2019 ISRF Annual Workshop Booklet by Independent Social Research Foundation

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The Question of Violence

30th September - 2nd October 2019 St Hughâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College, Oxford

THE QUESTION OF VIOLENCE The ISRF Workshop is the occasion for the ISRF’s Fellows to report on their work, and a wide range of topics and approaches is presented to a multidisciplinary audience. The question of violence hangs over our understanding of our human world. But what is violence and why does it matter? Ordinarily used to mean physical attack or disruptive intervention by which one individual or group damages another’s person or property, the term and its negative valence carry over into the social sciences to have broader application, with meanings ramified into the political and the personal domains. Active and covert disruption of social institutions manifest in financial, legal and economic forms of violence; colonisation and capture of language and culture, and constraints on informal ways of living, represent forms of violence framed as symbolic, epistemic, or psychological. In such ways and more, violence permeates our lives and raises many questions about how to live them. What, indeed, is violence itself? Etymologically cognate with vis (force) it should interest us because, as we might say, ‘Force is the ontological condition of life’; in the Newtonian codification of nature force is fundamental. It is also, in that codification, tied theoretically to other concepts that have found their way into descriptions, explanations, and normative evaluations of the social. Mechanics systematically links force to power, work, change and action in ways that can be explored and exploited for their suggestive, metaphorical and heuristic contributions to the explanation of social process and change. We might then see violence’s negative valence, especially in its relation to power, as tied to the effects of force applied in excess of what is needed to do work or achieve change, so as instead to harmfully interrupt human affairs. i

This more Aristotelian conception might (with apology to The Philosopher) allow us to say that ‘to unleash force is easy; but to direct it in the right degree, on the right object, to the right end and in the right way is not easy, and not everyone can do it’. Another interesting question is, why not? Against the background of the ISRF’s Fellows’ work in a format of short presentations, the 2019 Annual Workshop will facilitate reflective sessions and discussion in groups and panels to pursue the question of violence through such questions as these.

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS Casey Asprooth-Jackson

Artist & Filmmaker

Casey Asprooth-Jackson is an artist and filmmaker from Rochester, New York. His visual production centers on alternative modes of political expression, and his research has included case studies in Palestine, Norway and Ireland. He received a BA in Film production from Bard College, and an MFA in Intermedia from the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art. His short films and video works have shown internationally, and he is currently finishing his first feature documentary, Chopped, with co-director Karam Ali. Most recently, he contributed to the group show Debt, which Hyperallergic listed as one of the 20 best exhibitions around the world in 2018. Alice Baderin Lecturer in Political Theory, University of Reading Alice Baderin is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Reading. Her current research focuses on two main areas of contemporary political philosophy. First, she is interested in questions of justice and risk: What is it like to live with insecurity, and how does foregrounding this issue shape our thinking about the demands of social justice? Second, she is addressing problems of method in political theory. For example, what role should evidence about public opinion play in normative political theory? How should we understand and evaluate recent calls for more ‘realistic’ approaches to the discipline? Some of her current research integrates philosophical argument with in-depth analysis of quantitative evidence – with the aim of generating payoffs for both normative theory and empirical enquiry. In 2019-20, Alice is working on a new project on ‘Anticipatory Injustice’, supported by an ISRF Early Career Research Fellowship. This research explores

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the moral significance of our anticipatory responses to risk: the characteristic steps that vulnerable people take to ward off threats of future injustice or hardship. She argues that the unequal distribution of the burdens of anticipating risk represents a significant, and currently underrecognized, form of injustice in contemporary societies. Prior to joining the University of Reading in 2018, Alice was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. She holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics and a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford. She has also worked in applied social research. Brendan Ciarán Browne

Assistant Professor in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, Trinity College Dublin

Brendan Ciarán Browne is Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin, and Fellow of the Trinity Centre for Post Conflict Justice. His research interests are situated around political conflict, the impact of post-conflict reconstruction on children and young people, commemorating conflict, transitional justice, displacement in conflict, conflict and resilience, and conducting research in conflict zones. His work is focused on Northern Ireland and Palestine where he spends time travelling regularly for work. He has received a wide range of research funding for his work both internally at TCD and beyond, including the Independent Social Research Foundation. In addition, he is an award winning educator, winning the Trinity College Dublin Provost’s Teaching Award in 2019. Ivano Cardinale Senior Lecturer in Economics, Goldsmiths, University of London Ivano Cardinale is Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London. He also lectures on the history of economic thought at the Economics Faculty of the University of Cambridge. He was previously the Mead Fellow in Economics (Junior Research Fellow) at Emmanuel College, iv

Cambridge. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He studies foundational issues at the interface between economics, political economy, and social theory. In economics, he studies how structural representations of the economy often question received results of micro and macro analysis. In political economy, he uses those representations to unveil largely unexplored conflicts of interest – and possibilities for cooperation. In social theory, he is developing a theory of how agency and structure interact within human action; he uses it to understand institutions, technology, and choice under uncertainty. He also deploys this theory in a political economy context, to understand how political-economy structures influence decisions and are shaped by them in turn. These projects are part of a broader programme, which can be described as “Structural Political Economy”: understanding how social and economic structures interact with actors’ decisions in shaping the structure of economic interests, their political representation, and the political-economy paths open to societies. His ISRF Political Economy Research Fellowship is devoted to a central problem in decision-making under uncertainty: understanding how actors construct the space of hypothetical future events they use to guide their choices between alternative actions. Henrique Carvalho

