Global Politics Unbound

In the first part of GPU’s Aesthetics and Research in International Politics, we explored through James Eastwood’s exhibition Cradles how aesthetics could prompt emotions and reflection about the phenomenon of child removal and disappearance in the world. In this second part, GPU takes you on a journey across frontiers through twinning with Dr. Holly Ryan’s … Continue reading "Episode 5 – Aesthetics and Research in International Politics pt.2: Holly Evan Ryan’s Lines: Making Friends; Crossing Borders"

In September 2022, I had the chance to visit Dr. James Eastwood’s Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children exhibition at SOAS Brunei Gallery. Centered on the testimonies of families whose children were forcibly removed in the 40s and 50s in Israel, the exhibition’s archival, photographic, and monumental translation work shed light on the political, colonial, and … Continue reading "Episode 4 – GPU Special Series – Aesthetics and Research in International Politics pt.1: James Eastwood’s Empty Cradles: Israel’s Disappeared Children."

In this episode, GPU discusses Professor Kimberly Hutchings’s latest book centering on the place of women in international thought. Co-edited with Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, and Sarah Dunstan, Women’s International Thought: towards a new canon takes the form of an anthology visiting the way women transformed the practice of international relations from the early to … Continue reading "Episode 3 – Women in International Thought: GPU in Conversation with Professor Kimberly Hutchings"

In this second episode of GPU’s podcast, Dr Joanne Yao has accepted to give an exclusive interview to Dr Sharri Plonski and Dr Katharine Hall where she discusses her work in greater details and the writing process of The Ideal River – How control of nature shaped the international order. To order the book on … Continue reading "Episode 2 – Rock the (IR) boat! Dr Joanne Yao’s GPU interview about The Ideal River – How control of nature shaped the international order"

GPU is proud to inaugurate the first episode of its podcast with Dr Joanne Yao’s book launch, lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary University of London. In her book, The Ideal River – How control of nature shaped the international order, Joanne explores how the quest to tame nature during the 18th and 19th … Continue reading "Episode 1 – Rock the (IR) Boat! Joanne Yao’s The Ideal River hot take on International Politics’ Relationship with Nature"