Helle Malmvig
Biographic Data
| ID | 298538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Helle Malmvig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Helle |
| FAMILY NAME | Malmvig |
| SIGNATURE | MALMVIG H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Danish Institute for International Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4894-2702 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Forum
This forum critically examines humour’s rising significance in International Relations (IR). It blends interdisciplinary insights to explore how humour shapes political realities, mediates conflict and engages audiences in a mediatised era. Four key themes emerge: humour’s impact on political identities and ontological security, evident, for instance, in the Danish Cartoon Crisis and far-right memes; its strategic deployment in digital diplomacy …
No Woman No Drive
Scholars of authoritarian states have long been interested in how resistance is expressed through cultural productions such as music, art, and satire. Recently, scholars within International Politics have, however, directed attention towards understanding how also state leaders and institutions themselves employ humour in public diplomacy, in identity construction, and in misinformation campaigns. A case in point is Saudi Arabia, whose government…
Jesting international politics
Humour has recently emerged as an important research topic in International Politics. Scholars have investigated how states and state leaders practice humour as part of their diplomatic exchanges, in misinformation campaigns, and nation-branding. Important knowledge has been gained as to how humorous practices partake in constituting identities, managing recognition, and international anxieties or contesting global orders. Yet, little attention h…
Soundscapes of war
This article sets out to bring sound and music to the field of visual studies in International Relations. It argues that IR largely has approached the visual field as if it was without sound; neglecting how audial landscapes frame and direct our interpretation of moving imagery. Sound and music contribute to making imagery intelligible to us, we 'hear the pictures' often without noticing. The audial can for instance articulate a visual absence, o…
Allow me this one time to speak as a Shi’i
The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East has predominantly been explained by realist or soft constructivist approaches. This article offers an alternative poststructuralist reading, analysing sectarianism as a specific, yet ambiguous ethno-religious discourse in which the ‘sectarian taboo’ continues to restrain aggressive forms of sectarian enunciations. Drawing on rare first-hand material and interviews, it is shown how sectarian referents bo…
Eyes Wide Shut
This article offers a conceptualization of a specific form of resistance in the Syrian uprising that it calls creative visual counter-conducts, and it proposes an analytical framework to study these practices, linking two emerging fields within the social sciences: those of visuality and counter-conduct. Engaging with the literature on image politics in the Arab World and in Syria in particular, it argues that there is a tendency to assume that i…
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Free Us from Power
For over a decade, Arab governments have been enrolled into EU initiatives aimed at promoting democratic reform in the region. Common to these initiatives are their claims to be uninvolved with power and external imposition, professing instead to be based on voluntary notions of local demand and ownership. This article challenges this core liberalist assumption of the absence of power. Drawing on Foucault's reflections on liberal governmentality,…
Power, Identity and Securitization in Middle East
In 1998 Barnett argued against the grain of realist IR theory, contending that 'the conflicts between Arab governments have concerned the norms of Arabism and not the balance of power'. Ever since, the debate on regional order has been marked less by realist perspectives based on materialist understanding of power, and more by pragmatic middle positions as can be found with the English School, Historical Sociology and soft constructivist approach…
Caught between cooperation and democratization
Security through Intercultural Dialogue? Implications of the Securitization of Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures
This article analyses the consequences of framing Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures within a context of security. On the basis of the Copenhagen School's conceptualization of security, it shows that security concerns very forcefully serve to legitimize the need for an ambitious dialogue based on key ideals of Critical Theory. Yet, there is a backside to securitization. Securitization also brings extreme politization and heightened atte…
The Reproduction of Sovereignties
Humanitarian intervention has predominantly been analysed in terms of an unsolvable dilemma between state sovereignty and human sovereignty, where intervention is always read as a choice in favour of human sovereignty. Proceeding from a poststructuralist approach, this article argues differently. It suggests that practices of intervention entail an important paradox, since intervention at one and the same time violates and reaffirms state soverei…
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Power, Identity and Securitization in Middle East
In 1998 Barnett argued against the grain of realist IR theory, contending that 'the conflicts between Arab governments have concerned the norms of Arabism and not the balance of power'. Ever since, the debate on regional order has been marked less by realist perspectives based on materialist understanding of power, and more by pragmatic middle positions as can be found with the English School, Historical Sociology and soft constructivist approach…
Eyes Wide Shut
This article offers a conceptualization of a specific form of resistance in the Syrian uprising that it calls creative visual counter-conducts, and it proposes an analytical framework to study these practices, linking two emerging fields within the social sciences: those of visuality and counter-conduct. Engaging with the literature on image politics in the Arab World and in Syria in particular, it argues that there is a tendency to assume that i…
Caught between cooperation and democratization
Security through Intercultural Dialogue? Implications of the Securitization of Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures
This article analyses the consequences of framing Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures within a context of security. On the basis of the Copenhagen School's conceptualization of security, it shows that security concerns very forcefully serve to legitimize the need for an ambitious dialogue based on key ideals of Critical Theory. Yet, there is a backside to securitization. Securitization also brings extreme politization and heightened atte…
Jesting international politics
Humour has recently emerged as an important research topic in International Politics. Scholars have investigated how states and state leaders practice humour as part of their diplomatic exchanges, in misinformation campaigns, and nation-branding. Important knowledge has been gained as to how humorous practices partake in constituting identities, managing recognition, and international anxieties or contesting global orders. Yet, little attention h…
Allow me this one time to speak as a Shi’i
