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Two articles by PAIS researchers published in latest Review of International Studies
The January 2015 issue of the Review of International Studies (RIS) features two articles on the politics of materiality by PAIS researchers Dr and Dr .
The RIS is the flagship journal of the British International Studies Association (BISA) and published by Cambridge University Press.
Both articles explore the insights and limitations of the so-called ‘new materialist’ turn in social sciences for the discipline of International Relations (IR), and showcase cutting-edge conceptual work in PAIS’ International Relations and Security and Political Geography research groupings.
Squire's article, ‘Reshaping critical geopolitics? The materialist challenge’, draws attention to the limits of an approach that emphasises the representational, cultural, and interpretive dimensions of geopolitics, while acknowledging the difficulties of an ontological shift to materiality for many scholars of critical geopolitics.
Vaughan-Williams' article, ‘New materialisms, discourse analysis, and International Relations: a radical intertextual approach’ (co-authored with Tom Lundborg, Stockholm University), examines the implications of new materialist thought for a more expansive understanding of ‘discourse’ in IR, but warns against recycling the language/matter distinction.
The latest issue of the RIS 41(1) can be accessed here: