James Brassett
I am currently Reader in International Political Economy (IPE); previously RCUK Research Fellow in the ESRC Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR). My research engages the everyday politics of globalisation with a focus on questions of ethics, governance, crisis and resistance. In particular, I have a longstanding interest in the cultural performance of global markets in documentary and narrative film, 24hr news and social media, graffiti and satire. This work has been published in journals such as European Journal of International Relations, International Political Sociology, International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, New Political Economy, Review of International Studies, Review of International Political Economy, and Security Dialogue. More broadly, I have edited 8 Journal Special Issues on subjects including 'Ethics in World Politics', 'Legitimacy and Global Governance', 'The Political Economy of the Sub-Prime Crisis', 'Resilience', and 'Humour in Global Politics'. I am a Co-Editor of the Routledge/RIPE Series in Global Political Economy as well as the online teaching tool: I-PEEL. My commentary on the rise of comedy in global politics has appeared in national and international media publications such as The Conversation, The Economist and Politiken.
Books
- The Ironic State: British Comedy and the Everyday Politics of Globalisation, Bristol University Press, forthcoming.
- Affective Politics of the Global Event: Trauma and the Resilient Market Subject, Routledge, 2018.
- Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax, Routledge, 2010.
Recent Articles
- EU've Got to Be Kidding: Anxiety, Humour and Ontological Security, Global Society, with Chris Browning and Murieann O'Dwyer, forthcoming
- Everyday Ethics of the Global Event: Grenfell and the Politics of Responsibility, Globalizations, forthcoming, with Dan Bulley.
- Men Behaving Badly? Representations of Masculinity in Post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) Cinema, International Feminist Journal of Politics, forthcoming, with Frederic Heine.
- British Satire, Everyday Politics: Chris Morris, Armando Iannucci, and Charlie Brooker, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 2017, 19(2): 245-262, with Alex Sutton.
- Mobile Payments, Social Money: Everyday Politics of the Consumer Subject, New Political Economy, 2017, 22(6): 645-660, with Ruben Kremers.
Funding
- Humorous States: New Diplomacy and the Rise of Comedy in International Relations, with Chris Browning, British Academy Small Grant.
- International Political Economy of Everyday Life, with Juanita Elias, Ben Richardson, and Lena Rethel, IATL Grant For Teaching Innovation.
- Ethics and Global Governance, Research Councils UK: 5 Year Fellowship.
- Roberts Funding for Research Development and Workshops.
- Visiting Fellowships at University of Amsterdam and University of Queensland.
Completed Phds
Dr Frederic Heine, 'The Temptation of Inflation': Masculinities and the Eurozone Crisis', ESRC funded.
Dr Marco Andreu, Impact Bonds and the Ambiguous Politics of Market Ethics, Warwick Chancellors Fellowship.
Dr Aya Nassar, Spaces of Power: Politics, Subjectivity and Materiality in Post-Independence Cairo, Warwick Chancellors Fellowship.
Dr Donna Greene, The Sustainability of the Social Democratic Welfare State: A Case Study of Barbados 1974-1994.
Dr Maurice Stierl, Migration Resistance as Border Politics: Counter Imaginaries of Europe, Warwick Chancellors Fellowship.
Dr Chris Rossdale, Anarchism, Anti-Militarism and the Politics of Security, ESRC Funded, Winner of the BISA Michael Nicholson Prize for the Best Thesis in IR, 2014.
Dr Chris Clarke, The Ethics of Liberal Market Governance: Adam Smith and the Constitution of Financial Market Agency, ESRC Funded.
Dr Mark Fowle, Practices of Emancipation: Security, Dialogue and Change in Post-War Vukovar, ESRC Funded.
Dr Chris Holmes, Economistic Fallacies in Contemporary Capitalism: A Polanyian Analysis of Regimes of Marketised Protection, ESRC Funded.
Research Interests
- Everyday and Cultural Political Economy
- Ethics and Politics of Resistance
- Emotion and the Market Subject
- Comedy, Satire and Humour
Public Engagement
- Review of Charlie Brooker's Anti-Viral Wipe for The Conversation
- Quoted in Dutch newspaper Volkskrant on the rise of the comedian in politics.
- Quoted in The Economist on UK Political Satire
- Quoted in Danish newspaper Politiken on the Politics of Brexit Satire.
- E-IR Blog on Social Media Europe and the Rise of Humour in Global Diplomacy
- Panel on Humour and Politics at the Leicester Comedy Festival.
- Roundtable on the Future of Political Comedy, London South Bank.
- LSE Democratic Audit Blog on Comedy and the Politics of Resistance.
- Carnegie UK Trust Report on Gobal Governance and Democratic Civil Society.
- UNDP Report on Financial Transactions Taxes and Global Democracy.
Contact Details
Office: E2.12
Telephone: 02476-574420
Office Hrs: Tues 9-10, Thurs 12.30-1.30.