Dr Kandida Purnell
Associate Professor of International Relations
Richmond, The American International University in London
Kandida Purnell · 2021 · Routledge
‘A tour de force of contemporary debates in IR – including on emotion, affect, the body, embodiment, necropolitics, ontological security, & auto-ethnography‘ (Professor Sophie Harman)
Teaching
Dr Kandida Purnell is an Associate Professor of International Relations (IR) at Richmond, The American International University in London, Kandida has previously worked as a Lecturer in International Relations at City, University of London, and Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations and Teaching Assistant in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Aberdeen.
Research
Dr Kandida Purnell’s research focuses on body politics and the embodiment of (local-)global politics through cases including the Covid-19 pandemic, the Global War on Terror (GWoT), performances of war, resistance practices, and processes of repatriation and commemoration.
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