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Kara Ann Hooser

@kahooser.bsky.social
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Assistant Instructional Professor, Committee on International Relations at UChicago; researching and teaching about feminist peace

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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Am so grateful to be given the space to think through what WPS offers for the future, and how hope as resistance still cracks open possibilities for a different kind of world
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Last week marked the last day of my Critical Security Studies seminar. We cap out our quarter together by discussing what stuck with us and what might have shifted in how we see the world. Without fail, the responses on this last day are always a reminder of why I love teaching this course…
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Annika Bergman Rosamond discusses: 'The protection of cultural property in times of armed conflict: Ethics, gender, and coloniality' in new Review of International Studies article & video abstract 🌟 Read and watch now! 👉 ow.ly/6bL150XyvMt Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR
A UNSECO heritage site of an old white building with 5 large windows situated in a forest with greenery surrounding it
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What happens when we teach politics through poetry, story, sound, film, and art? Tomorrow at ISA Northeast, I’ll be moderating a roundtable on creative pedagogy in political science, bringing together some amazing educators who use arts-based methods to rethink what learning can look and feel like🧵
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Was such a pleasure to be a part of this conversation!
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It was an honor being in conversation with the Community of Practice on Men, Masculinities, and Peace, spearheaded by WILFP's Mobilizing Men for Feminist Peace, Pax Netherlands, and the VIP Lab at USD. Alongside Ray Acheson and Germán Otálora-Gallego, and moderated by Henri Myrttinen…
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Jamie J. Hagen @jamiejhagen.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in @teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert, @lewisturner.bsky.social & I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research. bit.ly/43XMzYG
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Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)
Although not new, debates about researchers’ refusal to engage in (potentially) unethical and harmful research have recently gained traction in the social sciences, stressing the need for researche...
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
What a way to kick off my first BISA conference. Cynthia Enloe speaking on masculinities, militarization, disposability, and feminist resistance. Moderated by the incomparable Marsha Henry.
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Spring quarter grades are submitted and I’m feeling super inspired by the students in my Peace in International Relations seminar. Their intellectual curiosity, compassion, and creativity transformed our classroom into something truly special 🧵
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ISA ELIAS @isa-eliasection.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🎉 Our congratulations to Heather Smith, this year’s ELIAS Distinguished Scholar Award recipient! 🏆 Join us to celebrate at the ELIAS Business Meeting: 📅 March 4, ⏰ 6 PM, 📍 Stevens Salon C-6
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
So stoked to receive this award! Thanks a million to the committee❤️
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ISA ELIAS @isa-eliasection.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
🥂 Join us to celebrate @kahooser.bsky.social , recipient of the ELIAS Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award, at the ELIAS/TCIC Joint Reception! 📅 March 4, ⏰ 7:30 PM, 📍 Williford C.
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niharika pandit @niharikaan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
my new article that analyses the colonial logics and underpinnings of militarisation, and builds a critique of liberal feminist IR analyses and research agendas is now out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... the article also lays the conceptual framework of my forthcoming book.
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A feminist analysis of the coloniality of militarization: thinking with Kashmir at the margins of the Global South
This article was named the winner of the 2023 Enloe Award. The committee commented: This highly original piece advances underexplored sites for decolonial theorization while embedding evocative met...
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Kara Ann Hooser @kahooser.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Thrilled to be featured on this list TWICE! I'll be at ISA to accept the 2025 Deborah Gerner Grant from the Women's Caucus, as well as the Early Career Instructor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Education and Learning in International Affairs Section. www.isanet.org/News/ID/6582...
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2024-2025 Award Recipients
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Lee Jarvis @leejarvis.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Delighted to see our new article published! In it, Nick Robinson and I explore the value of children's books as a site of critical engagement with world politics, focusing on the forcible exclusion of unwanted individuals. Open access and free to read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Publication alert! In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Writing for justice, reading for absence - International Politics
Conversing with Laura Shepherd in The Self and Other Stories, this essay considers accompaniment, embodiment, expertise, and representation through a care-infused lens. I present my readings of conten...
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Yasmeen Abu-Laban @yasmeenabulaban.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Very happy to share our 2024 transdisciplinary book Resisting the Dehumanization of Refugees, which brings together academics, practitioners and refugees. It's open access so you can download the pdf for free or purchase a hard copy here: www.aupress.ca/books/120327...
An outline of a human with their brain and heart connected by hearts.
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Well that’s a seasonal treat! @drljshepherd.bsky.social
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Institute of Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS) @iniis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)
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A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies - Universität Bremen
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Colleen Larkin @colleen-larkin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
It’s here!! My essay with Stacie Goddard on pathways of nuclear nonuse @iojournal.bsky.social
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