PROJECTS
HERSTORIES OF FEMINIST IR PROJECT (IN DEVELOPMENT)
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This project brings together the voices of foundational figures in the field of feminist International Relations to reflect on the intellectual, political, and personal pathways that shaped their contributions to the discipline. This collection is an archive of narrative reflections, offering readers an intimate view of the academic journeys, pivotal influences, key moments of community building, and challenges that have defined feminist IR as a scholarly (and often inherently activist) enterprise.
Each chapter offers an account that traces the contributors’ formative training, critical inspirations, and significant turning points, from doctoral research to professional milestones. Contributors share the contexts in which they wrote their most valued work, offer candid reflections on navigating institutional barriers, and sketch their visions for the future of feminist IR.
This volume is not only a tribute to the women who helped establish feminist IR as a field of inquiry but also a collective memory project that documents the growth of a vibrant, critical, and evolving intellectual community. It is an essential resource for scholars, students, and activists interested in the histories, methodologies, and futures of feminist thinking in global politics.
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Editors: Caitlin Hamilton and Laura J. Shepherd
Target press: TBC
Anticipated publication: TBC
THE TRANSFORMATIVE POTENTIAL OF CREATIVE LEADERSHIP (CONTRACTED)
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This book project explores what it means to radically rethink leadership – especially the idea of leadership for good. We’re gathering insights from people who are not only leading impactful work across businesses, organisations, and movements, but who are doing so in ways that challenge traditional hierarchies and systems, bringing marginalised leadership identities and styles to the forefront.
Our goal for the book is to learn from those who lead reflexively, iteratively, and with a deep alignment between their politics and their practice. We’re especially interested in how these approaches might offer transformative lessons for more mainstream organisations – around vision, systems, and how leadership itself is structured and conceptualised.
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Anna Yanatchkova and Caitlin Hamilton (under contract) The Transformative Potential of Creative Leadership: Lessons in Socially Conscious Innovation from Global Changemakers, Routledge.
CREATIVE JUSTICE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND ART IN CONVERSATION (2024)
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What can art offer to facilitate a fuller understanding of human rights and human rights violations? How do arts-based interventions help to highlight injustices, empower individuals and groups, and advocate for and effect change? How do art practices help to reveal new dimensions of violations and aid in post-conflict recovery?
In this edited volume, twenty-seven artists and scholars, working across a range of practices and approaches, answer these questions – and many more – through a series of conversations. They offer deeply personal reflections on creative labour, sharing original and rich insights into a range of ongoing social and political struggles, violent conflicts, and human rights abuses. -
Chapter 1: Introduction: A note from the editors by Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton
Chapter 2: Public Interventions by Amy Sanchez Arteaga, Misael G. Diaz, and Tania Islas Weinstein
Chapter 3: Painting and Photography by Jane Lydon and Danie Mellor
Chapter 4: Performance by Iman Aoun and Toni Shapiro-Phim
Chapter 5: Architecture by Tiziana Panizza Kassahun and Konstantinos Pittas
Chapter 6: Jewellery by Su san Cohn and Caitlin Hamilton
Chapter 7: Textiles by Christine Andrä and Laura Antonia Coral Velásquez
Chapter 8: Installations by eL Seed and Arnaud Kurze
Chapter 9: Poetry and Performance by Garima Dutt and Choman Hardi
Chapter 10: Documentary Film by Andrea Durbach and Dean Gibson
Chapter 11: Photography by Shahidul Alam and Roland Bleiker
Chapter 12: Sculpture by Tatiana Fernández-Maya and Carey Newman
Chapter 13: Music and Documentary Films by Eda Elif Tibet and Enzo Ikah
Chapter 14: Visual Arts by Rachel Kerr and Milena Michalski -
“A tour de force across several academic disciplines and artforms, this refreshingly innovative volume creatively reconsiders human rights abuses through exciting, mutually illuminating boundary crossings between the academic and the artistic worlds, too often out of sync with each other. Combining grounded theorizing with autobiographical testimony, it is a must read for anyone seeking to understand the messy and ever-changing reality of political violence and to imagine a way forward.”
Mihaela Mihai, University of Edinburgh
“This is an innovative and exciting collection. Drawing together an impressive range of scholars and artists, working across different media and traditions, the assembled conversations illuminate the numerous ways that the arts can contribute to the pursuit of human rights around the world. Rich, rewarding, and challenging, Creating Justice will be of interest to scholars and human rights practitioners.”
Duncan Bell, University of Cambridge
“Art is one of our best inventions. In this volume artists and scholars explore how artworks are able to resist and transform the structural violence inherent in Human Rights failures. A welcome contribution to understanding the epistemic differences as well as the ethical and political overlaps between art practice and IR scholarship.”
