Imagining Disarmament, Enchanting International Relations

Bolton, Matthew Breay

This book explores the global politics of disarmament through emerging international relations (IR) theories of discourse and imagination. Each chapter reflects on an aspect of contemporary activism on weapons through an analogous story from literary tradition. Shahrazade, convenor of the 1001 Nights, offers a potent metaphor for the humanitarian advocacy seeking to moderate the behaviour of violent people. The author reads Don Quixote in Cambodia’s minefields, reflects on Lysistrata at Greenham Common and considers how tropes in The Tempest were enrolled in both Pacific nuclear testing and efforts to resist it. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork in communities affected by weapons and disarmament advocacy at the UN and calls for a re-enchantment of IR, alive to affect, ritual and myth. 

Details

Published by: Palgrave Pivot

Publication Date: 2019-07-04

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783030177157

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-17716-4

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 133