Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP)

The Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group aims to foster a welcoming space for experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of International Studies. We are committed to promoting research that goes beyond the well-trodden paths of international relations and bringing together scholars who play with alternative modes of theorising, doing, and researching world politics. As the spiritual successor of the Post-Structuralist Politics Working Group, we are particularly excited to encourage research that creatively engages with topics/objects of study that constitute the texture of the political, such as the everyday, the body, popular culture, aesthetics, literature, digital and material artefacts, and others. To do so, we especially seek researchers who productively enter into transdisciplinary dialogue with contemporary scholarship from cultural and media theory, sociology, philosophy, critical geography, literary theory, science and technology studies, performance studies, and the broader humanities.

Image: Henri Rousseau - A Centennial of Independence. A faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.