Constance Duncombe
Biographic Data
| ID | 269166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constance Duncombe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constance |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncombe |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCOMBE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3790-7434 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Canadian Security Studies
Although much research confirms a gender gap in political science and its subfields internationally, only recently have scholars analyzed country-specific conditions for women within the field. Our study contributes to this national-level examination of gender diversity and inclusion by examining the extent to which a gender gap within the subfield of security studies, identified in the international literature, also is present in Canada. Researc…
See, Touch, Feel
Social media images are central to the practice of digital diplomacy. Some of the most contentious political engagements involve digital images designed to challenge or reaffirm the national identity of key political players. Yet the role of touch in conditioning how social media images are seen is curiously absent from International Relations analyses of the visual politics of digital diplomacy. We know far too little about this phenomenon. This…
Introduction
This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of contemporary diplomatic practices in a broad range of areas such as peace-making, inter-state signalling, domestic politics, digital communication, public diplomacy and popular culture. Emphasising the major impact of new technologies and the convergence…
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations
The International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association aims to promote the study of global, international, regional, and national security—broadly conceived. Over the past decade, ISSS has also sought to improve diversity and inclusion for its membership, culminating in its Taskforce on Diversity in Security Studies. In this forum, taskforce organizers, researchers, and participants examine the ways in which IS…
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies
Increased attention to racialized knowledge and methodological whiteness has swept the political science discipline, especially international relations. Yet an important dimension of race and racism continues to be ignored: the presence and status of scholars of color in the discipline. In contrast to other fields, there is little research on (under)representation of scholars of color in security studies, and no systematic studies of race and rac…
Introduction
Visuals are powerful mediators of global political events. Images, moving and still alike, are significant objects that play a role in shaping our understanding of international affairs. Through their multiple interpretations, these visuals can both represent reality and condition how we understand it. Within International Relations, there has been growing attention to the visual, with explorations of a wide range of theoretical concerns and empi…
Social media and the visibility of horrific violence
Images are central to social media communication. Billions of images are shared across different social media platforms every day: photos, cartoons, GIFs and short video clips are exchanged by users, facilitating or framing discourse on participatory sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Many of these images depict events of extreme violence, which circulate uninhibited by the conventional constraints associated with traditional news med…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Digital Diplomacy
Public diplomacy is increasingly facilitated through social media. Government leaders and diplomats are using social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to communicate with foreign publics, changing the dynamics of interaction between broadcaster and audience. The key to understanding the power of social media in public diplomacy is the role of emotion in digital diplomacy strategies: social media statements relating to state …
Popular culture, post-truth and emotional framings of world politics
With the election of US President Donald Trump, the separation between high and low politics and the line between fiction and reality has become fundamentally blurred. Yet popular culture offers an important vector through which we might make sense of this political turmoil. The purpose of this essay is two-fold: conceptually, I examine how television provides opportunities for the insight into the visual and emotional registers of the post-truth…
The Politics of Twitter
Social media is becoming a key medium through which we communicate with each other: it is at the center of the very structures of our daily interactions. Yet this infiltration is not unique to interpersonal relations. Political leaders, governments, and states operate within this social media environment, wherein they continually address crises and institute damage control through platforms such as Twitter. A question arises here as to what the t…
Pili
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions most affected by the AIDS/HIV pandemic in the world. Nearly 70 per cent of people living with AIDS/HIV globally are local to sub-Saharan Africa, with two-thirds of new infections occurring in the region despite increasing efforts around prevention and treatment. Women are disproportionally affected by AIDS/HIV, yet the risk factors and mechanisms of infection in relation to gender inequality are poorly und…
After liberal world order
In recent years claims about the end times of the liberal world order have gathered force, with the talk of order giving way to disruption. While there are different accounts of these disruptive dynamics and their causes, it is nevertheless a rare moment in International Relations when all mainstream theories concur that the hegemony of the liberal world order is over and that there is considerable uncertainty about the global architecture that w…
Twitter and transformative diplomacy
