Voices: The EISA Podcast

In this episode Bahar Rumelili (Koç University, İstanbul) discusses the concept of ontological security (OS) with host Beste İşleyen (University of Amsterdam). By unpacking the notion of ontological security, we learn how OS as a concept relates to, and differs from other critical security concepts within IR scholarship. Arguing that existing critical approaches to security tend to conflate ontological security and physical security, Bahar Rumelili elaborates on the relationship between identity and security, and her work on identity construction through difference.

Bahar Rumelili

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This first edition of the new VOICES series "What is…?" focuses on liberalism as a concept in International Relations (IR). Liberalism in its many contexts - be it in political tradition, in economic ideology, social understandings, or polemical attacks - elides a single definition. In this episode, Vineet Thakur (Leiden) talks with Prof. Beate Jahn (Sussex), who has devoted much of her academic career to the study of liberalism, about the empirical and methodological potential of the concept for research in IR. Prof. Jahn argues that the consistent failures of liberalism, for example in peacebuilding operations, are inherent in its contradictions. Indeed, war, imperialism, and economic depression are very much features, not anomalies, of the liberal system. For this, and more on liberalism, listen to Prof. Jahn in this episode.

[Prof. Beate Jahn:](http:// https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p102133-beate-jahn)

Jahn, Beate (2021): Critical theory in crisis? a reconsideration

What can the Grenfell Tower fire in London 2017 teach us about the racialized structure of the cities we live in? What are the implications of understanding the violence of neoliberal urbanism for the study of global cities in IR? In ‘The Fire This Time: Grenfell, Racial Capitalism and the Urbanisation of Empire’, Ida Danewid (Sussex), award-winner of the 2020 EISA Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations award, argues that the IR literature on global cities has largely neglected questions of race and racism. In this conversation with Maj Grasten (Copenhagen Business School), Ida Danewid discusses how her contribution connects urban studies and IPE with post- and decolonial, black and indigenous studies, and how we must situate our understanding of global cities in a much wider cartography of imperial and racial violence.

In Conversation: Ida Danewid

Danewid, Ida (2020): The Fire this Time: Grenfell, Racial Capitalism and the Urbanisation of Empire

Host: Maj Grasten

Production Manager: Judith Koch

What makes ASEAN diplomacy distinct? Deepak Nair (NUS Singapore), the co-winner of EISA’s 2020 best article award, rejects both essentialist/orientalist as well as generic readings of ASEAN diplomacy and presents a micro-sociological account of ‘face-saving’ practices. In this conversation with Vineet Thakur (Leiden University), Deepak discusses his background, his interest in Southeast Asia and practice theory, his immersive fieldwork, and more.

Deepak Nair: https://fass.nus.edu.sg/pol/people/deepak-nair/

Nair, Deepak (2019): “Saving face in diplomacy: A political sociology of face-to-face interactions in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations”