The Dialectics of In/Security
(2023)
Journal Article
Outputs (15)
Discourse and Affect in Foreign Policy: Germany and the Iraq War by Jakub Eberle (2019) (2023)
Journal Article
Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework (2023)
Journal Article
Interpellation, the production and hailing of subjectivities, is key to poststructuralist international relations (IR) theory and yet with some notable exceptions interpellation/hailing as an analytical concept remains somewhat undertheorized. This p... Read More about Interpellation and the Politics of Belonging: A Psychoanalytical Framework.
The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare (2023)
Book Chapter
This chapter traces the discursive and phantasmic (re-)productions of state sovereignty in IR theory from traditional scholarship to contemporary mainstream IR theory, thus contributing to recent analyses of sovereignty in critical and historical IR.... Read More about The Making and Remaking of State Sovereignty in IR Theory: From Fantasy to Nightmare.
The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance (2022)
Book Chapter
What is it in nationalism that lends itself to such continuous permutations and repetitions, to its perpetuum mobile? Why are ‘we’ continuously investing in it despite its failures and indeed its darker side of exclusions, xenophobia and even genocid... Read More about The Repetitions of Nationalism: Ontology, Fantasy and Jouissance.
Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations (2021)
Journal Article
Critical and poststructural theories were introduced to global politics in early to mid-1990s. Since then there has been a proliferation of critical thinking in global politics with Derridean and Foucauldian approaches being the most popular. While p... Read More about Psychoanalysis in Global Politics and International Relations.
‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism (2020)
Journal Article
How could we understand the emotive power of national-populist discourses, indeed the calls to ‘make our country great again’? This paper directly tackles the recent Brexit discourse, within the broader context of rising national-populist sentiments.... Read More about ‘Making Our Country Great Again’: The Politics of Subjectivity in an Age of National-Populism.
The Nation/State Fantasy A Psychoanalytical Genealogy of Nationalism (2020)
Book
This book explores the origins of nationalism and the ideal of nation/state congruency since early-modern European thought, their transformation over time and endurance in contemporary political thought and IR theory.
'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body (2018)
Journal Article
The section ‘gay rights in Israel’, part of the gaytlvguide.com website promoting gay life and culture in Israel, narrates Israel as ‘… one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities… by far the most tolerant... Read More about 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body.