Saunders, R. A. and Crilley, R. (2019) Pissing on the past: the highland clearances, effigial resistance and the everyday politics of the urinal = Pisser sur le passé: Les dédouanements des hautes terres, la résistance à l’effigie et la politique quotidienne de l’urinoir = Orinando en el pasado: Las separaciones de las tierras altas, la resistencia efigial y la política cotidiana del urinario. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47(3), pp. 444-469. (doi: 10.1177/0305829819840422)
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Abstract
When and where one can urinate is increasingly politicised around the globe. As an example of bio-political power, the provision, regulation and access to public toilets reflects larger structures in any given society. However, there is another side to micturition, that is the use of urine as a manifestation of bodily power over another/others. This article analyses the politics of the urinal through a close reading of the men’s toilet in The Lismore pub in Partick, Scotland, thus bringing together these two threads via the concept of everyday effigial resistance. In our interrogation of a politicised urinal that asks users to ‘piss’ on historical figures associated with the Highland Clearances, we aim to push International Relations to follow Enloe’s call for the study of ‘mundane practices… and the most intimate spaces’ by considering the most banal aspects of the human condition as part of its remit. Our case study serves as an explicit political intervention, one which through its geographic and geopolitical scales makes an argument for engaging with the mundane, vernacular and vulgar in everyday IR.
| Item Type: | Articles |
|---|---|
| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Crilley, Dr Rhys |
| Authors: | Saunders, R. A., and Crilley, R. |
| College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics |
| Journal Name: | Millennium: Journal of International Studies |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| ISSN: | 0305-8298 |
| ISSN (Online): | 1477-9021 |
| Published Online: | 26 April 2019 |
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