December 2021 issue: ‘Congratulations, farewell, and welcome: From the editors’
| Author | Annette Freyberg-Inan,Luc Fransen,Darshan Vigneswaran,Lee Seymour,Geoffrey Underhill |
| Published date | 01 December 2021 |
| Date | 01 December 2021 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/13540661211062650 |
https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661211062650
European Journal of
International Relations
2021, Vol. 27(4) 969 –970
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December 2021 issue:
‘Congratulations, farewell, and
welcome: From the editors’
We hope once again that this brief editorial finds our readers safe and well. It is that time
of year again for the European Journal of International Relations (EJIR). Annually, a
committee of the European International Studies Association (EISA) meets to award the
association’s best article prize. The winner is chosen from among the OnlineFirst articles
published in the EJIR during the previous calendar year, in this case 2020. The jury of
four consists of two EISA board members (Felix Berenskoetter and Joanne Yao), one
external member (Marieke de Goede), and one member of the journal’s editorial team
(this time, Darshan Vigneswaran).
In early September the winning article was announced. Our sincere congratulations
are in order and I hope our readership all join us in praise of the co-author winners of the
annual EISA best article prize for 2020: Xymena Kurowska (Central European
University) and Anatoly Reshetnikov (Webster Private University, Vienna). The winning
article was ‘Trickstery: pluralising stigma in international society’, early online from 5
August 2020 and published in the EJIR volume 27/1, March 2021 (232–257). The
citation from the jury was as follows:
Xymena Kurowska and Anatoly Reshetnikov make an original and intriguing contribution by
introducing the concept of the ‘trickster’ as a role and form of political action characterised by
‘non-decidable plurality’. Nicely incorporating yet going beyond the notion of the liminal and
practices of stigma management, their article opens the door to a novel reading of a type of
political performance that exerts power through humour, satire, and the theatrical. The
committee was impressed by the authors’ ability to bring this phenomenon to light through a
systematic conceptual engagement with ‘the trickster’ drawing on a larger set of interdisciplinary
literatures, and through effectively illustrating its analytical value in empirical examples. A
refreshing and important approach to make sense of Russia’s position and actions in the current
world order, and with potentially significant implications for how we conceive of the (ir)
rationality of political actors more widely.
We congratulate both authors on this outstanding achievement. We hope our readers
enjoyed their contribution.
There is one more matter. This December 2021 issue of volume 27 is the last to appear
under the editorship of Geoffrey Underhill (Editor-in-Chief) and his four colleagues: Luc
Fransen, Annette Freyberg-Inan, Lee Seymour, and Darshan Vigneswaran (Associate
Editors). We also remind the readers that Ursula Daxecker and Marlies Glasius were part
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