Review of International Studies podcast - episode four

BISA journal Review of International Studies (RIS) has released the fourth episode of its new podcast.

The aim of the podcast is to foster conversations about some of the most pressing issues of our time and to facilitate reflections on the latest developments in International Relations. The podcast is hosted by Associate Professor Sebastian Kaempf (The University of Queensland), who is also an editor of the journal.

In this episode Professor Maria Mälksoo, one of the members of our editorial team, talks to Dr Seb Kaempf about her selection of key articles published in RIS which seek to conceptualise, apply and/or rethink ritual dynamics and phenomena in the context of international relations. This special collection brings together some of the key texts in IR that have sought to conceptualise, apply and/or rethink ritual dynamics and phenomena in the context of international relations. It is a testament to RIS’s long engagement with social theory and anthropology that these now essential readings on international rituals have been published here. The articles compiled in this virtual collection show the sheer abundance of ritual practices in our field of study. Collectively, they demonstrate the productivity of insights and conceptual tools from ritual theory for examining the bread and butter-subjects of IR, ranging from war and crises to the formation of subjectivity, community and the bordering thereof (e.g., Zaiotti 2011). The whole special collection is free to read until the end of July 2025.

Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of the RIS editor's selections, which are published every three to six months. 

Listen to the podcast episode below, or wherever you get your podcasts, and make sure you give them a follow.