Articles

Going Grassroots: Visiting the Foreign Locales of Arkansas and Southwest Texas

Patricia Sohn • Oct 19 2017 • Articles

Travelling through the Southwest of the USA reveals that there is much to learn about a local culture not yet homogenized by the great thrust of globalization.

Anthropocentrism and the Politics of the Living

Rafi Youatt • Oct 18 2017 • Articles

Questions around the interactions and practices of living beings to produce international outcomes open up in IR around the politics of life after anthropocentrism.

Should Australia Establish a Modern Slavery Act?

Heli Askola • Oct 16 2017 • Articles

The corporate social responsibility of businesses may serve to obscure the fact that the primary responsibility for the protection of human rights belongs to states.

The ‘Nature’ of International Relations: From Geopolitics to the Anthropocene

Olaf Corry • Oct 15 2017 • Articles

The challenge is to find a way forward that does not revive geography as a condition of great power competition, but rather one that grapples with an Anthropocene IR.

Performing the Posthuman: An Essay in Three Acts

Stefanie Fishel • Oct 15 2017 • Articles

If last century was more about freeing the carbon than it was about freeing humanity from its chains, this century could be able to understand our posthuman condition.

Fifty Years of Israeli Occupation

Raphael Cohen-Almagor • Oct 14 2017 • Articles

The United States has a great role to play in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It should work together with both to reduce the friction between the two sides.

The Weird and Wonderful Virtues of Human Geography

Daniel Clausen • Oct 14 2017 • Articles

When one reads Human Geography seriously, one is more open to the creative dance of complex causes and open to lumpy landscapes.

Global Security in a Posthuman Age? IR and the Anthropocene Challenge

Delf Rothe • Oct 13 2017 • Articles

Subjectivity refers to a form of self-identity that is marked by a constitutive lack-of-fullness. The subject is a void in the signifying structure.

Ecological Security

Matt McDonald • Oct 12 2017 • Articles

By linking climate change and security, the challenge posed by climate change compels us to think in new ways about what security means and how it might be realised. 

The Subjects of Posthuman IR

Darian Meacham • Oct 12 2017 • Articles

The notion of the posthuman considered in biological or functional terms is of course interesting and important, but it is the human subject that matters to politics.

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