Kyle Grayson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3688050 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kyle Grayson |
| NOMBRES | Kyle |
| APELLIDO | Grayson |
| FIRMA | GRAYSON K |
| AFILIACIONES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9702-5372 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 294 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Introducing IPS@20
As the journal International Political Sociology marks its twentieth anniversary, we explore what it now means to do international political sociology as a way of introducing the IPS@20 Special Issue. Drawing on our experience as an editorial team, we highlight how we have engaged with debates about what constitutes international political sociology in our editorial practice. In doing so, we offer a set of reflections on IPS and international pol…
Security Studies
Security Studies: Critical Perspectives takes a question-centred approach by introducing the analysis of security from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives. It provides a set of analytic steps so that readers develop the critical thinking skills and confidence to ask important questions about security and our worlds in contemporary politics. Common-sense security assumptions that reproduce forms of oppression and domination are revealed an…
Reflections on IPS in Translation
We are honored to be stepping in as the new editorial team for International Political Sociology (IPS). We take seriously the vital task before us of continuing to expand a creative and agonistic space for transdisciplinary scholars around the world to shape and intervene in questions and issues of global importance and in ways that matter to them. In a time of profound political challenges, we remain committed to IPS as a project that emphasizes…
Sound Matters
Sound matters for international political sociology. Drawing upon literature from cultural geography and sound studies, we argue that sound contributes to political dynamics that are constitutive of world politics. To capture these dynamics, we offer a set of conceptual frameworks to analyze sound. First, we differentiate the concept of sound from noise and show the importance of doing so. Second, we introduce 'sonic formations' as a means of cap…
Scopic regimes and the visual turn in International Relations
In this article, we argue that the lack of attention paid to the scopic regimes of modernity in the ‘visual turn’ literature misses a key aspect of how visuality produces and shapes the international as both a site — and sight — of politics. In making the case that systemised ways of seeing are central to world politics, we contend that the scopic regimes of modernity help us to understand how it becomes possible for particular representational p…
Popular geopolitics and popular culture in world politics
This chapter identifies and assesses the intersections between popular geopolitics and popular culture and world politics (PCWP). It argues that a foregrounding of the politics of aesthetics, or the aesthetics of politics, provides a means of engaging with other senses that are also central to the construction of geographical imaginations in popular geopolitics. The chapter offers conceptual framings that position cultural artefacts as theories a…
The Space of Dictatorship
This article centers on the representation of dictatorship by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo and aims to elucidate his fictional writing by reading it against recent theories on violence and sovereignty. In line with Nganang's notion of protestas, a metonymic chain of violence emerges in a number of forms: spectacular and subtle, physical and psychological. These constitute what Scott labels a "dramaturgy of domination" (Domination and the Arts …
The problem of the viewing subject
This is a reply to:Vuori, Juha A. 2017. “To boldly torture where no one has tortured before – Star Trek and the transformation of the ‘progressive’ social imaginary of torture in the United States.” Global Discourse. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1332315
Impact factors and the promotion of our authors’ articles
Capturing the multiplicities of resilience through popular geopolitics
Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
Resurrecting IR theory
As a discipline, international relations (IR) has become increasingly circumspect about the role and explanatory power of theories of international politics (e.g. Mearsheimer and Walt, 2013; Zambernardi, 2015). Research has exposed the particularity of once predominant theories of IR, the processes through which these theories were produced, the practices through which they became accepted, and what was ignored as a result. In so doing, scholars …
Reflecting On Our Strengths and Strategy
Special Section
While the analysis of popular culture has a long provenance in politics and international studies (see, for example, Walter Benjamin (2008 [1936]), John Tomlinson (1991), Edward Said (1993), Stuart Hall (1997), Donna Haraway (1984), Jutta Weldes (2003), Cynthia Weber (20012001), and Janice A. Radaway (1991)), there has recently been a renewed interest in exploring how popular culture and politics produce relations of power. Whether it be through …
