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The problem with performativity: comments on the contributions
This article provides a critical assessment of the contributions to this special issue. As these articles show, it is only once we take theatrical...
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No Island Unto Itself: Spatial Performativity and Production of the State
This chapter surveys the literature on the state, the African state, and recent work using Lefebvre’s urban spatial theorising before proposing a...
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Managing Uncertainty: The Everyday Global Politics of Post-9/11 US Public Diplomacy
As a field, public diplomacy has been predominated by the International Relations (IR) concept of soft power. But can such accounts grasp the...
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‘Fleshing Out’ Feminist Discursive Institutionalism
Research in the field of gender and politics has innovated around notions of diversity-sensitive parliaments. This chapter seeks to develop a...
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Performing the Populist Repertoire on the Global Stage: A Critical Approach to IR and Populist Communication
Among the various perspectives developed to engage with populism, the stylistic approach offers a unique set of tools to capture the repertoire of...
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Rethinking agency in International Relations: performativity, performances and actor-networks
The academic discipline of International Relations (IR) has long pondered the questions of what it means to act in international politics and who can...
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Legitimacy as a zero-sum game: Presidential populism and the performative success of the unauthorized outsider
Despite the fact that US presidential candidates commonly position themselves as Washington outsiders, this broadly populist positioning has thus far...
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Identity Negotiation in Context: Three Artists and Their Works
In recent years, discussions about identity in Singapore have proliferated. There have been calls to expand existing conceptual and analytic...
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Saying the Unspeakable: Populism, Performance and the Politics of Covid-19
Before 2020, President Trump repeatedly violated the unspoken norms of political decorum. By saying, tweeting, and reveling in crude, cruel, racist,...
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Interrogating a Developmental State: Opportunities and Priorities for Development Using Policy and Innovation
This chapter argues that Sub-Saharan African (SSA) states have the potential to eradicate poverty through policy and innovations that target...
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The Art of (Re)-Assembling: Performing Democracy in and through Space
This chapter takes as its starting point the ascendant status of ‘recognition,’ ‘participation,’ and ‘visibility’ in contemporary artistic and...
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The Russia Discourses of Estonian Populists: Before and After the War in Ukraine
This article discusses the Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) as a part of governing coalition and an opposition force whose domestic...
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Decolonizing Protest Suicide: Performing Life in Hong Kong
Since the start of the Anti-ELAB Movement in Hong Kong in 2019, several versions of suicidal deaths and mysterious disappearances have appeared in...
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Demodernise Greece. Sociological Critique on the Construction of an Alternative Country
This chapter starts from the perspective of the cultural sociology of modern Greece and shows that both old and new forms of Greek exoticism have...
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Strangers from the middle of nowhere? Manaf Halbouni’s Monument and the politics of proximity
In February 2017, Syrian-German artist Manaf Halbouni set up three upright bus wrecks at a central square of Dresden, thereby recalling a scene from...
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“THE MASTER OF A PEN:” Rewriting Robinson Crusoe in the Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
This article argues that The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict, the earliest known prison memoir by an African American, is an adaptation...
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Of Poverty, Inequality, Development, and Innovation: An Introduction
The chapter foregrounds poverty, inequality, development, and innovation as crucial concepts that inform practices and praxes. It delves into the...
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Abolition, not arms control: against reinforcing nuclear weapons through “reform”
Despite decades of persistent threats and harms caused by nuclear weapons, arms control continues to be the dominant paradigm through which to...
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The Nexus Between Nigerian Migrants and the Future of Global Security
There have been discourses on negative economic, social, political and ethical implications of migration. Broadly, the feared or alleged negative...