Over the course of Hilary Term (January to March) and Trinity Term 2017 (April to June), the Department of Politics and International Relations is convening a new seminar series on Ideas and Political Violence.
This series has been recorded and is now available in its entirety, along with an introduction from convenors Elizabeth Frazer and Jonathan Leader Maynard, explaining why they chose this topic, which parts of the series they found particularly interesting, and where they hope it will go in future.
The relationship between ideas and political violence is a key interdisciplinary interest of modern academia, and this seminar series seeks to capitalise on the expanding wave of new scholarship, bringing this into the DPIR’s research community and adding momentum to it by providing a forum for discussion between academic staff, graduate students, and visiting speakers on cutting-edge research work.
Kimberly Hutchings (Queen Mary University of London)and Elizabeth Frazer (DPIR) discuss political violence, the justifications for political violence, and how these justifications have been conceptualized in canonical political thought.
Having studied the boundary between what is considered to be politics and what is considered to be violence, by academics, political commentators and the general public, Kimberly and Elizabeth complexities that are often overlooked.