Performing piracy: a note on the multiplicity of agency

Bueger, Christian

doi:10.1057/s41268-017-0122-0

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“…At the same time, we need to be careful not to overstretch the argument by claiming that diplomacy is the only source of 25 international agency. As the contributions to this special issue (Abrahamsson and Dányi 2018;Bueger 2018;Noyes 2018; see also Schindler 2014) demonstrate forcefully, agency in international politics is complicated and it can emerge from many practices. The challenge for a performative account of diplomacy is ultimately to grasp how diplomacy overlaps and interacts with these practices as it gives shape to international politics and its actors.…”

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Representation and agency in diplomacy: How Kosovo came to agree to the Rambouillet accords

Wille¹

2018

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Representation and agency in diplomacy: How Kosovo came to agree to the Rambouillet accords

Wille¹

2018

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“…Further examples are the various appearances of Somali pirates (Bueger, 2018) or the 'Polish plumber' (Noyes, 2018). As Bueger argues, pirate agency is irreducible to one level of analysis, because its forms depend ultimately on the specific 'agencement' that brings it about, be it the screening of a movie or the meeting of an international group of diplomats and military officers.…”

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“…Similarly, Bueger's (2018) analysis of pirate agency seeks to transcend the dualism of agent and structure. For him, agency does not emerge from the interplay between agents and one single structure.…”

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“…For him, agency does not emerge from the interplay between agents and one single structure. Rather, 'agency depends upon, and is the effect of, webs of relations set up in and through practice' (Bueger 2018: ##). These webs of relations, or agencements, can be reconstructed empirically and by a variety of methods.…”

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“…Using these methods he identifies six agencements that 'turn pirates into political, normative, security, legal, or economic subjects, or into structural symptoms' (Bueger 2018: ##). Each of these agencements thus positions the pirate differently vis-à-vis constraining structures, granting them varying degrees of freedom to act.…”

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Rethinking agency in International Relations: performativity, performances and actor-networks

2018

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Abstract:The academic discipline of International Relations (IR) has long pondered the questions of what it means to act in international politics and who can do so. However, the particular way in which IR has approached the problem of agency has somewhat masked important dynamics in international politics. By approaching the question of agency as an analytical problem that needs to be resolved before engaging with empirical material, IR has failed to see that who can act is often uncertain and contested. This special issue examines the emergence of international agency as an empirical phenomenon. Rather than analysing what given agents do, the contributions study how practices, performances and networks create and transform agency. In this introductory article, we prepare the ground for this distinct approach to studying international politics. We review how IR has addressed the problem of agency, and we discuss three social-theoretical traditions that see agency as an emergent phenomenon: poststructuralism, performance studies and actor-network theory. Finally, we highlight four insights that emerge from the contributions and challenge how IR has traditionally imagined agency.

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Analysis of the Enforcement of the Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences Act in Nigeria: Matters Arising

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2023

Crim Law Forum

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Performing piracy: a note on the multiplicity of agency

Cited by 9 publications

References 37 publications

Representation and agency in diplomacy: How Kosovo came to agree to the Rambouillet accords

Representation and agency in diplomacy: How Kosovo came to agree to the Rambouillet accords

Rethinking agency in International Relations: performativity, performances and actor-networks

Analysis of the Enforcement of the Suppression of Piracy and Other Maritime Offences Act in Nigeria: Matters Arising

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