Veronica Kitchen - Heroism and Global Politics

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Catherine Baker is Senior Lecturer in 20th Century History at the University of Hull, UK, and has a PhD from University College London. Her research applies feminist and queer approaches to understanding the relationship between popular culture, nationalism, and militarism, especially in the UK and the post-Yugoslav region. She is the author of books including Sounds of the Borderland: Popular Music, War and Nationalism in Croatia since 1991 (2010), The Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s (2015), and Race and the Yugoslav Region: Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial? (2018), and is currently editing a volume on Militarization, Aesthetics and Embodiment in International Politics for Edinburgh University Presss Advances in Critical Military Studies series. Her articles have appeared in the European Journal of International Relations , International Feminist Journal of Politics , International Peacekeeping , and elsewhere.

Andrew F. Cooper is Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs and the Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo, Canada, and an Associate Research Fellow-UNU CRIS (Institute on Comparative Regional Integration), Bruges, Belgium. With a D. Phil from the University of Oxford, he teaches in the areas of global governance and diplomacy. His recent single-authored books include: The BRICS VSI (Oxford University Press, 2016); Diplomatic Afterlives (Polity, 2014); Internet Gambling Offshore: Caribbean Struggles over Casino Capitalism (Palgrave, 2011); and Celebrity Diplomacy (Paradigm, 2007). He is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Modern Diplomacy (OUP, 2013). From 2003 to 2008 he was the Associate Director and Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). He was Canada-US Fulbright Research Chair, Center on Public Diplomacy, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California in 2009; and Lger Fellow, Planning Staff, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada in 19931994. His work on aspects of innovative forms of diplomacy has been profiled in articles and interviews in sources such as ABCs Good Morning America , The Independent , CBCs Q , Variety magazine, Time s of India, Politico, China Daily , and the Washington Diplomat .

Megan Daigle is Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, and has a PhD from Aberystwyth University. Her research is on the intersections of sexuality with security, development, and human rights in the international sphere. From Cuba with Love: Sex and Money in the Twenty-First Century was published by the University of California Press in 2015. She has held previous positions at the Gender and Development Network and the Gothenburg Centre of Globalization and Development, as well as consultancies for International Alert, the Overseas Development Institute, and Womankind Worldwide.

Matthew Evans is Professor of Political Science at Northwest Arkansas Community College in Bentonville, Arkansas, USA. He received his PhD in political science from Northern Arizona University in 2015. His research addresses power and agency in the following relations: embodiment and power, state violence and soldiers, popular culture and state power, Israeli anti-militarism and social movements, animals and the military industrial complex, and green anarchism and feminism.

Barbara J. Falk is Associate Professor in the Department of Defence Studies at the Canadian Forces College/Royal Military College of Canada. She has a PhD from York University, and a Master of Studies in Law (MSL) from the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests include comparative genocide, national security law and policy, and the persecution and prosecution of dissent. She is author of The Dilemmas of Dissidence: Citizen Intellectuals and Philosopher Kings . She is currently writing a book on comparative political trials across the East-West divide during the early Cold War. Prior to her academic career, she worked in the both the private and public sectors in human resources, labour relations, and womens issues.

Ane M.. Kirkegaard is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Global Political Studies, Malm University, Sweden, and holds a PhD in Peace and Development Research from the University of Gothenburg. Her research, while theoretically oriented towards the post-colonial and recently moving into more post-oriental readings of current global politics, is always based in the analysis of empirical expressions of politics, whether locally, regionally, or globally. Her main geo-political area of research has always been Zimbabwe, initially focusing on sexual and reproductive behaviour among black and white Zimbabweans, and more recently with an increased focus on white Zimbabweans, and in particular those who define themselves as Rhodesians. Her PhD research constituted one of the very limited examples of social science research including white Zimbabweans not focused on the land issue. Her emerging area of research concerns Iran, a state which showcases some similarities on the global scene with Zimbabwe.

Veronica Kitchen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo and the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. She completed her PhD in political science at Brown University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar. Her research is a critical perspective on national security and counter-terrorism across the global/local divide. She is the author of The Globalization of NATO: Intervention, Security and Identity (Routledge, 2010) and has more recently published works on military heroism in popular romance fiction and security at mega-events. Her current projects are about national security education and training (with Adam Molnar) and the use of simulation in teaching world politics. She is an executive member of the Canadian Network on Terrorism, Security, and Society (TSAS), and an active member of Women in International Security (Canada).

Jennifer G. Mathers is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, UK, and has a D. Phil from Oxford University. She researches and teaches about gender and conflict, and Russias security policy and domestic politics. Her publications about gender and conflict include Women and State Militaries in Women and Wars: Contested Histories, Uncertain Futures, edited by Carol Cohn (Polity, 2012) and Women, Society and the Military in The Military and Society in Post-Soviet Russia, which she co-edited with Steve Webber (Manchester University Press, 2005). She is the author of The Russian Nuclear Shield from Stalin to Yeltsin (2000) and her work on Russia has appeared in journals such as Europe-Asia Studies, The Journal of Strategic Studies, Civil Wars , and Contemporary Security Policy . She is currently working on a book examining the contemporary crisis in Ukraine from the perspective of feminist security studies.