Laura Considine
Biographic Data
| ID | 982082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Considine |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Considine |
| SIGNATURE | CONSIDINE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6265-3168 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Waste Matters: Nuclear Technopolitics and Futures at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Wipp) in New Mexico
This article makes the case for nuclear weapons waste as an integral part of the US nuclear weapons complex and of international nuclear politics more broadly. Nuclear waste is not simply a by-product or issue of disposal, as assumed in much IR and security literature. Instead, waste creates and maintains socioeconomic drivers and narratives that have a productive power and enable particular nuclear futures. The article develops a three-part argu…
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age
This article investigates the assumption that survival should form the goal of the politics both of nuclear weapons and of International Relations (IR). Rather than being a self-evident grounding upon which political contest then plays out, survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age, in which survival has become premised on the threat of total annihilation. As such, nuclear weapons allow us to unpack ‘survival’ in …
Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories
Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in nuclear politics, but also contests core ideas and narratives that have shaped the literature to date. This paper asks how telling feminist nuclear stories rooted in an understanding of the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons challenges the traditional nuclear history. The standard history of ‘the bomb’ …
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: A study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
The past decade has seen a push for ‘gender sensitive’ approaches within nuclear policy-making. Yet the significance of this approach, and how it understands ‘gender sensitivity’ are unclear and have not been studied. This article asks the question: how does work done on ‘gendering’ nuclear policy to date understand what a gender sensitive approach to nuclear weapons means and requires? The article provides an overview of the movement to include …
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: The entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth
This paper contributes a novel way to theorise the power of narratives of nuclear weapons politics through Kenneth Burke's concept of entelechy: the means of stating a things essence through narrating its beginning or end. The paper argues that the Manhattan Project functions narratively in nuclear discourse as an origin myth, so that the repeated telling of atomic creation over time frames the possibilities of nuclear politics today. By linking …
The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the question of nuclear meaning
Examining the implications of the prohibition logic behind the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) foregrounds the ambiguity of the meaning of nuclear weapons, their history and place in our world. In this way, the TPNW exposes not only the political fault lines of the current global nuclear order, but also some core theoretical concerns about nuclear weapons, global politics, and modernity. The call by the treaty’s supporters to …
Contests of legitimacy and value: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the logic of prohibition
The recently adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has caused much debate and controversy in global nuclear politics. Given that the stated goal of the TPNW supporters (states and NGOs alike) is to embed the treaty in the structures of nuclear governance and to strengthen its normative power, how likely is the TPNW to achieve these objectives? The article argues that the unique structures of legitimacy and value within which…
The ‘standardization of catastrophe: Nuclear disarmament, the Humanitarian Initiative and the politics of the unthinkable
This article reviews the recent Humanitarian Initiative in the nuclear disarmament movement and the associated non-proliferation and disarmament literature. It argues that rather than this initiative being a transformative moment in nuclear politics, as claimed by supporters, it instead fits into a long history of nuclear politics as the politics of ‘rethinking the unthinkable’ and, as such, is located not only within the long-established institu…
Back to the Rough Ground!’ A Grammatical Approach to Trust and International Relations
This paper asks what it is that we are doing when we talk about trust in international politics. It begins by reviewing the recent and growing body of research on trust and International Relations (IR). It claims that the existing literature is based on particular practices of representation that unquestioningly attempt to find the correct meaning for trust and that this representational account of meaning limits the form of the research, carryin…
Back to the Rough Ground!’ A Grammatical Approach to Trust and International Relations
This paper asks what it is that we are doing when we talk about trust in international politics. It begins by reviewing the recent and growing body of research on trust and International Relations (IR). It claims that the existing literature is based on particular practices of representation that unquestioningly attempt to find the correct meaning for trust and that this representational account of meaning limits the form of the research, carryin…
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: The entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth
This paper contributes a novel way to theorise the power of narratives of nuclear weapons politics through Kenneth Burke's concept of entelechy: the means of stating a things essence through narrating its beginning or end. The paper argues that the Manhattan Project functions narratively in nuclear discourse as an origin myth, so that the repeated telling of atomic creation over time frames the possibilities of nuclear politics today. By linking …
Contests of legitimacy and value: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the logic of prohibition
The recently adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has caused much debate and controversy in global nuclear politics. Given that the stated goal of the TPNW supporters (states and NGOs alike) is to embed the treaty in the structures of nuclear governance and to strengthen its normative power, how likely is the TPNW to achieve these objectives? The article argues that the unique structures of legitimacy and value within which…
