attends to the forms of alterlife transformed by war that is life already altered by and entangled in violent the active modes of toxic and explosive worlding that emerge from people s encounters interactions and move traces how wars instigate elemental upheavals that is disturbance and rearrangement of human-soil relations reclaiming and repairing the spaces stolen by war that is the ways of doing elemental infrapolitics.

argument is that the living or embarked narration of front lines creates an effect of power that gives the Chris Kyle. I propose to understand the conditions that made possible the collective normalization of a paradoxically emerges from an apolitical discourse that claims to tell the real story of a soldier on front

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colleagues and friends have contributed papers on topics that relate to the diverse fields of interests Nota Kourou rituals and epigraphy. Each section focuses on more than one concern in the study of early societies presenting

military s influence in post-genocide Rwanda we argue that the adoption of military norms and ethos drawn from idealised and reconstructed pre-colonial history rather than simply an insurgent past motivates the military

Critical Security Studies CSS 's dominant answer is that state apparatus are significantly transformed by by the use of new technologies of prediction that are very prolific in imagining potential risks. The weak field in the study of pre-emption it argues that the political sociology of transnational fields potential terrorist threats by NATO's practitioners that served to justify the pre-emptive use of the collective

counterinsurgencies COIN To answer the paper engages the thesis that the recent COIN campaigns were founded on a dysfunctional the reality of the indefinite use of force. I show that this tension called the tactical trap is not a pathology The tactical trap is an assemblage of violence that brings together the endless use of force and the population-centric war it is founded on a violence that makes COIN both a permanent state of failure and

between different parts of the new democratic systems that are developing in many political contexts. To address representative institutions. This allows to identify DIs that do have the potential to strengthen electoral legitimacy empowered citizens assemblies . The article shows that it is not because an innovation is conceived as complementary to electoral representative institutions that it cannot challenge the latter s foundations. Finally

perceptions of public opinion recognising that the knowledge that politicians possess about public opinion Politica LIEN Springer Link ABSTRACT Research shows that political parties are not equally responsive to data from Belgium and Germany the analysis reveals that overall party characteristics have a limited impact