Critical Studies on Security
The ambivalence of assassination
This article begins by presenting a biopolitical account of assassination and targeted killing events carried out by liberal regimes. It argues that forms of political violence are understood and made meaningful beyond the administrative frameworks and technical rationalizations often privileged in biopolitical analyses. Deploying Alan Feldman’s (1991) argument that political violence is an ‘emplotted action’ alongside William Connolly’s (2005) n…
How to Read Paddington Bear
This article explores Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington as a vernacular political text about bordering practices and foreignness. With the foreign subject in the UK positioned as both a cause of and a solution to politico-cultural problems, the Paddington stories illustrate how this ambivalence is deeply embedded within liberalism. It is argued that A Bear Called Paddington unpacks liberal conceptions of identity, migration and tolerance wh…
Six Theses on Targeted Killing
This article presents six theses on targeted killing as a form of political violence. These explore the power relations, lawfare, scopic regimes, forms of spatial management and symbolic communications which suggest that the practice of targeted killing arises from the failures of the Western global counter-insurgency campaign to achieve its aims. Therefore, rather than demonstrating omniscience and omnipotence, targeted killing is indicative of …
Chasing Dragons
Human security, neoliberalism and corporate social responsibility
Dissidence, Richard K. Ashley, and the politics of silence
Within the academy we are taught to look for silence – as a noun. We are counselled to find gaps in the literature or empirical case studies that have yet to be researched in order to bring our own voice to the issues that they raise. But, there is a tension with the other face of silence, when it assumes the form of a verb. Silence and silencing have therefore been integral motivators for the entire spectrum of ‘critical’ literature within inter…
Critical Perspectives on Human Security
Since its formal introduction in the 1994 Human Development Report, human security has been central to debates about contemporary global governance (United Nations Development Programme 1994). There have been a series of exchanges over whether narrow violence-dependent notions of human security (that is, freedom from fear) or broad-based human capacities notions of human security (that is, freedom from want) should be operationalized (Burgess and…
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
Chasing Dragons
Chasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics
Human security as power/knowledge
This article interrogates the parameters of the human security debate as a site of biopolitics in order to gain an understanding of how it has been possible to shape the debate in certain ways and not others. The role of cosmological realism in grounding knowledge claims within the debate is explored. By privileging objectivist claims to knowledge of human (in)security, it is argued that empiricism and rationalism, as forms of cosmological realis…
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
Scopic regimes and the visual turn in International Relations
In this article, we argue that the lack of attention paid to the scopic regimes of modernity in the ‘visual turn’ literature misses a key aspect of how visuality produces and shapes the international as both a site — and sight — of politics. In making the case that systemised ways of seeing are central to world politics, we contend that the scopic regimes of modernity help us to understand how it becomes possible for particular representational p…
How to Read Paddington Bear
This article explores Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington as a vernacular political text about bordering practices and foreignness. With the foreign subject in the UK positioned as both a cause of and a solution to politico-cultural problems, the Paddington stories illustrate how this ambivalence is deeply embedded within liberalism. It is argued that A Bear Called Paddington unpacks liberal conceptions of identity, migration and tolerance wh…
Human security as power/knowledge
This article interrogates the parameters of the human security debate as a site of biopolitics in order to gain an understanding of how it has been possible to shape the debate in certain ways and not others. The role of cosmological realism in grounding knowledge claims within the debate is explored. By privileging objectivist claims to knowledge of human (in)security, it is argued that empiricism and rationalism, as forms of cosmological realis…
Six Theses on Targeted Killing
This article presents six theses on targeted killing as a form of political violence. These explore the power relations, lawfare, scopic regimes, forms of spatial management and symbolic communications which suggest that the practice of targeted killing arises from the failures of the Western global counter-insurgency campaign to achieve its aims. Therefore, rather than demonstrating omniscience and omnipotence, targeted killing is indicative of …
The ambivalence of assassination
