Teaching Fellow
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Dr KANDIDA PURNELL Contact Details
- Telephone
- work +44 (0)1224 272735
- k.purnell@abdn.ac.uk
- Address
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The University of Aberdeen
Room F15
Edward Wright Building
Dunbar Street
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB243QY
+44 (0) 1224 272 735
Biography
Dr Kandida Purnell is a Teaching Fellow in Politics and International Relations and Research Associate working with Dr Natasha Danilova (PI) on the Carnegie funded 'War Commemoration, Military Culture, and Identity Politics in Scotland' project. Kandida has a PhD in International Relations.
Kandida's research advances International Relations (IR) by interrogating how discourses, practices, and performances of violence, conflict, and security assemble/disassemble and move bodies and how bodies may act in turn to (dis/)assemble violence, conflict, and security regimes. Kandida's theoretical contributions are underpinned by empirical analyses of specific aspects, sites, and performances of the Global War on Terror including Guantánamo Bay, dead and wounded soldiers, Army/Artist collaberations, and military families.
Previous to joining the University of Aberdeen, Kandida gained a BA in Politics with Internaitonal Studies from the University of Surrey and an MA in International Relations from King's College London's Department of War Studies. Before pursuing a PhD Kandida also worked in the European Parliament, for public policy think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), and at Non Governmental Organisations campaigning for conflict resoution and aid transparency (OneVoice and Publish What You Fund).
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Research Interests
Bodies/Embodiment
Body Politics
Bodies Politic
Affect/Emotion and Feelings
Visual politics
(Anti/)Militarism
Terrorism/Counter Terrorism
Global War on Terror
International Relations (IR) Theory
Political Theory
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
Current Teaching:
PI3567: International Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and International Relations
PI5520: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
PI1518: Power and Conflict
PI4071: Dissertation
IR4031: Dissertation
**Consultation and Feedback Hours: Tuesday 1530-1730**
Previous Teaching:
- PI2009: Ideas and Ideologies in Politics and International Relations (2015, 2017)
- PI3069: Researching into the 21st Century (2015, 2017)
- PI1035: Accesss to Social Sciences (2016-2017)
- KL15PG: Access to Political Studies (2015-2016)
- PI1013: Introduction to International Relations: History and Concepts (2013, 2014)
- PI1516: Introduction to Political Science: British Politics and the EU (2013)
- SO1507: Introductory Sociology II (2017)
- PI2007: Theories of International Relations (2014)
- PI2005: Democracy: Issues and Controversies (2014, 2015)
- SO2009: Studying Social Life I (2016)
- SO2504: Studying Social Life II (2017)
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External Responsibilities
Membership in Professional Associations:
- International Studies Association (ISA)
- British International Studies Association (BISA)
- European International Studies Association (EISA)
Guest Blogger at Duck of Minerva (2017-2018)
- Publications
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Publications