The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East has predominantly been explained by realist or soft constructivist approaches. This article offers an alternative poststructuralist reading, analysing sectarianism as a specific, yet ambiguous ethno-religious discourse in which the ‘sectarian taboo’ continues to restrain aggressive forms of sectarian enunciations. Drawing on rare first-hand material and interviews, it is shown how sectarian referents bo…
Free Us from Power
For over a decade, Arab governments have been enrolled into EU initiatives aimed at promoting democratic reform in the region. Common to these initiatives are their claims to be uninvolved with power and external imposition, professing instead to be based on voluntary notions of local demand and ownership. This article challenges this core liberalist assumption of the absence of power. Drawing on Foucault's reflections on liberal governmentality,…
The Reproduction of Sovereignties
Humanitarian intervention has predominantly been analysed in terms of an unsolvable dilemma between state sovereignty and human sovereignty, where intervention is always read as a choice in favour of human sovereignty. Proceeding from a poststructuralist approach, this article argues differently. It suggests that practices of intervention entail an important paradox, since intervention at one and the same time violates and reaffirms state soverei…
No Woman No Drive
Scholars of authoritarian states have long been interested in how resistance is expressed through cultural productions such as music, art, and satire. Recently, scholars within International Politics have, however, directed attention towards understanding how also state leaders and institutions themselves employ humour in public diplomacy, in identity construction, and in misinformation campaigns. A case in point is Saudi Arabia, whose government…
Soundscapes of war
This article sets out to bring sound and music to the field of visual studies in International Relations. It argues that IR largely has approached the visual field as if it was without sound; neglecting how audial landscapes frame and direct our interpretation of moving imagery. Sound and music contribute to making imagery intelligible to us, we 'hear the pictures' often without noticing. The audial can for instance articulate a visual absence, o…
The Reproduction of Sovereignties
Humanitarian intervention has predominantly been analysed in terms of an unsolvable dilemma between state sovereignty and human sovereignty, where intervention is always read as a choice in favour of human sovereignty. Proceeding from a poststructuralist approach, this article argues differently. It suggests that practices of intervention entail an important paradox, since intervention at one and the same time violates and reaffirms state soverei…
Security through Intercultural Dialogue? Implications of the Securitization of Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures
This article analyses the consequences of framing Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue between Cultures within a context of security. On the basis of the Copenhagen School's conceptualization of security, it shows that security concerns very forcefully serve to legitimize the need for an ambitious dialogue based on key ideals of Critical Theory. Yet, there is a backside to securitization. Securitization also brings extreme politization and heightened atte…
Caught between cooperation and democratization
Power, Identity and Securitization in Middle East
In 1998 Barnett argued against the grain of realist IR theory, contending that 'the conflicts between Arab governments have concerned the norms of Arabism and not the balance of power'. Ever since, the debate on regional order has been marked less by realist perspectives based on materialist understanding of power, and more by pragmatic middle positions as can be found with the English School, Historical Sociology and soft constructivist approach…
Free Us from Power
For over a decade, Arab governments have been enrolled into EU initiatives aimed at promoting democratic reform in the region. Common to these initiatives are their claims to be uninvolved with power and external imposition, professing instead to be based on voluntary notions of local demand and ownership. This article challenges this core liberalist assumption of the absence of power. Drawing on Foucault's reflections on liberal governmentality,…
Eyes Wide Shut
This article offers a conceptualization of a specific form of resistance in the Syrian uprising that it calls creative visual counter-conducts, and it proposes an analytical framework to study these practices, linking two emerging fields within the social sciences: those of visuality and counter-conduct. Engaging with the literature on image politics in the Arab World and in Syria in particular, it argues that there is a tendency to assume that i…
Interrogating Michel Foucault's Counter-Conduct
Resistance, and its study, is on the rise: visible and politically discernible practices of dissent against sovereignty and economic exploitation, such as protesting, agitating and occupying, have received increased analytical attention in the past decade. This special issue provides much needed systematic attention to less visible practices of resistance or those not manifested in expressly political registers. It focuses on attempts to inventiv…
Allow me this one time to speak as a Shi’i
The rise of sectarianism in the Middle East has predominantly been explained by realist or soft constructivist approaches. This article offers an alternative poststructuralist reading, analysing sectarianism as a specific, yet ambiguous ethno-religious discourse in which the ‘sectarian taboo’ continues to restrain aggressive forms of sectarian enunciations. Drawing on rare first-hand material and interviews, it is shown how sectarian referents bo…
Soundscapes of war
This article sets out to bring sound and music to the field of visual studies in International Relations. It argues that IR largely has approached the visual field as if it was without sound; neglecting how audial landscapes frame and direct our interpretation of moving imagery. Sound and music contribute to making imagery intelligible to us, we 'hear the pictures' often without noticing. The audial can for instance articulate a visual absence, o…
Jesting international politics
Humour has recently emerged as an important research topic in International Politics. Scholars have investigated how states and state leaders practice humour as part of their diplomatic exchanges, in misinformation campaigns, and nation-branding. Important knowledge has been gained as to how humorous practices partake in constituting identities, managing recognition, and international anxieties or contesting global orders. Yet, little attention h…
No Woman No Drive
Scholars of authoritarian states have long been interested in how resistance is expressed through cultural productions such as music, art, and satire. Recently, scholars within International Politics have, however, directed attention towards understanding how also state leaders and institutions themselves employ humour in public diplomacy, in identity construction, and in misinformation campaigns. A case in point is Saudi Arabia, whose government…
Forum
This forum critically examines humour’s rising significance in International Relations (IR). It blends interdisciplinary insights to explore how humour shapes political realities, mediates conflict and engages audiences in a mediatised era. Four key themes emerge: humour’s impact on political identities and ontological security, evident, for instance, in the Danish Cartoon Crisis and far-right memes; its strategic deployment in digital diplomacy …
Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Media studies (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Global Security and Public Health (4 works) · International relations (4 works)