Dr Joanna Tidy (she/her)
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
Senior Lecturer in Politics
+44 114 222 1691
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School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
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- Profile
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Dr Joanna Tidy joined the Department as a Lecturer in Politics in 2018, having previously been an Anniversary Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Prior to that she held positions in the School of Sociology, Politics, and International Studies and the University of Bristol where she gained a Doctorate in Politics. She also holds an MSc in Social Science Research Methods, an MSc in International Relations, and a LLB in Law.
Joanna's research theorises the interrelation of war, gender, military power, and violence. Her work is primarily situated within critical and feminist international relations and political economy but is also in conversation with other disciplines such as sociology, history, and geography.
- Research interests
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I am currently developing a research programme which considers military violence and war as a matter of work and labour. Prior to this I was writing my forthcoming book on violence and gender in military logistics and engineering and I continue to develop work in this area. I am also a member of the Centre for Drones and Culture. Across my research work I am concerned with understanding military power and violence as bound with gender, race and coloniality. I am particularly interested in questions of method, form, and research ethics (broadly understood).
Prospective doctoral students are very welcome to get in touch to discuss research ideas but these should fall into one of the following areas: critical/feminist IR and security, gender/race/coloniality/empire and war/militaries/military power/military violence, feminist political economy/political economy and war/military violence.
- Publications
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Edited books
- Masculinities at the Margins: Beyond the Hegemonic in the Study of Militaries, Masculinities and War. Routledge.
Journal articles
- The intimate international relations of museums: a method. Millennium: Journal of International Studies. View this article in WRRO
- War Craft: The embodied politics of making war. Security Dialogue. View this article in WRRO
- Fatherhood, Gender, and Interventions in the Geopolitical: Analyzing Paternal Peace, Masculinities, and War. International Political Sociology, 12(1), 2-18. View this article in WRRO
- The Operation and Subversion of Gendered War Discourses: Soldierhood, motherhood and military dissent in the public production of Kimberly Rivera.. International Feminist Journal of Politics. View this article in WRRO
- Combat as a moving target: masculinities, the heroic soldier myth, and normative martial violence. Critical Military Studies, 3(2), 142-160. View this article in WRRO
- Visual regimes and the politics of war experience: Rewriting war ‘from above’ in WikiLeaks’ ‘Collateral Murder’. Review of International Studies, 43(1), 95-111. View this article in WRRO
- The Gender Politics of “Ground Truth” in the Military Dissent Movement: The Power and Limits of Authenticity Claims Regarding War. International Political Sociology, 10(2), 99-114. View this article in WRRO
- Forces Sauces and Eggs for Soldiers: food, nostalgia, and the rehabilitation of the British military. Critical Military Studies, 1(3), 220-232. View this article in WRRO
- Gender, Dissenting Subjectivity and the Contemporary Military Peace Movement inBody of War. International Feminist Journal of Politics, 17(3), 454-472.
- Gays, Gaze and Aunty Gok. Feminist Media Studies, 13(2), 177-191.
- The Social Construction of Identity: Israeli Foreign Policy and the 2006 War in Lebanon. Global Society, 26(4), 535-556.
- "100 Large Fruit Trees Cut Down by ISAF": Land, Infrastructure, and Military Violence. European Journal of International Relations.
- The Part Humour Plays in the Production of Military Violence. Global Society.
Chapters
- Materiality and the production of objects, Research Methods in Critical Security Studies (pp. 284-292). Routledge
- Combat as a moving target: masculinities, the heroic soldier myth, and normative martial violence, Masculinities at the Margins (pp. 44-62). Routledge
- Beyond the hegemonic in the study of militaries, masculinities, and war, Masculinities at the Margins (pp. 1-4). Routledge
- (Re)Producing an (Anti)Military Masculinity: Popular Culture Representations of Gender and Military Dissent in the Figure of Ron Kovic, The Palgrave International Handbook of Gender and the Military (pp. 509-523). Palgrave Macmillan UK
Other
- Beyond the hegemonic in the study of militaries, masculinities, and war. Critical Military Studies, 3(2), 99-102.
- Masculinities at the Margins: Beyond the Hegemonic in the Study of Militaries, Masculinities and War. Routledge.
- Research group
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International Relations
- Grants
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2023-2027
Droned Life: Data, Narrative, and the Aesthetics of Worldmaking
https://www.centrefordronesandculture.com Co-investigator, UKRI MR/W010429/1,
- Teaching activities
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My approach to teaching is that it should be a lively, intellectual partnership between staff and students. To this end, firstly, I enjoy working with students to engage critically with the processes, assumptions and power underpinning academic knowledge and wider ‘common sense’ positions.
I encourage students to trace the logics that structure what we know about a topic and unpack the political investments they represent. Secondly, I facilitate students to become fluent in topics through active and participatory engagement.
I aim to build students’ skills and confidence as researchers, working with the principle that students should be active in applying theories and concepts and generating analyses throughout their degree.
- Supervision Expertise
- Critical and feminist international relations
- Masculinities
- Militarism and war
- Critical approaches to military power/military violence
- Race, Empire, Colonialism especially re. war/military
- Political economy of war and militarism