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: A study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
The past decade has seen a push for ‘gender sensitive’ approaches within nuclear policy-making. Yet the significance of this approach, and how it understands ‘gender sensitivity’ are unclear and have not been studied. This article asks the question: how does work done on ‘gendering’ nuclear policy to date understand what a gender sensitive approach to nuclear weapons means and requires? The article provides an overview of the movement to include …
The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
The ‘standardization of catastrophe: Nuclear disarmament, the Humanitarian Initiative and the politics of the unthinkable
This article reviews the recent Humanitarian Initiative in the nuclear disarmament movement and the associated non-proliferation and disarmament literature. It argues that rather than this initiative being a transformative moment in nuclear politics, as claimed by supporters, it instead fits into a long history of nuclear politics as the politics of ‘rethinking the unthinkable’ and, as such, is located not only within the long-established institu…
Back to the Rough Ground!’ A Grammatical Approach to Trust and International Relations
This paper asks what it is that we are doing when we talk about trust in international politics. It begins by reviewing the recent and growing body of research on trust and International Relations (IR). It claims that the existing literature is based on particular practices of representation that unquestioningly attempt to find the correct meaning for trust and that this representational account of meaning limits the form of the research, carryin…
The ‘standardization of catastrophe: Nuclear disarmament, the Humanitarian Initiative and the politics of the unthinkable
This article reviews the recent Humanitarian Initiative in the nuclear disarmament movement and the associated non-proliferation and disarmament literature. It argues that rather than this initiative being a transformative moment in nuclear politics, as claimed by supporters, it instead fits into a long history of nuclear politics as the politics of ‘rethinking the unthinkable’ and, as such, is located not only within the long-established institu…
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the question of nuclear meaning
Examining the implications of the prohibition logic behind the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) foregrounds the ambiguity of the meaning of nuclear weapons, their history and place in our world. In this way, the TPNW exposes not only the political fault lines of the current global nuclear order, but also some core theoretical concerns about nuclear weapons, global politics, and modernity. The call by the treaty’s supporters to …
Contests of legitimacy and value: The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the logic of prohibition
The recently adopted Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has caused much debate and controversy in global nuclear politics. Given that the stated goal of the TPNW supporters (states and NGOs alike) is to embed the treaty in the structures of nuclear governance and to strengthen its normative power, how likely is the TPNW to achieve these objectives? The article argues that the unique structures of legitimacy and value within which…
Narrative and nuclear weapons politics: The entelechial force of the nuclear origin myth
This paper contributes a novel way to theorise the power of narratives of nuclear weapons politics through Kenneth Burke's concept of entelechy: the means of stating a things essence through narrating its beginning or end. The paper argues that the Manhattan Project functions narratively in nuclear discourse as an origin myth, so that the repeated telling of atomic creation over time frames the possibilities of nuclear politics today. By linking …
The power-trust cycle in global health: Trust as belonging in relations of dependency
Trust between actors is vital to delivering positive health outcomes, while relationships of power determine health agendas, whose voices are heard and who benefits from global health initiatives. However, the relationship between trust and power has been neglected in the literatures on both international politics and global health. We examine this relationship through a study of relations between faith based organisations (FBO) and donors in Mal…
Examining ‘gender-sensitive’ approaches to nuclear weapons policy: A study of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
The past decade has seen a push for ‘gender sensitive’ approaches within nuclear policy-making. Yet the significance of this approach, and how it understands ‘gender sensitivity’ are unclear and have not been studied. This article asks the question: how does work done on ‘gendering’ nuclear policy to date understand what a gender sensitive approach to nuclear weapons means and requires? The article provides an overview of the movement to include …
Rethinking the beginning of the ‘nuclear age’ through telling feminist nuclear stories
Bringing a feminist perspective to the global politics of nuclear weapons not only allows us to expand who and what counts as worthy of study in nuclear politics, but also contests core ideas and narratives that have shaped the literature to date. This paper asks how telling feminist nuclear stories rooted in an understanding of the everyday impacts of nuclear weapons challenges the traditional nuclear history. The standard history of ‘the bomb’ …
Waste Matters: Nuclear Technopolitics and Futures at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (Wipp) in New Mexico
This article makes the case for nuclear weapons waste as an integral part of the US nuclear weapons complex and of international nuclear politics more broadly. Nuclear waste is not simply a by-product or issue of disposal, as assumed in much IR and security literature. Instead, waste creates and maintains socioeconomic drivers and narratives that have a productive power and enable particular nuclear futures. The article develops a three-part argu…
Thinking through and beyond survival in a nuclear age
This article investigates the assumption that survival should form the goal of the politics both of nuclear weapons and of International Relations (IR). Rather than being a self-evident grounding upon which political contest then plays out, survival has its own implications and limitations in the thermonuclear age, in which survival has become premised on the threat of total annihilation. As such, nuclear weapons allow us to unpack ‘survival’ in …
Law (8 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Nuclear weapon (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Nuclear and radioactivity studies (3 works)