Tom Naylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1451613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Naylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Naylor |
| SIGNATURE | NAYLOR T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4374-0303 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Logos in Global Summitry
The study of international relations (IR) has undergone an ‘aesthetic turn’, placing previously marginalized visual evidence at the heart of our understanding of IR. Although researchers have embraced both moving and still images as evidence, the existing literature has almost entirely overlooked logos. This article extends this analysis by focussing on the case of one of the central mechanisms of global governance: the summit meetings of the Gro…
The production and performance of status
This article examines how international summits are produced as status symbols, arguing that a host’s successful management of the event maintains summitry as a high-status practice, while hosting itself serves as a means to acquire status, owing to the complexity and risk involved. Drawing on elements of practice and performance theories, it articulates how and why status symbols can be understood as performative practices, reworking how Veblen …
Assembling international society
Producing a means of conceptualising and analysing international society as an assemblage, this article reflects on Adam Watson’s Evolution of International Society and demonstrates how an assemblage theory approach allows us to undertake Watson’s general aims to engage in broad, comparative analyses of international societies historically and produce a history of contemporary international society, but without the problematic biases and omission…
The spread of informal governance practices in G-summitry
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order
This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in the management of international society stratifies international order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory of social closure to examine two status groups, The Family of Civilised Nations and the G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced by a dynamic interplay of top-down collectivist exclusion on the part of superiorly positioned actors and…
All That’s Lost
This essay considers the implications of virtual summits replacing in-person multilateral gatherings of political leaders. Focusing on the loss of physicality, it argues that two critical dimensions of summitry are eliminated in this shift: sublime governance and inter-moments. Drawing on illustrative examples from the Group of 20, it demonstrates that while moving online maintains the formal, procedural interactions around which summits are buil…
Deconstructing Development
This study examines how power operates within international development discourse and investigates its effects on development organizations and on individuals—donors and recipients of aid alike. It analyzes the narratives pertaining to Afghanistan that are (re)produced by five different types of development actors: a donor state, a recipient state, an international financial institution, an international organization, and a non-governmental organ…
On the Political Economy of Social Democracy
Weldon's writings address many of the themes that have preoccupied Canadian political economists over the last thirty years: unemployment, wage controls, inflation, pensions, privatization and social ownership, economic planning, social policy, the means and extent of state intervention, and the rise of neo-conservatism. On the Political Economy of Social Democracy stresses Weldon's recognition of the vital connection between social democracy and…
Deconstructing Development
This study examines how power operates within international development discourse and investigates its effects on development organizations and on individuals—donors and recipients of aid alike. It analyzes the narratives pertaining to Afghanistan that are (re)produced by five different types of development actors: a donor state, a recipient state, an international financial institution, an international organization, and a non-governmental organ…
The production and performance of status
This article examines how international summits are produced as status symbols, arguing that a host’s successful management of the event maintains summitry as a high-status practice, while hosting itself serves as a means to acquire status, owing to the complexity and risk involved. Drawing on elements of practice and performance theories, it articulates how and why status symbols can be understood as performative practices, reworking how Veblen …
All That’s Lost
This essay considers the implications of virtual summits replacing in-person multilateral gatherings of political leaders. Focusing on the loss of physicality, it argues that two critical dimensions of summitry are eliminated in this shift: sublime governance and inter-moments. Drawing on illustrative examples from the Group of 20, it demonstrates that while moving online maintains the formal, procedural interactions around which summits are buil…
The spread of informal governance practices in G-summitry
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order
This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in the management of international society stratifies international order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory of social closure to examine two status groups, The Family of Civilised Nations and the G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced by a dynamic interplay of top-down collectivist exclusion on the part of superiorly positioned actors and…
Logos in Global Summitry
The study of international relations (IR) has undergone an ‘aesthetic turn’, placing previously marginalized visual evidence at the heart of our understanding of IR. Although researchers have embraced both moving and still images as evidence, the existing literature has almost entirely overlooked logos. This article extends this analysis by focussing on the case of one of the central mechanisms of global governance: the summit meetings of the Gro…
On the Political Economy of Social Democracy
Weldon's writings address many of the themes that have preoccupied Canadian political economists over the last thirty years: unemployment, wage controls, inflation, pensions, privatization and social ownership, economic planning, social policy, the means and extent of state intervention, and the rise of neo-conservatism. On the Political Economy of Social Democracy stresses Weldon's recognition of the vital connection between social democracy and…
Deconstructing Development
This study examines how power operates within international development discourse and investigates its effects on development organizations and on individuals—donors and recipients of aid alike. It analyzes the narratives pertaining to Afghanistan that are (re)produced by five different types of development actors: a donor state, a recipient state, an international financial institution, an international organization, and a non-governmental organ…
All That’s Lost
This essay considers the implications of virtual summits replacing in-person multilateral gatherings of political leaders. Focusing on the loss of physicality, it argues that two critical dimensions of summitry are eliminated in this shift: sublime governance and inter-moments. Drawing on illustrative examples from the Group of 20, it demonstrates that while moving online maintains the formal, procedural interactions around which summits are buil…
The spread of informal governance practices in G-summitry
Social closure and the reproduction of stratified international order
This article investigates how the means by which actors compete for position in the management of international society stratifies international order. Advancing scholarship on hierarchies, it applies a theory of social closure to examine two status groups, The Family of Civilised Nations and the G20, arguing that stratification is reproduced by a dynamic interplay of top-down collectivist exclusion on the part of superiorly positioned actors and…
The production and performance of status
This article examines how international summits are produced as status symbols, arguing that a host’s successful management of the event maintains summitry as a high-status practice, while hosting itself serves as a means to acquire status, owing to the complexity and risk involved. Drawing on elements of practice and performance theories, it articulates how and why status symbols can be understood as performative practices, reworking how Veblen …
Assembling international society
Producing a means of conceptualising and analysing international society as an assemblage, this article reflects on Adam Watson’s Evolution of International Society and demonstrates how an assemblage theory approach allows us to undertake Watson’s general aims to engage in broad, comparative analyses of international societies historically and produce a history of contemporary international society, but without the problematic biases and omission…
Logos in Global Summitry
The study of international relations (IR) has undergone an ‘aesthetic turn’, placing previously marginalized visual evidence at the heart of our understanding of IR. Although researchers have embraced both moving and still images as evidence, the existing literature has almost entirely overlooked logos. This article extends this analysis by focussing on the case of one of the central mechanisms of global governance: the summit meetings of the Gro…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · International relations (4 works) · International Development and Aid (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)