Table Of Content‘The Persistence of Nationalism convincingly shows a way out of the either/or
quandarybetweennationalismandcosmopolitanismbybringingthecitybackto
the centre of the debate. By investigating how people actually develop elective
affinities,affectiveinvestmentsandidentificationsthroughquotidianencounters,
itshowshowpeoplenegotiateworkabletermsoflivingtogether.Thisisthebest
criticalintroductiontonationalismfromanurbanperspective.’
EnginIsin,TheOpenUniversity,UK
The Persistence of Nationalism
Thisisabookaboutthedifficultiesofthinkingandactingpoliticallyinwaysthat
refuse the politics of nationalism. It offers a detailed study of how contemporary
attempts by theorists of cosmopolitanism, globalism and multiculturalism to go
beyondthenationoftenreproducekeyaspectsofanationalistimaginary.Itargues
thatthechallengeofresistingnationalismwillrequiremorethanashiftinthescale
ofpolitics–fromthenationaluptotheglobal,ordowntothelocal–andmorethan
ashiftinhowwecountpolitics–toanemphasisondiversityandmulticulturalism.
Inordertoavoidthegripof‘nationalistthinking’,thebookarguesthatweneedto
reopenthequestionofwhatitmeanstoimaginecommunity.Itdoessobywayof
variousencounterswithurbanlife.
Setagainstthebackdropoftheimaginativegeographiesofthe‘WaronTerror’,
the book shows how critical interventions often work in collaboration with
nationalistpolitics.Itclaimsthatanationalistimaginaryincludespowerfulunder-
standings of freedom, subjectivity, sovereignty and political space/time which
mustallbeplacedunderquestionifwewanttoavoidreproducingideasabout‘us’
and‘them’.Drawingoninsightsfromfeminist,culturalandpostcolonialstudies
aswellascriticalapproachestoInternationalRelationsandGeography,thisbook
presentsauniqueandrefreshingapproachtothepoliticsofnationalism.
AngharadClossStephensisaLecturerintheGeographyDepartmentatDurham
University,UK.
Interventions
Edited by: Jenny Edkins,
AberystwythUniversity
and Nick Vaughan-Williams,
UniversityofWarwick
‘As Michel Foucault has famously stated, “knowledge is not made for under-
standing; it is made for cutting.” In this spirit the Edkins–Vaughan-Williams
Interventionsseriessolicitscuttingedge,criticalworksthatchallengemainstream
understandings in international relations. It is the best place to contribute post
disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognize and affirm the world
recycledinIR’straditionalgeopoliticalimaginary.’
MichaelJ.Shapiro,UniversityofHawai’iatMãnoa,USA
Theseriesaimstoadvanceunderstandingofthekeyareasinwhichscholarswork-
ingwithinbroadcriticalpost-structuralandpost-colonialtraditionshavechosento
maketheirinterventions,andtopresentinnovativeanalysesofimportanttopics.
Titlesintheseriesengagewithcriticalthinkersinphilosophy,sociology,poli-
tics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual
studiesininternationalpolitics.
CriticalTheoristsandInternationalRelations
EditedbyJennyEdkinsandNickVaughan-Williams
EthicsasForeignPolicy
Britain,theEUandtheother
DanBulley
Universality,EthicsandInternationalRelations
Agrammaticalreading
VéroniquePin-Fat
TheTimeoftheCity
Politics,philosophy,andgenre
MichaelJ.Shapiro
GoverningSustainableDevelopment
Partnership,protestandpowerattheworldsummit
CarlDeath
InsuringSecurity
Biopolitics,securityandrisk
LuisLobo-Guerrero
FoucaultandInternationalRelations
Newcriticalengagements
EditedbyNicholasJ.KierseyandDougStokes
InternationalRelationsandNon-WesternThought
Imperialism,colonialismandinvestigationsofglobalmodernity
EditedbyRobbieShilliam
AutobiographicalInternationalRelations
I,IR
EditedbyNaeemInayatullah
WarandRape
Law,memoryandjustice
NicolaHenry
MadnessinInternationalRelations
Psychology,securityandtheglobalgovernanceofmentalhealth
AlisonHowell
Spatiality,SovereigntyandCarlSchmitt
Geographiesofthenomos
EditedbyStephenLegg
PoliticsofUrbanism
Seeinglikeacity
WarrenMagnusson
BeyondBiopolitics
Theory,violenceandhorrorinworldpolitics
FrançoisDebrixandAlexanderD.Barder
ThePoliticsofSpeed
Capitalism,thestateandwarinanacceleratingworld
SimonGlezos
PoliticsandtheArtofCommemoration
MemorialstostruggleinLatinAmericaandSpain
KatherineHite
IndianForeignPolicy
Thepoliticsofpostcolonialidentity
PriyaChacko
PoliticsoftheEvent
Time,movement,becoming
TomLundborg
TheorisingPost-ConflictReconciliation
Agonism,restitutionandrepair
EditedbyAlexanderKellerHirsch
Europe’sEncounterwithIslam
Thesecularandthepostsecular
LucaMavelli
Re-ThinkingInternationalRelationsTheoryviaDeconstruction
BadredineArfi
TheNewViolentCartography
Geo-analysisaftertheaestheticturn
EditedbySamOkothOpondoandMichaelJ.Shapiro
InsuringWar
Sovereignty,securityandrisk
LuisLobo-Guerrero
InternationalRelations,MeaningandMimesis
NecatiPolat
ThePostcolonialSubject
Claimingpolitics/governingothersinlatemodernity
VivienneJabri
FoucaultandthePoliticsofHearing
LauriSiisiäinen
VolunteerTourismintheGlobalSouth
Givingbackinneoliberaltimes
WandaVrasti
CosmopolitanGovernmentinEurope
Citizensandentrepreneursinpostnationalpolitics
OwenParker
StudiesintheTrans-DisciplinaryMethod
Aftertheaestheticturn
MichaelJ.Shapiro
AlternativeAccountabilitiesinGlobalPolitics
Thescarsofviolence
BrentJ.Steele
CelebrityHumanitarianism
Theideologyofglobalcharity
IlanKapoor
DeconstructingInternationalPolitics
MichaelDillon
ThePoliticsofExile
ElizabethDauphinee
DemocraticFutures
Revisioningdemocracypromotion
MiljaKurki
PostcolonialTheory
Acriticalintroduction
EditedbySanjaySeth
MorethanJustWar
Narrativesofthejustwarandmilitarylife
CharlesA.Jones
Deleuze&Fascism
Security:war:aesthetics
EditedbyBradEvansandJulianReid
FeministInternationalRelations
‘ExquisiteCorpse’
MarysiaZalewski
ThePersistenceofNationalism
Fromimaginedcommunitiestourbanencounters
AngharadClossStephens
InterpretiveApproachestoGlobalClimateGovernance
Reconstructingthegreenhouse
EditedbyChrisMethmann,DelfRotheandBenjaminStephan
PostcolonialEncounterswithInternationalRelations
Thepoliticsoftransgression
AlinaSajed
The Persistence of Nationalism
From imagined communities to urban
encounters
Angharad Closs Stephens
