Ignasi Torrent
Biographic Data
| ID | 3448906 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ignasi Torrent |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ignasi |
| FAMILY NAME | Torrent |
| SIGNATURE | TORRENT I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hertfordshire |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9253-6133 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR
This article seeks to contribute to critiques of the recently reinvigorated relational turn in International Relations (IR) by exposing a seemingly overlooked logistical dimension of relations in this disciplinary debate. The relational turn in IR has sought to foreground the inevitable ontological entanglement of beings and events as the prime condition for possibility. Challenging an excess of abstraction of this claim, this article first sugge…
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR
The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of the world as a relational wholeness. Alongside the rise of Anthropocene debates and the claimed incapacity of post-positivism to account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, the text embarks on two main goals. On the one hand, the article sketches a brief genealogy of processua…
Entangled Peace
This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organ…
Entangled Peace
This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organ…
Scrutinising UN peacebuilding
This article examines the suitability of entanglements and relations to think and see peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the limited results of the United Nations (UN) in securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, the text critically engages with three debates on contemporary peacebuilding literature: the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of an organisational system-wide coherence and the agential condition of peacebuildi…
IR and Relational Cosmology
Contemporary International Relations (IR) research increasingly unveils a beyond-the-social relational cosmology as a prime condition for possibility. Over the last five years, scholars have flirted with this relational, entangled, even quantum system of thought, blurring the boundary between the social and the natural sciences. Kurki enters that larger discussion in a way unprecedented in IR, informing the notion of relational cosmology through …
Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding
This article examines how the growing complexity of peacebuilding settings is transforming the classic notion of purposeful agency into a non-purposeful, adaptive form of being in such contexts. Through an analysis of critical peacebuilding literature and a reflection on the UN’s peacebuilding practices in the field, the article first argues that complexity has been gradually replacing linear, top-down strategies with approaches seeking to draw a…
Problematising UN-local Civil Society Engagement in Peacebuilding
This article seeks to argue that the problematic engagement between United Nations peacebuilding and local civil society reveals an ontological tension between different forms of conceiving of actors and processes in peacebuilding contexts. Relationality is introduced as a potential analytical breakthrough. The article problematises UN static categorisations as failing to capture the complexity of local civil society and imposing a highly technic…
Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding
This article examines how the growing complexity of peacebuilding settings is transforming the classic notion of purposeful agency into a non-purposeful, adaptive form of being in such contexts. Through an analysis of critical peacebuilding literature and a reflection on the UN’s peacebuilding practices in the field, the article first argues that complexity has been gradually replacing linear, top-down strategies with approaches seeking to draw a…
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR
The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of the world as a relational wholeness. Alongside the rise of Anthropocene debates and the claimed incapacity of post-positivism to account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, the text embarks on two main goals. On the one hand, the article sketches a brief genealogy of processua…
Problematising UN-local Civil Society Engagement in Peacebuilding
This article seeks to argue that the problematic engagement between United Nations peacebuilding and local civil society reveals an ontological tension between different forms of conceiving of actors and processes in peacebuilding contexts. Relationality is introduced as a potential analytical breakthrough. The article problematises UN static categorisations as failing to capture the complexity of local civil society and imposing a highly technic…
Problematising UN-local Civil Society Engagement in Peacebuilding
This article seeks to argue that the problematic engagement between United Nations peacebuilding and local civil society reveals an ontological tension between different forms of conceiving of actors and processes in peacebuilding contexts. Relationality is introduced as a potential analytical breakthrough. The article problematises UN static categorisations as failing to capture the complexity of local civil society and imposing a highly technic…
Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding
This article examines how the growing complexity of peacebuilding settings is transforming the classic notion of purposeful agency into a non-purposeful, adaptive form of being in such contexts. Through an analysis of critical peacebuilding literature and a reflection on the UN’s peacebuilding practices in the field, the article first argues that complexity has been gradually replacing linear, top-down strategies with approaches seeking to draw a…
Entangled Peace
This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organ…
Entangled Peace
This book unfolds an exploratory journey intended to scrutinise the suitability of entanglements and relations as a mode of thinking and seeing peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the UN’s limited results in the endeavour towards securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, Torrent critically engages with three relevant debates in contemporary peacebuilding literature, including the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of organ…
Scrutinising UN peacebuilding
This article examines the suitability of entanglements and relations to think and see peacebuilding events. Through a reflection upon the limited results of the United Nations (UN) in securing lasting peace in war-torn scenarios, the text critically engages with three debates on contemporary peacebuilding literature: the inclusion of ‘the locals’, the achievement of an organisational system-wide coherence and the agential condition of peacebuildi…
IR and Relational Cosmology
Contemporary International Relations (IR) research increasingly unveils a beyond-the-social relational cosmology as a prime condition for possibility. Over the last five years, scholars have flirted with this relational, entangled, even quantum system of thought, blurring the boundary between the social and the natural sciences. Kurki enters that larger discussion in a way unprecedented in IR, informing the notion of relational cosmology through …
Problematising entanglement fetishism in IR
The following article seeks to question the deterministic tinge behind entanglement fetishism, namely the celebratory, uninhibited, and totalising projection of the world as a relational wholeness. Alongside the rise of Anthropocene debates and the claimed incapacity of post-positivism to account for contemporary socio-natural transformations, the text embarks on two main goals. On the one hand, the article sketches a brief genealogy of processua…
Recuperating Logistics in the Critique of the Relational Turn in IR
This article seeks to contribute to critiques of the recently reinvigorated relational turn in International Relations (IR) by exposing a seemingly overlooked logistical dimension of relations in this disciplinary debate. The relational turn in IR has sought to foreground the inevitable ontological entanglement of beings and events as the prime condition for possibility. Challenging an excess of abstraction of this claim, this article first sugge…
Political science (5 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Peacebuilding (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Fetishism (2 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (2 works)