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I’m a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Swansea University.
Currently, I’m an early career researcher working on a range of topics relating to violence – the processes that mobilise it, the direct and structural forms that it takes, and the responses to it. I’m one of the coordinators of the Reactionary Politics Research Network; personally, I’m working on this in three distinct research streams:
- My main research concerns the role of ideology and securitisation in genocidal violence; how (and why, and where) notions of fear and existential threat interact with each other to catalyse instances of mass killing.
- I also work on post-conflict criminal justice and accountability at national and international levels, with a particular focus on the history of ‘complementarity’ (understood broadly) in international justice.
- I’m currently developing a research project on borders and climate – investigating the bureaucratic, sociological and technopolitical foundations of what Parenti (2011) describes as the ‘armed lifeboat’ – the tendency to fortify borders between the Global North/Global South as part of a response to climate change.
I also have an ongoing (critical) interest in the use of Generative AI in teaching practice.
My PhD was at the Department of Politics and International Relations, at the University of Oxford. My doctoral thesis, entitled ‘A Terrible War of Defence’ – Examining the Role of Dehumanisation in Genocidal Mobilisation, examined the use of dehumanisation and security discourse in the context of genocide in Germany, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia, as well as a number of shorter case studies. It was supervised by Jonathan Leader Maynard.