Social media is increasingly used as a means of communication between states. Diplomats and political leaders are ever more relying on Twitter in their daily practice to communicate with their counterparts. These exchanges occur in view of a global audience, providing an added level of scrutiny that is unique to this form of communication. Twitter arguably challenges traditional notions of diplomacy according to which it is conducted through form…
Emotional diplomacy
Emotion has long been a central component of successful diplomacy. Although traditional approaches to the practice of statecraft focus on a reasoned calculation of interests, diplomacy nevertheless relies on the art of persuasion. Expressions of empathy, sympathy, anger and even guilt are key to effective diplomatic negotiations. Emotional diplomacy builds on this knowledge to demonstrate that state actors undertake explicit and coordinated emoti…
The violence of the image
Images are becoming increasingly recognized as powerful components of International Relations (IR). Since the invention of the Kodak in the late nineteenth century, photographs have framed our understanding of conflict and the suffering of distant others. The violence of the image, edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick, is an excellent collection of essays which shows that the symbiotic relationship between photography and warfare has change…
Representation, recognition and foreign policy in the Iran–US relationship
In the past two decades, scholars have illustrated how important representation is to understanding the dynamics of world politics. However, there is a distinct absence in the literature surrounding how representations of one state by another influence foreign policymaking behaviour. This article fills a gap in knowledge by offering an empirical examination of the role that representation and recognition play. I contribute to these discussions th…
Cowardice
On 25 February 2015, Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh was convicted of the murder of two fellow veterans in 2013 at a shooting range near Fort Worth, Texas. What made this court case stand out from
Political insults
Journal Article Political insults: how offenses escalate conflict. By Karina V. Korostelina Get access Political insults: how offenses escalate conflict. By Karina V. Korostelina. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. 224pp. Pb.: £42.00. ISBN 978 0 19937 281 2. Available as e-book. Constance Duncombe Constance Duncombe 1University of Queensland, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Af…
Foreign policy and the politics of representation
The patterns of representation that position the West as the dominant enlightened Self to the non-West's subordinate Other are evident in Hollywood filmmaking. Films such as A Mighty Heart, The Kingdom and The Siege continue to maintain the Hegelian Master/Slave dialectic of West/non-West, which becomes part of the narrative of the West's identity construction. In delving into this supposed relationship between West and non-West, it appears as th…
The Politics of Twitter
Social media is becoming a key medium through which we communicate with each other: it is at the center of the very structures of our daily interactions. Yet this infiltration is not unique to interpersonal relations. Political leaders, governments, and states operate within this social media environment, wherein they continually address crises and institute damage control through platforms such as Twitter. A question arises here as to what the t…
Twitter and transformative diplomacy
Social media is increasingly used as a means of communication between states. Diplomats and political leaders are ever more relying on Twitter in their daily practice to communicate with their counterparts. These exchanges occur in view of a global audience, providing an added level of scrutiny that is unique to this form of communication. Twitter arguably challenges traditional notions of diplomacy according to which it is conducted through form…
Social media and the visibility of horrific violence
Images are central to social media communication. Billions of images are shared across different social media platforms every day: photos, cartoons, GIFs and short video clips are exchanged by users, facilitating or framing discourse on participatory sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Many of these images depict events of extreme violence, which circulate uninhibited by the conventional constraints associated with traditional news med…
After liberal world order
In recent years claims about the end times of the liberal world order have gathered force, with the talk of order giving way to disruption. While there are different accounts of these disruptive dynamics and their causes, it is nevertheless a rare moment in International Relations when all mainstream theories concur that the hegemony of the liberal world order is over and that there is considerable uncertainty about the global architecture that w…
Representation, recognition and foreign policy in the Iran–US relationship
In the past two decades, scholars have illustrated how important representation is to understanding the dynamics of world politics. However, there is a distinct absence in the literature surrounding how representations of one state by another influence foreign policymaking behaviour. This article fills a gap in knowledge by offering an empirical examination of the role that representation and recognition play. I contribute to these discussions th…
Digital Diplomacy
Public diplomacy is increasingly facilitated through social media. Government leaders and diplomats are using social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to communicate with foreign publics, changing the dynamics of interaction between broadcaster and audience. The key to understanding the power of social media in public diplomacy is the role of emotion in digital diplomacy strategies: social media statements relating to state …
Emotional diplomacy
Emotion has long been a central component of successful diplomacy. Although traditional approaches to the practice of statecraft focus on a reasoned calculation of interests, diplomacy nevertheless relies on the art of persuasion. Expressions of empathy, sympathy, anger and even guilt are key to effective diplomatic negotiations. Emotional diplomacy builds on this knowledge to demonstrate that state actors undertake explicit and coordinated emoti…
