Dr. Marta Bashovski
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Associate Professor of Political Science
BA Hons (University of British Columbia), MA and PhD (University of Victoria)
marta.bashovski@uregina.ca
Phone: 306.586.4242 ext. 259 | Office: CM 315
Research Interests
- Politics of knowledge and politics of language
- Theories of resistance and dissent
- Politics of narrative and aesthetics
- Critical methodologies and practices of critique
- Contemporary social and political thought
- History of political thought, particularly Enlightenment thought
- International relations theory
Most of my research is in the politics of knowledge and the politics of language, broadly understood. This includes studying how the categories and stories through which we understand our political worlds affect our possibilities for political action. It also includes thinking about cultural objects like novels, music, art, and film as part of political theory, and as expressing political views.
I also spend a lot of time thinking about teaching and learning as critical and relational community-building practices. A reflection can be found HERE.
Current Scholarly Projects
I am currently working on two book manuscripts. The first, entitled Art as Thought: A Methods Manifesto (under contract with Palgrave Macmillan), co-written with Dr. Danielle Taschereau Mamers, examines how international studies theorists mobilize visual art as a form of critical and creative political thinking. The second, entitled Determinations of Dissent, looks at the knowledge practices through which recent social movements have been interpreted by journalists, academics and activists, and the historical contexts and consequences of these interpretations.
Representative Publications
- “Introduction: Political Subjectivity in times of crisis,” (with Norma Rossi) Globalizations. OnlineFirst, March 2023, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2023.2186102.
- “Knowing dissent: the Enlightenment subject within contemporary politics of subjectivity.” Globalizations, OnlineFirst, September 2022, https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2022.2127298.
- “Everyday cruelties: political economies of migration and indifference.” Global Studies Quarterly 2(2), April 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab043.
- “The looping effects of IR’s concepts: Bartelson on ontogenetic war and the politics of classification” in Symposium on Jens Bartelson’s War in International Thought, Millennium: Journal of International Studies 48(1), September 2019, p.79-89, https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829819873952
