Transnational Hub
An initiative of International Political Sociology scholars across national and institutional boundaries, which aims at fostering collaborations between researchers working in IPS. It is grounded in the recognition that IPS is practiced in distinctive ways in various countries.
Aims
We envision the Transnational Hub to be a space to:
exchange views on themes and debates that are shaping IPS within national and institutional research cultures;
discuss critical theoretical and methodological queries that inform IPS research across national contexts;
facilitate collaboration across disciplinary, institutional, and national boundaries;
share work in progress and provide feedback to our peers, with a focus on transnational collaborations.
If you want to contribute, please get in touch with Marijn Hoijtink or Linda Monsees.
Seminar Series 2020-2021
We kicked off a series of work in progress seminar early October, meeting once a month for the rest of the year, in a combination of work-in progress seminars and public (online) events centered around a core concept, recurring in our work, around which we aim at providing a platform for exchange and discussion. We hope to see you around, welcome!
For details on the programme, sponsors, and organisers, please click here.
First workshop, Frankfurt, 5-6 March 2020
The DoingIPS Transnational Hub (DITH) met for the first time in Frankfurt for a lively workshop to reflect on the stakes of DoingIPS in relation to our respective research interests and institutional contexts. The event was organised by Linda Monsees, with support of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
We discussed themes such as what we mean when we take on IPS as a researcher identity, how the international is/can be enacted and/or studied, methodological choices and their contribution for doing critical research, and the future we see in DoingIPS. We concluded the workshop with a working session about the future of this initiative.
For a full programme, please see here.
Future activities
The Covid-19 crisis allowing, we look forward to:
a workshop on activism, post-truth and critique in Geneva;
a number of workshop put together at EWIS 2020 in Brussels, now postponed to 2021;
the many sections and panels coming up at the EISA, now postponed to 2021;
opportunities to connect more intensively with the Brazilian IPS network.
The Doing IPS transnational hub is made possible by funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 839538.
Photo by Doug Greenman on Unsplash.
The Transnational Hub includes the following people:
Marijn Hoijtink, Assistant Professor in International Relations, VU Amsterdam
Research interests: Security, technology, machine learning, weapons’ research, computational ethnography.
Linda Monsees, Post-doctoral researcher, Queen Mary University of London, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris
Research interests: Security, digital technology, publics, democratic theory.
Jonathan Austin, Post-doctoral researcher, Graduate Institute Geneva
Research interests: Armed conflicts, violence Critical security studies, Social theory.
Andreas Baur, Research Associate, PhD Candidate, University of Tübingen, University of Amsterdam
Research interests: Cloud computing, cyber security, privacy, information technologies.
Marie Beauchamps, Affiliated researcher | Creative Entrepreneur, Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis, MarieB. Atelier
Research interests: Politics of writing, citizenship, security, affect, genealogy, creative methods.
Quentin Deforge, IFRIS Post-doctoral researcher, Centre Alexandre Koyré (CAK), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Research interests: International organizations, expertise, economic policies, development, democratization.
Katja Freistein, Senior researcher, Centre for Global Cooperation Research, University Duisburg-Essen
Research interests: International organizations, discourse theory, global inequalities, visual narrative analysis, rankings and indicators.
Lucy B. Hall, Lecturer, University of Amsterdam
Research interests: Gender, protection, security, peace, civil society.
Jef Huysmans, Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University London
Research interests: International Political Sociology, the politics of insecurity, mobility, the political life of methods.
Stéphanie Perazzone, Post-doctoral researcher, Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp
Research interests: State theory, political violence, urban security governance, post-colonial studies, ethnographic methods.
Rune Saugman, Academy of Finland Research Fellow, Tampere University
Research interests: International political semiotics, visuality, digital media, colours & IR.
Renata Summa, Post-doctoral researcher, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Research interests: Borders, everyday, space, Balkans.