Abstract Although emotions play a significant role in world politics they have so far received surprisingly little attention by International Relations scholars. Numerous authors emphasised this shortcoming for several years now, but strangely there are still only very few systematic inquiries into and even fewer related discussions on method. The article explains gap the fact that much of scholarship is conducted social sciences. Such can assess up to certain point, as illustrated empirical...

We have all grown accustomed to familiar representations of the international and its conflicts. Wars, famines diplomatic summits are shown us in their usual guise: as short-lived media events that blend information entertainment. The numbing regularity with which these images sound-bites communicated great masses soon erases highly arbitrary nature. gradually forget we become so politically charged distorting metaphors accept them real.

Emotions play an increasingly important role in international relations research. This essay briefly surveys the development of respective debates and then offers a path forward. The key challenge, we argue, is to theorize processes through which individual emotions become collective political. We further suggest that this done best by exploring insights from two seemingly incompatible scholarly tendencies: macro theoretical approaches develop generalizable propositions about political and,...

Dealing with refugees is one of the most contested political issues in Australia. We examine how media images asylum seekers have framed ensuing debates during two crucial periods over past decade. By conducting a content analysis newspaper front pages we demonstrate that primarily been represented as medium or large groups and through focus on boats. argue this visual framing, particular relative absence depict individual recognisable facial features, associates not humanitarian challenge,...

Abstract Research is all about a person's engagement with an issue. But most approaches to International Relations actively discourage personal involvement by the researcher. We question adequacy of this norm and related scholarly conventions. Instead, we explore how experience researcher can be used as legitimate potentially important source insight into politics. also note that simply telling story inadequate. engage ensuing dilemmas discussing both appreciate evaluate autoethnographic...

Images play an increasingly important role in global politics but pose significant and so far largely unexplored methodological challenges. are different from words. They circulate ever more complex rapid ways. I argue that the political significance of images is best understood through interdisciplinary framework relies on multiple methods, even if they at times incompatible. defend such a pluralist approach as both controversial essential: because giving up unitary standard evidence...

The field of International Relations (IR) has recently witnessed the emergence a wide variety different approaches to make sense many ways emotions work in and through discourse. This forum takes stock investigates this link based on two interrelated questions: Why study discourse? How can we Concerning first question, argue that textual verbal utterances provide us with promising way empirically accessible for researchers. Regarding second it is essential develop specific criteria via...

This article examines the public significance of emotions, most specifically their role in constituting identity and community wake political violence trauma. It offers a conceptual engagement with processes healing reconciliation, showing that emotions are central to how societies experience work through legacy catastrophe. In many instances, actors deal trauma restorative ways, by re-imposing order has been violated. Emotions can this way be directed elites who concerned reinstating...

This essay explores the nature and political consequences of representing HIV/AIDS in Africa, where disease has taken its greatest toll. We examine how different methods photography embody ideologies through which we give meaning to phenomena. distinguish three photographic HIV/AIDS: naturalist, humanist, pluralist. Naturalist approaches portray photographs as neutral value free. Humanist photography, by contrast, hinges on assumption that images suffering can invoke compassion viewers, this...

The concept of hospitality has long been central to how philosophers conceptualize the obligation states accommodate strangers in need help. Rendered prominent, particular, through Imma...

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In the 15 years since Millennium special issue on ‘Images, Narratives and Sounds’ scholarship aesthetic politics has proliferated. Countless inquiries now show how aesthetics is about far more than art: it rethinking fundamental issues that drive global politics. The moment come to reflect contributions of turn identify potentials challenges ahead. I do so by stressing key not agenda-setting, but continue search for thinking space: explore ever new ways writing, seeing, hearing sensing...

Abstract The purpose of this article is to introduce and explore the political potential visual autoethnography. I do so through my experience working as a Swiss Army officer in Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Drawing on own photographs examine how an appreciation everyday aesthetic sensibilities can open up new ways thinking about security dilemmas. argue that autoethnography be insightful not because it offers better or even authentic views – cannot but has reveal prevailing discourses...

Although nonprofit fundraisers face considerable critique about the ethics of their work, research has not typically examined perspectives themselves. Applying Charitable Triad Theory, we propose that fundraising is inherently fraught with ethical tensions because it involves consideration three key stakeholders: donors, beneficiaries, and fundraisers. We surveyed 69 professional working in diverse nonprofits asked them how they perceived landscape work. Thematic analyses revealed perceive...

This article examines ways in which art can help broaden understandings of contemporary security challenges, especially view the limits conventional forms strategic and policy analysis. The focuses on responses to 9/11 literature, visual arts, architecture, music, considers some epistemological questions about status as a way knowing political events, like those 9/11, that escape state-based

Conspiracies play a significant role in world politics. States often engage covert operations. They plot secret, with and against each other. At the same time, conspiracies are associated irrational thinking delusion. We address this puzzle highlight need to see as more than just empirical phenomena. argue that claims about should be seen narratives intrinsically linked power relations production of foreign policy knowledge. illustrate links between conspiracies, legitimacy by examining...

Two nuclear crises recently haunted the Korean peninsula, one in 1993/4, other 2002/3. In each case events were strikingly similar: North Korea made public its ambition to acquire weapons and withdrew from Nonproliferation Treaty. Then situation rapidly deteriorated until peninsular was literally on verge of war. The dangers Korea's actions, often interpreted as brinkmanship, are evident much discussed, but not so underlying patterns that have shaped conflict first place. This article sheds...

We examine links between art and foreign policy through two important instances of cultural diplomacy in Australia's history. Each time—in 1941–1942 2009—the government staged an extensive exhibition the United States. time, displayed Indigenous with explicit purpose increasing political legitimacy influence. But each case, artworks question resisted subverted this form diplomatic instrumentalization. Art managed to insert communicate claims that highlighted—against governmental intentions...