Vivienne Jabri
Biographic Data
| ID | 254184 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivienne Jabri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Jabri |
| SIGNATURE | JABRI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3383-3012 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
No Justice, No Peace’
Ontology, relationality and an alternative reading of ‘difference’
The article engages with Maggie Fitzgerald’s Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics. It focuses primarily on Fitzgerald’s ontoepistemological reading of relationality and difference, suggesting an alternative reading of both concepts, one that is keeping with a more open, plural and therefore critical understanding
Global conversations
The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily sh…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Conflict and the Cosmopolitan Liberalism of the “World Society” Perspective
The “world society” perspective aspired to occupy a distinctive paradigmatic position, in opposition to realism and structuralism. Its primary focus was the understanding of conflict and the formation of an “activist” agenda that promoted the conflict researcher as facilitator of conflict resolution. This article argues that the perspective remained largely that, though expressive of a normative commitment to what the article suggests is a form o…
Late modern wars and category errors
Repenser l’impact de la surveillance après l’affaire Snowden
Les révélations autour des programmes secrets de la NSA ont confirmé l’existence d’une surveillance de grande envergure de nos communications par les autorités gouvernementales américaines, qui touche également les pays alliés des États-Unis en Europe et en Amérique latine. Les ramifications transnationales de la surveillance nous invitent à ré-examiner les pratiques contemporaines des affaires internationales. Le débat ne se limite pas aux relat…
Forum
In this forum five scholars bring their particular postcolonial perspectives to bear upon the constructivist concept of norms. Charlotte Epstein introduces the forum by considering what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new ‘ism’ for IR, but as a ‘situated perspective’; and how this casts a different light upon the makings of international orders and key e…
Disarming norms
The aim of this article is to provide a postcolonial reading of norms in international politics. Focusing specifically on the question of postcolonial agency, the article argues that the constructivist literature provides a distinctive spatial and temporal ordering of the ‘international’ that on the one hand can be seen to attribute agency to the postcolonial subject, while on the other can easily be interpreted as denying a presence for this sub…
After Snowden
Current revelations about the secret US-NSA program, PRISM, have confirmed the large-scale mass surveillance of the telecommunication and electronic messages of governments, companies, and citizens, including the United States' closest allies in Europe and Latin America. The transnational ramifications of surveillance call for a re-evaluation of contemporary world politics' practices. The debate cannot be limited to the United States versus the r…
Peacebuilding, the local and the international
There is much debate in the peacebuilding literature on the question of agency and its locations. Given the interventionist context of peacebuilding operations and the overwhelming presence of ‘internationals’ on the scene, the ‘local’ factor might easily be seen as being subsumed at best and totally negated at worst. Operations of peacebuilding can be interpreted as being driven by a colonial rationality wherein the imperative to govern precedes…
The postcolonial subject
Cosmopolitan politics, security, political subjectivity
Conventionally, the concept of cosmopolitanism is dealt with as a normative discourse. However, a far more useful understanding is to focus on the practices that the concept enables. The aim in this article is to highlight two manifestations of such practices, namely those that have as their imperative security, the cosmopolitanism of government, and those that might be defined in terms of solidarity, the cosmopolitanism of politics. Both the soc…
What is Genocide? – By Shaw, M
Shaw, M. What is Genocide? Polity Press 2007 232 pp. £55.00 (hardback) £15.99 (paperback) Genocide is a highly charged term. Recent controversies surrounding the Armenian Genocide and Turkish culpabilities thereof are only the most recent testimony to the contested nature of the concept and the place of genocide in the history of modernity. That even signatories to a Turkish petition calling for the proclamation of an apology by the Turkish state…
Roundtable Discussion
Critical Approaches to International Security – By K.M. Fierke
War and the Transformation of Global Politics
Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of ex
Solidarity and spheres of culture
Cosmopolitan thought and practice bring into sharp focus the question of solidarity, its articulations, and implications in relation to how the political is understood in the sphere of the international. Where liberal cosmopolitanism aims its remit at a transcendent sphere of humanity, seeking to place humanity as the constitutive feature of a redesigned political community, a cosmopolitanism that is distinctly political in its orientation takes …
