Kandida Purnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 273408 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kandida Purnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kandida |
| FAMILY NAME | Purnell |
| SIGNATURE | PURNELL K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4831-4696 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Memory Politics After Disaster
This article critically approaches disaster ‘recovery’ in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic through the notion of embodied trauma. We explore concepts of embodiment and trauma and ask how embodied traumatic memory differs, particularly in relation to a staggered global event such as the Covid-19 pandemic where trauma was embodied in raced, classed and gendered waves and experiences and outcomes were deeply unequal. In contrast to the mostly techn…
Politicising Space, (In)visibilising Grief
This article contributes to knowledge on the politics of national commemoration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by exploring the case of the United Kingdom (UK) and the ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’ in its material and digital manifestations. Questioning how the Wall functions socially and politically as a site of ‘national’ COVID-19 commemoration and using a combination of participatory in person and digital ethnographies, this article …
When This Is Over
Out of touch, out of tune
This article contributes to knowledge on the co-constitutive relation between emotions and bodies by describing the mechanisms enabling the social-political construction of ‘atmospheric walls’ (Ahmed, 2014) during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave of spring-summer 2020. Using auto- and digital ethnographies this article underlines gendered, raced and classed angles of arrival into the spring-summer ‘first wave’ and describes the social-political i…
Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts
This article widens and deepens the notion of ontological security and therefore both the scope of ontological security studies (OSS) within the discipline of international relations (IR) and ontological security theory (OST) writ large by introducing and explaining the implications of (re/dis)embodiment—the continually contested social–political process through which bodies come to be or not be and upon which everybody existentially and ontologi…
The 'museumification' of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain's wars
This article results from the research project, ‘War Commemoration, Military Culture and Identity Politics in Scotland’ funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities in Scotland, 2017-18 (RG13890/70560). As part of the whole project, we conducted 29 interviews in total, including with curators of military museums (13), government officials. artists and art managers, representatives of the Royal British Legion Scotland/Poppy Scotland, and memb…
Dancing at the frontline
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council
Grieving, Valuing, and Viewing Differently
In March 2003 (the eve of Iraq's invasion), the George W. Bush Administration reissued, extended, and enforced a directive prohibiting the publication and broadcast of images and videos capturing the ritual repatriation of America's war dead. This directive (known as the Dover Ban) is exemplary of a wider set of more subtle processes and practices of American statecraft working to move suffering and dead American soldiers out of the American publ…
Body Politics and Boundary Work
Against a backdrop of overt biopolitical vitalism in the United States, in particular Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s practice of force-feeding hunger striking Camp Delta detainees, this article aims to reconsider the power/resistance relation as it investigates how bodies rendered nobodies might be able to disrupt a particular manifestation of power that is blind to personhood, aiming for control over life and death in equal measures. With a focus…
Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts
This article widens and deepens the notion of ontological security and therefore both the scope of ontological security studies (OSS) within the discipline of international relations (IR) and ontological security theory (OST) writ large by introducing and explaining the implications of (re/dis)embodiment—the continually contested social–political process through which bodies come to be or not be and upon which everybody existentially and ontologi…
The 'museumification' of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain's wars
This article results from the research project, ‘War Commemoration, Military Culture and Identity Politics in Scotland’ funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities in Scotland, 2017-18 (RG13890/70560). As part of the whole project, we conducted 29 interviews in total, including with curators of military museums (13), government officials. artists and art managers, representatives of the Royal British Legion Scotland/Poppy Scotland, and memb…
Body Politics and Boundary Work
Against a backdrop of overt biopolitical vitalism in the United States, in particular Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s practice of force-feeding hunger striking Camp Delta detainees, this article aims to reconsider the power/resistance relation as it investigates how bodies rendered nobodies might be able to disrupt a particular manifestation of power that is blind to personhood, aiming for control over life and death in equal measures. With a focus…
Grieving, Valuing, and Viewing Differently
In March 2003 (the eve of Iraq's invasion), the George W. Bush Administration reissued, extended, and enforced a directive prohibiting the publication and broadcast of images and videos capturing the ritual repatriation of America's war dead. This directive (known as the Dover Ban) is exemplary of a wider set of more subtle processes and practices of American statecraft working to move suffering and dead American soldiers out of the American publ…
Out of touch, out of tune
This article contributes to knowledge on the co-constitutive relation between emotions and bodies by describing the mechanisms enabling the social-political construction of ‘atmospheric walls’ (Ahmed, 2014) during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave of spring-summer 2020. Using auto- and digital ethnographies this article underlines gendered, raced and classed angles of arrival into the spring-summer ‘first wave’ and describes the social-political i…
Dancing at the frontline
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council
Body Politics and Boundary Work
Against a backdrop of overt biopolitical vitalism in the United States, in particular Joint Task Force Guantanamo’s practice of force-feeding hunger striking Camp Delta detainees, this article aims to reconsider the power/resistance relation as it investigates how bodies rendered nobodies might be able to disrupt a particular manifestation of power that is blind to personhood, aiming for control over life and death in equal measures. With a focus…
Dancing at the frontline
This work was supported by the Medical Research Council
Grieving, Valuing, and Viewing Differently
In March 2003 (the eve of Iraq's invasion), the George W. Bush Administration reissued, extended, and enforced a directive prohibiting the publication and broadcast of images and videos capturing the ritual repatriation of America's war dead. This directive (known as the Dover Ban) is exemplary of a wider set of more subtle processes and practices of American statecraft working to move suffering and dead American soldiers out of the American publ…
The 'museumification' of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain's wars
This article results from the research project, ‘War Commemoration, Military Culture and Identity Politics in Scotland’ funded by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities in Scotland, 2017-18 (RG13890/70560). As part of the whole project, we conducted 29 interviews in total, including with curators of military museums (13), government officials. artists and art managers, representatives of the Royal British Legion Scotland/Poppy Scotland, and memb…
Out of touch, out of tune
This article contributes to knowledge on the co-constitutive relation between emotions and bodies by describing the mechanisms enabling the social-political construction of ‘atmospheric walls’ (Ahmed, 2014) during the COVID-19 pandemic first wave of spring-summer 2020. Using auto- and digital ethnographies this article underlines gendered, raced and classed angles of arrival into the spring-summer ‘first wave’ and describes the social-political i…
Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts
This article widens and deepens the notion of ontological security and therefore both the scope of ontological security studies (OSS) within the discipline of international relations (IR) and ontological security theory (OST) writ large by introducing and explaining the implications of (re/dis)embodiment—the continually contested social–political process through which bodies come to be or not be and upon which everybody existentially and ontologi…
When This Is Over
Memory Politics After Disaster
This article critically approaches disaster ‘recovery’ in relation to the Covid-19 pandemic through the notion of embodied trauma. We explore concepts of embodiment and trauma and ask how embodied traumatic memory differs, particularly in relation to a staggered global event such as the Covid-19 pandemic where trauma was embodied in raced, classed and gendered waves and experiences and outcomes were deeply unequal. In contrast to the mostly techn…
Politicising Space, (In)visibilising Grief
This article contributes to knowledge on the politics of national commemoration in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by exploring the case of the United Kingdom (UK) and the ‘National COVID Memorial Wall’ in its material and digital manifestations. Questioning how the Wall functions socially and politically as a site of ‘national’ COVID-19 commemoration and using a combination of participatory in person and digital ethnographies, this article …
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gender, Security, and Conflict (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (3 works) · Context (archaeology (2 works)