Call for Papers
Section S07: AESTHETICS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLITICS EISA 2024 Annual Conference (PEC)
Université Catholique de Lille, 27-31 August 2024
The European International Studies Association’s (EISA) Regular Section on Aesthetics of International Law and Politics (S07) invites paper submissions for the 2024 EISA Annual Conference. Deadline for submissions: 13 March 2024. Submit your abstract here.
Section Chairs: Tasniem Anwar & Keri van Douwen (VU Amsterdam). For more information about the 2024 EISA PEC, see the website here.
All materials, photos, buildings and other objects of international law and politics form an aesthetic of thoughts and practices. Studying aesthetics in world politics has led to new insights related to questions of representation, the location of politics, and methodology. The so-called ‘aesthetic turn’ (Bleiker, 2001) promised not only to decentralize International Relations’ Western gaze but also opened new research avenues. International legal scholars have responded and contributed to this aesthetic turn by studying, for example, the design of international courts and the presentation of legal texts. A shared focus on aesthetic matters and critical sensibilities has aided scholars to move beyond the limits of -and deadlocks in- mainstream interdisciplinary International Law/International Relations debates and contributed towards critical interdisciplinary research and methodologies (Kratochwil 2014, Aalberts 2018). This section follows the aesthetic turn by focusing on the interaction of law and politics through material artefacts and design politics. We aim to advance an interdisciplinary conversation by connecting to socio-legal literature, science-and-technology studies, and post-colonial and feminist theory.
We specifically invite paper submissions on themes such as:
• Spaces: Everyday spaces of international law and politics
• Styles: The form and looks of ‘legality’
• Struggles: Expert knowledge and authority
• Silences: Logics of secrecy, silence and invisibility
• Stretches: Temporality in international law and politics
We are also excited to receive submissions that deploy aesthetic methodologies such as (not) seeing, listening, writing and hearing.
Please contact the section chairs ([email protected] and [email protected]) if you have any questions.
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