Michel Foucault's Analytics of War
The absence of the international as a distinct socio-political sphere in Michel Foucault's work forms a major part of the postcolonial critique of his writings. The absence of the international has a number of consequences for any critical engagement with Foucault in the context of global politics. The significance of these consequences becomes apparent when we consider Foucault's analytics of war and power, situate these in relation to the parti…
War, Security and the Liberal State
War in late modern politics is a technology of control. While its violent manifestations – for example, the invasion and occupation of Iraq – are directly felt by the population targeted, the practices associated with that war and the wider so-called war against terrorism have a far wider span of operations that encompasses spaces across the globe. This article provides an understanding of global war as a distinctly late modern form of control. I…
Shock and Awe
There is much in late modern warfare that, in all its high tech rendering, expresses a paradoxical desire for a war devoid of violence, somehow cleansed, materially and morally, of all the responsibilities that come with war. The “shock and awe” tactics celebrated by their perpetrators in the Iraq invasion were an articulation of power aimed at the gaze of a wider global public arena, the target of an emerging regime of control, where the violenc…
La guerre et l’Etat libéral démocratique
En matière de politique internationale, la guerre est une technologie de contrôle. Tandis que ses manifestations violentes comme l’invasion et l’occupation de l’Irak sont directement ressenties par les populations visées, les pratiques qui y sont associées ainsi que ladite « guerre au terrorisme » ont des effets d’une portée mondiale. Cet article offre une lecture de la guerre globale comme forme de contrôle propre à cette modernité tardive. Il m…
Critical Thought and Political Agency in Time of War
Every time I have tried to do a piece of theoretical work it has been on the basis of elements of my own experience: always in connection with processes I saw unfolding around me. It was always because I thought I identified cracks, silent tremors, and dysfunctions in things I saw, institutions I was dealing with, or my relations with others, that I set out to do a piece of work, and each time was partly a fragment of autobiography.2
Feminist Ethics and Hegemonic Global Politics
The challenge for feminism in the present relates to how it responds, ethically and politically, to a global context that is at once geared toward total control and fragmentation. In seeking to contribute to the revival of feminism as a distinctly political project, this article explores the potential of feminist contributions in relation to ethics and politics. The aim is not to reenact, or even to reactivate, the well-worn arguments around univ…
The Self in Woman as Subject of Art and Politics
(2002). The Self in Woman as Subject of Art and Politics. International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 122-128
After Snowden
Current revelations about the secret US-NSA program, PRISM, have confirmed the large-scale mass surveillance of the telecommunication and electronic messages of governments, companies, and citizens, including the United States' closest allies in Europe and Latin America. The transnational ramifications of surveillance call for a re-evaluation of contemporary world politics' practices. The debate cannot be limited to the United States versus the r…
War, Security and the Liberal State
War in late modern politics is a technology of control. While its violent manifestations – for example, the invasion and occupation of Iraq – are directly felt by the population targeted, the practices associated with that war and the wider so-called war against terrorism have a far wider span of operations that encompasses spaces across the globe. This article provides an understanding of global war as a distinctly late modern form of control. I…
Peacebuilding, the local and the international
There is much debate in the peacebuilding literature on the question of agency and its locations. Given the interventionist context of peacebuilding operations and the overwhelming presence of ‘internationals’ on the scene, the ‘local’ factor might easily be seen as being subsumed at best and totally negated at worst. Operations of peacebuilding can be interpreted as being driven by a colonial rationality wherein the imperative to govern precedes…
Restyling the Subject of Responsibility in International Relations
The article combines the later works of Michel Foucault with Julia Kristeva's writings to rethink the 'subject' of responsibility in international relations. In developing Foucault's conception of ethics through Kristeva's psychoanalytically informed notion of the 'stranger within', the article places the question of subjectivity at the heart of discourses concerned with ethics in international relations. In seeking to move the terms of debate be…
Michel Foucault's Analytics of War
