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DR Meera Sabaratnam's Outputs (28)

The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent (2025)
Thesis
Dussud, M. The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Given the apparent turn in recent years away from increasing democratisation, but not towards outright authoritarianism, it seems timely and important to ask how human rights advocates operate in semi-authoritarian regimes (SARs) where there is latit... Read More about The politics of resistance in semi-authoritarian contexts: human rights in Myanmar, 2008-2021: Opening, Occupying and Policing the Space for Dissent.

Bring Up the Bodies: International Order, Empire, and Re-thinking the Great War (1914-18) from Below (2023)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M. (2023). Bring Up the Bodies: International Order, Empire, and Re-thinking the Great War (1914-18) from Below. European Journal of International Relations, 29(3), 553-575. https://doi.org/10.1177/13540661231156347

What does international order look like when analysed from its margins? Such a question is the obvious consequence of efforts within International Relations (IR) to take empire, colonialism and hierarchy more seriously. This article addresses this qu... Read More about Bring Up the Bodies: International Order, Empire, and Re-thinking the Great War (1914-18) from Below.

Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order (2023)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M., & Laffey, M. (2023). Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order. International Affairs, 99(1), 161-180. https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiac233

A prominent feature of the contemporary crisis of the liberal international order is diverse calls for justice, including epistemic and historic justice. For a long time, that order understood itself in liberal terms and as capable of delivering just... Read More about Complex indebtedness: justice and the crisis of liberal order.

Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts (2020)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M. (2020). Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 49(1), 3-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829820971687

Racism is a historically specific structure of modern global power which generates hierarchies of the human and affirms white supremacy. This has far-reaching material and epistemological consequences in the present, one of which is the production an... Read More about Is IR Theory White? Racialised Subject-Positioning in Three Canonical Texts.

Teaching IR Globally, Part II (2020)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M., Nisancioglu, K., & Weber, M. (2020). Teaching IR Globally, Part II. Contexto internacional, 42(2), 375-415. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0102-8529.2019420200008

This Symposium on 'Teaching IR Globally' engages with and contributes to the current debate on non-Western and alternative analyses and the question of the inevitability of perspectivity in the field of IR and the study of global politics. This Sympo... Read More about Teaching IR Globally, Part II.

Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches (2019)
Book Chapter
Sabaratnam, M. (2019). Postcolonial and Decolonial Approaches. In J. Baylis, S. Smith, & P. Owens (Eds.), The Globalization of World Politics: An Introduction to International Relations. Oxford University Press

Popular Culture Matters (2019)
Digital Artefact
Sabaratnam, M., Hudson, V. M., Weldes, J., Brennan, K. P., Sylvan, D., Thakur, V., Daniel III, J. F., & Musgrave, P. (2019). Popular Culture Matters

Can Networks Govern? (2017)
Digital Artefact
Sabaratnam, M., Patomäki, H., Leander, A., Abraham, K., Laffey, M., & Avant, D. (2017). Can Networks Govern?

Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique (2017)
Book
Sabaratnam, M. (2017). Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique. Rowman and Littlefield

Building, or re-building, states after war or crisis is a contentious process. But why? This book argues that to best answer the question, we need to engage with the people who are supposedly benefiting from international ‘expertise’. This book chall... Read More about Decolonising Intervention: International Statebuilding in Mozambique.

Teaching Africa and international studies: Forum introduction (2016)
Journal Article
Gallagher, J., Death, C., Sabaratnam, M., & Smith, K. (2016). Teaching Africa and international studies: Forum introduction. Politics, 36(4), 441-452. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263395716628886

Africa has often been defined and represented by outsiders. In International Studies, the continent is frequently viewed as peripheral and uninteresting. This is clearly a problem, and an increasingly apparent one as the number of courses on Africa a... Read More about Teaching Africa and international studies: Forum introduction.

Staging a Battle, Losing the Wars? International Studies, ‘Science’ and the Neoliberalisation of the University (2015)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M. (2015). Staging a Battle, Losing the Wars? International Studies, ‘Science’ and the Neoliberalisation of the University. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 43(3), 975-979. https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829815578768

In this short response to Patrick Jackson’s absorbing and provocative keynote at a very enjoyable Millennium conference, I highlight some problems with the arguments presented therein for the logical distinctiveness of ‘science’, before briefly refle... Read More about Staging a Battle, Losing the Wars? International Studies, ‘Science’ and the Neoliberalisation of the University.

Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace (2013)
Journal Article
Sabaratnam, M. (2013). Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace. Security Dialogue, 44(3), 259-278. https://doi.org/10.1177/0967010613485870

Recent scholarly critiques of the so-called liberal peace raise important political and ethical challenges to practices of postwar intervention in the global South. However, their conceptual and analytic approaches have tended to reproduce rather tha... Read More about Avatars of Eurocentrism in the critique of the liberal peace.