Tugba Basaran - International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines

After disciplines, disciplinarity, what can we say about the international? Instead of essentialist or transcendental causalities, how can we possibly know what we are talking about? This book uncovers transversal lines and moremobilities, ruptures, transitionsand it does so without the old and broken crutches.

Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University, USA

International Political Sociology is only twenty years old as a field, but it has already yielded more penetrating modes of inquiry, cogent analytic approaches and suggestive theorizing than seems within the capabilities of its three established nominal elements or any combination of them. This is at once a demonstration of what has been achieved to date and an invitation to building on, expanding and, yes, challenging those achievements.

Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland, USA

This important collection presents a rich new way of looking at the major pro-blems of international relations, security studies and political sociology through the lens of such major social theorists as Foucault and Bourdieu. The result is a new approach to such themes as borders, surveillance and big data which are central challenges for the social sciences today.

Arjun Appadurai, New York University, USA

This book is an outstanding, thought provoking and much needed contribution to studies on security, politics and the international. By exploring how to think sociologically about politics, the work of this excellent group of researchers invites us to question established ideas and concepts in international politics, to explore new empirical endeavors, and to envision alternative forms of power and authority. In short, it does what at the outset seems impossible: it helps us to understand the particularity of the field of International Political Sociology, while still leaving open possibilities for observing new and interesting developments in world politics.

Karen Lund Petersen, Copenhagen University, Denmark

International Political Sociology

This book presents an overview and evaluation of contemporary research in international political sociology (IPS). Bringing together leading scholars from many disciplines and diverse geographical backgrounds, it provides unprecedented coverage of the key concepts and research through which IPS has opened up new ways of thinking about international relations. It also considers some of the consequences of such innovations for established forms of social and political analysis. It thus takes the reader on an intellectual journey engaging with questions about boundaries and limits among the many interrelated worlds in which we now live, the ways we conceptualise them, and how we continually reshape boundaries of identities, spaces, authorities and disciplinary knowledge.

The volume is organized in three sections: Lines, Intersections and Directions.

The first section examines some influences that led to the formation of the project of IPS and how it has opened up avenues of research beyond the limits of an international relations discipline shaped within political science.

The second section explores some key concepts as well as a series of heated discussions about power and authority, practices and governmentality, performativity and reflexivity.

The third section explores some of the transversal topics of research that have been pur-sued within IPS, including inequality, migration, citizenship, the effect of technology on practices of security, the role of experts and expertise, data-driven surveillance, and the relation between mobility, power and inequality.

This book will be an essential source of reference for students and scholars across the social sciences.

Tugba Basaran is associate researcher at CCLS (France) and visiting scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (USA).

Didier Bigo is Professor at Kings College London Department of War Studies and Research Professor at Sciences-Po (Paris).

Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet is lecturer in Security and Political Violence Studies at the University of Manchester, UK.

R. B. J. Walkerr is Professor at the University of Victoria, Canada, and the Pontifcia Universidade Catlica do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.

ROUTLEDGE STUDIES IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Tugba Basaran, CCLS, France, Didier Bigo, Kings College, London, UK, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet, University of Manchester, UK, Jef Huysmans, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Routledge Studies in International Political Sociology aims to provide a forum for out-standing empirical and theoretical research engaging with the interplays between the international, the political and the social. This timely book series draws upon significant theoretical and empirical challenges within the growing critical approach of international political sociology. It seeks to address, to encourage and to con-ceptualise the knowledge and understanding of transversal issues at stake when exploring the different components of the heterogeneous worlds hidden behind International Relations.

International Political Sociology

Transversal lines

Edited by Tugba Basaran, Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and R.B.J. Walker

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY

Transversal lines

Edited by Tugba Basaran, Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet and R. B. J. Walker

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Names: Basaran, Tugba, editor of compilation.

Title: International political sociology : transversal lines / edited by Tugba Basaran, Didier Bigo, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet & R.B.J. Walker.

Other titles: International political sociology (Routledge : 2017)

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge studies in international political sociology | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016019186| ISBN 9781138910706 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138910713 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781315693293 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: International relationsSocial aspects. | Political sociology.

Classification: LCC JZ1251 .I579 2017 | DDC 306.2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016019186

ISBN: 978-1-138-91070-6 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-91071-3 (pbk)