Paul started following the work of Philippe Fournier, Université du Québec à Montréal, Political Science.
Paul started following the work of Victoria Basham, University of Exeter, Politics.
Paul started following the work of Xavier Guillaume, Swiss national science foundation, Social Sciences And Humanities Department.
Paul Pre-Print copy of my forthcoming article in the European Journal of International Relations is now up. 'How Is Rape A Weapon of War?' http://tinyurl.com/3unresm
Graduate Student, International Relations
Co-Editor, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Volume 39
Thesis Title: A Hideous Ubiquity: Rethinking Wartime Sexual Violence, with Particular Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo
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Kimberly Hutchings
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About
My research focuses on wartime sexual violence, the practice of war itself and the philosophy of social science in International Relations theory. My thesis begins by arguing that there are three largely unacknowledged logics of critical explanation doing explanatory work in the feminist literature on the use of rape in war - logics which I am calling instrumentality, unreason and mythology - and that these are also present in the varied ways of understanding war and extreme violence in general. It examines how these different ways of understanding wartime sexual violence make certain analytical and political claims, how they produce narratives of the soldier-rapist, and how they consequently relate to the kinds of problems that have long preoccupied social theorists and philosophers of social science. Finally, it expands on this material through an in-depth case study of wartime sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Quite apart from pursuing this complex knot of interpretations and explanations, I have less advanced academic interests in international historical sociology, political philosophy and ethics, consciousness studies and the theory and history of colonial power. I am also very interested in the role of IR research in contemporary politics and the possibility for a more public International Relations.
I was one of the three Editors of Millennium: Journal of International Studies for Volume 39 (and am now an Associate Editor for Volume 40) and teach International Political Theory, Historical Sociology and 'Globalisation' at the LSE. In have also taught seminars in World Politics at Goldsmiths and in Political Transformations at Birkbeck, both at the University of London.
To distract me from all that, I blog in the company of some compelling and critical minds over at The Disorder Of Things - http://thedisorderofthings.wordpress.com - and am increasingly involved in the Campaign for the Public University - http://publicuniversity.org.uk/about/.
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