31/05/2023
15:00 Hybrid event (presential / zoom)
Room : Salle G009, rez-de-chaussée, 28 rue des Saints-Pères 75007
Organised as part of the seminar Nuclear Knowledges
Speaker:
Laura Considine is an Associate Professor in International Politics and co-Director of the Centre for Global Security Challenges at the University of Leeds. She has published research on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, gender and nuclear weapons and the role of language and narrative in international politics.
Abstract:
While the consequences of nuclear war are potentially apocalyptic, thinking about nuclear weapons only in terms of nuclear catastrophe obscures the many ways in which their existence shapes our contemporary world. Their politics has typically been thought through either strategic theories of deterrence or calls for disarmament. Both approaches centre survival as the ultimate goal of nuclear politics. But what are the limits of a politics grounded in 'survival'? This paper challenges survival as the animating aim of the politics of nuclear weapons - and of IR more broadly - questioning what survival as a goal establishes as the subject, means and purpose of nuclear weapons politics. The paper accomplishes this through an engagement with IR theorising on extinction and survival as well as feminist approaches to the everyday.
Scientifics Coordinators : Benoît Pelopidas, Sciences Po-CERI and Sanne Verschuren, Sciences Po-CERI
The seminar will be held in person and also online via the Zoom platform.
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