Goldsmiths - University of London

Mr Paul Kirby

Academic qualifications

B.Sc. International Relations & History, London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, 2005
M.Sc. Violence, Conflict & Development, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London, 2006
Ph.D. Candidate, International Relations, London School of Economics & Political Science, University of London, 2008-2012: 'The Social Logics of Atrocity: Instrumentality, Unreason and Ideology in the Study of Wartime Sexual Violence, with Particular Reference to the Democratic Republic of Congo'

Teaching

World Politics

Research interests

Theories of wartime sexual violence and of war as a practice, particularly the causes and character of 'extreme' violence
Gender, feminist theory and international politics
Subjectivity and intersubjectivity in international politics
The philosophy of social science in international politics, particularly in relation to the influence of Ludwig Wittgenstein, the materialism/idealism distinction and feminist theory
The relevance of Anthropology, Economics, Social Psychology and Psychoanalytical Social Theory to theories of international politics

Selected publications

That Obscured Subject Of Violence' (on Slavoj Žižek's On Violence), Subjectivity: International Journal of Critical Psychology, 30(1), (forthcoming April 2010)