The absence of the international as a distinct socio-political sphere in Michel Foucault's work forms a major part of the postcolonial critique of his writings. The absence of the international has a number of consequences for any critical engagement with Foucault in the context of global politics. The significance of these consequences becomes apparent when we consider Foucault's analytics of war and power, situate these in relation to the parti…
Solidarity and spheres of culture
Cosmopolitan thought and practice bring into sharp focus the question of solidarity, its articulations, and implications in relation to how the political is understood in the sphere of the international. Where liberal cosmopolitanism aims its remit at a transcendent sphere of humanity, seeking to place humanity as the constitutive feature of a redesigned political community, a cosmopolitanism that is distinctly political in its orientation takes …
Disarming norms
The aim of this article is to provide a postcolonial reading of norms in international politics. Focusing specifically on the question of postcolonial agency, the article argues that the constructivist literature provides a distinctive spatial and temporal ordering of the ‘international’ that on the one hand can be seen to attribute agency to the postcolonial subject, while on the other can easily be interpreted as denying a presence for this sub…
Shock and Awe
There is much in late modern warfare that, in all its high tech rendering, expresses a paradoxical desire for a war devoid of violence, somehow cleansed, materially and morally, of all the responsibilities that come with war. The “shock and awe” tactics celebrated by their perpetrators in the Iraq invasion were an articulation of power aimed at the gaze of a wider global public arena, the target of an emerging regime of control, where the violenc…
Horizon Scan
What is changing?This: the contradictions and predations of patriarchal imperialist capitalism, and of the deeply racist and gendered material and symbolic order it produces, have enabled an accelerating, unrelenting, unfettered extractive stance toward the planet, its ecosystems and natural resources, and the plant and animal species and human beings that inhabit it.That stance has not only resulted in increasingly outrageous inequalities and co…
Late modern wars and category errors
Global conversations
The ‘global turn’ in International Relations (IR), like postcolonial and decolonising approaches, moves away from the Eurocentric dominance of the discipline, and towards the inclusion of plural perspectives on global politics. The article investigates what such a call means in epistemological and ontological terms by focusing on the concept of ‘global conversations’. In section I, we show that the concept of ‘global’ conversations necessarily sh…
Critical Thought and Political Agency in Time of War
Every time I have tried to do a piece of theoretical work it has been on the basis of elements of my own experience: always in connection with processes I saw unfolding around me. It was always because I thought I identified cracks, silent tremors, and dysfunctions in things I saw, institutions I was dealing with, or my relations with others, that I set out to do a piece of work, and each time was partly a fragment of autobiography.2
Feminist Ethics and Hegemonic Global Politics
The challenge for feminism in the present relates to how it responds, ethically and politically, to a global context that is at once geared toward total control and fragmentation. In seeking to contribute to the revival of feminism as a distinctly political project, this article explores the potential of feminist contributions in relation to ethics and politics. The aim is not to reenact, or even to reactivate, the well-worn arguments around univ…
The ontologist always rings twice
The focus of inquiry for a critical, post-positivist International Relations requires a shift away from concern over universalist epistemological legitimacy and a move towards understanding the ontological underpinnings of international social, political, and economic life. Recent debates over the ‘agency—structure problem’, as represented in the Wendt vs Hollis and Smith debate and more recently in the latter's response to Walter Carlsnaes, have…
Cosmopolitan politics, security, political subjectivity
Conventionally, the concept of cosmopolitanism is dealt with as a normative discourse. However, a far more useful understanding is to focus on the practices that the concept enables. The aim in this article is to highlight two manifestations of such practices, namely those that have as their imperative security, the cosmopolitanism of government, and those that might be defined in terms of solidarity, the cosmopolitanism of politics. Both the soc…
Textualising the self
Ontology, relationality and an alternative reading of ‘difference’
The article engages with Maggie Fitzgerald’s Care and the Pluriverse: Rethinking Global Ethics. It focuses primarily on Fitzgerald’s ontoepistemological reading of relationality and difference, suggesting an alternative reading of both concepts, one that is keeping with a more open, plural and therefore critical understanding
Conflict and the Cosmopolitan Liberalism of the “World Society” Perspective
