The lived experience of Palestinians under occupation reflects the stories of a people in a continuously subordinate position. My recurring questions were how would they construct the experience of such subordination? How would they define, discuss and describe what they did to …
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Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific me…
Post-structuralist IR has often treated foreign policy/security discourses and their effects on policy through a “representational model”, i.e. how one dominant representation makes possible particular policy outcomes. However, in a longitudinal analysis, where the concern with …
This thesis uses the photographic portrait as an example of contemporary art practice to examine developments in aesthetic sensibility and constructions of meaning with particular address to ineffable qualities in both the subject and in the photograph. It examines the contribut…
This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society, contemporary…
Politics and post-structuralism: an introduction
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Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This text applies the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis.
Post-structuralism is recognised as a major force within literary and cultural studies. This text applies the theory to politics and to show the ways in which it can illuminate political theory and analysis.
This thoroughgoing reevaluation of Louis Althusser's philosophical project shows that the theorist was intensely engaged with the work of his contemporaries, particularly Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Lacan.
"Althusser and His Contemporaries alters and expands understanding of Louis Althusser and French philosophy of the 1960s and 1970s. Thousands of pages of previously unpublished work from different periods of Althusser's career have been made available in French since his death i…
Whilst both of these leading French philosophers of post-structuralism have been widely studied, little has been done to examine the relationship between them. The contributors to this collection explore and compare their work via a number of key themes.