Doing International Political Sociology at the EISA Pan European Conference 2022 in Athens

In a sweltering Athens after two years of online conferencing only, it was great to see that international political sociology remains a diverse and real intellectual force in the European International Studies Association. The Standing Section Doing International Political Sociology, co-chaired by Jef Huysmans (Queen Mary) and Joao P. Nogueira (PUC-Rio) organised 16 panels and roundtables, representing the richness and variety of research done in International Political Sociology.

Doing IPS panels and roundtables included:

• Bodies, security, ruins: themes in IPS.

• The problem of difference in IPS: fracturing logics of representation involved in polarising identity and power politics today?

• Writing from the peripheries: doing international relations in Europe.

• Contemporary reconfigurations of security, law and human rights.

• Critical methodologies in IPS.

• Fracturing ‘the international’ in IPS.

• The politics of international organisation.

• Motioning the international.

• Policing’s contested relationalities.

• Performance and paradox: contesting liberal citizenship in and beyond the nation-state.

• Practices of comparison and the ordering of security politics.

• Violent speculations 1: catastrophe, futurism & prototype war.

• Violent speculations 2: technology, sensation and affective orders.

• The limits of the international.

• Fracturing the global; or, not?

• Unmaking inequalities.

Click here for more information about the 15th EISA PEC. Panels and roundtables’ abstracts, papers-titles and presenters’ details are available here.