BISA 2021 conference - Forget International Studies?

What do we know about Conflict? Interogating Representations of War and Security

22 Jun 2021, 18:00

1h 30m

Room 5

Post-Structural Politics Working Group

Description

This panel brings together researchers examing the politics of how conflict (broadly conceived) is understoond and represented. Drawing from a range of theoretical traditions and engaging with diverse cases and resources, the panellists are united by their drive to produce new and innovative ways of interogating the politics of knowledge around war and security.

Subcontributions

• The Limits of Imagination: Securitisation and Exceptionalism in the World of Warcraft Video Game
• "Decontestation of the Essentially Contestable”: Biopolitics, Ideology and Fantasy in Kurdish Conflict
• Forget Psychological War: Historical Amnesia and the Obligation to Know
• Emergency: A Bottom-Up Contextual Approach
• Cultures of the Climate Crisis: Cli-fi and the possibilities of political futures