Associate Professor of Law, University of Warwick

Henrique Carvalho is Associate Professor and co-director of the Criminal Justice Centre at the School of Law, University of Warwick. His research explores the links between criminal law and justice, punishment, and identity, subjectivity and belonging. He is the author of The Preventive Turn in Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2017), and is currently writing a co-authored book on the problem of punishment today. Henrique’s ISRF-funded project, ‘The Dangerous Essence of Criminal Law’, advances the proposition that dangerousness lies at the core of the conceptual framework of criminal law,

as something essential to what it is, and to what it does. It suggests that the questions of what and who is considered dangerous to society, and why, are the fundamental issues underpinning the entire criminal law, from the general development of criminal offences to the way in which the law is put in practice on the streets, in the courts and by the penal system. To ground this perspective, the study develops a thick conception of dangerousness as an affective socio-political phenomenon inherently linked to a specific notion of civil order. Dangerousness is seen as historically and culturally constructed, emotionally driven, and socially and politically conditioned. Catherine Charrett

Lecturer in Global Politics, University of Westminster

Catherine Charrett completed an ISRF Early Career Research Fellowship entitled, “Performing Technologies: European, Palestinian and Israeli Security Cooperation”, January 2018-December 2019. The project addressed the following question: how do techno-political projects in the security and policing sectors perform regimes of permissible and non-permissible violence? I investigated this question through European, Palestinian and Israeli joint ventures in the design and development of security and policing technologies. The principle research output from my fellowship was the production of a performance piece entitled: “The Vein, the Fingerprint Machine and the Automatic Speed Detector.” I produced a 45-minute solo performance piece, which used tactics and strategies laden in drag performance such as satire, hyperbole, melancholy and code switching to distort the spectacle of technology. I currently work as a Lecturer in Global Politics at the University of Westminster. I have published on transdisciplinary methods in the Review of International Studies and in an edited compilation entitled: Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation. My book (just out!) The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian Elections: A Performance in Politics

puts some of these methods into action. Greg Constantine

Independent Scholar

Greg Constantine is an American/Canadian documentary photographer based in SE Asia and the United States. He has dedicated his career to long-term, independent projects about underreported or neglected global stories. His work explores the intersection of human rights, inequality, injustice, identity, belonging and the power of the state. He spent over a decade working on the project Nowhere People, which documented the lives and struggles of stateless communities in nineteen countries around the world. He is the author of three books including: Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now (2011), Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (2012) - which was named a 2012 Notable Photo Book of the year by Photo District News Magazine (US) and the Independent on Sunday (UK) - and Nowhere People (2015), which was recognized as one of the Top Ten Photo Books of 2015 by Mother Jones Magazine in the US. Exhibitions of his work have been shown in over 40 cities worldwide including: Palais des Nations in Geneva, European Parliament in Brussels, Saatchi Gallery in London, Customs House in Sydney, Kenya National Museum in Nairobi, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and US Senate Rotunda in Washington DC and at the UN Headquarters in NYC. Exhibitions have also been shown in Budapest, Kiev, Rome, Madrid, Perpignan, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Tokyo, Phnom Penh and Yangon. In 2014, his work was exhibited at the Peace Palace in The Hague during the 1st Global Forum on Statelessness. In late 2016, he earned his Ph.D. from Middlesex University in the UK. He was a 2015 Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London and a 2017 Artist in Residence of Salt vii

Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. Since early 2006, he has been documenting the persecution of the stateless Rohingya community from Myanmar (Burma). Constantine will use his ISRF Fellowship to build on a successful track record of previous research and practical field experience in Burma and neighbouring Bangladesh from 2006 to 2017. The research will take an interdisciplinary approach and will develop along a number of lines, interweaving the thematic strands of genocide, ‘slow violence’, visual storytelling, statelessness, forced displacement and health destruction. The project and research aims to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex roots, dynamics and diverse experiences of atrocities related to displacement, deprivation of nationality and the destruction of access to healthcare as contributors to the genocidal process toward the Rohingya community in Myanmar. Aoife Daly

Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool

Aoife Daly is Senior Lecturer at the School of Law of the University of Liverpool, specialising in children’s rights, civil and political rights, and family law. She has a background in both law and psychology and much of her research centres around how children make decisions, and how the law reacts to those decisions. Her ISRF-funded project considers children’s ‘competence’ and how the law can take a more evidence-based and rights-based approach with a proper appreciation of context – competence will be different in criminal contexts where children may act under pressure; as opposed to medical matters where they have support to carefully consider different factors. In 2018 she published a book entitled Children, Autonomy and the Courts: Beyond the Right to be Heard with Brill/Nijhoff. The work compares the distinct prioritisation of personal autonomy in areas such as medical law to

