Tony Fry - A New Political Imagination (Interventions)

The book presents the case for the making of a new political imagination by offering a critique of existing political institutions, philosophy and practices that are unable to provide the thinking, means and leadership to deal with the complexity and crises of specific locales and the world at large.

The authors make clear that there is a fundamental disjuncture between the complexity of the combined critical conditions that are now putting life on Earth at risk, and the divisions and theories of knowledge that are dominantly and instrumentally trying to understand the situation. In response, this work makes the case for the need for a new political imagination that rejects the sufficiency of existing political ideologies (including democracy) being the end point of politics. The book tackles the political underpinnings of social and economic life in a world still embedded in the inequities of the afterlife of colonialism and state socialism. Thereafter it engages narratives of change, rethinks imagination and critical practices, to finally present a relationally connected way to move forward.

This trans-disciplinary volume is directed at those working in political philosophy and epistemology, critical global and security studies, decoloniality and postcolonial studies, design, critical anthropology and the post humanities. It is accessible to both academic audiences and activists and practitioners.

Tony Fry is Adjunct Professor, Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, and Visiting Professor, Universidad de Ibagu, Colombia.

Madina Tlostanova is Professor of Postcolonial Feminisms at Linkping University, Sweden.

Interventions

The Series provides a forum for innovative and interdisciplinary work that engages with alternative critical, post-structural, feminist, postcolonial, psychoanalytic and cultural approaches to international relations and global politics. In our first five years we have published 60 volumes.

We aim to advance understanding of the key areas in which scholars working within broad critical post-structural traditions have chosen to make their interventions, and to present innovative analyses of important topics. Titles in the series engage with critical thinkers in philosophy, sociology, politics and other disciplines and provide situated historical, empirical and textual studies in international politics.

We are very happy to discuss your ideas at any stage of the project: just contact us for advice or proposal guidelines. Proposals should be submitted directly to the Series Editors:

Jenny Edkins () and

Nick Vaughan-Williams ().

As Michel Foucault has famously stated, knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting. In this spirit The Edkins Vaughan-Williams Interventions series solicits cutting-edge, critical works that challenge mainstream understandings in international relations (IR). It is the best place to contribute post disciplinary works that think rather than merely recognise and affirm the world recycled in IRs traditional geopolitical imaginary.

Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Edited by Jenny Edkins, Aberystwyth University, and Nick Vaughan-Williams, University of Warwick

Cultures of Violence

Visual Arts and Political Violence

Edited by Ruth Kinna and Gillian Whiteley

A New Political Imagination

Making the Case

Tony Fry and Madina Tlostanova