The “world society” perspective aspired to occupy a distinctive paradigmatic position, in opposition to realism and structuralism. Its primary focus was the understanding of conflict and the formation of an “activist” agenda that promoted the conflict researcher as facilitator of conflict resolution. This article argues that the perspective remained largely that, though expressive of a normative commitment to what the article suggests is a form o…
Forum
In this forum five scholars bring their particular postcolonial perspectives to bear upon the constructivist concept of norms. Charlotte Epstein introduces the forum by considering what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new ‘ism’ for IR, but as a ‘situated perspective’; and how this casts a different light upon the makings of international orders and key e…
Roundtable Discussion
La guerre et l’Etat libéral démocratique
En matière de politique internationale, la guerre est une technologie de contrôle. Tandis que ses manifestations violentes comme l’invasion et l’occupation de l’Irak sont directement ressenties par les populations visées, les pratiques qui y sont associées ainsi que ladite « guerre au terrorisme » ont des effets d’une portée mondiale. Cet article offre une lecture de la guerre globale comme forme de contrôle propre à cette modernité tardive. Il m…
(Uni)form Instrumentalities and War's Abject
Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world
Journal Article Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world Get access Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world. By Christine Sylvester. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. 265pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 521 39305 1. Pb.: £13.95; ISBN 0 521 45984 2. Vivienne Jabri Vivienne Jabri 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, …
Mediating Conflict
Analytical framework the conflict over Namibia the formation of the Western contact group the mediation process tactical decisions of the Western contact group third party re-evaluation of the intermediary role - did the Western contact group initiative come to an end? reassessment of third party decision-making
Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world
Journal Article Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world Get access Feminist theory and international relations in a postmodern world. By Christine Sylvester. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. 265pp. Index. £35.00; ISBN 0 521 39305 1. Pb.: £13.95; ISBN 0 521 45984 2. Vivienne Jabri Vivienne Jabri 1University of Kent Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, …
Textualising the self
The ontologist always rings twice
The focus of inquiry for a critical, post-positivist International Relations requires a shift away from concern over universalist epistemological legitimacy and a move towards understanding the ontological underpinnings of international social, political, and economic life. Recent debates over the ‘agency—structure problem’, as represented in the Wendt vs Hollis and Smith debate and more recently in the latter's response to Walter Carlsnaes, have…
Worlding women
Journal Article Worlding women: a feminist international politics Get access Worlding women: a feminist international politics. By Jan Jindy Pettman. London: Routledge. 1996. 272pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 415 15201 1. Pb.: £12.99; ISBN 0 415 15202 x. Vivienne Jabri Vivienne Jabri 1University of Kent at Canterbury Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 2, April 1997, Pages 36…
(Uni)form Instrumentalities and War's Abject
Restyling the Subject of Responsibility in International Relations
The article combines the later works of Michel Foucault with Julia Kristeva's writings to rethink the 'subject' of responsibility in international relations. In developing Foucault's conception of ethics through Kristeva's psychoanalytically informed notion of the 'stranger within', the article places the question of subjectivity at the heart of discourses concerned with ethics in international relations. In seeking to move the terms of debate be…
A universal ethics for global challenges
(1999). A Universal Ethics for Global Challenges. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 373-374
The Self in Woman as Subject of Art and Politics
(2002). The Self in Woman as Subject of Art and Politics. International Feminist Journal of Politics: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 122-128
Feminist Ethics and Hegemonic Global Politics
The challenge for feminism in the present relates to how it responds, ethically and politically, to a global context that is at once geared toward total control and fragmentation. In seeking to contribute to the revival of feminism as a distinctly political project, this article explores the potential of feminist contributions in relation to ethics and politics. The aim is not to reenact, or even to reactivate, the well-worn arguments around univ…
Critical Thought and Political Agency in Time of War
Every time I have tried to do a piece of theoretical work it has been on the basis of elements of my own experience: always in connection with processes I saw unfolding around me. It was always because I thought I identified cracks, silent tremors, and dysfunctions in things I saw, institutions I was dealing with, or my relations with others, that I set out to do a piece of work, and each time was partly a fragment of autobiography.2