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the enormous paternalism in other decisions about children (such as where children will live on divorce). It is argued that courts should support and prioritise children’s own wishes to the extent possible – there should be a high threshold to override them. Aoife is also Deputy Director of the European Children’s Rights Unit at the University of Liverpool, a unit in which participatory research is conducted with children on issues of children’s rights in Europe and beyond. In 2018 she led a team advising the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission on good practice examples of making rights in UN treaties a reality in the UK. She is currently working on projects concerning children’s right to sex education, and how public attitudes to children affect how they are treated. She has two children of her own who frequently assert their autonomy rights, particularly at bedtime. Beth Epstein

Academic Director, NYU Paris

Beth Epstein is Academic Director of New York University Paris and Associate Faculty at the Gallatin School at New York University. An anthropologist, her research focuses on the politics of integration, race, and immigration in France, especially in relation to the history and development of the post-War French suburbs. Her work also comprises a comparative component as she addresses how these issues translate between France and the United States. In the early 1990s, Epstein worked as co-director of the documentary film Kofi chez les Français. Shot in the small Breton village of Saint Coulitz in northwest France, the film relates the effervescence surrounding the election of Kofi Yamgnane, a Togolese-French man, as the town’s mayor in the late 1980s, and his subsequent celebration as a national “model” of successful integration.

Intrigued by the many paradoxes of this story, Epstein returned to France a few years later to conduct fieldwork in a state-planned “New Town” outside of Paris. There she examined how the diverse residents of this markedly plural city engaged with one another and with the state’s integration directives to build their collective life. Her subsequent work has focused more broadly on the disadvantaged French banlieue, as sites where multiple national, postindustrial, post-colonial, and neoliberal dynamics converge and collide. As an ISRF Mid-Career Fellow, Dr. Epstein is investigating the impact of new forms of racial politics - especially notable among activists and intellectuals following the (sub)urban uprisings in 2005 - on the framing and management of social inequality in these districts. The author of Collective Terms: Race, Culture and Community in a StatePlanned City in France (Berghahn Books 2011), Dr. Epstein’s work has also been published in Patterns of Prejudice, the International Social Science Journal, and in several edited volumes. Rita Floyd Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security, University of Birmingham Rita Floyd is a Senior Lecturer in Conflict and Security in the School of Government at the University of Birmingham,UK. She is also currently an ISRF Mid-Career fellow. Floyd’s work on securitization theory and environmental security has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. Her book The Morality of Security: A Theory of Just Securitization was published by Cambridge University Press in the spring of 2019. Said book sets out a number of principles that designate when the use of extraordinary emergency measures (i.e. securitization) is morally permissible. Floyd now works on a follow-up monograph concerned with the moral obligation to securitize.

Elizabeth Frazer

Head of Department of Politics and International Relations, New College, University of Oxford

Elizabeth Frazer is Head of Department of the Department of Politics and International Relations, New College, University of Oxford. Since 1991 she has been Official Fellow, and Tutor in Politics; prior to that she was Rank Manning Junior Research Fellow here. She studied PPE at Pembroke College 1981-84, and completed her Doctorate, in Sociology, in 1987. Francesca Gagliardi Reader in Institutional Economics, University of Hertfordshire Francesca Gagliardi is a Reader in Institutional Economics at the University of Hertfordshire (UK). Her research programme revolves around the application of the principles of comparative institutional analysis, specifically the relatively recent institutional complementarities approach, to the study of the impact of financial institutions and intermediation on the entry, growth, performance and survival of SMEs and social enterprises, particularly cooperatives. Francesca has published in several international academic journals. In 2008 she was awarded the Horvat-Vanek prize by the International Association for the Economics of Participation. She is currently under contract with Edward Elgar Publishing for a research monograph on Varieties of Capitalism and Firm Performance: The Institutional Context of Economic Organisation. Her ISRF-funded project develops an interdisciplinary historical and comparative perspective on the political economy of cooperative firms, with inputs drawn from institutional economics, political science and economic sociology. The concept of institutional complementarity provides the backbone of the analytical framework which is used to evaluate the evidence gathered from three country-based case studies of the evolution of the cooperative sector, chosen to represent the variety of capitalist regimes: the United Kingdom, a liberal market economy; the Netherlands, a coordinated market economy; xi

and Italy, a Mediterranean type of capitalism. The findings will provide valuable insights for policy makers and cooperative sector organisations, but also for scholars working on alternative organisational forms, as well as those involved in curriculum design. Athena Hadji

