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Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence (2019)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z., Kamola, I. A., Havercroft, J., Murphy, J., Koomen, J., & Pritchard, A. (2019). Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence. International Studies Quarterly, 63(1), 199-212. https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqy060

While international relations scholars make many claims about violence, they rarely define the concept. This article develops a typology of three distinct kinds of violence: direct, indirect, and pacification. Direct violence occurs when a person or... Read More about Liberal Pacification and the Phenomenology of Violence.

Methodological Reflections about STAIR (2019)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2019). Methodological Reflections about STAIR. In J. Singh, M. Carr, & R. Marlin-Bennett (Eds.), Science, technology, and art in international relations. Routledge

Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race (2018)
Book
Egorova, Y. (2018). Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199856237.001.0001

Jews and Muslims in South Asia examines how Jews and Muslims relate to each other in a place where, in contrast to Europe, their perceived attitudes towards one another do not often make headlines. In the European imagination, Jews and Muslims have b... Read More about Jews and Muslims in South Asia: Reflections on Difference, Religion and Race.

Conflict and Security (2018)
Book Chapter
Lyon, S. M. (2018). Conflict and Security. In P. Sillitoe (Ed.), International encyclopedia of anthropology. John Wiley and Sons. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2011

Conflict and security although related, imply different domains. Conflict has long been a pre-occupation of anthropology. Underlying assumptions about how best to understand conflict have shifted over the years, but it is probably fair to say that an... Read More about Conflict and Security.

Diasporas and political obligation (2018)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2018). Diasporas and political obligation. In R. Cohen, & C. Fischer (Eds.), Routledge handbook of diaspora studies (223-230). Routledge

In an essay on the state of political theory, Isaiah Berlin (1969: 7) suggests that ‘the most fundamental of all political questions’ is ‘why should anyone obey anyone else?’ Similarly, A. P. d’Entrèves (1959: 3) claims that ‘the history of political... Read More about Diasporas and political obligation.

Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice (2018)
Journal Article
Leshem, N., & Pinkerton, A. (2019). Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice. Progress in Human Geography, 43(3), 496-514. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132518768413

The expedition’s complicity in the imperial project of conquest, extraction and settlement has placed it as an object of critique, but largely discredited its significance as a valid research method in the critical social sciences. Yet dismissing the... Read More about Rethinking expeditions: On critical expeditionary practice.

How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times (2018)
Book
Baron, I. Z. (2018). How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times. Manchester University Press

The rise of populism, Donald Trump's election and the result of the EU referendum in the UK have been widely interpreted as a rejection of the post-war liberal order – the manifestation of a desire to undermine the political system that people feel h... Read More about How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times.

Tobit (2018)
Book Chapter
Weeks, S. (2018). Tobit. In A. Wright, R. Herms, & B. Embry (Eds.), Early Jewish literature : an anthology (368-382). Eerdmans

War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones (2017)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2017). War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones. Journal of modern literature, 41(1), 81-99. https://doi.org/10.2979/jmodelite.41.1.06

The Kindly Ones (2006), a French novel written by the American author Jonathan Littell, explores the Holocaust from a perpetrator's point of view. The novel is replete with detailed historical analysis and intertextual references, but its narrative i... Read More about War of Images or Images of War? Visualizing History in Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones.

The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel (2017)
Journal Article
Baron, I. Z. (2018). The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel. Journal of International Political Theory, 14(1), 85-106. https://doi.org/10.1177/1755088217741322

This article explores a question that is often assumed but rarely addressed: What does Israel provide ideationally for Diaspora Jews that serves as the basis for Diaspora/Israel relations and justifies the importance of Israel for Jewish identity? Wh... Read More about The contradictions of Diaspora: A reflexive critique of the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel.