Sergei Prozorov Critical aesthetics and creative
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Visual Politics and North Korea Edited by Jenny Edkins and
Seeing is believing Adrian Kear
David Shim
Globalization, Difference and
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