Identity Politics

Gender and Security: Redefining the ‘State’ and a ‘Threat’

anon • Sep 28 2019 • Essays

Using a gender perspective, the dominant definitions of the ‘state’ and a ‘threat’ are re-defined to better understand security today.

Terrorism as Controversy: The Shifting Definition of Terrorism in State Politics

Ziyanda Stuurman • Sep 24 2019 • Essays

Political motives inform many definitions of terrorism, which are often irregularly applied, harming counter-terrorist initiatives.

Between Pepe and Beyoncé: The Role of Popular Culture in Political Research

Omer M. Manhaimer • Sep 18 2019 • Essays

Popular culture can act both as an analogous tool for political scientists and as a mirror for public attitudes.

Australia: Challenges to the Settler State’s Pursuit of Transitional Justice

Anna Carter-Roberts • Aug 18 2019 • Essays

Australia presents a unique set of challenges in the case of a settler state adopting transitional justice as a means of reconciliation with its Aboriginal population.

The Coloniality of Gender and the Politics of Difference

Aleksandra Kusnierkiewicz • Jun 29 2019 • Essays

Decolonial feminism enhances our understanding of global affairs by exposing coloniality in knowledge production—advancing its goals of social and individual liberation.

Does Presentism Work? An Evaluation of the Memory Politics of Fidesz

Eszter Solyom • Jun 7 2019 • Essays

The theory of presentism sheds light on the subject of collective memory and memory politics, especially in the case of Hungary’s Fidesz party.

Were ‘Ancient Hatreds’ the Primary Cause of the Yugoslavian Civil War ?

Gareth Jonas • May 22 2019 • Essays

Rather than ‘ancient hatreds,’ the primary causes of the Yugoslav Wars were competing groups’ need for societal security and the elite exploitation of structural anarchy.

Sketchy Depictions – Gendering of Female Politicians in Editorial Cartoons

Inez Gallagher • May 20 2019 • Essays

As shown by an analysis of editorial cartoons, depictions of female political leaders are gendered based off their political credibility at the time.

Arab LGBTQ Subjects: Trapped Between Universalism and Particularity?

Rebekka Muth • May 11 2019 • Essays

Human Rights Watch’s campaign ‘No Longer Alone’ demonstrates the inscription of Western universal concepts that are deployed and diffused in a homocolonialist manner.

Fighting Patriarchy like it’s 1938: Virginia Woolf, Trailblazer of Feminist IR

Constantin Gouvy • Apr 19 2019 • Essays

Virginia Woolf’s work “Three Guineas” should be read as a transgressive, iconoclastic, and avant-gardist classic of critical feminist and gendered IR theory.

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