Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory

Bleiker, Roland

doi:10.1080/10357718.2021.1992129

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“…And these aesthetic representations are, undoubtedly, both sites to understand politics and political sites in themselves. For a more detailed discussion on the same, see, inter alia, Agius (2013); Amoore (2007); Bleiker (2001Bleiker ( , 2012Bleiker ( , 2015Bleiker ( , 2019Bleiker ( , 2021; Hansen (2011Hansen ( , 2015; Harman (2019); Lacy (2008); Lisle (2007Lisle ( , 2017; Sylvester (2015); Welland (2017Welland ( , 2021. 21.…”

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To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story

Gabriel-Puri

2023

Security Dialogue

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How would what we know about war change if we took seriously the ‘embodied experience’ of its violences? How do we write ‘war’ and ‘violence’ in such a way that we can capture the complexity of what Bousquet, Grove and Shah refer to as ‘war’s incessant becoming’? How do we, as Sylvester puts it, ‘pull the bodies and experiences of war out of entombments created by [international relations] theories . . . into the open as crucial elements of war’? In other words, how do we write ‘war’ as if people, lives, suffering, pain, anger, cruelty, hope, resilience, survival and the creativity of it all – the embodied experience – mattered in international relations? In this essay, I wrestle with these questions by re-creating my encounter with Omar Imam, a Syrian artist whose conceptual photography forms the backbone of this piece, and by fleshing out a conceptual framework through which to explore this ‘embodied experience’: Syrialism. Here, Syrialism, imagined as a ‘machine’ (borrowing from Deleuze and Guattari) declares that war is experienced as an embodied process that is consistently, though not constantly, partially connected to other violence/violent processes, and this refiguration brings the actual machinations of the injuries of war and the particulars of how it is sensed and made sensible into focus.

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To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story

Gabriel-Puri

2023

Security Dialogue

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“…These statements underscore that we should not exclusively focus on the macro-level of institutions and their programs to understand the persistence of bland and universal “templates, formulas and one-size-fits-all solutions” (De Coning, 2018: 304). Instead, it is necessary to turn more decisively, systematically, and creatively to “the neglected sites and practices of the international” (Solomon and Steele, 2017: 270; see also Bleiker, 2021).…”

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The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace

Travouillon¹

2023

Cooperation and Conflict

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To effectively challenge the bland determinism of liberal peace intervention models, scholars and practitioners have called for more courageous and creative peacebuilding approaches. In support of this agenda, the article offers a critical reading of transitional justice scholarship to elucidate the co-constitutive function between the politicization of emotions, their attempted socialization, and the perpetuation of liberal rationalities in transitions to justice and peace. Mobilizing the feminist concept of “uptake” it argues that the liberal vision of peace and its implicit biases toward negative emotions are retained and reproduced in the temporal, institutional, and ideological dimensions of liberal interventions. With its focus on the micro-level, the concept of “uptake” can help us to observe how they shape the emerging emotional environment in transitions. It foregrounds how dominant visions of order assert themselves by providing pragmatic opportunities for reasonable courses of action to shape people’s grievances—thus stifling their potential to inform more challenging practices and conversations. The article aims to support the emergence of a more diverse language and culture of peace by illustrating what a sensitivity for the power of uptake entails and how it can be mobilized to creatively confront the limits of a (neo)liberal vision of peace.

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An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic

Davies

Hobson

2022

Australian Journal of International Affairs

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Seeing beyond disciplines: aesthetic creativity in international theory

Cited by 6 publications

References 81 publications

To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story

To/for Syrialism: Towards an ‘embodied’ kind of war story

The power of uptake: Negative emotions and the (neo)liberal limits of imagination in transitions to justice and peace

An embarrassment of changes: International Relations and the COVID-19 pandemic

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