About the Contributors
Ronald Bleiker is Professor of International Relations at the University of Queensland. From 1986 to 1988 he worked in the Korean Demilitarized Zone as Chief of Office of the Swiss Delegation to the Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission. He is the author of Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics (Cambridge University Press 2000) and Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation (University of Minnesota Press 2005, 2008). He is also the co-editor of Security and the War on Terror (Routledge 2007). He is currently finishing a book on Aesthetics and World Politics for Palgrave. His most recent research examines the emotional dimensions of security threats through a range of aesthetic sources, including literature, visual art and photography.
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published eight books, on Irish history, gender and ‘the body’, the history of psychological thought, modern warfare, the emotions, and sexual violence. Her most recent books are Fear: A Cultural History (Virago 2005) and Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present (Virago 2007). Her books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish. An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare (Granta 1999) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1998 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2000.
Paul Cammack is Head of the Politics and Philosophy Department at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research explores Global Governance, with particular reference to the relationship between states and international institutions. He is author of Capitalism and Democracy in the Third World (Continuum 1997) and Third World Politics: A Comparative Introduction (with David Pool and William Tordoff, Palgrave 1993). His current work is available through the website of the research project on the Politics of Global Competitiveness (http://www.politicsofglobalcompetitiveness.net), of which he is a member.
Simon Dalby is Professor of Geography and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is author of Creating the Second Cold War (Pinter and Guilford 1990) and Environmental Security (University of Minnesota Press 2002). He is co-editor of Rethinking Geopolitics (Routledge 1998) and The Geopolitics Reader (Routledge, 1998, second edition, 2006). His current research interests include the debate about empire and the geopolitics of the Bush doctrine in addition to matters of environmental security and sustainability. He is political geography section editor of the Blackwell Publishers Geography Compass online review journal.
Michael Dillon is
Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International
Relations at the University of Lancaster. He has published widely
in international relations and in cultural and political theory. He is
currently researching the problematisation of security and war from the
perspective of continental philosophy with particular interest in what
happens to the problematisation of security when security discourses
and technologies take life rather than sovereign territoriality as
their referent object (www.keele.ac.uk/biopoliticsofsecurity). He is the author of Politics of Security (Routledge 1996), co-author of The Liberal Way of War (Routledge 2009) and co-editor of Foucault on Politics, Security and War (Palgrave Macmillan 2008). He is working on a new book project Biopolitics of Security in the 21st Century (Routledge). He also co-edits the Journal of Cultural Research.
Roxanne Lynn Doty is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Arizona State University. She is the author of Imperial Encounters: The Politics of Representation in North-South Relations (University of Minnesota Press 1996) and Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies: Statecraft, Desire, and the Politics of Exclusion (Routledge 2003). Her forthcoming book, The Law into Their Own Hands: Immigration and the Politics of Exceptionalism,
is being published by University of Arizona Press in spring 2009.
Her current research interests include critical international relations
theory, various border issues, identity, and the politics of academic
writing.
Stuart Elden is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University and the editor ofthe journal Society and Space (Environment and Planning D). He is the author of three books of social/spatial theory, including most recently Speaking Against Number: Heidegger, Language and the Politics of Calculation (Edinburgh University Press 2006). He is currently working on a history of the concept of territory, funded by a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, and has a book entitled Terror and the State of Territory, forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press.
Naeem Inayatullah is Associate Professor of Politics at Ithaca College. He is co-author (with David Blaney) of International Relations and the Problem of Difference (Routledge 2004) and co-editor (with Robin Riley) of Interrogating Imperialism (Palgrave 2006). He is working on a book entitled Savage Economics. He was the President of the Global Development section of the International Studies Association 2007-08.
Debbie Lisle is
a Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Cultural Studies in the
School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy at Queen’s
University Belfast. She is the author of The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing (Cambridge
University Press 2006) and has also written on contemporary art,
graffiti, museums, war films, tourism and travel. In general, her
research explores how global politics is represented in the cultural
realm, and how audiences come to understand certain accepted 'truths'
about their world. Her current research re-imagines the
relationship between tourism and war by demonstrating how both
practices are intimately connected.
Peter Mandaville is
Associate Professor of Government and Politics and the co-director of
the Center for Global Studies at George Mason University in Washington
DC. He is the author of Global Political Islam (Routledge 2007) and Transnational Muslim Politics: Reimagining the Umma (Routledge 2001), as well as co-editor of the volumes The Zen of International Relations (Palgrave 2001), Meaning and International Relations (Routledge 2003), and Globalizing Religions
(Sage 2008). Much of his recent work has focused on the
comparative study of religious authority and social movements in the
Muslim world. He is currently working on a project on ‘Global
Migration and Transnational Politics’ funded by the MacArthur
Foundation of Chicago (with Terrence Lyons).
