TY - BOOK AU - Michele Acuto AU - Simon Curtis TI - Reassembling international theory : : assemblage thinking and international relations SN - 9781349480722 U1 - 327.101 ACU PY - 2014/// CY - New York, NY PB - : Palgrave Macmillan KW - Social Sciences KW - International relations N1 - Assemblage thinking and international relations -- The carpenter and the bricoleur -- Tracing global assemblages, bringing Bourdieu to the field -- Assemblages and the conduct of inquiry -- Cognitive assemblages and the production of knowledge -- Global assemblages and structural models of international relations -- Thinking assemblages methodologically : some rules of thumb -- Energizing the international -- Visual assemblages : from causality to conditions of possibility -- Security in action : how John Dewey can help us follow the production of security assemblages -- Welcome to the machine : rethinking technology through assemblage theory -- The other politics of assemblage -- Agencement and traces : a politics of ephemeral theorizing -- The assemblage and the intellectual-as-hero N2 - What can 'assemblage' thinking contribute to the study of international relations theory? This study seeks to investigate how the various debates on assemblages in social theory can contribute to generating critical considerations on the connections and dissociation of political agency, physical world and international dynamics ER -