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies
Increased attention to racialized knowledge and methodological whiteness has swept the political science discipline, especially international relations. Yet an important dimension of race and racism continues to be ignored: the presence and status of scholars of color in the discipline. In contrast to other fields, there is little research on (under)representation of scholars of color in security studies, and no systematic studies of race and rac…
Introduction
Visuals are powerful mediators of global political events. Images, moving and still alike, are significant objects that play a role in shaping our understanding of international affairs. Through their multiple interpretations, these visuals can both represent reality and condition how we understand it. Within International Relations, there has been growing attention to the visual, with explorations of a wide range of theoretical concerns and empi…
Popular culture, post-truth and emotional framings of world politics
With the election of US President Donald Trump, the separation between high and low politics and the line between fiction and reality has become fundamentally blurred. Yet popular culture offers an important vector through which we might make sense of this political turmoil. The purpose of this essay is two-fold: conceptually, I examine how television provides opportunities for the insight into the visual and emotional registers of the post-truth…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Introduction
This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of contemporary diplomatic practices in a broad range of areas such as peace-making, inter-state signalling, domestic politics, digital communication, public diplomacy and popular culture. Emphasising the major impact of new technologies and the convergence…
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations
The International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association aims to promote the study of global, international, regional, and national security—broadly conceived. Over the past decade, ISSS has also sought to improve diversity and inclusion for its membership, culminating in its Taskforce on Diversity in Security Studies. In this forum, taskforce organizers, researchers, and participants examine the ways in which IS…
Foreign policy and the politics of representation
The patterns of representation that position the West as the dominant enlightened Self to the non-West's subordinate Other are evident in Hollywood filmmaking. Films such as A Mighty Heart, The Kingdom and The Siege continue to maintain the Hegelian Master/Slave dialectic of West/non-West, which becomes part of the narrative of the West's identity construction. In delving into this supposed relationship between West and non-West, it appears as th…
Foreign policy and the politics of representation
The patterns of representation that position the West as the dominant enlightened Self to the non-West's subordinate Other are evident in Hollywood filmmaking. Films such as A Mighty Heart, The Kingdom and The Siege continue to maintain the Hegelian Master/Slave dialectic of West/non-West, which becomes part of the narrative of the West's identity construction. In delving into this supposed relationship between West and non-West, it appears as th…
Cowardice
On 25 February 2015, Iraq War veteran Eddie Ray Routh was convicted of the murder of two fellow veterans in 2013 at a shooting range near Fort Worth, Texas. What made this court case stand out from
Political insults
Journal Article Political insults: how offenses escalate conflict. By Karina V. Korostelina Get access Political insults: how offenses escalate conflict. By Karina V. Korostelina. New York: Oxford University Press. 2014. 224pp. Pb.: £42.00. ISBN 978 0 19937 281 2. Available as e-book. Constance Duncombe Constance Duncombe 1University of Queensland, Australia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Af…
Emotional diplomacy
Emotion has long been a central component of successful diplomacy. Although traditional approaches to the practice of statecraft focus on a reasoned calculation of interests, diplomacy nevertheless relies on the art of persuasion. Expressions of empathy, sympathy, anger and even guilt are key to effective diplomatic negotiations. Emotional diplomacy builds on this knowledge to demonstrate that state actors undertake explicit and coordinated emoti…
The violence of the image
Images are becoming increasingly recognized as powerful components of International Relations (IR). Since the invention of the Kodak in the late nineteenth century, photographs have framed our understanding of conflict and the suffering of distant others. The violence of the image, edited by Liam Kennedy and Caitlin Patrick, is an excellent collection of essays which shows that the symbiotic relationship between photography and warfare has change…
Representation, recognition and foreign policy in the Iran–US relationship
In the past two decades, scholars have illustrated how important representation is to understanding the dynamics of world politics. However, there is a distinct absence in the literature surrounding how representations of one state by another influence foreign policymaking behaviour. This article fills a gap in knowledge by offering an empirical examination of the role that representation and recognition play. I contribute to these discussions th…
Twitter and transformative diplomacy
Social media is increasingly used as a means of communication between states. Diplomats and political leaders are ever more relying on Twitter in their daily practice to communicate with their counterparts. These exchanges occur in view of a global audience, providing an added level of scrutiny that is unique to this form of communication. Twitter arguably challenges traditional notions of diplomacy according to which it is conducted through form…
Pili
