Full Description
What can 'assemblage' thinking contribute to the study of international relations theory? This study seeks to investigate how the various debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics.
Contents
1. Assemblage thinking and International Relations; Michele Acuto and Simon Curtis PART 1: THEORIES 2. Conversation with Saskia Sassen and Aihwa Ong 3. Conversation with Michael Williams and Rita Abrahmsen 4. Conversation assemblages and the production of knowledge; Nick Srnicek 6. Global assemblages and structural models of international relations; Olaf Corry PART of thumb; Christian Bueger 8. Energising the International; Debbie Lisle 9. Visual Assemblages: From Causality to Conditions of Possibility; Roland John Dewey can help us follow the production of security assemblages; Peer Schouten 11. Welcome to the Machine: Rethinking Technology through Assemblage of assemblage; David Chandler 13. Agencement and Traces: A Politics of Ephemeral Theorizing; Xavier Guillaume 14. The Assemblage and the Intellectual as Hero; Mark Salter Conclusions: Assemblage Theory and its Future; Graham Harman
