Description
In recent years, International Studies as a discipline has been enriched by its on-going engagement with the ‘everyday’ – providing an alternative lens through which to examine global relations of power, security and political economy. In this roundtable discussion, we consider how encounters with the everyday can reshape teaching practices and what it means to bring ‘the everyday’ into the International Studies classroom.
This session will include discussions of specific projects and pedagogical approaches that get students to engage with the everyday as an important site of global politics – for example by encouraging students to investigate the local-global politics of frequently used mundane objects, to rethink family stories in light of global political dynamics, or to engage in learning activities that motivate them to see how global power relations and hierarchies shape their own and others’ everyday lives. This will be a wide-ranging discussion with input from scholars teaching across the discipline of International Studies (security studies, critical military studies, IPE, European Studies etc).
