Salomé Ietter
Teaching Fellow in Political Theory, MA CSEP (Coordinator of MA Student Experience and Progression)
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Dr Salomé Ietter is a Teaching Fellow in Political Theory, teaching in 2024-2025 on PO201 (Political Theory from Hobbes: Seeking Freedom and Equality) and PO301 (Issues in Political Theory), and previously a Course Director for PO3A8 (Race in International Politics) and PO353 (Gender and International Development). Prior to joining PAIS she completed a PhD in Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London, and taught on political theory and international development at Queen Mary and King’s College London. She did her MA in International Relations, Conflict and Security at the University of Kent in Brussels, and is an Associate Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy. Salomé also co-convenes the French Politics Specialist Group of the PSA (Political Studies Association) in the UK.
Teaching responsibilities
(2024-2025) Seminar Tutor: PO201 Political Theory from Hobbes: Seeking Freedom and Equality
(2024-2025) Seminar Tutor: PO301 Issues in Political Theory
(Spring 2024) Module Director, Lecturer and Seminar Tutor: PO353 Gender and Development
(Spring 2024) Module Director and Seminar Tutor: PO3A8 Race and International Politics
MA supervisions
MA CSEP (Coordinator of MA Student Experience and Progression)
Research interests
Using a critical post-Marxist approach, Salomé’s PhD thesis contributed a study of the response of the French and British governments to, respectively, the Gilets jaunes movements in 2018-2019 and the Brexit vote in 2016. She developed the concept of ‘anti-populism’ as a more productive way than populism to account for competing yet co-constitutive reactionary constructions of ‘the people’ and the resilience of neoliberal orders in crisis. This thesis is currently the object of a monograph project titled ‘Capitalising on Crisis – Anti-populism and the resilience of neoliberalism in contemporary French and British politics’.
Her main interest lies in the discursive aspects and lived realities of the competing constructions of ‘the people’ and the working class and the role of such constructions in the reproduction, transformation and challenges made to neoliberal capitalist states – and particularly in the processes of racialization of the ‘working class’ in France and the UK.
She is currently building a new research project consisting of a discursive and ethnographic study of the construction of the idea of a ‘white working class’ in Northern France and Northern England, informed by a race critical and postcolonial perspective.
Recent publications
Salomé Ietter, ‘Back to class? The populism of the ‘Gilets jaunes’, Journal of Political Ideologies (under review).
‘Liberal democracies in crisis: racism as a lifeline?’, book review of Reactionary Democracy: How Racism and the Populist Far Right Became Mainstream by Aurelien Mondon and Aaron Winter (2020), in Populism (Special Issue on the Radical Right), Political Studies Association, issue 4, July 2021, pp. 11-12.