Black History Month Interviews
To celebrate Black History Month we asked former interviewees whether they think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate people of colour.
Review – Seeing Politics
Using narrative feature film as a method of co-production, Harman brings feminist and decolonial works into conversation with the visual and aesthetic turns in IR.
Interview – Sara Salem
Sara Salem explores postcolonial, Marxist and feminist theory, the Egyptian feminist movement, transnational solidarity and the radical roots of intersectionality.
Student Feature – Theory in Action: Feminism and Peacekeeping
By challenging gender orthodoxy, Feminist IR Theory helps shining a light on women as victims and perpetrators of war.
Review – Routledge Handbook of Postcolonial Politics
This handbook challenges the disciplinary fortress of IR and opens up a world of investigatory possibilities by equating post-colonial politics with global politics.
Interview – Sophie Harman
Sophie Harman spoke to us about her BAFTA nominated film Pili, film as a research method, issues in global health governance and agency in feminist decolonial research.
Interview – Jonna Nyman
Jonna Nyman discusses the ‘energy security paradox’, energy securitisation, her fieldwork in China and current research that seeks to understand security beyond the West.
Review – Race, Gender, and Culture in International Relations
The book crafts unique and insightful approaches to security, political economy, nationalism and IR which build upon a wealth of scholarship on race, gender, and culture.
Trajectories of Anticolonialism in Egypt
Understanding the past through how the future was imagined has a lot to tell us about the mechanisms of power in our contemporary post-colonial period.
International Women’s Day Interviews
To celebrate International Women’s Day we asked former interviewees whether they think the discipline of IR has made important strides to equally incorporate women.
