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Dear all, With apologies for any cross-posting. This is a call for abstracts for ISA 2024 Annual Convention - April 3rd-6th - Putting Relationality at the Centre of International Studies https://www.isanet.org/Conferences/ISA2024/Call. Jonathan Pugh (Newcastle University) and I are putting together a panel proposal, ‘Critique Beyond Relation’: Panel Abstract: Critique beyond Relation For many of us, it appears that relationality is already at the centre of international studies. Neoliberal and neo-institutional frameworks of governance and policymaking, for example, depend precisely on ontologies of relation to explain and to legitimate differences in outcomes and rationalise the reproduction of inequalities and exclusions – as the relational and material sociologists (constructivists and actor network theorists) argue, anarchy or capitalism, or anything else, “is what actors make of it”. The swift move of many critical theorists from modernist ontologies of top-down transformation to bottom-up ones of relation, entanglement and emergence, of post- and more-than-human assemblages and sensitivities, are moves that shift the register from critique to affirmation. These relational approaches have come under a variety of critiques, which range from charges of appropriation to those of reinstating the (post- or more-than-) human at the centre, to starting from metaphysics rather than foundational cuts and worlding violences. For this panel – Critique Beyond Relation – we welcome inputs and contributions that seek to challenge the hegemony of relation, potentially drawing upon ideas of non-relation, of refusal, of withdrawal, of the infinite, of quantum superpositionality, of negation, spaces, voids and the abyss, just to name a few potential examples. If you are interested please could you send your proposed abstract (maximum 200 words), title (maximum 50 words) and three tags to David Chandler [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and Jonathan Pugh [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> by midnight Monday 29 May. Many thanks and best wishes, David and Jonathan David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster, 32-38 Wells Street, London, W1T 3UW. Tel: ++44 (0)776 525 3073. [page9image49192160] Anthropocenes HUMAN, INHUMAN, POSTHUMAN https://www.anthropocenes.net The World as Abyss: The Caribbean and Critical Thought in the Anthropocene (2023)<https://www.uwestminsterpress.co.uk/site/books/m/10.16997/book72/> International Relations in the Anthropocene: New Agendas, New Agencies and New Approaches (2021)<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/3030530132/> Anthropocene Islands: Entangled Worlds (2021)<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1914386000/> Becoming Indigenous: Governing Imaginaries in the Anthropocene (2019)<https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1786605724/> Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene: An Introduction to Mapping, Sensing and Hacking (2018)<https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ontopolitics-Anthropocene-Introduction-Critical-Politics/dp/1138570575/ref=la_B001HCXV7Y_1_26> Personal website: http://www.davidchandler.org/ Twitter: @DavidCh27992090<https://twitter.com/DavidCh27992090> Professor David Chandler’s office<https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjlkYmJkM2YtMWYwMy00M2Q5LWFjNTEtYmQ1YWNjZTdlMmRl%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22bb3c97ff-11b5-4b37-92cf-1897b2d8766b%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c001c9b6-ac8a-4b85-b16a-f0806271ac59%22%7d> The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CRIT-GEOG-FORUM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CRIT-GEOG-FORUM&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CRIT-GEOG-FORUM, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/