Hallucination and intervention

Bibliographic Data

ID13006261
AuthorsSteele Steele (University of Utah, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume7
Issue2
Pages201-218
Publication date2017-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Discourse (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2043-7897 • E-ISSN: 2326-9995
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23269995.2017.1338507
OpenAlexW2742112682
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited47

This paper uses the referent of the hallucination as a way to move with and then past the role of images in intervention. It is used for two purposes. First, it calls our attention to how often those advocating intervention refer not to images and what we can see (but disagree over), but rather to what is not seen. A second purpose is analytical. I engage research on hallucinations at the individual level, link this to research on interventions and provide three conceptual bridges relating to hallucinations in international relations – images and their visual political contestations, trauma and generational experiences. I also present three examples of hallucination common to International Relations studies – counter-factuals, simulations and scenarios. This paper thus deploys the concept of ‘hallucination’ to contextualize, recast and interrogate interventions

Epistemology · Intervention (counseling · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Psychological intervention · Referent · Sociology · Visual Hallucination · Global Security and Public Health · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification