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Victoria Basham   BSc, PhD, FHEA

Professor Victoria Basham

(she/her)

BSc, PhD, FHEA

Professor of International Relations and Head of Politics and International Relations

School of Law and Politics

Overview

My research interests are located at the intersections of feminist international relations, critical geopolitics, and international political sociology. Over the past two decades I have primarily worked in the field of Critical Military Studies (www.criticalmilitarystudies.org), publishing research on how war, and war preparedness, shape people’s daily lives and how daily life can, in turn, influence and facilitate war and other geopolitical outcomes. I have been, and I remain, particularly interested in how gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and social class shape the prioritisation, use and perpetration of military force, especially in liberal democratic societies. More recently, I have started to research the role of scandal in shaping world politics and in what it reveals about violence, accountability, and world order, with my co-authors Dr Jamie Johnson (University of Leicester) and Dr Owen Thomas (University of Exeter). 

In 2015, I became the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Critical Military Studies (Taylor & Francis) which I also co-founded (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rcms20).

I am the co-editor of the Edinburgh University Press book series, Advances in Critical Military Studies, with Dr Sarah Bulmer at the University of Exeter (https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/series-advances-in-critical-military-studies.html).

I was also the President of the European International Studies Association (http://www.eisa-net.org/) between 2017 and 2019. In 2017 I served as Programme Chair (with Dr Cemal Burak Tansel at the University of Sheffield) of the EISA's 11th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, held in Barcelona, Spain (http://www.paneuropeanconference.org/2017/).

 

Publication

2024

2023

  • Basham, V. 2023. War and socio-political orders. In: Guillaume, X. and Grayson, K. eds. Security Studies: Critical Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 104-120.

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2020

2018

2017

2016

2015

2013

2011

2009

2008

Articles

Book sections

Books

Research

I am currently engaged in an agenda of individual and collaborative research. My primary projects focus on:

  • Scandals in international relations (with Jamie Johnson, University of Leicester and Owen Thomas, University of Exeter)
  • Military social harm (this work is linked to my role as the Lead of the GW4 Critical Engagment with the Defence Establishment Network)
  • War, violence and intergenerational injustice 
  • Feminist methodology and affective encounters in museums (with Audrey Reeves, Virginia Tech)

 

 

Teaching

My teaching centres around making sense of violence and warfare through critical analysis.

Biography

Prior to joining Cardiff (in January 2016), I worked at the University of Exeter (from September 2009) and before that, spent several years at the University of Bristol where I first obtained my undergraduate degree in Social Policy and Politics (2002) and then completed my PhD on gender, race and sexuality in the British Armed Forces (2007). I also undertook an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (2007-2008) at the University of Bristol, during which I was also a Visiting Fellow at the York Centre for International and Security Studies (YCISS), Toronto, Canada. I have also held research assistance posts at Open University and the University of the West of England.

Supervisions

  • Scandal
  • Militarism, militarization and insecurity
  • Children in international relations
  • Curation and cultures of war and militarism

Current supervision

Hannah Richards

Hannah Richards

Research Student

Victoria Sutch

Victoria Sutch

Graduate Tutor

Claire Thurlow

Claire Thurlow

Research student

Contact Details

Email BashamV@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 74360
Campuses Law Building, Room 3.10, Museum Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3AX

Specialisms

  • critical military studies
  • war and political violence