Welcome back to Season 2! This season we will explore ideas of Criticality, Creativity and Care.

In this first episode we invite Dr Ida Birkvad, Fellow in Political Theory in the Department of International Relations at LSE, and Dr Alexander Stoffel, Lecturer in International Politics in the School of Politics and International Relations at Queen Mary University of London, to discuss the idea of criticality. This episode was inspired by their article "Abstractions in International Relations: on the mystification of trans, queer, and subaltern life in critical knowledge production" in the European Journal of International Relations and subsequent blog piece in E-International Relations.

Suggestions from Ida and Alex:

Histories of the Transgender Child, Gill-Peterson, J.

Podcast: The Centre for Teaching Innovation and Scholarship (CTIS) are delighted to launch the first series of “Politics and Pedagogy” a podcast run by the Centre for Teaching Innovation and Scholarship in Politics and International Studies at the University of Leeds. The podcast hosts are Dr Madeleine Le Bourdon Associate Professor in the Politics of Global Development and Dr Louise Pears Lecturer in Global Security Challenges. It is produced by Dr Marine Guéguin and Dr Harrison Swinhoe both Post-doctoral researchers in the Centre for Global Security Challenges.

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