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Aalberts, Tanja, Kurowska, Xymena, Leander, Anna, Mälksoo, Maria, Heath-Kelly, Charlotte, Lobato, Luisa and Svensson, Ted (2020) Rituals of world politics : on (visual) practices disordering things. Critical Studies on Security, 8 (3). pp. 240-264. doi:10.1080/21624887.2020.1792734
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2020.1792734
Abstract
Rituals are customarily muted into predictable and boring routines aimed to stabilise social orders and limit conflict. As a result, their magic lure recedes into the background, and the unexpected, disruptive and disordered elements are downplayed. Our collaborative contribution counters this move by foregrounding rituals of world politics as social practices with notable disordering effects. The collective discussion recovers the disruptive work of a range of rituals designed to sustain the sovereign exercise of violence and war. We do so through engaging a series of ‘world pictures' (Mitchell 2007). We show the worlding enacted in rituals such as colonial treaty-making, state commemoration, military/service dog training, cyber-security podcasts,algorithmically generated maps, the visit of Prince Harry to a joint NATO exercise and border ceremonies in India, respectively. We do so highlighting rituals’ immanent potential for disruption of existing orders, the fissures, failures and unforeseen repercussions. Reappraising the disordering role of ritual practices sheds light on the place of rituals in rearticulating the boundaries of the political. It emphasises the role of rituals in generating dissensus and re-divisions of the sensible rather than in imposing a consensus by policing the boundaries of the political, as Rancière might phrase it. Our images are essential to the account. They help disinterring the fundamentals and ambiguities of the current worldings of security, capturing the affective atmosphere of rituals.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology J Political Science > JZ International relations |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | International relations, World politics -- 21st century, Political customs and rites -- Cross-cultural studies, Symbolism in politics, Security, International | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Studies on Security | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2162-4887 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 9 August 2020 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | ||||||
| Number: | 3 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 240-264 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/21624887.2020.1792734 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||
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