This article begins by presenting a biopolitical account of assassination and targeted killing events carried out by liberal regimes. It argues that forms of political violence are understood and made meaningful beyond the administrative frameworks and technical rationalizations often privileged in biopolitical analyses. Deploying Alan Feldman’s (1991) argument that political violence is an ‘emplotted action’ alongside William Connolly’s (2005) n…
A Challenge to the Power over Knowledge of Traditional Security Studies
Critical Studies on Security
Human security, neoliberalism and corporate social responsibility
Securitization and the Boomerang Debate
Capturing the multiplicities of resilience through popular geopolitics
Sound Matters
Sound matters for international political sociology. Drawing upon literature from cultural geography and sound studies, we argue that sound contributes to political dynamics that are constitutive of world politics. To capture these dynamics, we offer a set of conceptual frameworks to analyze sound. First, we differentiate the concept of sound from noise and show the importance of doing so. Second, we introduce 'sonic formations' as a means of cap…
Dissidence, Richard K. Ashley, and the politics of silence
Within the academy we are taught to look for silence – as a noun. We are counselled to find gaps in the literature or empirical case studies that have yet to be researched in order to bring our own voice to the issues that they raise. But, there is a tension with the other face of silence, when it assumes the form of a verb. Silence and silencing have therefore been integral motivators for the entire spectrum of ‘critical’ literature within inter…
Critical Perspectives on Human Security
Since its formal introduction in the 1994 Human Development Report, human security has been central to debates about contemporary global governance (United Nations Development Programme 1994). There have been a series of exchanges over whether narrow violence-dependent notions of human security (that is, freedom from fear) or broad-based human capacities notions of human security (that is, freedom from want) should be operationalized (Burgess and…
Promoting Responsibility and Accountability
It is the official position of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) that the best way to ensure Canadian corporate social responsibility (CSR) abroad, particularly with respect to human security, is to workin partnership with the private and non-governmental sectors to promote the reflection of internationally agreed norms and standards in the overseas operations of Canadian companies. Our efforts to promote CSR domestically facilitate private sector dia…
Resurrecting IR theory
As a discipline, international relations (IR) has become increasingly circumspect about the role and explanatory power of theories of international politics (e.g. Mearsheimer and Walt, 2013; Zambernardi, 2015). Research has exposed the particularity of once predominant theories of IR, the processes through which these theories were produced, the practices through which they became accepted, and what was ignored as a result. In so doing, scholars …
Free Trade
Free Trade provides a historical framework for ongoing discussion of economic and environmental issues. While there is empirical evidence on trade flows - they increased dramatically in both directions - the debate on related issues continues. The impact of free trade on jobs and manufacturing productivity, the effectiveness of dispute settlement, the growth of foreign direct investment, the absence of adjustment programs, and the consequences fo…
Securitization and the Boomerang Debate
A Challenge to the Power over Knowledge of Traditional Security Studies
Promoting Responsibility and Accountability
It is the official position of Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC) that the best way to ensure Canadian corporate social responsibility (CSR) abroad, particularly with respect to human security, is to workin partnership with the private and non-governmental sectors to promote the reflection of internationally agreed norms and standards in the overseas operations of Canadian companies. Our efforts to promote CSR domestically facilitate private sector dia…
Chasing Dragons
Chasing Dragons discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics
Human security as power/knowledge
This article interrogates the parameters of the human security debate as a site of biopolitics in order to gain an understanding of how it has been possible to shape the debate in certain ways and not others. The role of cosmological realism in grounding knowledge claims within the debate is explored. By privileging objectivist claims to knowledge of human (in)security, it is argued that empiricism and rationalism, as forms of cosmological realis…
Moore Dawn Criminal Artefacts
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Critical Perspectives on Human Security
Since its formal introduction in the 1994 Human Development Report, human security has been central to debates about contemporary global governance (United Nations Development Programme 1994). There have been a series of exchanges over whether narrow violence-dependent notions of human security (that is, freedom from fear) or broad-based human capacities notions of human security (that is, freedom from want) should be operationalized (Burgess and…
Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture—World Politics Continuum
In this article we offer a potential research agenda for the study of popular culture in IR and outline how this research agenda could be advanced. If the incorporation of popular culture into IR is going to be fruitful, there must be a willingness to go beyond an engagement with illustrations of world politics. Doing so will get us closer to what is at stake in the mutual implication of popular culture and world politics
Chasing Dragons
Human security, neoliberalism and corporate social responsibility
Dissidence, Richard K. Ashley, and the politics of silence
Within the academy we are taught to look for silence – as a noun. We are counselled to find gaps in the literature or empirical case studies that have yet to be researched in order to bring our own voice to the issues that they raise. But, there is a tension with the other face of silence, when it assumes the form of a verb. Silence and silencing have therefore been integral motivators for the entire spectrum of ‘critical’ literature within inter…
The ambivalence of assassination
This article begins by presenting a biopolitical account of assassination and targeted killing events carried out by liberal regimes. It argues that forms of political violence are understood and made meaningful beyond the administrative frameworks and technical rationalizations often privileged in biopolitical analyses. Deploying Alan Feldman’s (1991) argument that political violence is an ‘emplotted action’ alongside William Connolly’s (2005) n…
How to Read Paddington Bear
This article explores Michael Bond's A Bear Called Paddington as a vernacular political text about bordering practices and foreignness. With the foreign subject in the UK positioned as both a cause of and a solution to politico-cultural problems, the Paddington stories illustrate how this ambivalence is deeply embedded within liberalism. It is argued that A Bear Called Paddington unpacks liberal conceptions of identity, migration and tolerance wh…
Six Theses on Targeted Killing
This article presents six theses on targeted killing as a form of political violence. These explore the power relations, lawfare, scopic regimes, forms of spatial management and symbolic communications which suggest that the practice of targeted killing arises from the failures of the Western global counter-insurgency campaign to achieve its aims. Therefore, rather than demonstrating omniscience and omnipotence, targeted killing is indicative of …
Critical Studies on Security
Special Section
While the analysis of popular culture has a long provenance in politics and international studies (see, for example, Walter Benjamin (2008 [1936]), John Tomlinson (1991), Edward Said (1993), Stuart Hall (1997), Donna Haraway (1984), Jutta Weldes (2003), Cynthia Weber (20012001), and Janice A. Radaway (1991)), there has recently been a renewed interest in exploring how popular culture and politics produce relations of power. Whether it be through …
Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing
Resurrecting IR theory
As a discipline, international relations (IR) has become increasingly circumspect about the role and explanatory power of theories of international politics (e.g. Mearsheimer and Walt, 2013; Zambernardi, 2015). Research has exposed the particularity of once predominant theories of IR, the processes through which these theories were produced, the practices through which they became accepted, and what was ignored as a result. In so doing, scholars …
Reflecting On Our Strengths and Strategy
The problem of the viewing subject
This is a reply to:Vuori, Juha A. 2017. “To boldly torture where no one has tortured before – Star Trek and the transformation of the ‘progressive’ social imaginary of torture in the United States.” Global Discourse. https://doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2017.1332315
Impact factors and the promotion of our authors’ articles
Capturing the multiplicities of resilience through popular geopolitics
Popular geopolitics and popular culture in world politics
This chapter identifies and assesses the intersections between popular geopolitics and popular culture and world politics (PCWP). It argues that a foregrounding of the politics of aesthetics, or the aesthetics of politics, provides a means of engaging with other senses that are also central to the construction of geographical imaginations in popular geopolitics. The chapter offers conceptual framings that position cultural artefacts as theories a…
The Space of Dictatorship
This article centers on the representation of dictatorship by Guinean author Tierno Monénembo and aims to elucidate his fictional writing by reading it against recent theories on violence and sovereignty. In line with Nganang's notion of protestas, a metonymic chain of violence emerges in a number of forms: spectacular and subtle, physical and psychological. These constitute what Scott labels a "dramaturgy of domination" (Domination and the Arts …
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