War and Crisis: The Impact of Narratives on the Militarisation of U.S. Police
Crises narratives and reimported conterinsurgency rhetoric have turned US police into a body upholding law-and-order via warfighting, often against racialised minorities.
How the Islamic State Weaponizes Imitation in Its Propaganda
Aggressive imitation is meant not only to justify IS’s violence but to express its worldview—of restoring Muslim honour by avenging the humiliation Muslims have suffered.
An Embodiment, a Bridge and a Tribute: Conceptualisations from Beyond the Border
Border art re-conceptualises the US-Mexico border by engendering an aesthetic experience fractured from the hierarchical and hegemonic ‘distribution of the sensible’.
Nuclear Brinkmanship in Russia Today: A Strategic Narrative Analysis
RT portrays the international system as a new Cold War system with a nuclear face-off between two superpowers and Russia as facing nuclear threats from Ukraine and NATO.
Traumatic Memory and Historical Narratives
To induce successes in transitional justice, traumatic memory is mechanised resulting in oversimplification of relations.
Alien No More: The Promise of Popular Culture for the Study of Diplomacy
By injecting reflexivity into explorations of human interactions, popular culture as a site for diplomatic studies challenges the elitist thinking that IR grapples with.
The Anomaly of Democracy: Why Securitization Theory Fails to Explain January 6th
Faced with internal security threats, a democratic state cannot always employ extraordinary measures without triggering an existential threat to its democratic identity.
Turning Domestic into Political: The Case of Female Self-immolation in Iran
Patriarchal values fuel conflict, confine Iranian women to home, and impact their security, driving some to choose self-immolation. Yet, some also find agency in that.
Populist Transition: The Cases of Venezuela and Ecuador
The continuation of Latin American populism will likely produce messianic leaders characterized by beautiful promises that often do not respect the reality of things.
From 9/11 to Humanise Palestine: Investigating the Terror of Grievability
Reproduced violence in videos and images registers an order of grievability that fails to recognise the value of lives in the Middle East as lives.
