Department of Politics Public Lecture by V. Spike Petersen (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona) Co-organised by the Critical Global Politics Cluster and CIDRAL
| Dates: | 11 October 2016 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Lecture |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | V. Spike Peterson |
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V. Spike Peterson (Professor of International Relations, University of Arizona)
11 October 2016, 4-6 P. M.
Samuel Alexander Building, A113
‘Intimate Politics and Global Inequalities:
The pleasure and pain of border crossings’
Public Lecture
Co-organised by the Critical Global Politics Cluster and CIDRAL
In the spirit of the rallying cry 'the personal is political – and international', this
'in conversation' session provides an opportunity to share the journey of a
leading scholar in International Politics, Leverhulme Visiting Professor
V. Spike Peterson, as she reflects on her entry into, questioning of, and moving
beyond Disciplinary International Politics (IP). Spurred by witnessing global
inequalities during years of border crossings as a solo backpacker in Africa and
Asia, Spike chose a doctoral program in IP, but soon found richer insights in
critical social theory. Thus began three decades of boundary transgressing
research examining the histories and complex intersections of gender, sexuality,
class, ethnicity/race and nation, and extending IP by including the intimate.
Spike will review and reflect upon this journey, encouraging us to ponder up
close (rather than the usual at-a-distance) some of what her research
illuminates, including economics as a system of valorizations, affective dimensions
of global householding, the political economy of informalized work in relation to
structural inequalities and their corollary insecurities, and critical queering of
marriage, citizenship and states/nations. It is a personal engagement by a
'seasoned' academic sharing her own journey and her current insights into how
important the personal/intimate is for both understanding and challenging global
inequalities.
This 'in conversation' session will be followed by a reception at Kro Bar to
which all audience members are warmly invited.
Speaker
V. Spike Peterson
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Arizona)
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A113
Samuel Alexander Building
Manchester
