International Relations (School of): Recent submissions
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#WeJamminStill : agential realism and Trinidad and Tobago's absent terrorism narrative
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisThis work examines the limitations of Securitisation Theory by applying it to an ethnographic case study of Trinidad and Tobago – the state with the highest per capita ISIL recruitment rate in the Western World. It ... -
Resistance, reproduction, attachment : unsettling gender through cosplay
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisMost stories told in popular culture can be understood as being embedded in martial politics, or as militarised; as violent, gendered narratives that invest and are invested in normalising traditional normative social ... -
John Hume : origins of a Derry icon 1960-74
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisJohn Hume held executive office for just five months out of a political career lasting more than 30 years. Yet he became one of the most influential politicians of the past 50 years and was instrumental in changing the ... -
Decaying beauty? : image(s) of the European Union in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis comparatively examines perceived images of the European Union (EU) in two countries of Central Asia (CA): Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The study departs from the point that the literature on Central Asian ... -
Sugar, spice and everything nice? : an inclusive feminist relational ontological examination of gendered moral agency within stories of evil
(University of St Andrews, 2019-12-03) - ThesisThis thesis challenges the dominant narratives of evil, highlighting how the masculine approach to telling stories of evil has silenced moral agency. It does so through an inclusive feminist relational ontology framework, ...