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RGIPS Newsletter, January 2025

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Dear students, colleagues, and friends,

Welcome to the new iteration of the DoingIPS newsletter, bringing you the latest news, events and research relating to the DoingIPS research-node in SPIR. Enjoy the short read and don’t forget to visit our website and follow us on twitter, bluesky and mastodon @doingips. Should you want to get in touch, send us an email at spir-doingips@qmul.ac.uk.

Upcoming Events

Roundtable ‘Interrogating Apocalyptic Times and Catastrophic Futures in World Politics’, 14 February 2024, 12.30-14.00 ArtsTwo, 2.17

This roundtable interrogates discourses and imaginaries of intensified crises threatening the survival of individuals, nations, species, and the planet. We explore if and how navigating catastrophic times can also re-energise political discourses and practices as a means to re-assign meanings to life in peril and to re-locate deflated hopes. Speakers are Giulia Carabelli, Martin Coward, Maia Holtermann-Entwistle, Mirko Palestrino, Elke Schwarz and Joanne Yao. The roundtable will be chaired by Jef Huysmans.

This event is organised by DoingIPS under the SPIR Research Seminars.

 

Roundtable ‘Writing ‘Big’ History: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in International Studies, 21 February 2024, 6.30 - 8.00 , LSE Wolfson Theatre, Cheng Kin Ku Building

Alex Stoffel (QMUL) and Ida Roland Birkvad (LSE) are joined by Jules Gill-Peterson (John Hopkins University) to talk about how to study macrohistories of gender, race, and sexuality. Bringing together perspectives from postcolonialism, gender studies, and Marxism, this event asks how we can study the construction of identity categories across historical periods and geopolitical contexts without erasing their particularities, and why they persist as hierarchies in international politics.

Read more about the roundtable and the speakers here.

 

DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series London: 26 January and 23 February at QMUL

The next two seminars in the DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series will take place at QMUL.

On 26 January Aida Hassen (QMUL) presents ‘Unravelling state-centrism in global (health) governance through postcolonial sociology’ and Florence Wolstenholme (QMUL) presents ‘“Naughty of evil money?” How regulation has shaped Dubai’s offshore secrecy jurisdiction.’

The following month, Melissa Matar (KCL) presents ‘Rethinking higher education policy in protracted crisis: The case of Syrian refuges in Lebanon’ and Sara Wong (LSE) presents ‘“Please enjoy our tragedies”: Black humour, absurdity and surrealist praxis in Myanmar’s aesthetic resistance in exile’.

The seminar on 26 January will take place at QMUL Laws 308.D from 15.00 – 17.00

Read more about the seminar series here and access this edition’s programme here.

Save the Date

Spring Symposium ‘Navigating Catastrophic Times’, 19 April 2024

Join us for the second edition of the DoingIPS symposium ‘Navigating Catastrophic Times’. There will be three roundtables followed by a reception. The full programme can be found here.

The symposium will take place on 19 April, 2024 (9.30 – 16.30 UK time) and features three roundtables with Giulia Carabelli, Jef Huysmans, Mirko Palestrino, Elke Schwarz and others.

This event is co-organised with IHSS Environmental Futures Programme and the TheoryLab.

Recent Events

Webinar ‘Rethinking Militarisation as Co-Constituting Coloniality Under Military Occupation 

On 17 January, 2024 Niharika Pandit (QMUL) presented on the RC07 Women and Politics in the Global South. Niharika spoke about challenging liberal/Global North/Eurodominant militarisation thinking, including critical work that characterises militarisation as ‘banal’ and ‘subtle’, showing how militarisation and its interlocking with coloniality and occupation are ongoing processes that deploy colonial technologies of control, violence and coercion and are regulated through intersecting hierarchies of gender and racialisation.  

A recording of the webinar can be found here [insert link]

Book launch ‘Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency’.

On 22 November Global Politics Unbound and DoingIPS hosted the book launch of ‘Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency. Hannah Owens (Royal Holloway) and Mirko Palestrino (QMUL) joined the author of the book Melissa Gatter (University of Sussex) to chat about doing ethnography, studying time, humanitarianism and displacement, and turning a PhD thesis into a book.

Book Launch ‘International Organizations and Research Methods: an Introduction’

On 24 October 2023, DoingIPS hosted a virtual roundtable to launch the book ‘International Organizations and Research methods: an Introduction’. The book, edited by Fanny Badache (Geneva Graduate Institute), Leah R. Kimber (University of Geneva), and Lucile Maertens (Geneva Graduate Institute) brings together diverse, multi-method and interdisciplinary contributions from over 60 scholars.

Latest Doing IPS research

Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) published two articles:

Jef Huysmans (QMUL) published two articles:

  • ‘How to be Critical of Security Today? Life in Motion, Untimeliness and the Critique of End-Thinking’ in the journal Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences (PARISS). This article challenges traditional existential notions of life and death, highlighting instead the dynamic and transformative nature of life itself. https://doi.org/10.1163/25903276-bja10052
  • “El movimiento fractura “lo internacional” — o, ¿qué significa dar primacía al movimiento? [Movement fracturing ‘the international’ — or, what does it mean to give primacy to movement?]” (Translated by Angela Iranzo). Relaciones Internacionales no. 54, pp. 15-37. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15366/relacionesinternacionales2023.54.001

Mirko Palestrino (QMUL) has published a commentary in a Disorder of Things Symposium on Katharine Millar’s (LSE) new book Support the Troops. Read ‘Yellow Ribbons, Stickers, and Poppies. Is It Time To Support the Troops?’ here.

Alex Stoffel (QMUL) and Ida Birkvad (LSE) published their article ‘Abstractions in International Relations: On the Mystification of Trans, Queer, and Subaltern Life in Critical Knowledge Production’ in the European Journal of International Relations last summer. Access the article here https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231176907

The article has been followed up with two further resources:

About the DoingIPS Research Node at SPIR

DoingIPS is a transnational research network bringing together scholars working in the broad area of International Political Sociology (IPS). IPS scholarship engages contemporary challenges to instituted relations between the social, political and international. It is methodologically varied and theoretically transdisciplinary. The DoingIPS node at the School of Politics and International Relations is a hub of researchers who established and convene the transnational network. The node fosters collaboration, organises public and academic events, develops research programmes and helps shape IPS globally.

We hope you enjoyed our newsletter and wish you a lovely term.

Jef Huysmans, Mirko Palestrino and Dalia Saris

 

 

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