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Professor Cindy Weber

Professor

Associated research centres and groups: Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Dynamics of Memories

Research Interests

My research might broadly be conceived of as Critical World Order Studies, a term that conveys both my engagement with core disciplinary IR themes like sovereignty, intervention, and global governance while marking the intra- and inter-disciplinarity of my work. My research addresses the following question: 'how do hegemonic discourses function, and how might they be resisted and/or reconstructed?' This question stems from my long-standing concern with US global hegemony, not only through US foreign policy but also through globalized expressions of hegemony found in popular culture, gender, and sexuality.

In the past, I have written on the relationship between sovereignty and intervention, US foreign policy (especially in relation to the Caribbean), and various theoretical debates in IR theory (like gender, constructivism, and post-structuralism).

I have just completed a book entitled Imagining America at War: Morality, Politics, and Film which takes up the question of US hegemony in the context of September 11. By weaving together IR theory, cultural studies, and gender and queer studies, the book focuses on America's emerging moralities in relation to the war on terror. It does so by tracing how popular films circulated in the US in the aftermath of September 11 both mark America's moral movement about post-September 11 foreign policy and participate in the reconstruction of American morality nationally and internationally. How American morality is conceived and reconceived -- not only by foreign policy officials but by everyday Americans -- is vital to the practice of US global hegemony, which is central to how we think about international security and global governance.

Currently, I am working on two projects. The first is an hour-long documentary on the topic of Post-9/11 US citizenship. The second is an on-going project on 'the aesthetics of fear' as it is expressed politically through events like September 11, reactions to the 7/7 London bombings (especially through the werenotafraid website), and Hurricane Katrina.

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Professor Weber would welcome PhD students working in areas such as:

(International) Politics, Media, and CultureCritical US Studies/American StudiesSovereignty, Intervention, and HegemonyDiscourse Analysis, Postmodernism, and Gender/Queer Studies

Publications

For Professor Weber's latest books, see routledge and amazon

For films by Professor Weber, see orangealert

for recent media involvement by Professor Weber, see

bbc radio4/womenshour (a Women's Hour debate on 'Winning Women's Votes -- The Moral Vote)

and opendemocracy (an OpenDemocracy blog 'Women Making a Difference' discussing UN Resolution 1325 which supports women's participation in peacekeeping and decision-making).

Associated Keywords: American studies, Citizenship, Cultural Studies, Feminism, Film, Gender, Global governance, Media, Politics, Post-structuralism, Security, United States

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