Independent Scholar

Athena Hadji is an academic (B.A., University of Athens, M.A. and Ph.D., UC Berkeley), contemporary art curator and a published and award-nominated author. She has taught Archaeology, Anthropology and History of Art in Greece and beyond for over a decade. Currently, she is working toward a contemporary art group show that will air in the Fall 2018. As an academic, she is the recipient of prestigious fellowships and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation, among others. As a curator she was selected for the NEON/ Whitechapel Gallery Curator Exchange Program, also her Summer 2017 contemporary art show was granted a NEON exhibition fund. As an author she has been shortlisted for two national awards and was granted a literary award from the Municipality of Rhodes for her latest novel The Sea Fled. She has collaborated with many cultural institutions and organizations. She has accepted invitations to lecture at selected institutions internationally. Dr. Hadji publishes extensively on art, archaeology, anthropology and beyond. She is co-editor of Space and Time in Mediterranean Prehistory (Routledge, 2013). Her most recent interdisciplinary contribution, linking Early Cycladic Art and the neurosciences appeared at Quaternary International in 2016. Her fiction works include three published novels, short stories and literary criticism articles. Athena’s ISRF-funded project is a thorough critical presentation and in-depth analysis of the contemporary street art scene in Athens, Greece, combining the methodology and insights of art history and (urban) anthropology. Her xii

interest in the project sprang from a long-term theoretical involvement in the everyday – mundane – practices, whether in prehistory (as part of my archaeological research agenda) or contemporary life and culture (as part of my anthropology teaching and research). The situation in Greece, especially Athens, amidst a financial crisis that spread across the south of Europe (from Spain to Cyprus), but struck Greece especially hard in the past decade or so, is ripe for a comprehensive and balanced anthropological inquiry into the politics of the present – as well as past political stances, not solely official politics, but also, mostly, the political (under)currents that mandate the average citizen’s stance and attitude. Nowadays, more than ever, the necessity for a reconsideration of our relationship with the city emerges in its urgency. Athenian graffiti and street art until recently lagged behind developments in the international metropolises (Berlin, New York, London). However, during the past few years, the so-called “crisis years”, admittedly a time of widespread degradation, abandonment and desertification of the city, street art has emerged as a fertile power of expression with political, social, and romantic axes. Graffiti artists and writers, as active members and agents of the urban space, echo the heartbeat of a city that insists on living and holds on to its right to live in ways sometimes spasmodic, but always deeply human. Sarah Marie Hall

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Manchesther

Sarah Marie Hall is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research sits in the broad field of geographical feminist political economy: understanding how socio-economic processes are shaped by gender relations, lived experience and social difference. From 2012-2015 Sarah held a Hallsworth Research Fellowship in Political Economy (20122015) during which time she carried out the Everyday Austerity project, and is currently working on a manuscript on this research. Sarah is also a member of xiii

the Management Committee of the Women’s Budget Group, an international network of feminist researchers, policy experts and activists working to address the gendered nature of socio-economic policymaking. For her ISRF Political Economy fellowship she will be exploring lived experiences of childbearing in austere times. Integrating feminist, political economy and geographical approaches, particularly drawing upon theories of reproductive justice and intersectionality, Sarah will explore the everyday realities of people for whom austerity has had a significantly impact on their family lives. The project utilises oral history interviews to engage with real-life experiences of socio-economic barriers, the findings of which are anticipated to provide fresh insights about the relationship between childbearing and contemporary austerity. Deana Heath

Reader in Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool

Deana Heath is a Reader in Indian and colonial history at the University of Liverpool. Her current research focuses on violence, particularly the ways in which colonial regimes – especially in India – employed sovereign power, or the use of force, to enhance and maintain their authority, and the ways this intersected with other forms of power (including governmentality and – to draw from another Foucaultian concept – biopower). She is particularly interested in the impact of such forms of violence on Indian bodies and minds, as exemplified in her IRSF-funded project on torture in colonial India. Her current research is therefore extremely interdisciplinary and draws together a variety of theoretical and methodological strands, including scholarship on: pain and trauma; gender and masculinity; the body and embodied violence; interpersonal violence; violence and spectacle; the state and sovereign power; law; biopolitics and governmentality; and necropolitics and bare life.

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Her publications include Purifying Empire: Obscenity and the Politics of Moral Regulation in Britain, India and Australia (Cambridge, 2010), the co-edited books Communalism and Globalisation: South Asian Perspectives (Routledge, 2011) and South Asian Governmentalities: Michel Foucault and Postcolonial Orderings (Cambridge, 2018), and a forthcoming monograph, based on her ISRF research, Colonial Terror: Torture and State Violence in Colonial India. Craig Jones

Lecturer in Political Geography, Newcastle University

Craig is a Lecturer in Political Geography at Newcastle University. He is currently working on two interdisciplinary projects, Wounds Without Borders and The War Lawyers. Supported by an ISRF Early Career Fellowship, Wounds Without Borders investigates what happens to injured patients and healthcare infrastructures under conditions of war. The project aims to investigate and map the journeys of injured civilians from spaces of injury in Syria, Iraq and Gaza to spaces of care in Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. War wounds are used as an analytic to explore the ‘slow violence’ of war as well as its transnational biopolitical regimes of care. The project attempts to forge a new social-science approach to war that focuses on injured bodies and wounded journeys and fosters interdisciplinary thinking about war as a producer of mass-scale disability. The War Lawyers examines the involvement of military lawyers in aerial targeting operations carried out by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Israeli military in Gaza and the West Bank. Craig’s first monograph, The War Lawyers: US, Israel and the Spaces of Targeting will be published by Oxford University Press in 2020. Drawing on several years of fieldwork and extensive interviews with military lawyers, Craig argues that international law has become part of the very fabric of later modern war and that US and Israeli

