Dr Victoria Basham

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Senior Lecturer

I joined the University of Exeter in September 2009. Previously I was an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Bristol where I also completed my PhD on gender, race and sexuality in the British Armed Forces. I am also an External Associate at the Centre for International and Security Studies at York University in Toronto, where I spent time as a visiting scholar in 2007 and 2008.

My primary research interests lie at the intersections of critical approaches to security, feminist international relations, and international political sociology. I am especially interested in how geopolitical events shape people’s daily lives and how daily life can, in turn, influence and facilitate geopolitical outcomes. Much of my work draws on feminist and Foucauldian social theory to examine how identity markers (gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and social class) shape the prioritisation, use and perpetration of military force and security practices in liberal democratic societies. I am also very interested in feminist and reflexive methodology and in qualitative approaches to political research.

I have written for The Guardian, made appearances on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, and I have acted in an advisory capacity to the RAND Corporation, HM Armed Forces, the Brookings Institution and the Michael D. Palm Center. I welcome media enquiries on civil-military relations, counter-terrorism and wider security issues.

I am able to offer PhD supervision in most areas of international relations and security studies and would particularly welcome applications from students interested in the significance of gender, race and sexual orientation to global conflict and security, and students who want to explore any aspect of civil-military relations, militarism and militarisation.

My first research monograph, War, Identity and the Liberal State: Everyday Experiences of the Geopolitical will be published with Routledge (Interventions series) in 2012.