International Political Sociology - Transversal Lines

Zusatztext 'After disciplines! disciplinarity! what can we say about the international? Instead of 'essentialist or transcendental causalities!' how can we possibly know what we are talking about? This book uncovers 'transversal lines' and more-mobilities! ruptures! transitions-and it does so without the old and broken crutches.' - Nicholas Onuf! Professor! Florida International University! USA'International Political Sociology is only twenty years old as a field! but it has already yielded more penetrating modes of inquiry! cogent analytic approaches and suggestive theorizing than seems within the capabilities of its three established nominal elements -- or any combination of them. This is at once a demonstration of what has been achieved to date and an invitation to building on! expanding -- and! yes! challenging -- those achievements.' - Martin O. Heisler! Professor Emeritus! University of Maryland! USA'This important collection presents a rich new way of looking at the major problems of international relations! security studies and political sociology through the lens of such major social theorists as Foucault and Bourdieu. The result is a new approach to such themes as borders! surveillance and big data which are central challenges for the social sciences today.' - Arjun Appadurai! Professor! New York University! USA'This book is an outstanding! thought provoking and much needed contribution to studies on security! politics and the international. By exploring how to think sociologically about politics! the work of this excellent group of researchers invites us to question established ideas and concepts in international politics! to explore new empirical endeavors! and to envision alternative forms of power and authority. In short! it does what at the outset seems impossible: it helps us to understand the particularity of the field of 'International Political Sociology'! while still leaving open possibilities for observing new and interesting developments in world politics.' - Karen Lund Petersen! Copenhagen University! Denmark Informationen zum Autor Tugba Basaran is associate researcher at CCLS (France) and visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA. Didier Bigo is Professor at King's College London department of War studies and research professor of international relations at Sciences-Po Paris/CERI, France. He is also director of the Center for study of conflicts, liberty and security (CCLS), France. Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet is lecturer in Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He is also associate researcher at the International Centre for Comparative Criminology and the Canada Research Chair in Security, Identity and Technology at the University of Montreal, Canada. R.B.J. Walker is Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada, and the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Klappentext This book engages with contemporary cutting-edge research in international political sociology (IPS). It brings together leading academics from international relations, sociology, social theory, criminology, anthropology, law and the wider social sciences to rethink through the lens of international political sociology standard approaches to international relations. The authors and editors come from diverse intellectual and geographical backgrounds to provide unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and topics of research in IPS. Zusammenfassung This book presents an overview and evaluation of contemporary research in international political sociology (IPS). Bringing together leading scholars from many disciplines and diverse geographical backgrounds! it provides unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and research through which IPS has opened up new ways of thinking about international relations. It also considers some of the consequences of such innovations for established forms of social a...

List of contents

Part 1: LINES
Chapter 1: Only Connect: International, Political, Sociology
RBJ Walker
Chapter 2: International Political Sociology: Rethinking the International through Dynamics of Power
Didier Bigo
Chapter 3: Continuity, Discontinuity and Contingency: Insights for IPS from Political Geography
John Agnew
Chapter 4: IBO, IPS and SIP: Engaging the Sociologies of International Relations
Mathias Albert and Yosef Lapid
Part 2: INTERSECTIONS
Chapter 5: Diagrams, Dispositifs and the Signature of Power in the Study of the International
Mitchell Dean
Chapter 6: Transnational Fields and Power Elites: Reassembling the International with Bourdieu and Practice Theory
Mikael Rask Madsen
Chapter 7: Performing Methods: Practice and Politics
Claudia Aradau & Jef Huysmans
Chapter 8: The Great Map of Mankind
Christine Helliwell and Barry Hindess
Part 3: DIRECTIONS
Chapter 9: Global Governance and the Politics of Inequality: Problematizing Controversies in the Field of International Development
Joao P. Nogueira
Chapter 10: Enacting International Citizenship
Engin Isin
Chapter 11: Technology and Security Practices: Situating the technological imperative
Stefan Davishofer, Julien Jeandesboz & Francesco Ragazzi
Chapter 12: Violence, War and Security Knowledge: Between Practical Theories and Theoretical Practices
Philippe Bonditti & Christian Olsson
Chapter 13: Big Data Surveillance: Snowden, Everyday Practices and Digital Futures
David Lyon
Chapter 14: Mobilities, Ruptures, Transitions
Tugba Basaran & Elspeth Guild


 

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'After disciplines, disciplinarity, what can we say about the international? Instead of 'essentialist or transcendental causalities,' how can we possibly know what we are talking about? This book uncovers 'transversal lines' and more-mobilities, ruptures, transitions-and it does so without the old and broken crutches.' - Nicholas Onuf, Professor, Florida International University, USA
'International Political Sociology is only twenty years old as a field, but it has already yielded more penetrating modes of inquiry, cogent analytic approaches and suggestive theorizing than seems within the capabilities of its three established nominal elements -- or any combination of them. This is at once a demonstration of what has been achieved to date and an invitation to building on, expanding -- and, yes, challenging -- those achievements.' - Martin O. Heisler, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland, USA
'This important collection presents a rich new way of looking at the major problems of international relations, security studies and political sociology through the lens of such major social theorists as Foucault and Bourdieu. The result is a new approach to such themes as borders, surveillance and big data which are central challenges for the social sciences today.' - Arjun Appadurai, Professor, New York University, USA
'This book is an outstanding, thought provoking and much needed contribution to studies on security, politics and the international. By exploring how to think sociologically about politics, the work of this excellent group of researchers invites us to question established ideas and concepts in international politics, to explore new empirical endeavors, and to envision alternative forms of power and authority. In short, it does what at the outset seems impossible: it helps us to understand the particularity of the field of 'International Political Sociology', while still leaving open possibilities for observing new and interesting developments in world politics.' - Karen Lund Petersen, Copenhagen University, Denmark

Product details

• Authors: Tugba (University of Kent Basaran
• Assisted by: Tugba Basaran (Editor), Basaran Tugba (Editor), Didier Bigo (Editor), Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet (Editor), Guittet Emmanuel-Pierre (Editor), R. B. J. Walker (Editor), Walker R. B. J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.08.2016
• EAN: 9781138910706
• ISBN: 978-1-138-91070-6
• No. of pages: 310
• Series: Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, International Relations, Politics and government