Lola Frost, King's College London
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Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton (eds)(2024) Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation,
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers/Bloomsbury Publishing.For more info and to buy the book, visit the Bloomsbury website.
GENDER MATTERS IN GLOBAL POLITICS (2023) (3RD EDITION)
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Gender Matters in Global Politics is a comprehensive textbook for advanced undergraduates studying politics, international relations, development and similar courses. It provides students with an accessible but in-depth account of feminist methodologies, gender theory and feminist approaches to key topics and themes in global politics.
This textbook is written by an international line-up of established and emerging scholars from a range of theoretical perspectives, bringing together cutting-edge feminist scholarship in a variety of areas.
This fully revised and updated third edition:introduces students to feminist and gender theory and explains the relevance to contemporary global politics;
explains the insights of feminist theory for a range of fields of study, including international relations, international political economy and security studies;
presents feminist approaches to key contemporary issues such as climate change, digital politics, war and militarism, disability and global health; and
features pedagogical tools and resources, including discussion questions, suggestions for further reading and online resources.
This text enables students to develop a sophisticated understanding of the work that gender does in policies and practices of global politics.
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Foreword byCynthia Enloe
SECTION 1
Chapter 1: Introduction by Laura J. Shepherd and Caitlin Hamilton
Chapter 2: Feminist International Relations by Cristina Masters and Marysia Zalewski
Chapter 3: Creativity and Feminist Knowledge by shine choi
Chapter 4: Feminist Methodology by Roxani Krystalli
Chapter 5: Intersectionality by Celeste Montoya
Chapter 6: (Why) Gender Matters in Global Politics by Laura J. Shepherd
SECTION 2
Chapter 7: Advocacy, Activism and Resistance by Valentine M. Moghadam
Chapter 8: Art and Aesthetics by Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison
Chapter 9: Body Politics by Wendy Harcourt
Chapter 10: Care Work by Christina Gabriel
Chapter 11: Development by Alba Rosa Boer Cueva
Chapter 12: Digital Politics by William Clapton
Chapter 13: Disability by Ana Bê
Chapter 14: Ecology/Environment by Emma Foster
Chapter 15: Global Governance by Penny Griffin
Chapter 16: Global Health by Sara E. Davies
Chapter 17: International/Global Political Economy by V. Spike Peterson
Chapter 18: International Law by Sara Bertotti
Chapter 19: Land, Water and Food by Monika Barthwal-Datta and Soumita Basu
Chapter 20: Migration and Displacement by Lucy Hall
Chapter 21: Militarism and Security by Megan MacKenzie and Nicole Wegner
Chapter 22: Nationalism and Populism by Dibyesh Anand
Chapter 23: Peace by Catia C. Confortini and Annick T. R. Wibben
Chapter 24: Queer Politics by Rahul Rao
Chapter 25: ‘Race’ and Coloniality by Columba Achilleos-Sarll
Chapter 26: Religion by Katherine E. Brown
Chapter 27: Terrorism and Political Violence by Caron Gentry and Laura Sjoberg
Chapter 28: Violence by Swati Parashar
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Laura J. Shepherd and Caitlin Hamilton (eds)(2023) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, Routledge.
For more info and to buy the book, visit the Routledge website.
THE EVERYDAY ARTEFACTS OF WORLD POLITICS (2022)
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This book examines everyday artefacts of world politics: the things that everyday people make that tell stories about how the world works.
The author argues that people engage in a unique form of multimodal storytelling about the world, their place in the world, and the world they want to live in through the artefacts that they make. Introducing a novel approach to artefactual analysis, the book explores textiles, jewellery, and pottery, and urges scholars of global politics to take these artefacts seriously.
Based on original research, this book is inherently interdisciplinary, drawing on concepts and approaches from across the humanities and social sciences, including archaeology, history, sociology, world politics, anthropology, and material studies. It will therefore be of interest to a wide range of readers.
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Preface
Chapter 1: Introducing Everyday Artefacts of World Politics
Chapter 2: How to Study Everyday Artefacts of World Politics
Chapter 3: Textiles
Chapter 4: Jewellery
Chapter 5: Ceramics
Chapter 6: A Short Reflection on Everyday Artefacts of World Politics (And All the Other Questions I Still Have)
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“Developing empirical, theoretical and methodological innovations, this book is a rare thing: a scholarly work you will actually enjoy reading. Beautifully written and engaging throughout, the book moves us beyond the exceptional and fosters a renewed sense of wonder with which to interrogate the artefacts of world politics, be they ceramics, textiles, jewellery, teaspoons, or something else. This book will be welcome reading for students and scholars of world politics, especially those who have previously been told that what they are interested in isn’t really IR.”