Kate Manzo is Senior Lecturer in International Development in the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at the University of Newcastle. She is author of Domination, Resistance and Social Change in South Africa: The Local Effects of Global Power (Praeger 1992) and Creating Boundaries: The Politics of Race and Nation (Lynne Rienner 1996). Her current research interests include Africa in the politics of development, images of Africa in western media, and the iconography of climate change.
Anne Orford is an Australian Professorial Fellow, Chair of Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities at the University of Melbourne. She researches in the areas of international law and legal theory, with a particular interest in the law relating to the use of force, international economic law and the international legal legacies of (particularly British) imperialism. Her publications include Reading Humanitarian Intervention: Human Rights and the Use of Force in International Law (Cambridge University Press 2003) and the edited collection International Law and Its Others (Cambridge University Press 2006). She was awarded a research-only Australian Professorial Fellowship by the Australian Research Council for work on a project entitled Cosmopolitanism and the Future of International Law from 2007-2011.
Mustapha Kamal Pasha is
Professor of International Relations at the University of
Aberdeen. He specialises in International Relations theory,
globalization, and contemporary Islam (with particular reference to
confluence of globalization and Islam under conditions of
late/post-modernity). He is the co-editor of Human Security in a Post-9.11 World (Palgrave 2007) and International Relations and the New Inequality (Blackwell 2002). He has also authored Colonial Political Economy (1998) and Out From Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Structures and the Remaking of the Third World (with James Mittelman, Macmillan 2002). Currently, he is completing a book on Islam and International Relations: Modernity, Nihilism, and Politics.
V. Spike Peterson is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Arizona. She is the author of A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual Economies (Routledge 2003), Global Gender Issues (with Anne S. Runyan, Westview Press 1999, second edition) and co-editor of Gendered States: Feminist (Re)Visions of International Relations Theory (Lynne Rienner 1992). Her current research focuses on informalization in the global political economy. In 2004 the International Studies Association held an Eminent Scholar Panel Honoring V. Spike Peterson at its annual meeting. She is a Leverhulme Visiting Professor to the London School of Economics in 2007 and 2008.
Véronique Pin-Fat is
Senior Lecturer in International Politics at The University of
Manchester. She was awarded the Bernard Crick Prize for Outstanding
Teaching in Politics by the Political Studies Association in 2006. She
has a particular interest in the relationship between language, ethics
and global politics. She is co-editor with Jenny Edkins and Michael J.
Shapiro of Sovereign Lives: Power in Global Politics (Routledge 2004) and with Jenny Edkins and Nalini Persram of Sovereignty and Subjectivity (Lynne Rienner 1999). Her present research is an inquiry of universality.
Michael J. Shapiro is Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawaii. He is the author of numerous books, including Violent Cartographies: Mapping Cultures of War (University of Minnesota Press 1997), Methods and Nations: Cultural Governance and the Indigenous Subject (Routledge 2004) and Deforming American Political Thought: Ethnicity, Facticity, and Genre
(University Press of Kentucky 2006). His research covers
political theory and philosophy, critical social theory, global
politics, politics of media, politics of culture, and indigenous
politics. He has been involved in co-editing two books series, Borderlines (University of Minnesota Press) and Taking on the Political (University of Edinburgh Press). His most recent book is Cinematic Geopolitics (Routledge, 2008).
Annick T.R. Wibben is
Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco,
where she also directs the Peace and Justice Studies Program. She
continues to be affiliated with the Watson Institute for International
Studies at Brown University where she was working with the Information
Technology, War and Peace Project [infopeace.org] from 2001 to 2005. She is currently working on her book on Feminist Security Studies (Routledge forthcoming in 2009). She has also co-produced a documentary, After 9/11, with James Der Derian and Udris Productions (2004). Her Narrating Experience: Raymond Aron and Feminist Scholars Revis(it)ed (1998) was published by the University of Tampere.
Additional website contributor
Nick Vaughan-Williams is
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter. His
research examines the changing nature of borders and bordering
practices in contemporary political life and the implications of this
for theories of international relations and security.
He is currently working on three projects: a
single-authored monograph Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power (Edinburgh/Columbia University Press); a co-edited volume Critical Theorists and International Relations (Routledge);
and an analysis of border security practices in the
context of the 'War on Terror' (with funding from The British
Academy). He is co-editor of 'Interventions', a new
Routledge book series in critical and poststructural approaches to
international politics, with Jenny Edkins.