Dr Shine Choi Joins Centre as AHSS Global Fellow
We are delighted to welcome shine choi at the Centre for Gender in Politics as this year’s AHSS Global Fellow .
shine choi is a Senior Lecturer of Politics and International Relations in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University, Aotearoa New Zealand. she co-edits the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Feminist Journal of Politics. Her main areas of research are in critical theories and methods in International Relations, Security Studies and East Asia with a focus on feminist and non-western developments, in particular Africa-Asia and Third World diplomacy. Her research projects variously examine ethico-political questions that emerge in the intersections of non-western diplomacy, feminism and imperial wars that attend to aesthetic and cultural dimensions of these questions that help extend our political imaginaries. She is currently working on a methodologically and politically experimental book that tries to reinhabit the international and the global by turning to (north) Korea in international politics not as a case study but a creative-critical method that helps map moments of surrender in transregional security arrangements and non-western diplomatic practices of non-alignment as interlinked sites of shifting international order.
During her stay at QUB, she will be working on her new book and will present a working chapter on monumentality and how history and memory politics could break open through Buddhist and other non-western mediations on nothingness (and demonumentalise our conceptions of peace, sovereignty, freedom, grief) in a seminar organised by Centre Co-Director Dr Deiana.
Other activities include a publication and workshop co-hosted by the Center for Gender in Politics and the BISA Gendering IR working group aimed at students and first-time feminist authors to help prepare their publication projects for review. The workshop is also an opportunity to connect and explore research ideas with members of the Gendering IR working group and feminist colleagues affiliated to the Centre at QUB and in the wider Belfast community. see details here
Dr Choi will remain affiliated with the Center as a member of its International Advisory Board which will be inaugurated this year.