ISRF Annual Workshop: The Question of Violence 29th September - 2nd October | St Hugh’s College, Oxford

ISRF Annual Workshop - Day One 4:00pm 4:30pm

30th September

Coﬀee & Registration Welcome - Louise Braddock (ISRF Director of Research)

SESSION ONE 4:45pm

ISRF Fellows Presentations Chair: Lars Cornelissen - Casey Asprooth-Jackson & Brendan Ciarán Browne - Catherine Charrett - Mark Whitehead

- Rita Floyd - Sarah Marie Hall

SESSION TWO 6:00pm

Round Table Discussion Chair: Louise Braddock - Greg Constantine - Deana Heath

7:15pm 8:30pm

- Daria Martin - Martin Thomas

Drinks & Buﬀet Reception

ISRF Annual Workshop - Day Two (Morning) 8:45am

1st October

Welcome

SESSION THREE 9:00am

ISRF Fellows Presentations Chair: Lars Cornelissen - Henrique Carvalho - Craig Jones - Francesca Gagliardi

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- Ivano Cardinale - Alexander Stingl - Beth Epstein

Coﬀee Break

SESSION FOUR 10:45am

ISRF Fellows Presentations Chair: Louise Braddock -

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Alice Baderin Athena Hadji Michael Waite Alan Thomas

- Greg Constantine - Lauren Martin - Ilay Ors

Lunch

Throughout the workshop, a curated Exhibition Space will feature posters, photos, videos and objects related to the work of ISRF, and to the theme of the workshop.

http://www.isrf.org/the-question-of-violence

ISRF Annual Workshop: The Question of Violence 29th September - 2nd October | St Hugh’s College, Oxford

ISRF Annual Workshop - Day Two (Afternoon)

1st October

SESSION FIVE 2:00pm

ISRF Research Proposals: Speed-writing in Groups - How to Write an ISRF Grant Application in 90 Minutes

3:30pm

ISRF Research Proposals: Group Presentations Chair: Lars Cornelissen

4:00pm

Coﬀee Break

SESSION SIX 4:30pm 5:30pm

ISRF Research Proposals: Selection Panel Chair: Louise Braddock

ISRF Annual Workshop - Day Three 9:00am

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Welcome

SESSION SEVEN 9:15am

ISRF Fellows Presentations Chair: Louise Braddock -

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Izabela Orlowska Peter Newell Jonathan Saha Robin Smith

- Cian O’Driscoll - Aoife Daly - Gabor Scheiring

Coﬀee Break

SESSION EIGHT 11:15am

Round Table Discussion Chair: Elizabeth Frazer

12:45pm

Lunch

SESSION NINE 1:45pm

Reflective Session: What Have We Learned? Chair: Louise Braddock - Presentation of Themes: Lars Cornelissen

3:15pm

Director of Research: Concluding Remarks

3:30pm

End of Workshop & Drinks

Throughout the workshop, a curated Exhibition Space will feature posters, photos, videos and objects related to the work of ISRF, and to the theme of the workshop.

http://www.isrf.org/the-question-of-violence

military lawyers play a surprisingly crucial role in planning and executing a wide range of lethal and non-lethal military operations. You can follow Craig’s work at www.thewarspace.com and @thewarspace. Daria Martin Professor and Head of Artistic Research, Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford Born in San Francisco in 1973, now based in London, Daria Martin is an internationally acclaimed artist-filmmaker. Martin’s films, which have been exhibited around the world, aim to create a continuity between disparate artistic media (such as painting and performance), between people and objects, and between internal and social worlds. Solo exhibitions include Barbican, London; ACCA, Melbourne; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum, New York; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunstalle Zürich; and Tate Britain. Martin is currently Professor and Head of Artistic Research at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford. In 2018 she won the Film London Jarman Award for “creating an eclectic and expansive body of work that has explored everything from dreams and mythology to technology and feminism”. Lauren Martin

Assistant Professor in Human Geography, Durham University

Lauren Martin is an Assistant Professor in the Geography Department at Durham University. Her research has analysed the carceral geographies of migration control and border enforcement, particularly the ways in which families both challenge detention and become detainable. She has recently published book chapters in Secrecy and Methods (Routledge) and Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar), a forum for Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and articles in Political Geography; Territory, Politics, Governance; Geopolitics; Annales de Geographie and other

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journals. As an ISRF Political Economy Fellow, Dr Martin’s project “Economies of Exclusion: Money, Labour and Value in Immigration and Asylum Politics” will explore how excludability makes migrants valuable (for others) in new ways. The project expands her fieldwork in the US and UK, focussing on the re-expansion of family detention in the US and cashless debit cards in the UK. The two case studies illustrate the diverse ways in which migrants’ everyday reproduction are made to work, precisely when migrants are prohibited from waged work. This builds on a collaborative project (with Deirdre Conlon and Kate Coddington) that traces how migrant destitution has become integral to economies growing up around migration, refugees and border control. Peter Newell

Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex

Peter Newell is a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex. He currently holds an ISRF Political Economy Research Fellowship to work on the global political economy of low carbon energy transitions. The projects seek to develop a novel political economy account of key dimensions of energy transition from production and financing transitions through to governing and mobilising around them, grounded in a more historical, global and ecological political account. Besides working for academic institutions including the universities of Sussex, Oxford, Warwick and East Anglia, he sits on the board of directors of Greenpeace UK, is a board member of the Brussels-based NGO Carbon Market Watch and a member of the advisory board of the Greenhouse think-tank. He is associate editor of the journal Global Environmental Politics and sits on the board of the Global Environmental Change, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Environment and Development and Earth Systems Governance Journal. He is also co-founder and research director of the Rapid Transition Alliance. His single and co-authored books include Climate for Change; The Effectiveness

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of EU Environmental Policy; Governing Climate Change; Globalization and the Environment: Capitalism, Ecology and Power; Climate Capitalism; Transnational Climate Change Governance and Global Green Politics. Cian O’Driscoll

Professor of Politics, University of Glasgow

Cian O’Driscoll is from Limerick, Ireland, and is currently a Professor of International Politics at the University of Glasgow. Cian’s teaching at Glasgow has focused on the intersection between Normative International Relations Theory, the History of Political Thought, and Security Studies. This mirrors his research profile. He is interested in the ethics of war and in particular the historical evolution of the just war tradition. He has published numerous books and journal articles in this area. His most recent monograph is currently forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Entitled Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War, it offers a critical history of the just war tradition through the prism of its relation with the concept of victory. Cian won very generous support for this project from both the Independent Social Research Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council. Prior to moving to Glasgow, Cian completed his PhD at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He also studied at Dalhousie University, the University of Limerick, and the University of Oslo. Cian is the chair of the International Ethics section of the International Studies Association. He will move to The Australian National University in January to take up a new post at the Department of International Relations in the Coral Bell School. At the ANU, Cian intends to pursue an interdisiplinary research project that examines how soldiers who have fought on the front lines describe and narrate the moral experience of combat. In the meantime, Cian will spend much of Autumn 2019 watching Ireland’s progress in the Rugby World Cup through his fingers. He is also determined to catch as many gigs at the Barrowlands as he can before he departs Scotland.

Izabela Orlowska

Independent Scholar

Izabela is a passionate Ethiopianist who has lived and worked in the country for extensive periods of time. She studied Ethiopian languages and cultures in her native Poland at the Institute of Oriental Studies, University of Warsaw. In 2006 she earned her PhD in African History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. In the same year she has won a prestigious British Academy post-doctoral fellowship to continue her work on the symbolism of power in Ethiopian history at the University of Edinburgh (2006-9). While working on this project she developed her interest in visuals ranging from the unique aesthetics of the Ethiopian church paintings to political posters. Since then she has conducted numerous research projects (British Academy, National Science Foundation U.S., Alexandra von Humboldt) in Ethiopia and Europe and held a position at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. During her research she has interviewed elders, collected oral histories and discovered unpublished manuscripts in rural churches. While working at Addis Ababa University she taught BA and MA students and developed lasting relationships with local academia, western research institutes (French and German) and the local art scene. Living, working and researching in Africa has made her passionate about showing how tackling many of the world’s development challenges requires serious consideration of local cultures, religious practices, histories and societal norms and an understanding of how such norms are different from those in the western context. Despite receiving her PhD in African history from the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), she has worked and co-authored with geographers, religion specialists, social anthropologists, ecologist and biologists applying her knowledge and experience more broadly. Working together with an xxi

international multidisciplinary team she engaged in research involving biological assessment of the endemic forests surrounding Ethiopian Orthodox churches in northern Ethiopia and the socio-religious dynamic underpinning their successful management. This project has allowed her to directly apply her knowledge of society, culture and religious practice for research on biodiversity, climate change and deforestation. Izabela organised academic workshops, participated in scientific committees helped to implement European initiatives in Ethiopia, such as a scholarship scheme (Germany) and an academic writing workshop (UK). She has also given interviews (TV and Radio) on the politics, society and culture. Her current project focuses the intersection of culture, heritage and politics in Ethiopia. Ilay Ors

Independent Scholar

Ilay Romain Ors was born and raised in Istanbul, where she completed her undergraduate education at Bogazici University in Political Science and Sociology. After a year at the University College London doing an M.Sc. in Social Anthropology, she pursued her Ph.D. degree at Harvard University in Anthropology. Her dissertation fieldwork on the Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul was later revised and published under the title Diaspora of the City: stories of cosmopolitanism from Istanbul and Athens by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. She is currently working on a project on migration where she investigates the overlapping migratory waves in the Aegean over the course of the last century until today. In addition to the eminent ‘refugee crisis’ at present, she will be taking into account other major episodes of displacement, such as the Forced Exchange of Population between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. Ors is interested in showing that migration is not a singular

