Out Of Line: Essays On The Politics Of Boundaries And The Limits Of Modern Politics (global Horizons)

"A collection of essays on the politics of boundaries, this book addresses a broad range of cases, some geographical, some legal, and some involving less tangible practices of inclusion and exclusion. The book begins by exploring the boundary between modern Western forms of international relations and their constitutive outsides. Beyond this, the author engages with relations between subjectivity and security, security and nature, social movements and a world politics, as well as the politics of spatiotemporal dislocation. Two chapters address the work of Thomas Hobbes and Max Weber as exemplary accounts of the relationship between boundaries and the constitution of modern forms of politics. Each chapter speaks not only to the politics of specific boundary practices, but also to the limits within which modern politics has been shaped in relation to claims about spatiality, temporality, sovereignty and subjectivity. In this way, the book draws attention to a pervasive account of a scalar order of higher and lower that has shaped more familiar distinctions between internality and externality. Offering an analysis of the relation between concepts of internationalism, imperialism and exceptionalism, as well as the implications of spatiotemporal dislocation for claims about democracy, the book links contemporary claims about the transformation of boundaries to various ways in which political life is said to be in crisis and in need of novel forms of critique. Brought up to date by a new and extensive introductory essay and an assessment of the status of political judgement after 9/11, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of politics, international relations, political theory and political sociology."-- Provided by publisher Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements 1. Despite all critique Distinctions/connections Man and/or world Spatiotemporalities Boundaries, borders, limits The modern international Scalar subjects Out of line, out of tune Notes 2. World politics and Western reason: universalism, pluralism, hegemony (1980) Introduction The dilemmas of international political theory The concept of culture and its contradictions Orientalizing the Orient Conclusion Notes 3. The doubled outsides of the modern international (2005) I II III IV V Notes 4. The subject of security (1995) Security and change Everything and nothing Subjects of security Over and over Changing subjects Notes 5. On the protection of nature and the nature of protection (2005) Protection of nature Nature of protection Nature/protection Notes 6. Social movements/world politics (1994) Discursive economies of scale Merely social, always moving Domestic bliss Immanent revivals Global civil society? Nomadic connections Notes 7. Europe is not where it is supposed to be (2000) Europe as known quantity/quality Europe as puzzle Sovereignty as spatial practice Integration/politicization Notes 8. They seek it here, they seek it there: locating the political in Clayoquot Sound (2003) Clayoquot Sound as a political puzzle Authority/space Clayoquot Sound as political space Notes 9. Violence, modernity, silence: from Max Weber to international relations theory (1993) Violence/limits/subjects Notes 10. Hobbes, origins, limits (2011) Notes 11. War, terror, judgement (2002) Modern hypocrisies Still more violence War by other means After the slack Notes 12. International, imperial, exceptional (2005) I II III IV V VI VII VIII Notes 13. Which democracy for which demos? (2013) I II III IV Notes 14. The political theory of boundaries and the boundaries of political theory: interview with Raia Prokhovnik (2012) Note Index