Discursive Dislocation

Toward a Poststructuralist Theory of Crisis in Global Politics

Bibliographic Data

ID6308643
AuthorsDarrell Nabers (0000-0002-0007-4873, International Political Sociology, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, corresponding author)
Year2019
Volume41
Issue2
Pages263-278
Publication date2019-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Political Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/07393148.2019.1596684
OpenAlexW2938858095
LanguageEN
Citations received12

In the discipline of International Relations (IR) and beyond, the concept of crisis is essentially contested, and one specific usage, it seems, is called into question by alternative uses of the term. The article develops the argument that crisis must not be misunderstood as exogenous to social construction; indeed, the very notion of crisis only makes sense if understood as produced entirely in what we will later specify as discourse. In this way, it can be illustrated how allegedly objective crises are expressions of particular configurations of social forms of power. The discourse theoretical notion of dislocation will be introduced in order to develop an understanding of crisis as a qualitative as well as constitutive feature of the social crisis. Crisis can in this sense be seen as a permanent attribute of the social, not some transitory condition that appears from time to time

Argument (complex analysis · Dislocation · Economics · Epistemology · Law and economics · Order (exchange · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics · Sociology · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Philosophy