TY  - BOOK
AU  - KUSTERMANS Jorg
AU  - SVENSSON Ted
AU  - LOPEZ Julia Costa
AU  - BLASENHEIM Tracey
AU  - HOFFMANN Alvina
TI  - Ritual and authority in world politics
PY  - 2022///
KW  - POLITICS
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
KW  - INTERNATIONAL THEORY
N2  - The contributions to this Forum on Ritual and Authority in World Politics examine the role that ritual performances play in the constitution of positions of authority and the maintenance of relations of authority in historical and contemporary international relations. The Forum takes as its point of departure three related observations: (i) that recent years have witnessed a remarkable upsurge of interest in ritual as a recurring feature of international practice, but (ii) that this recent interest in ritual has not extended, thus far, to the study of international authority, (iii) in spite of political anthropologists' long-standing claim that the performance of ritual is absolutely crucial to the production of authority. The performance of ritual grounds, makes tangible and enhances various forms of authority, including forms of international authority, historical and contemporary. The contributions to this Forum demonstrate the veracity of that claim in five different empirical contexts-Byzantine diplomacy, early modern cross-cultural encounters, British imperialism in India, military lawyering in America's armed forces, and the casting of ballots in Crimea and the US-and attempt also to explain precisely how it is that ritual served to undergird and stabilise authority in these various instances
UR  - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2021.1975647
ER  -