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linear narrative with a beginning and an end, but involves circular, broken, and overlapping waves that are diverse and disconcerted, which need to be comparatively studied and spatiotemporally contextualized. She is focusing her ethnographic research on various locations in Greece, including Athens and the islands of Lesvos and Leros. Andrea Ruggeri

Professor in International Relations, University of Oxford

Andrea Ruggeri is Professor of Political Science and International Relations and Director of the Centre for International Studies at the University of Oxford. He joined Brasenose College and the Department of Politics and International Relations in 2014. Previously, he was Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam from 2010. He holds a PhD in Government (Essex, 2011), an MA International Relations (Essex, 2006) and a BA in Diplomatic and International Sciences (Genova, 2005). His research has been published in the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, International Security, International Interactions, International Organization, International Peacekeeping, International Studies Review, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Political Geography, Political Science Research & Methods and edited volumes. He is in the editorial board of Journal of Peace Research, Il Politico, International Peacekeeping, Quaderni di Scienza Politica and the Italian Political Science Review/Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. Jonathan Saha

Associate Professor of History, University of Leeds

Jonathan completed his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies, and worked as Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Bristol, before joining the School of History at the University of Leeds. He specialises in the history of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism in Southeast Asia,

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focusing particularly on British Burma. His study of official misconduct in the fin de siècle Burma Delta explored how the colonial state was experienced and imagined in everyday life, showing how corruption contributed to the maintenance of British rule, perpetuating racial divisions and gender ideologies. As well as corruption, he has published on crime, medicine and ‘madness’ in colonial Burma, and over the last few years he has been working on a history of animals in British Burma, drawing out their intrinsic role in the construction and maintenance of the imperial order. During his ISRF midcareer fellowship he will develop the concept of accumulation from its roots in critical political economy so that, as well as the accumulation of capital, it can shed light on the accumulation of ideas, texts, and objects in empires. Gábor Scheiring

Research Fellow, Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, Bocconi University

Gabor Scheiring is a research fellow at the Dondena Centre for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy, at Bocconi University in Milan. After submitting his PhD (University of Cambridge, 2017), he was a Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC and an ISRF Political Economy Research Fellow at the Department of Sociology in Cambridge. Dr Scheiring analyses the human dimensions of economic change from the perspective of political economy using both quantitative and qualitative methods, combining theoretical innovation with empirical rigour. In his doctoral thesis and several related articles, he investigated the impact of deindustrialization, privatization and foreign investment on health. As part of his is research on the political economy of democratic backsliding in Central and Eastern Europe, Dr Scheiring investigates how the postsocialist economic reforms paved the way to the illiberal backlash. In part based on his ISRF project, Dr Scheiring has recently finished a book on the death of democracy in Hungary. His core argument is that democratic backsliding in East-Central xxiv

Europe is rooted in the tensions of global economic dependencies, but the specific forms of authoritarian populism are the results of the different ways in which local business and political elites translated globalisation into the domestic context. As a founder of a progressive green political party, he served as a member of the Hungarian Parliament between 2010 and 2014, responsible for economic policy and political strategy. Robin Smith

Independent Scholar

Robin Smith is an economic anthropologist focusing on farming communities in post-socialist Europe. Her doctoral research, undertaken at the University of Oxford’s Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology as a Clarendon Scholar, was on how honesty and trust shape the family winemaking sector in Istria, Croatia, and how winemakers navigate pervasive debt to maintain production during economic crisis. Her postdoctoral project focuses on the impact of a large corporation in the country that manipulates business agreements with winemakers to take their wine or grapes but avoid payment. She is going to investigate the specific informal financial practices that this corporation relies upon and follow such practices through the supply chain to understand the power dynamics involved and political implications. Her hope is to shed light on how capitalism has been interpreted in the Balkans, but also how rural entrepreneurs are creatively coping with new market forces they are grappling to understand. Robin’s interest in the region stems from having grown up in the Balkan folk dance community in northern California. She has volunteered in Kosovo with a community development organization, and also as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Republic of Moldova where she worked with winemaker associations for two years.

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Alexander Stingl WIRL CoFund Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Warwick Alexander I. Stingl is 2019 – 2021 WIRL CoFund Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, affiliate of the Global Legal Studies Network (Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme) and also the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. He is the author of, among others, The Digital Coloniality of Power (2016) and Care Power Information (2020), as well as co-author of Worlds of ScienceCraft (2014). Alexander is the chair of the scientific committee for “Juridifying the Anthropocene” (directed by G.Lhuilier & B.Parance for the Agence Developpmente Française and the French High Court of Appellations). His research interests: include: the transnational policy network and scientific-legal discourse of “the Bioeconomy”; Extractive Studies and Environmental Humanities; decolonial options for the social sciences; Sociology and the cognitive and neurosciences; digital divisions and social (in)justice; and transmediality and popular culture. In his main area of research, as conducted during his ISRF Independent Scholar Fellowship, the Bioeconomy was situated in the interstices of biotechnological development, policy-making, and legal adjudications. Whereas policy-makers and politicians generalize and reduce all living entities to “biomass”, scientists look at highly individualized yet fuzzy categories, which jurists mediate through transnational (extractive) property law practices. The original question regarding the concept of justice proposed for the ISRF project became, respective of the emergence of the co-constitutive intertwinement of the bioeconomy discourses with legal practices, transformed into one of jurisprudence that had to be answered before justice could be defined. Alan Thomas

Professor of Philosophy, University of York

Alan Thomas is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of York, UK.

