Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research
Schifferstraße 44
47059 Duisburg
Deutschland
Tel: +49 (0)203 379-5247
Fax: +49 (0)203 379-5276
Vita
Seit 08/2015 | University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences Professor of International Relations |
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08/2016 - 08/2023 | University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences Senior Lecturer in International Relations |
08/2010 - 07/2016 | University of Glasgow School of Social and Political Sciences Leverhulme Research Fellow |
08/2009 - 07/2010 | Aberystwyth University Department of International Relations ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow |
08/2008 - 07/2009 | University of Leeds School of Politics and International Studies Lecturer in International Studies |
Auszeichnungen
ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (2022-23): ‘Let’s Talk About Race: Tackling Racism in the University Community’
Leverhulme Research Fellowship (2019): “Empathy under Fire: ‘Hearts and Minds’ and the Politics of Empathy”
2018 Winner of the British International Studies Association Excellence in Teaching International Studies Prize
Forschungsprojekt am Kolleg
Making War and the Politics of Empathy: A Postcolonial Exploration
Die Politik und Praxis von Empathie in militärischen Kontexten haben in den Internationalen Beziehungen wenig systematische Aufmerksamkeit erhalten. Die Forschung konzentrierte sich hauptsächlich auf Konflikttransformation, Friedensinitiativen, Dialogprojekte und Gewaltlosigkeit, mit der Annahme, dass größere Empathie zu friedlicheren und ethischeren Beziehungen führt. Unter dem Motto „winning hearts and minds“ untersucht dieses Projekt, wie militärische Akteure in Besatzungs- und Kriegssituationen affektive Beziehungen aufbauen, kooptieren und einsetzen, um mit zivilen Gemeinschaften in Kontakt zu treten. Das Projekt untersucht die Art und Weise, in der Empathie und „Wissen über andere“ für die Kriegsführung und neokoloniale Formen der Weltordnung von zentraler Bedeutung sind. Das Projekt beschäftigt sich mit Debatten in der Anthropologie und den Sozialwissenschaften und konzentriert sich auf die umstrittenen Vorstellungen über die Rolle, die die bevölkerungszentrierte Aufstandsbekämpfung (COIN) in den von den USA geführten Kriegen im Irak und in Afghanistan gespielt hat.
Seminare und Konferenzen
British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Glasgow, June 2023 (co-organiser)
'Emotions Across the Disciplines' (Co-Director) workshop, University of Glasgow, May 2023
'Violence and Emotions', presented at International Studies Association Annual Conference, Montreal, March 2023
'Feeling what for whom? COIN and the politics of empathy in Iraq and Afghanistan', presented at British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, June 2022
“Custodians and conduits” of counterinsurgency: women as historical and contemporary affective military terrain, SSSHARC Global Symposium, ‘Gender, (In)security, and Temporalities of Violence’, University of Sydney, September 2019
Empathy in War: U.S. Counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, Visual Politics Strategic Research Program, POLSIS, University of Queensland, February 2019
Pedagogies of Discomfort: Experiential Learning and Emotional Journeys in Israel and Palestine, International Studies Association, San Francisco, 2018
Publikationen
Head, N. (forthcoming). 'Women helping women': Deploying Gender in US counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Security Dialogue. |
Head, N. 2020. ‘A “pedagogy of discomfort”? Experiential learning and conflict analysis in Israel/Palestine’, International Studies Perspectives 21:1, 78–96. DOI: 10.1093/isp/ekz026 |
Head, N. 2020. ‘Contesting emotional governance: Empathy under fire in the Israeli public sphere during Operation Protective Edge’, in Simon Koschut (ed.), The Power of Emotions in World Politics (Abingdon: Routledge), pp.113-129. |
Head, N. 2020. ‘Sentimental politics of structural injustice? The ambivalence of emotions for political responsibility’. International Theory, 12:3, 337-357. DOI: 10.1017/S175297192000007X |
Head N. 2019 (with Amanda Russell Beattie and Clara Eroukhmanoff). ‘Introduction: Interrogating the ‘everyday’ politics of emotions in international relations’, Journal of International Political Theory, 15(2). Co-editor of the Special Issue on ‘Interrogating the ‘everyday’ politics of emotions in international relations’. DOI: 10.1177/1755088219830428 |
Matthies-Boon, V. and N. Head. 2018. ‘Egypt's Double Trouble: On Young Activists' Broken Lifeworlds and Political Trauma’, Journal of International Political Theory, Vol 14(3), pp. 258 – 279. DOI: 10.1177/1755088217748970 |
Head, N. 2016. ‘Costly encounters of the empathic kind: a typology’, International Theory, 8(1), pp.171-199. DOI: 10.1017/S1752971915000238 |
Head, N. 2016. ‘The Politics of Empathy: Encounters with Empathy in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories’, Review of International Studies, 42(1), pp.95-113 DOI: 10.1017/S0260210515000108 |
Head, N. 2012. Justifying Violence: Communicative Ethics and the Use of Force in Kosovo, (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp.vii-236. (also available online: 2017, eISBN: 9781526130235) |