Drawing widely from contemporary social and critical thought, Making Things International 2 offers provocative interventions into debates about causality, connection, and politics through the notion of assemblage. Political assemblages, especially those that cross national borders, can be catalyzed by a host of surprising sparks. Present-day global systems are complex and interdependent, but the worn tools of traditional international relations theory are unsuited to the task of understanding how objects, ideas, and people come together to create, dispute, solve, or perhaps cause these political configurations. Contributors to this volume bring to their work a new sensitivity toward issues of power, authority, control, and sovereignty.
The companion volume, Making Things International 1: Circuits and Motion, used things, stuff, and objects in motion to capture the material dynamics of global politics and to demonstrate the importance of the material. This volume builds on that conversation by examining objects that incite political assemblages. Specific subjects include fighter jets, smartphones, tents, HTTP cookies, representations of North Korea, and histories of the diplomatic cable, the orange prison jumpsuit, and container shipping.
Contributors: Rune Saugmann Andersen, U of Helsinki; Josef Teboho Ansorge; Claudia Aradau, King's College London; Helen Arfvidsson; Alexander D. Barder, Florida International U; Tarak Barkawi, London School of Economics; Peter Chambers; Shine Choi, Seoul National U; Sagi Cohen; Thomas N. Cooke; Anna Feigenbaum, Bournemouth U; Andreas Folkers, GoetheU Frankfurt; Fabian Frenzel, U of Leicester; Kyle Grayson, Newcastle U; Nicky Gregson, Durham U; David Grondin, U of Ottawa; Xavier Guillaume, U of Edinburgh; Emily Lindsay Jackson, Acadia U; Miguel de Larrinaga, U of Ottawa; Debbie Lisle, Queen's U Belfast; Mary Manjikian, Regent U; Nadine Marquardt, GoetheU Frankfurt; Patrick McCurdy, U of Ottawa; Adam Sandor; Nisha Shah, U of Ottawa; Julian Stenmanns, GoetheU Frankfurt; Casper Sylvest, U of Southern Denmark; Rens van Munster, Danish Institute for International Studies; Elspeth Van Veeren, U of Bristol; Srdjan Vucetic, U of Ottawa; Juha A. Vuori, U of Turku; Tobias Wille.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Introduction: Circuits and Motion
Mark B. Salter
Part I. World in Motion {~?~TN: book page 1}
Electronic Passports {~?~TN: book page 3}
William Walters and Daniel Vanderlip
Passport Photos
Mark B. Salter
The Traffic Light
Katherine Reese
AVATAR
Benjamin J. Muller
Containers
Can E. Mutlu
Bicycle
Oded LÖwenheim
Boats
GeneviÈve PichÉ
Ballast
Charlie Hailey
Part II. Bodies in Motion
Symptoms
John Law and Wen-yuan Lin
Corpses
Jessica Auchter
Virus
Melissa Autumn White
Microbes
Stefanie Fishel
Breathless
Peter Adey
Blood
Jairus Grove
Bodies
Lauren Wilcox
Tanks
Michael J. Shapiro
Drones
Joseph Pugliese
Part III. Things in Motion
MemeLife
Kathleen P. J. Brennan
Videos
Rune Saugmann Andersen
Garbage
Michele Acuto
Carbon
Chris Methmann and Benjamin Stephan
Currency
Emily Gilbert
Biometric MasterCard
Elizabeth Cobbett
Cocaine
Mike Bourne
Clocks
Yvgeny Yanovsky
Acknowledgments
Contributors
About the Author :
Mark B. Salter is professor of political studies at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of Rights of Passage: The Passport in International Relations and Barbarians and Civilization in International Relations and the editor of Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (with Can E. Mutlu), Mapping Transatlantic Security Relations, and Politics at the Airport (Minnesota, 2008). In 2014 he was awarded the Canadian Political Science Association Prize for Teaching Excellence.
Review :
"Surprising, informing, disturbing and ultimately note- worthy in its culmination of geographically relevant material."-Progress in Human Geography