Jack Holland, University of Leeds, UK
“In this masterful book, Caitlin Hamilton both reminds us that the everyday lives of people are central to global politics and gives us a new way to study these everyday lives through material artefacts. Her methodological work gives the study of International Relations and other fields new tools to think across different levels of analysis and her case studies, from embroidery documenting state atrocities to pieces from the fine art world, push the reader to rethink where and how global politics occur.”
Katie Brennan, University of Queensland, Australia
“The everyday is often seen as mundane and of little relevance to the study of international relations. Not so, argues Caitlin Hamilton and convincingly demonstrates how a focus on artefacts — textiles, jewellery and ceramics — can help us see world politics in a new light. In this insightful new book, the stories that make up our political identities come alive and so does the human cost of conflict and violence.”
Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland, Australia
“The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics boldly confronts the orthodoxy of what we understand to be world politics and encourages us to rethink how we see the world around us. In her effervescent style, Caitlin Hamilton brilliantly examines how the everyday artefacts of our lives have political significance. From embroidered textiles, to the clay that makes our coffee cups, via bracelets made out of bombs, The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics is an innovative tour de force that draws together an interdisciplinary menagerie of insights to push the study of popular culture and world politics in an exciting new direction.”
Rhys Crilley, University of Glasgow, UK
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Caitlin Hamilton (2022) The Everyday Artefacts of World Politics, Routledge.
For more info and to buy the book, visit the Routledge website.
CIVIL SOCIETY, CARE LABOUR, AND THE WPS AGENDA (2021)
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This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of the Women, Peace and Security agenda’s success.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 is the foundation of a diverse and pluralising policy framework known as the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Over the 20 years since the adoption of the foundational resolution, despite sustained resistance from some quarters and a general lack of adequate resourcing and political will, the agenda has continued to see many successes, and to achieve elements of political transformation large and small. This book explores how the supporting constituency of the agenda has ‘made 1325 work’. Based on new interviews with representatives of diverse civil society organisations working on WPS, the book offers a novel intervention into WPS scholarship, which has thus far paid relatively little attention to the labours of civil society actors working on WPS, particularly on an individual level. The authors consider the motivations, pressures and frustrations experienced by WPS civil society actors, as well as the goals and challenges.
This book is based on original research and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and practitioners working on WPS specifically, and those working in Political Science, International Relations, Development Studies, and on the global governance of peace and security. It will also be relevant for students in WPS-focused programs and of peace and security studies more broadly.
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Chapter 1: Care Labour and Social Reproduction in the WPS Agenda
Chapter 2: Civil Society and the WPS Agenda
Chapter 3: Care Labour as a Condition of the Agenda’s Success
Chapter 4: Funding
Chapter 5: Despair
Chapter 6: Commitment
Chapter 7: Making 1325 Work
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“Civil Society, Care Labour, and the Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work addresses an urgent gap in the literature by placing centre stage the unpaid care work of those engaged in making change happen within the WPS framework in contexts of underfunding and austerity. This brings into focus a political economy lens to show us the importance and costs of this labour done under difficult circumstances by thousands of committed civil society actors in the public and the domestic spheres. By recognising the subsidy that this social reproductive labour provides to the global WPS regime, the authors chart an agenda for change within the WPS system.”
Shirin Rai, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK
“Caitlin Hamilton, Anuradha Mundkur and Laura J. Shepherd eloquently articulate and explore a question at the heart of the Women, Peace and Security agenda: how has it come so far, given its chronic underfunding? Through a brilliant analysis that recognizes and amplifies the perspectives of women peacebuilders, this book sheds light on peacebuilding as a form of care labor, and opens up exciting new directions for research and policy. It is an important contribution to the urgent call to adequately fund work of women peacebuilders!”
Agnieszka Fal-Dutra Santos, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders
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Caitlin Hamilton, Anuradha Mundkur, Laura J. Shepherd (2021) Civil Society, Care Labour, and Women, Peace and Security Agenda: Making 1325 Work, Routledge.
For more info and to buy the book, visit the Routledge website.
UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE AND WORLD POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE (2016)
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The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in real-time from the other side of the world, and online mapping means that the world ‘out there’ is now available on your mobile phone. Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age engages these themes in contemporary world politics, to better understand how digital communication through new media technologies changes our encounters with the world.
