Waiting for International Political Sociology: A Field Guide to Living In-Between

Lisle, Debbie

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“…In the introduction, I noted Lisle's (2016) concerns that the project of International Political Sociology (IPS) had come to be dominated by Sociology at the expense of the international and the political. By bringing Justin Rosenberg's framework of 'Multiplicity' (2016) to bear on concerns of IPSin this case visual-material culture as they intersect in architecture -I have shown one way to address the concerns of Lisle and related issues raised by Austin (2017) about the political purchase of IPS.…”

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“…I argue that doing sothrough multiplicitywould provide an alternative to abandoning the international or merely taking 'established modes of enquiry from Sociology and Political Sociology and apply [ing] these "upward" to the realm of the international', which Lisle explicitly and rightly cautions against (2016, p. 420). Lisle (2016) and Austin (2018) both note the difficulties of 'zooming' between the micro-level of (e.g.) aesthetics, materialities or practices and the macro-level of international relations, global politics or 'the world-political' (Austin, 2018).…”

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An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology

Tallis

2019

Globalizations

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Politics was long overlooked in analyses of architecture. International politics still is. Yet one of the sub-fields of International Relations seemingly best equipped to address this oversight, 'International Political Sociology' (IPS), is at a crossroads with leading scholars bemoaning the dominance of Sociology over the political and the international. They concur on the need revive the political, but some advocate abandoning the international. Instead, I argue that IPS scholars should embrace the international and suggest a particular way to do so via Rosenberg's concept of Multiplicity. This transforms the international from the object of analysis into an analytical and heuristic lens through which to examine the constitutive effects on, (e.g.) architecture, of (international) societal coexistence , interaction, combination, difference, and dialectical change. Using examples from the late Habsburg period to the present, I sketch an international politics of 'Czech' architecture and show the value of 'the international' in and beyond IPS.

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“…A simple formulation of this problem might be as follows: if migrants are already de-humanized and devalued, what is the point in demonstrating how non-human life-worlds constitute even the most precarious and degraded spaces? So I've been thinking alongside this discarded tube of toothpaste to try and work out how to do this kind of work differently -to force myself to confront the irresolvable, uncomfortable and deeply troubling ethico-political questions thrown up by issues of migration (Lisle, 2016b). Conceptually, the tube of toothpaste made me think much harder about how objects carry with them multiple trajectories, temporalities and rhythms.…”

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“…Our job is not to occupy already pressured space with privileged and narcissistic narratives about our own 'wounds.' Our research intervention here embodies a critical and reflexive practice that draws on feminist praxis, acknowledges emotional and intellectual empathy, foregrounds dispositions of vulnerability and works on mobilizing solidarity (Davids 2014;Lisle, 2016b;McNevin 2006;Moulin and Nyers 2007;Nyers 2006). Our challenge in critically interrogating the aftermath of the Hotel Captain Elias on Kos is to avoid putting ourselves so firmly in the centre of the research that we erase, obscure, displace the migrants themselves.…”

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Lost in the aftermath

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2018

Security Dialogue

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What happens when violence disappears? What is left in the backwash of crisis? Who attends to the emotional, material and ideational detritus of closing borders? Like many, we are working in the aftermath of the recent and deadly intensification of EU migration. We contest the widespread account that the ‘crisis’ is now over – that policymakers have effectively ‘solved’ the problem of migration by gathering undocumented subjects into infrastructures of containment. We focus instead on the painful traces of EU migration that continue to be produced by global structures of citizen/alien, legal/illegal, friend/enemy. We do not produce a comprehensive diagnosis, normative argument or critical framework. Instead, we rest awhile in the aftermath of the crisis – specifically on the Greek island of Kos – to think about questions of abandonment, erasure and displacement. This is a visual essay representing a conversation between two researchers as they interact with the aftermath of the refugee crisis on Kos. Reflecting on select images from September 2016, we present a dialogue that directly speaks to a core theme each image raises. In doing so, we question some of the basic assumptions about how to do critical analysis on migration, security and borders, and therefore seek to disrupt dominant modes of academic writing as well as the practice of research itself.

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“…It represents chaos, and reminds us of the uncertainty and precariousness of life. 18 This focus, however, relies on, and risks rearticulating, what Debbie Lisle has referred to as a 'restrictive emotional grammar' 19 in and to our interrogations of global politics. While like Pentinnen, Lisle recognises the understandable nature of these emotional pathways, Lisle is also interested in examining 'how misery, horror, and suffering' are translated through a much broader emotional landscape, including 'absurdity … slapstick … and laughter', 20 and that this may hold enormous potential.…”

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Joy and war: Reading pleasure in wartime experiences

Welland

2018

Rev. Int. Stud.

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In recent years there has been a ‘turn’ to thinking about war through the experiences of those touched by it. While this scholarship has generated numerous important insights, its focus has tended to remain on wars’ violences, those responsible for enacting them, and the effects of such violence. In this article, the experiences of pleasure and joy in war that simultaneously take place are placed centre stage. Drawing on three war novels, the article tracks three recurring themes of pleasurable and joyful experiences related to war: bodily pleasures, the ‘togetherness’ of war, and moments of joy that escape war’s reach. Through this focus, war is shown to work across a range of affective registers and as never totalising or universalising in its experience. The article argues that paying attention to joy and pleasure can work to displace war as a focus of analysis, directing attention instead to the experiences of those who live through war and how they survive, sustain, and resist it.

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Waiting for International Political Sociology: A Field Guide to Living In-Between

Cited by 42 publications

References 89 publications

An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology

An international politics of Czech architecture; or, reviving the international in international political sociology

Lost in the aftermath

Joy and war: Reading pleasure in wartime experiences

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