War, Security and the Liberal State
War in late modern politics is a technology of control. While its violent manifestations – for example, the invasion and occupation of Iraq – are directly felt by the population targeted, the practices associated with that war and the wider so-called war against terrorism have a far wider span of operations that encompasses spaces across the globe. This article provides an understanding of global war as a distinctly late modern form of control. I…
Shock and Awe
There is much in late modern warfare that, in all its high tech rendering, expresses a paradoxical desire for a war devoid of violence, somehow cleansed, materially and morally, of all the responsibilities that come with war. The “shock and awe” tactics celebrated by their perpetrators in the Iraq invasion were an articulation of power aimed at the gaze of a wider global public arena, the target of an emerging regime of control, where the violenc…
La guerre et l’Etat libéral démocratique
En matière de politique internationale, la guerre est une technologie de contrôle. Tandis que ses manifestations violentes comme l’invasion et l’occupation de l’Irak sont directement ressenties par les populations visées, les pratiques qui y sont associées ainsi que ladite « guerre au terrorisme » ont des effets d’une portée mondiale. Cet article offre une lecture de la guerre globale comme forme de contrôle propre à cette modernité tardive. Il m…
War and the Transformation of Global Politics
Drawing on critical social and political thought, the book explores the implications, arguing that late modern wars wars, often referred to as 'liberal', may be interpreted as perpetuating forms of ex
Solidarity and spheres of culture
Cosmopolitan thought and practice bring into sharp focus the question of solidarity, its articulations, and implications in relation to how the political is understood in the sphere of the international. Where liberal cosmopolitanism aims its remit at a transcendent sphere of humanity, seeking to place humanity as the constitutive feature of a redesigned political community, a cosmopolitanism that is distinctly political in its orientation takes …
Michel Foucault's Analytics of War
The absence of the international as a distinct socio-political sphere in Michel Foucault's work forms a major part of the postcolonial critique of his writings. The absence of the international has a number of consequences for any critical engagement with Foucault in the context of global politics. The significance of these consequences becomes apparent when we consider Foucault's analytics of war and power, situate these in relation to the parti…
Roundtable Discussion
Critical Approaches to International Security – By K.M. Fierke
What is Genocide? – By Shaw, M
Shaw, M. What is Genocide? Polity Press 2007 232 pp. £55.00 (hardback) £15.99 (paperback) Genocide is a highly charged term. Recent controversies surrounding the Armenian Genocide and Turkish culpabilities thereof are only the most recent testimony to the contested nature of the concept and the place of genocide in the history of modernity. That even signatories to a Turkish petition calling for the proclamation of an apology by the Turkish state…
The postcolonial subject
Cosmopolitan politics, security, political subjectivity
Conventionally, the concept of cosmopolitanism is dealt with as a normative discourse. However, a far more useful understanding is to focus on the practices that the concept enables. The aim in this article is to highlight two manifestations of such practices, namely those that have as their imperative security, the cosmopolitanism of government, and those that might be defined in terms of solidarity, the cosmopolitanism of politics. Both the soc…
Peacebuilding, the local and the international
There is much debate in the peacebuilding literature on the question of agency and its locations. Given the interventionist context of peacebuilding operations and the overwhelming presence of ‘internationals’ on the scene, the ‘local’ factor might easily be seen as being subsumed at best and totally negated at worst. Operations of peacebuilding can be interpreted as being driven by a colonial rationality wherein the imperative to govern precedes…
Forum
In this forum five scholars bring their particular postcolonial perspectives to bear upon the constructivist concept of norms. Charlotte Epstein introduces the forum by considering what it means to theorise international politics from a postcolonial perspective, understood not as a unified body of thought or a new ‘ism’ for IR, but as a ‘situated perspective’; and how this casts a different light upon the makings of international orders and key e…
Disarming norms
The aim of this article is to provide a postcolonial reading of norms in international politics. Focusing specifically on the question of postcolonial agency, the article argues that the constructivist literature provides a distinctive spatial and temporal ordering of the ‘international’ that on the one hand can be seen to attribute agency to the postcolonial subject, while on the other can easily be interpreted as denying a presence for this sub…
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