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Dr Debbie Lisle

Senior Lecturer in International Relations and Cultural Studies
(PhD Keele)

Director: MA International Politics

Contact Details
Room 19.301
tel: ++44 (0) 28 9097 3853
email: d.lisle@qub.ac.uk

Teaching Areas

My general teaching areas are International Relations, Cultural Studies, Media Studies and Contemporary Social and Political Theory. I run the first year introductory module “Politics in a Media Culture” as well as contributing to International Relations teaching at all levels in the School. I run my own third year module entitled “War and Visual Culture” which looks at various representations of war in photography, film, museums and the media. I am the pathway convenor for the taught MA in International Politics, and I contribute to MA teaching on Globalization and Conflict Intervention.

Research Interests

My research interests are interdisciplinary and draw mainly from International Relations, Social and Political Theory and Cultural Studies. My work explores the relevance of cultural artifacts (e.g. contemporary travel writing, museum exhibits, photojournalism, war films) to world politics, and argues that the cultural realm tells as much about International Relations as the official documents usually privileged in this context. My research engages with a number of contemporary theoretical debates in International Relations and beyond, most notably around issues of difference, representation and power. I am currently working on a larger project exploring the historical and contemporary relationships between tourism, war and visuality. In addition to my own research, I also run an interdisciplinary group entitled ‘Art and Politics’ which brings together artists, curators, practitioners and academics to explore the variety of intersections between art, representation and global power.

Areas of Research Supervision:

I am happy to supervise PhD students in the general areas of International Relations Theory, Poststructuralism, Media Studies, Cultural Studies and Contemporary Social and Political Theory. More specifically, I can supervise projects exploring the relationship between International Relations and the Cultural Realm, especially those analysing film, travel writing, the media, contemporary literature, museums, photography, art and performance. Some of the current projects I am supervising include: ‘The Politics of Well-Being’; ‘Feminism, Post-structuralism and North Korea’; ‘British Media Representations of the War in Iraq’; and ‘Post 9-11 Popular Film’.

Recent/Selected Publications

• “Joyless Cosmopolitans: The Moral Economy of Ethical Tourism”, pp. 139-157 in Matthew Paterson and Jacqueline Best, eds., Cultural Political Economy (London: Routledge, 2009).
• The “Potential Mobilities” of Photography’, in Media/Culture, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2009, http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/viewArticle/125
• “Humanitarian Travels: Ethical Communication in Lonely Planet Guidebooks", Review of International Studies, Special Issue on 'Cultures and Politics of Global Communication', Vol. 34, 2008, pp. 155-172.
• “Encounters with Partition: Tourism and Reconciliation in Cyprus” in Louise Purbrick, Jim Aulich and Graham Dawson, eds., Contested Spaces: Sites, Representations and Histories of Conflict (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007) pp. 94-117
• “Benevolent Patriotism: Art, Dissent and The American Effect” Security Dialogue, Vol. 38, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 233-250
• "Sublime Lessons:  Education and Ambivalence in War Exhibitions", Millennium:  Journal of International Studies, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2006, pp. 185-206.
• The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing, (Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 2006).
• "Local Symbols, Global Networks:  Re-reading the Murals in Belfast" special issue on "Art and Politics", Alternatives:  Global, Local, Political, Vol. 31, No. 1, Jan-Mar. 2006, pp. 27-52.
• “The New Face of Global Hollywood: Black Hawk Down and the Politics of Meta-Sovereignty”, Cultural Politics, Vol. 1, No. 2, July 2005, pp. 165-192 (co-authored with Dr. Andrew Pepper)
• “Globalization” in Iain McKenzie, ed., Political Concepts: A Reader (University of Edinburgh Press, 2005)
• “Gazing at Ground Zero: Tourism, Voyeurism and Spectacle”, Journal for Cultural Research, Vol. 8, No. 1, January 2004, pp. 3-21 (special issue edited by Debbie Lisle)
• “Site Specific: Medi(t)ations at the Airport” in Cynthia Weber and Francois Debrix, eds., Rituals of Mediation (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003) pp. 3-29
  

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