Shambhawi Tripathi is a PhD candidate at the University of St Andrews, and her doctoral work seeks to engage emotional lives in magical realist fiction as a transformative “magical” way of doing global politics. Her work has appeared in Millennium: Journal of International Studies and The Journal of Narrative Politics. Alongside her interest in feminist, postcolonial and emotional stories about the world, she is politically interested in peonies, poetry and puffins.