A decade ago, scholars of international relations articulated a research agenda for the study
of popular culture and world politics (PCWP), and since then a burgeoning literature has …

Images play an increasingly important role in global politics but pose significant and so far
largely unexplored methodological challenges. Images are different from words. They …

Visual politics and the aesthetic turn in international relations have emphasized the power of
the image in world politics. Postcolonial and decolonial feminist theory shows the urgent …

Recent scholarship claims that narratives and images of war have political effects, not simply
because of their content and 'form', but because of their affective and emotional 'forces'. Yet …

Social media are inherently visual platforms. Every day, billions of photographs, videos,
cartoons, memes, gifs, and infographics are uploaded and shared for the world to see …

Security shapes everyday life, but despite a growing literature on everyday security there is
no consensus on the meaning of the “everyday.” At the same time, the research methods …

Images pervade contemporary politics. Across the globe, people receive more and more of
their information and impressions about politics through media outlets saturated with …

In this paper, we take the emergence of the Her Majesty's Armed Forces toy range in 2009
as a starting point for thinking through the domestication of geopolitics through practices of …

This article draws attention to storytelling in public diplomacy. Based on interviews with
officials in the European External Action Service (EEAS) and a campaign on social media, it …

In this article, we engage with IR's recently rediscovered interest in peace and connect it with
the visual turn in international relations. We move the field's focus on representations of war …