Established in 2019 and published by Peter Lang (Oxford), Explosive Politics is a series for trenchant and provocative publications, exploring the confines of political violence and conflict, examining how words, acts and actors interact in tumultuous situations and grey areas. Explicitly cross-discipline in its organisation and orientation, the series rigorously explores the contemporary nature of the social, political and cultural dynamics of violence and conflicts in local, national, and global perspectives. In publishing frontier analyses and empirical research exemplary of the all-pervading unpredictability of violence and conflict, the series focuses on topics that due to their traumatic or disturbing appearance remain unrepresented or under-theorised in academic writings. Explosive Politics goes beyond the widespread understanding of violence as a pathological or dysfunctional reality. The omnipresence of violence in today’s society and the unprecedented capacity of large-scale destruction acquired by some states require the careful analysis of how violence is made possible. The series provides such an opportunity by focusing on the socio-political foundations of violence. As such, Explosive Politics is not restricted to a pre-conceived definition of violence, but questions the multiplicity of its actors, institutions, routines and technics.
We accept research monograph and co-edited volume projects in English, French and Spanish.