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Educated at Cambridge, Harvard, and Oxford, he was previously a Lecturer at King’s College, London, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent and a Professor of Ethics at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. He works in the areas of moral and political philosophy and his most recent research focuses on the financial sector. It examines what makes finance central to our capitalist societies, the distinctive features of what has been called “money market capitalism”, and why it has proven to be so destabilising. Drawing on recent theories of inequality, and the nature of clientilism, his project for the ISRF asks whether the democratic theories of the republican tradition can offer a model for the regulation-cum-constitution of finance. “Plebeian finance” turns to the unique democratic institutions developed in Ancient Rome to address the problem of finance in our highly unequal societies that do not protect the political liberties of all, but set the interests of “some” over and above those of the “many”. Martin Thomas of Exeter

Professor of Imperial History, University

Martin Thomas is Professor of Imperial History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society at the University of Exeter. A specialist in the politics of contested decolonization, his most recent publications are Violence and Colonial Order: Police, Workers and Protest in the European Colonial Empires, 1918-1940 (Cambridge University Press, 2012); Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire (Oxford University Press, 2014); with Richard Toye, Arguing about Empire (Oxford University Press, 2017); and, with Andrew Barros, The Civilianization of War (Cambridge University Press, 2018). He a Principal Investigator for a Leverhulme Trust research network, Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past and is a Leverhulme Trust fellow.

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Michael Waite

Independent Scholar

Michael Waite has worked as a youth and community worker and as a local government officer in various local councils (municipalities) in North West England. He has also worked as a mediator, and as a facilitator and trainer in the field of conflict resolution. From 2002 until 2018, his work for Burnley Council included responsibility for community engagement, ensuring compliance with equalities legislation, and promoting good race relations. His 2019-20 ISRF Fellowship is being hosted by the University of Manchester (Sociology). The research will result in a book on issues arising from the successes of the far-right British National Party in winning and retaining seats on Burnley Council between 2002 and 2010: a narrative account will link to wider debates on populism, the formation of political identities, and policy around race, integration and multiculturalism. Waite’s articles and book reviews have appeared in a range of academic, cultural and political journals including Anarchist Studies, Critical Social Policy, Community Development Journal, New Humanist, Party Politics, Radical Philosophy, Renewal, Socialist History, Soundings, The Cunningham Amendment and Twentieth Century Communism. Writing as Mike MakinWaite, he is the author of Communism and Democracy (Lawrence and Wishart, London, 2017). Mark Whitehead

Professor of Human Geography, Aberystwyth University

Mark Whitehead is a human geographer at Aberystwyth University. Over the last decade he has been exploring the impacts of the behavioural and psychological sciences on public policy in the UK, USA, Australia, and

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the Netherlands. As part of this research Mark developed the notion of neuroliberalism. Neuroliberalism denotes the ways in which systems of psychological governance are being used in liberal societies and invites critical analysis of the impacts that related processes are having on personal freedom. As part of his ongoing ISRF Fellowship Mark has been exploring the fusion of the behavioural sciences, big data, and smart technology. During this Fellowship Mark has been considering the ways in which digital surveillance is combining with neuroliberalism to facilitate novel systems of behavioural modification at unprecedented scales. This project combines self-journaling ethnographic research in to people’s everyday relationships with smart technology, and interviewing those who are seeking to resist digital forms of behavioural manipulation.

THE CONVERSATION From April 2017, the ISRF began a partnership with The Conversation, an online platform that works with academics to turn current research into short news articles aimed at a general audience - see www. theconversation.com. Josephine Lethbridge is The Conversation’s Interdisciplinary Editor, funded by the ISRF. Josephine’s role includes working with scholars at The Conversation’s member universities, as well as past and present Fellows of the ISRF, to bring interdisciplinary social research to millions of readers worldwide. Josephine works with researchers on short newsworthy articles, working with them to produce pieces with journalistic flair but no loss of academic rigour. She also edits The Conversation’s new Insights series (funded by Research England): longer-form, in-depth articles about new interdisciplinary research. xxix

The ISRF hopes that, by promoting inter-disciplinarity through this partnership with The Conversation, the usefulness of interdisciplinary approaches will reach broader audiences, and that knowledge of such work will spread beyond the confines of academia. Josephine Lethbridge Josephine joined The Conversation as Arts + Culture Editor in 2014, before becoming Interdisciplinary Editor in 2017. She has an MA in English Literature from the University of Glasgow and an MSc in Science, Technology and Society from UCL. She is also a trustee of the Queille Trust, which holds a biennial arts festival. Josephine is attending Tuesday and Wednesday of the ISRF Workshop and any Fellows wishing to know more about the commissioning process, or simply to have a chat about pitching an article, should speak with her directly or contact her on josephine.lethbridge@theconversation.com.

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