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Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories (2024)
Journal Article
Conway, P. (online). Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories. Cultural Studies, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2024.2364260

Conspiracy culture cultivates suspicion towards the hidden workings of power. While some modes of suspicion direct critical attention towards the crimes and cruelties of oppressive social relations, other modes misdirect that same attention. When suc... Read More about Repressive suspicion, or: the problem with conspiracy theories.

'The citadel of scholarship': Rediscovering critical IR in Millennium 1:1 (2023)
Journal Article
Conway, P. (2023). 'The citadel of scholarship': Rediscovering critical IR in Millennium 1:1. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 51(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298221142947

‘Critical’ international relations (IR) is usually understood to have originated in the early 1980s. However, a close reading of Vithal Rajan’s ‘An Epitaph for Detached Scholarship’, published in the inaugural issue of Millennium in 1971, tells anoth... Read More about 'The citadel of scholarship': Rediscovering critical IR in Millennium 1:1.