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Worlding from South East Europe - Remaking International Relations 

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The SEE WG is pleased to announce its third annual Worlding from South East Europe, Remaking International Relations workshop.  

The discipline of International Relations has often been negligent of standpoints outside the Global North and the West. Scholars of South East Europe (SEE) have responded to this problem in a myriad of ways: by highlighting the contributions and developments of the discipline in the region; challenging understandings of foundational concepts from the vantage point of SEE; highlighting the disciplining gaze of IR; and excavating the ways in which the region has been (mis)used in the discipline.  

The SEE WG remains committed to further strengthening the SEE critical scholarship by bringing researchers into conversation and creating space for insightful exchange. We are inspired by methodologically, conceptually, and topically innovative interventions and would like to invite contributions that seek to rethink International Relations in and from the SEE broadly understood.  

Themes might include, but are not limited to:  

  • Rethinking International Relations and its concepts from/with the SEE 

  • Arts, creativity, (pop) culture, and visual politics in SEE 

  • Feminisms and the politics of gender in SEE 

  • Political ecologies and environmental politics in SEE  

  • The politics of social movements, protests, activism and organising 

  • Constructing and understanding Europe, whiteness, ethnicity and race in/of the region; intersections and the (geo)politics of identity and citizenship 

  • (Re-)Imagining mobility and migration 

  • Post-socialist and post-Yugoslav heritage and the neoliberalisation in the region  

  • (Re-)Conceptualising the region’s and SEE countries’ agency in foreign policy 

The workshop will continue to build collaborative networks within and beyond the Working Group and the UK. The format will be based on presentations of extended abstracts, enabling discussion of research at different stages. After the workshop, we envision the discussions to continue at BISA 2025 (June 2025, Belfast) and encourage authors to submit their paper abstracts for consideration at the annual conference. In the longer term, we plan an in-person workshop to support work toward publication.  

Please submit short abstracts of 300 words by Monday 7 October, to seewg.group@bisa.ac.uk.  

The workshop will take place virtually on Thursday 24 October (exact time TBA).

Find out more about the South East Europe Working Group.

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