Simon Philpott and William Clapton discuss their pioneering work on Popular Culture and Global Politics.

New blog: a review of Elena Kim’s book Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (Duke University Press, 2022).

Prof Gillian Whitlock and Dr Zhila Gholami discuss Gillian's new book Refugee Lives in the Archives: A Pacific Imaginary (Bloomsbury 2024) as well as archival work that she and Zhila conducted for different projects at the UQ's Fryer Collection.

Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison. Keynote Lecture at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the British International Studies Association, Belfast 19 June 2025.

Our new Visual Politics event program is out. Please join us for exciting new research on topics that include art and politics, popular culture, film and humanitarian responsibilities.

This is a blog summary of an essay that Emma Hutchison and I wrote and that has now come out after Emma’s passing: a chapter on Humanitarian Photography for Tom Allbeson, Pippa Oldfield and Jolyon Mitchell (eds), Picturing Peace: Photography, Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding (Bloomsbury 2024).

Prof Juliet Fall, University of Geneva, discusses her new book Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL Press / University of Chicago Press, 2025) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker. 

Prof Juliet Fall from the University of Geneva will discuss her new book Along the Line: Writing with Comics and Graphic Narrative in Geography (EPFL Press / University of Chicago Press, 2025). 

Prof Lilie Chouliaraki discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024) with Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson and Roland Bleiker.