Art and International Relations
What can art do? What does IR care? Art and International Relations have so much to say to each other, if they only but knew it.
View ArticleEdited Collection – Popular Culture and World Politics
This edited collection offers a holistic approach to an exciting field of research and contributes to the establishment of Pop Culture and World Politics as a sub-discipline of International Relations.
View ArticleHomeland’s Popular Geopolitics Gets Punked
The graffiti prank on the set of 'Homeland' is an act that represents a physical realization that the pop-culture canvas can be subverted even in the process.
View ArticleReview – Art and Politics Now
Anthony Downey's book is a timely overview of the art world's involvement in politics and a good reference for academics interested in art's potential to engage and even redefine politics.
View ArticleThe Power of Images in Global Politics
Images surround everything we do. This omnipresence of images is political and has changed fundamentally how we live and interact in today’s world.
View ArticleVisualising the Drone: War Art as Embodied Resistance
War art belongs to an aesthetics that is derived from practical and real-world encounters, and which sets to apprehend the world via sense-based and affective processes.
View ArticleInterview – Lewis Bush
Lewis Bush talks about the utilisation of visual art to comment on global issues such as Brexit, the European debt crisis, Trump and state practices of espionage.
View ArticleInterview – Edmund Clark
Award-winning artist Edmund Clark discusses his work on state practices associated with the war on terror such as torture and extraordinary rendition and visual politics.
View ArticleInterview – George Butler
Reportage artist, George Butler, talks to us about his work drawing the news in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, as well the future for young Syrians and his Hands Up Foundation.
View ArticleInterview – Laurence Payot
Artist Laurence Payot talks about her projects gathering stories from refugees and displaced people across the UK, identity, and the ways art can influence politics.
View ArticleSensible Politics: Expanding from Visual IR to Multisensory Politics
Sensible Politics aims to decenter our understanding of international politics by expanding to include the visual and the multisensory, and expanding from Eurocentric investigations of visual IR.
View ArticleInterview – Eliza Garnsey
Eliza Garnsey explains the role art can play in transitional justice, how art can be a form of political participation, and the meaning of 'visual jurisprudence'.
View ArticleInterview – Lydia Cole
Lydia Cole reflects on her fieldwork, affective failure and misrecognition, as well as her research using conflict textiles, encouraging the use of visual art and poetry in research.
View ArticleDevouring Brazilian Modernism: The Rise of Contemporary Indigenous Art
Contemporary indigenous art rescues a series of ethical values that can help the world to overcome the civilizational crisis, and help Brazil to overcome political and environmental setbacks.
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