Joe Gazeley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5658436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Gazeley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Gazeley |
| SIGNATURE | GAZELEY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3009-0011 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
State-Building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa
“A slave who does not rebel does not deserve pity,” argued Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the coup leader and current head of state in Burkina Faso.1 Harkening back to the revolutionary rhetoric of the past, he continued that “the African Union must cease condemning Africans who decide to fight against their Western puppet regimes.”2Traoré is not alone in the attempt to appropriate the language of national independence into the governing platform of a n…
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali
s Through a close textual analysis of US diplomatic cables and other relevant documents, this article provides new empirical data to trace the mutual construction of Mali as a site of terrorist threat. It argues that this mutual construction paradoxically enhanced the agency of Malian foreign policy elites in negotiations with their US interlocutors and highlights the effectiveness of Malian deployment of this discourse to shape the terms upon wh…
The Strong ‘Weak State’
Drawing on newly collected empirical data, this article explores the complex long-term political relationship between the state and the military in Mali. It argues that post-2013 French intervention has lacked an understanding of the place of the military within state structures. This led to an approach to statebuilding premised on the false idea that Mali has historically been a weak state, with weakness defined in military terms. It challenges …
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
The Strong ‘Weak State’
Drawing on newly collected empirical data, this article explores the complex long-term political relationship between the state and the military in Mali. It argues that post-2013 French intervention has lacked an understanding of the place of the military within state structures. This led to an approach to statebuilding premised on the false idea that Mali has historically been a weak state, with weakness defined in military terms. It challenges …
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
Where is War? We are War.” Teaching and Learning the Human Experience of War in the Classroom
How do we teach and learn the human experience of war? How far removed is this experience from a classroom? This article uses these questions as the starting point for an investigation into the presence/absence of war experience, the effects of narratives distancing war, and the consequences of challenging these narratives. It draws on the experience of an undergraduate module at the University of Kent that investigates the human experience of wa…
The Strong ‘Weak State’
Drawing on newly collected empirical data, this article explores the complex long-term political relationship between the state and the military in Mali. It argues that post-2013 French intervention has lacked an understanding of the place of the military within state structures. This led to an approach to statebuilding premised on the false idea that Mali has historically been a weak state, with weakness defined in military terms. It challenges …
State-Building and National Militaries in Postcolonial West Africa
“A slave who does not rebel does not deserve pity,” argued Captain Ibrahim Traoré, the coup leader and current head of state in Burkina Faso.1 Harkening back to the revolutionary rhetoric of the past, he continued that “the African Union must cease condemning Africans who decide to fight against their Western puppet regimes.”2Traoré is not alone in the attempt to appropriate the language of national independence into the governing platform of a n…
The Construction of Terrorist Threat in Mali
s Through a close textual analysis of US diplomatic cables and other relevant documents, this article provides new empirical data to trace the mutual construction of Mali as a site of terrorist threat. It argues that this mutual construction paradoxically enhanced the agency of Malian foreign policy elites in negotiations with their US interlocutors and highlights the effectiveness of Malian deployment of this discourse to shape the terms upon wh…
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Intervention (counseling (2 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · State (computer science (2 works)