
Worlds in Conflict
War and the Limits of Politics
$105.08
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
16 December 2025
Summary
A new understanding of how war relates to politics based on four analytical categories - violence, people, words, and things.
We inhabit worlds in conflict, manifest in eruptions of violence and political turmoil both within and across state boundaries. These are also worlds of injury, impacting individuals and communities, discourses and institutions, including the juridical and normative ordering of the global. Worlds in Conflict unravels the question of how war relates to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262553728 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262553724 |
| Author: | Vivienne Jabri |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 16 December 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Prisms: Humanities and War |
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“A noted specialist in war studies completely redirects canonical international relations away from war-cause preoccupations to war as generative and self-reinforcing. War here is a human-built mountain, always present and always on the verge of an injurious lava spew. Brilliant.”
—Christine Sylvester, Emerita, University of Connecticut
“Sophisticated and insightful, this is the culmination of Jabri’s influential scholarship: a critical theory of war that examines how violence not only destroys lives and livelihoods, but also leaves behind a legacy that profoundly shapes societies and their politics.”
—Roland Bleiker, Professor of International Relations, University of Queensland
About The Author
Vivienne Jabri
Vivienne Jabri is Professor of International Politics at King’s College London. She is PI on a UKRI funded European Research Council Advanced project, Mapping Injury, and a recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Studies Association. She is author of several books, including The Postcolonial Subject.
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