Whether the focus is digital media, social networking or user-generated content, these sites of political activity and the artefacts they produce have much to tell us about how we engage world politics in the contemporary age. This volume represents the starting point of a dialogue about how digital technologies are beginning to impact the research and practice of scholars and practitioners in the field of International Relations, with the collection of cutting-edge essays dealing specifically with the intertextuality of world politics and digital popular culture.
This book will be of use to International Relations research academics (and critically engaged publics) interested in the core themes of global politics – subjectivity, militarism, humanitarianism, civil society organisation, and governance. The book also employs theories and techniques closely associated with other social science disciplines, including political theory, sociology, cultural studies and media studies.
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PART ONE: THEORISING WORLD POLITICS AND POPULAR CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Chapter 1: World Politics 2.0: An Introduction by Caitlin Hamilton
Chapter 2: The Potentiality and Limits of Understanding World Politics in a Transforming Global Media Landscape by Sebastian Kaempf
Chapter 3: Authors and Authenticity: Knowledge, Representation and Research in Contemporary World Politics by Laura J. Shepherd
PART TWO: INTERROGATING SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 4: Like and Share Forces: Making Sense of Military Social Media Sites by Rhys Crilley
Chapter 5: Marketing Militarism in the Digital Age: Arms Production, YouTube and Selling ‘National Security’ by Susan Jackson
Chapter 6: Remaking the Global: Social Media and Undocumented Immigrants in the US by Meghana Nayak
Chapter 7: The Digital Politics of Celebrity Activism Against Sexual Violence: Angelina Jolie as Global Mother by Annika Bergman Rosamond
PART THREE: DIGITAL ENTERTAINMENT
Chapter 8: Playing War and Genocide: Endgame: Syria and Darfur is Dying by Jessica Auchter
Chapter 9: The Un-Scene Affects of On-Demand Access to War by M. Evren Eken
Chapter 10: ‘Pocket-Sized’ Politics: Binders, Big Bird, and Other Memes of the 2012 US Presidential Campaign by Sandra Yao
Chapter 11: Collaging Internet Parody Images: An Art-Inspired Methodology for Studying Laughter in World Politics by Saara Särmä
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Caitlin Hamilton and Laura J. Shepherd (eds)(2016) Understanding Popular Culture and World Politics in the Digital Age, Routledge.
For more info and to buy the book, visit the Routledge website.
POPULAR CULTURE AND WORLD POLITICS: THEORIES, METHODS, PEDAGOGIES (2015)
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This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of the Women, Peace and Security agenda’s success.
United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 is the foundation of a diverse and pluralising policy framework known as the Women, Peace and Security agenda. Over the 20 years since the adoption of the foundational resolution, despite sustained resistance from some quarters and a general lack of adequate resourcing and political will, the agenda has continued to see many successes, and to achieve elements of political transformation large and small. This book explores how the supporting constituency of the agenda has ‘made 1325 work’. Based on new interviews with representatives of diverse civil society organisations working on WPS, the book offers a novel intervention into WPS scholarship, which has thus far paid relatively little attention to the labours of civil society actors working on WPS, particularly on an individual level. The authors consider the motivations, pressures and frustrations experienced by WPS civil society actors, as well as the goals and challenges.
This book is based on original research and will be of interest to scholars, policymakers and practitioners working on WPS specifically, and those working in Political Science, International Relations, Development Studies, and on the global governance of peace and security. It will also be relevant for students in WPS-focused programs and of peace and security studies more broadly.
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Introduction by Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton
So, How Does Popular Culture Relate to World Politics? by Jutta Weldes and Christina Rowley
Popular Culture and Political Identity by Constance Duncombe and Roland Bleiker
On Captain America and ‘Doing’ Popular Culture in the Social Sciences by Jason Dittmer
Popular Geopolitics and War on Terror by Klaus Dodds
The Hidden Politics of Militarization and Pop Culture as Political Communication by Linda Åhäll
Worlds of Our Making in Science Fiction and International Relations by Nicholas J. Kiersey and Iver B. Neumann
Film and World Politics by Michael J. Shapiro
Videogames and IR: Playing at Method by Nick Robinson
Military Videogames, Geopolitics and Methods by Daniel Bos
Collage: An Art-Inspired Methodology for Studying Laughter in World Politics by Saara Särmä
What Does (the Study of) World Politics Sound Like? by Matt Davies and M.I. Franklin
Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics by Robert A. Saunders
The Challenges of Teaching Popular Culture and World Politics by Kyle Grayson
Pedagogy and Pop Culture: Pop Culture as Teaching Tool and Assessment Practice by William Clapton
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Federica Caso and Caitlin Hamilton (eds)(2015) Popular Culture and World Politics: Theories, Methods, Pedagogies, E-IR Publishing.
Download the collection (open access) via the E-International Relations website.