Beginning in September 2022, the German Foundation for Peace Research (DSF) will fund my project on “Gender in German Peace and Security Policy” for 2,5 years. Gender constructions – understood as socially/discursively produced conceptions of masculinity and femininity – play an important role in foreign policy and international politics. Social constructions of subjects (e.g., political …
The newest issue of “Unizeit,” Kiel University’s research magazine, features a detailed (German-language) article on our new project on “Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy”, a collaboration with the University of Bremen and the University of Erfurt. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The article is …
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The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has announced that it will fund the collaborative project “Knowledge Production in German Peace and Security Policy (KNOWPRO)” as part of its funding initiative to strengthen peace and conflict research, with ca. 1.5 million EUR. Focussing on Afghanistan and Somalia as case studies, the project examines …
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The symposium “The contribution of Laclau’s discourse theory to International Relations and International Political Economy,” which I co-edited with Dirk Nabers, has been published online as part of issue 2/2019 of New Political Science. Further information and some pre-prints are available here. A free eprint for the introduction is available here, one for my contribution …
Symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE published online in New Political Science Read More »
I am happy to say that my article “Securitization as Discursive (Re)Articulation: Explaining the Relative Effectiveness of Threat Construction,” part of our symposium on Laclau and IR/IPE in New Political Science, has been published online. It is available here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2019.1596682 A pre-print is available here.
My article with David Shim on the visual representation of ISAF on the German armed forces’ Facebook page has been published online. The paper examinse the gendered visual representation of the ISAF operation on the German armed forces’ official facebook page. The official version is available on the Taylor & Francis website, together with a response …
Article “Social Media, Gender and the Mediatisation of War” now online Read More »