Birgit Poopuu
Biographic Data
| ID | 940059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Birgit Poopuu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Birgit |
| FAMILY NAME | Poopuu |
| SIGNATURE | POOPUU B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tallinn University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7511-8113 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking violence in a time of monsters
Starting from the idea that we currently live in a time of monsters, and drawing on a range of critical perspectives, this theory note argues that addressing contemporary violence requires first rethinking how violence is conceptualised. It challenges dominant framings of violence that obscure structural and colonial violence or present the current moment as decontextualised from longer histories of harm. To address this, it makes a case for know…
Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics
Syrian women on the Syrian revolution
This article takes as its starting point the experiential knowledge of Syrian women telling the story of the Syrian revolution. By stitching together feminist and decolonial perspectives, we can critically rethink the revolution, which is usually displaced by war talk. This article both explores and attempts an exercise in “decolonial love” – by foregrounding women’s experiences, making room for radical stories on the margins, and carefully consi…
What Relations Matter
What relations matter? This question sits at the heart of this article and addresses in a more thoroughgoing way the methodological and ethico-political problems that some relational thinkers have debated. We are interested in deep relationalism and the methodological problem of delineating which relations matter in a reality defined by an ever-unfolding web of relations. By acknowledging the relationality of critical international relations (IR)…
Becoming Fluent in Fieldwork
This running theme’s introduction rethinks fieldwork as an ongoing process. It explores experiences and conceptions of ‘becoming fluent in fieldwork’: the contextual processes through which we do, learn, and unlearn practices of fieldwork. It sees fieldwork as a collective project. Recognising the entanglement of field sites and travelling with fields to certain other fields, we become multiply entangled, and thus we ask: what do these plural rel…
Resisting militarism
Being an enthusiast of story-telling, as it paves the way for understanding international politics better, I was captivated by the book in the first two pages where an example of anti-militarist di
Telling and acting identity
This article proposes a theoretical approach to investigate the European Union’s identity as a provider of peace operations, i.e. its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) identity. Analysing the discursive construction of the EU’s CSDP identity enables to understand (i) what kind of actor the EU is in terms of conducting peace operations vis-à-vis other actors in the field; and (ii) how the EU affects and is affected by the character of the …
What Relations Matter
What relations matter? This question sits at the heart of this article and addresses in a more thoroughgoing way the methodological and ethico-political problems that some relational thinkers have debated. We are interested in deep relationalism and the methodological problem of delineating which relations matter in a reality defined by an ever-unfolding web of relations. By acknowledging the relationality of critical international relations (IR)…
Syrian women on the Syrian revolution
This article takes as its starting point the experiential knowledge of Syrian women telling the story of the Syrian revolution. By stitching together feminist and decolonial perspectives, we can critically rethink the revolution, which is usually displaced by war talk. This article both explores and attempts an exercise in “decolonial love” – by foregrounding women’s experiences, making room for radical stories on the margins, and carefully consi…
Telling and acting identity
This article proposes a theoretical approach to investigate the European Union’s identity as a provider of peace operations, i.e. its Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) identity. Analysing the discursive construction of the EU’s CSDP identity enables to understand (i) what kind of actor the EU is in terms of conducting peace operations vis-à-vis other actors in the field; and (ii) how the EU affects and is affected by the character of the …
Resisting militarism
Being an enthusiast of story-telling, as it paves the way for understanding international politics better, I was captivated by the book in the first two pages where an example of anti-militarist di
Becoming Fluent in Fieldwork
This running theme’s introduction rethinks fieldwork as an ongoing process. It explores experiences and conceptions of ‘becoming fluent in fieldwork’: the contextual processes through which we do, learn, and unlearn practices of fieldwork. It sees fieldwork as a collective project. Recognising the entanglement of field sites and travelling with fields to certain other fields, we become multiply entangled, and thus we ask: what do these plural rel…
Syrian women on the Syrian revolution
This article takes as its starting point the experiential knowledge of Syrian women telling the story of the Syrian revolution. By stitching together feminist and decolonial perspectives, we can critically rethink the revolution, which is usually displaced by war talk. This article both explores and attempts an exercise in “decolonial love” – by foregrounding women’s experiences, making room for radical stories on the margins, and carefully consi…
What Relations Matter
What relations matter? This question sits at the heart of this article and addresses in a more thoroughgoing way the methodological and ethico-political problems that some relational thinkers have debated. We are interested in deep relationalism and the methodological problem of delineating which relations matter in a reality defined by an ever-unfolding web of relations. By acknowledging the relationality of critical international relations (IR)…
Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics
Rethinking violence in a time of monsters
Starting from the idea that we currently live in a time of monsters, and drawing on a range of critical perspectives, this theory note argues that addressing contemporary violence requires first rethinking how violence is conceptualised. It challenges dominant framings of violence that obscure structural and colonial violence or present the current moment as decontextualised from longer histories of harm. To address this, it makes a case for know…
Sociology (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Peacebuilding and International Security (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · International relations (2 works)