Methodology

Thinking Global Podcast – George Lawson (Part One)

E-International Relations • Feb 5 2024 • Features

George Lawson speaks about conceptualising revolution, comparative historical sociology, anatomies of revolution and more, in the first of a two-part series on Revolution.

Digital Decay and the Global Politics of Virtual Infrastructure

Natalie Jester • Jul 11 2023 • Articles

The inability to access information such as tweets may, perhaps, reflect an anti-democratisation of knowledge where previously the internet had opened it up to the masses.

Interview – Adam B. Lerner

E-International Relations • Apr 4 2023 • Features

Adam Lerner outlines the role of collective trauma in international politics and how to challenge some of the problematic assumptions of mainstream IR.

Levels of Analysis in International Relations

Carmen Gebhard • Mar 27 2022 • Online resources

Levels of Analysis are the building blocks that are faced by all students and academics when they seek to build an analysis.

Interview – Mohammad Tarikul Islam

E-International Relations • Jun 15 2021 • Features

Tarik Islam discusses participatory rural development, the importance of citizen participation, localizing the SDGs in Bangladesh and the need for non-traditional methodologies.

Student Feature – Advice on Using Theory in Academic Work

Michael Livesey • Mar 30 2021 • Student Features

Theory helps us get from research questions to research answers. It helps us make sense of questions by phrasing them appropriately and guides us to certain methods which match that pathway.

Opinion – Internal Simultaneity: A Science of Autobiography

Naeem Inayatullah • May 4 2020 • Articles

Autobiography should be regarded as way of coming to know the world. We can explore our lives with the same care and wonder we bring to the study of the world at large.

Researching the Uncertain: Memory and Disappearance in Mexico

Danielle House • Apr 2 2020 • Articles

My project was framed by failure: it was impossible to conceptually and literally to understand the central issue of my project. Yet I tried to work within uncertainty.

Fieldwork, Failure, International Relations

Katarina Kušić and Jakub Záhora • Mar 30 2020 • Articles

This volume aims to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications by evaluating Ph.D researchers experiences.

Review – Seeing Politics

Dean Cooper-Cunningham • Sep 30 2019 • Features

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.

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