|
Introducing the newest research initiative of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies: "Centering the Global Periphery."
This research cluster prioritizes perspectives from allegedly peripheral state and non-state actors to foreground marginalized voices on the global security order. The initial focus of the cluster engages two themes: 1) populism, polarization, and democratic challenges; and 2) legacies of empire. Exploring political crises, violence against states and individuals, environmental challenges, migration dynamics, and polarized responses to current social issues and historical legacies, we center perspectives from the global periphery and their cutting-edge research interpretations.
Activities include working group meetings, a speaker series, graduate student opportunities, and a culminating symposium during 2023–2024. We will host a kickoff event for Ohio State faculty, lecturers, and graduate students from 4:00-5:00pm on Thursday, September 8, 2022, at the Mershon Center (1010 Derby Hall).
The cluster's first talk, of which CLAS is a co-sponsor, will take place on Thursday, October 20, 2022. Professor Zophia Edwards of Johns Hopkins University will discuss her work, which examines the impacts of colonialism and multiracial labor movements on state institutions and ideas of development in resource-rich countries in the Global South, focusing on Trinidad and Tobago. More details on this event coming soon!
For more information or to be added to the mailing list, please contact Theodora Dragostinova (.1) or Eric Schoon (.1).
|
