by Sarah Kiernan | 4th August 2022
Thesis title: Contesting the preventive state? Toward the socio-genesis of counter-radicalisation expertise Abstract: How did some social workers and civil servants in parts of northern Europe gain recognition as experts in investigating and reversing the trajectories...
by Sarah Kiernan | 1st June 2022
Thesis title: BConstellations of Violence: A Counter-Visual History of U.K. Counter-Terrorism Regimes Abstract: Critical terrorism studies has, in recent years, turned its scholarly attention to the ways in which particular individuals and groups have come to be...
by admin | 7th March 2022
Thesis title: Between Politics and Law: The Question of the European female Islamic State returnees Abstract: First supervisor: Vivienne Jabri Pathway:11 -Global Order, Violence & Security Practice Cohort: 2021-22
by Sarah Kiernan | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Appropriating Division: Exploring ontologically how material artefacts command spatial differentiation in Israel-Palestine and Apartheid South Africa Abstract: We understand ourselves on the basis of who we are not. Within the frame of an unequal, yet...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Constellations of Violence Abstract: The last five years have seen a number of high-profile instances of violence described as white supremacist terror, for example the 2019 Christchurch Mosque massacres and 2015 Charleston Church shootings. These...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Tracing the nexus between trauma and technology in the modern understanding of political violence Abstract: The origins and effects of trauma are not only intertwined with technological developments in the 19th century, but trauma is disseminated through...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: The Homeless and the Human in International Relations Abstract: This research will interrogate the idea of ‘home’ and its relationship with the ‘human’ in contemporary international relations theory. It will make new contributions to the debates on...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: The Politics of Living (In)Security: Zaatari Village, Jordan Abstract: This project, at its core, is about Zaatari Village: a small village in North Jordan situated one kilometre away from one of the largest refugee camps in the world – Zaatari Camp...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: How did containment become the dominant metaphor in Cold War U.S. Strategic Communications? Abstract: “Containment” came to be a guiding metaphor for understanding U.S.-Russia relations and consolidated itself as a dominant framework in the early Cold...
by Sarah Kiernan | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Through the fog of the universal: Tracing transversal lines between UN special rapporteurs and spokespersons of Crimean Tatars and the Sámi people Abstract: Whose voice is so powerful that it can become the voice a universalism? This thesis develops an...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Trauma and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions Abstract: Trauma, in the contemporary period, has expanded beyond the medical realm and come to feature in political processes; most notably in post-conflict processes such as transitional justice...
by admin | 19th July 2021
Thesis title: Mapping revolutionary ideology onto urban space as a means of strategic communications Abstract: The role of communications in conflict, revolutions, and counterinsurgency has over the past years received increased attention with the emergence of a...
