![]() It is a nominalist device 1 that brings distinct lineages of thought to bear upon a wide-ranging set of practices through which we engage the meanings of lived lives, including literature, political analysis, plastic art, philosophy, film, folklore. ‘The everyday’ is more than a particular kind of site, such as private life, or a particular quality of objects and persons, such as time sheets, everyday political idioms, or military wives, situated at an infra-political level. The concept also mobilises distinct philosophical, sociological and literary lineages that organise our understanding of lives and worlds. However, adding ignored actors, practices and things is not all there is to ‘the everyday’. Their inclusion helps to correct skewed analytics of power that focus on elites or structural power. The concept of ‘the everyday’ is one of the concepts employed to express such an analytical interest in exploring the social and political significance of what some have referred to as ‘little nothings’ ( Bayart et al., 2008 Macherey, 2009). ![]() ![]() Among many examples are lay persons in expert environments ( Hobson and Seabrooke, 2007b), domestic servants in the world economy ( Enloe, 2014), garbage bins ( Acuto, 2014), a TV series ( Davies, 2010 Rowley and Weldes, 2012), tourism ( Lisle, 2016), Key Performance Indicators for security personnel in airports ( Schouten, 2014), the vernacular ( Jackson and Hall, 2016 Jarvis and Lister, 2012 Vaughan-Williams and Stevens, 2016), and the sociology of IR as a discipline ( Kessler and Guillaume, 2012), to name but a few. Those variables are assumed to be largely insignificant in world politics, either because they are considered simply not to matter or because they are merely reproductive of given structural relations. Yet, there is a continuing interest in the power of subjects, practices, relations, sites and things that are usually kept out of the political and analytical vision that is pervasive in IR. The concept of the everyday, thus draws attention to the immanent elusiveness and fragility of politics as it loses its ground, its referent.Ĭlaiming a turn to the everyday or a revival of interest in the everyday in the field of international relations (IR) would be overstating the point. The order of politics is then understood as an immanently precarious succession of situations and practices in which lived political lives remain inherently aleatory, momentary and emergent rather than as an order of mastering the political. ![]() When applied to politics, this conception of the everyday performs politics as emergent, as possibilities that are not already defined by fixing what politics can possibly be. The ephemeral introduces a conception of temporality that foregrounds the political significance of fleeting practices and the emergent nature of life. The abundance of life invites a densification of politics combined with an emphasis on displacing levels or scales by associative horizontal relations. In particular, it explores a conception of the the everyday that foregrounds the abundance of human life and ephemeral temporalities. All subjects Allied Health Cardiology & Cardiovascular Medicine Dentistry Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Endocrinology & Metabolism Environmental Science General Medicine Geriatrics Infectious Diseases Medico-legal Neurology Nursing Nutrition Obstetrics & Gynecology Oncology Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine Otolaryngology Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care Pediatrics Pharmacology & Toxicology Psychiatry & Psychology Public Health Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine Radiology Research Methods & Evaluation Rheumatology Surgery Tropical Medicine Veterinary Medicine Cell Biology Clinical Biochemistry Environmental Science Life Sciences Neuroscience Pharmacology & Toxicology Biomedical Engineering Engineering & Computing Environmental Engineering Materials Science Anthropology & Archaeology Communication & Media Studies Criminology & Criminal Justice Cultural Studies Economics & Development Education Environmental Studies Ethnic Studies Family Studies Gender Studies Geography Gerontology & Aging Group Studies History Information Science Interpersonal Violence Language & Linguistics Law Management & Organization Studies Marketing & Hospitality Music Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Philosophy Politics & International Relations Psychoanalysis Psychology & Counseling Public Administration Regional Studies Religion Research Methods & Evaluation Science & Society Studies Social Work & Social Policy Sociology Special Education Urban Studies & Planning BROWSE JOURNALSĪgainst the background of a continuing interest in the everyday in international relations, this article asks what kind of analytics upon and within the world mobilises one through the concept of the everyday and what consequences this may have for thinking about politics. ![]()
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