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the regions most affected by the AIDS/HIV pandemic in the world. Nearly 70 per cent of people living with AIDS/HIV globally are local to sub-Saharan Africa, with two-thirds of new infections occurring in the region despite increasing efforts around prevention and treatment. Women are disproportionally affected by AIDS/HIV, yet the risk factors and mechanisms of infection in relation to gender inequality are poorly und…
After liberal world order
In recent years claims about the end times of the liberal world order have gathered force, with the talk of order giving way to disruption. While there are different accounts of these disruptive dynamics and their causes, it is nevertheless a rare moment in International Relations when all mainstream theories concur that the hegemony of the liberal world order is over and that there is considerable uncertainty about the global architecture that w…
Do You Feel Welcome? Gendered Experiences in International Security Studies
Unlike in the broader field of international relations, relatively little research on gender representation and gendered experiences exists within the subfield of security studies. This article begins to fill that gap by sharing the results of a 2019 survey of members of the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association (ISA). The survey results show striking gender differences in members’ experiences, wit…
Digital Diplomacy
Public diplomacy is increasingly facilitated through social media. Government leaders and diplomats are using social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to communicate with foreign publics, changing the dynamics of interaction between broadcaster and audience. The key to understanding the power of social media in public diplomacy is the role of emotion in digital diplomacy strategies: social media statements relating to state …
Popular culture, post-truth and emotional framings of world politics
With the election of US President Donald Trump, the separation between high and low politics and the line between fiction and reality has become fundamentally blurred. Yet popular culture offers an important vector through which we might make sense of this political turmoil. The purpose of this essay is two-fold: conceptually, I examine how television provides opportunities for the insight into the visual and emotional registers of the post-truth…
The Politics of Twitter
Social media is becoming a key medium through which we communicate with each other: it is at the center of the very structures of our daily interactions. Yet this infiltration is not unique to interpersonal relations. Political leaders, governments, and states operate within this social media environment, wherein they continually address crises and institute damage control through platforms such as Twitter. A question arises here as to what the t…
Introduction
Visuals are powerful mediators of global political events. Images, moving and still alike, are significant objects that play a role in shaping our understanding of international affairs. Through their multiple interpretations, these visuals can both represent reality and condition how we understand it. Within International Relations, there has been growing attention to the visual, with explorations of a wide range of theoretical concerns and empi…
Social media and the visibility of horrific violence
Images are central to social media communication. Billions of images are shared across different social media platforms every day: photos, cartoons, GIFs and short video clips are exchanged by users, facilitating or framing discourse on participatory sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Many of these images depict events of extreme violence, which circulate uninhibited by the conventional constraints associated with traditional news med…
Introduction
This article introduces the special issue on digital disruption in diplomacy. We propose a new research agenda, advancing novel conceptualisations and empirical insights into the hybrid nature of contemporary diplomatic practices in a broad range of areas such as peace-making, inter-state signalling, domestic politics, digital communication, public diplomacy and popular culture. Emphasising the major impact of new technologies and the convergence…
Promoting Diversity and Inclusion in Professional Associations
The International Security Studies Section (ISSS) of the International Studies Association aims to promote the study of global, international, regional, and national security—broadly conceived. Over the past decade, ISSS has also sought to improve diversity and inclusion for its membership, culminating in its Taskforce on Diversity in Security Studies. In this forum, taskforce organizers, researchers, and participants examine the ways in which IS…
Race and Racial Exclusion in Security Studies
Increased attention to racialized knowledge and methodological whiteness has swept the political science discipline, especially international relations. Yet an important dimension of race and racism continues to be ignored: the presence and status of scholars of color in the discipline. In contrast to other fields, there is little research on (under)representation of scholars of color in security studies, and no systematic studies of race and rac…
See, Touch, Feel
Social media images are central to the practice of digital diplomacy. Some of the most contentious political engagements involve digital images designed to challenge or reaffirm the national identity of key political players. Yet the role of touch in conditioning how social media images are seen is curiously absent from International Relations analyses of the visual politics of digital diplomacy. We know far too little about this phenomenon. This…
Gender Diversity and Inclusion in Canadian Security Studies
Although much research confirms a gender gap in political science and its subfields internationally, only recently have scholars analyzed country-specific conditions for women within the field. Our study contributes to this national-level examination of gender diversity and inclusion by examining the extent to which a gender gap within the subfield of security studies, identified in the international literature, also is present in Canada. Researc…
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