About 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-Structural 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.
Our aims are:
- To promote alternative modes of thinking about international relations and world politics
- To provide a welcoming and collegiate space for experimental, critical, and non-mainstream theoretical research in international relations
- To explicitly bring IR into productive conversation with other disciplines from social sciences and the humanities
- To encourage scholars to experiment with new and exciting event, panel, and research formats from artistic and poetic methods to multi-media events.
Conveners
