Worlds in Conflict - War and the Limits of Politics

A new understanding of how war relates to politics based on four analytical categories: violence, people, words, and things.

We inhabit worlds in conflict, manifest in eruptions of violence and political turmoil both within and across state boundaries. These are also worlds of injury, impacting on individuals and communities, discourses and institutions, including the juridical and normative ordering of the global.
During a time of tremendous global uncertainty where major wars have come to challenge the liberal and postcolonial international order, the book provides a new understanding of the complex interplay of the subjective and material, the discursive and institutional, through which conflict and its articulation in war are implicated in the making and re-making of our worlds. The book has an ambitious remit, one that is responsive to the ethical and political challenges of our time and one that is interdisciplinary in its approach.

Product details

• Authors: Vivienne Jabri
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 11.11.2025
• EAN: 9780262553728
• ISBN: 978-0-262-55372-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Prisms: Humanities and War
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Peace, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, International Relations, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Violence in society, Peace studies & conflict resolution, Violence and abuse in society