Re-visualising international relations: Audio-visual projects and direct encounters with the political in security studies tla

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik*, Sarah Hayes

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Abstract

In this paper we discuss how an innovative audio-visual project was adopted to foster active, rather than declarative learning, in critical International Relations (IR). First, we explore the aesthetic turn in IR, to contrast this with forms of representation that have dominated IR scholarship. Second, we describe how students were asked to record short audio or video projects to explore their own insights through aesthetic and non-written formats. Third, we explain how these projects are understood to be deeply embedded in social science methodologies. We cite our inspiration from applying a personal sociological imagination, as a way to counterbalance a ‘marketised’ slant in higher education, in a global economy where students are often encouraged to consume, rather than produce knowledge. Finally, we draw conclusions in terms of deeper forms of student engagement leading to new ways of thinking and presenting new skills and new connections between theory and practice.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)415-429
Number of pages15
JournalEuropean Political Science
Volume16
Issue number3
Early online date29 Apr 2016
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Sept 2017

Bibliographical note

This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in [European Political Science. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Obradovic-Wochnik, J., & Hayes, S. (2016). Re-visualising international relations: audio-visual projects and direct encounters with the political in security studies. European Political Science, Advance online publication. 10.1057/eps.2016.21 is available online at: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/eps/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/eps201621a.html

Keywords

  • audio-visual assessments
  • critical security studies
  • sociological imagination
  • teaching

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