Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

MA Degree Programme Director (Critical Geopolitics)

Qualifications

Ph.D. in Political Science (York University, Canada)

MA in Political Science (York University, Canada)

BAH in Political Studies (Queen's University, Canada)

Journal Editorships

Co-Editor: POLITICS (Wiley-Blackwell)

Associate Editor: Critical Studies on Security (Routledge beginning in 2013)

Book Series Editorships 

Popular Culture and World Politics (Routledge)

Undergraduate Teaching

POL 2078 Critical International Politics (Module Leader)

POL 3093: Advanced Research Seminar in Politics (Module Leader)

Postgraduate Teaching

POL 8044: Critical Geopolitics (Module Leader)
POL 8041: Theories and Approaches to Politics: Power and Democracy(Epistemology and Ontology, Post-structuralism)
POL 8048: World Politics and Popular Culture (Visual Politics, Dangerous Places, Security)
HSS 8007: The Nature of Enquiry and Explanation (Postmodernism and Poststructuralism)

Research Interests

political violence, popular culture and world politics, visuality

Current Work

Current research projects include analyses of the politics of targeted killing, political representations in children's literature (with a specific focus on Paddington Bear), and visual politics more generally.

Postgraduate Supervision

critical security studies, popular culture, post-structuralism

Funding

UK Political Studies Association, the British Academy, and the Aid to Scholarly Publications Program, Canadian Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences.

Projects

• From Dissidence to Defiance: Resisting the Disciplines of Global Politics
  Project Leader(s): Dr Kyle Grayson

• Grayson K. How to Read Paddington Bear: Foreignness and the Liberal Subject in A Bear Called Paddington. British Journal of Politics and International Relations 2012. In Press.
• Grayson K. Six Theses on Targeted Killing. Politics 2012, 32(2). In Press.
• Grayson K. The ambivalence of assassination: Biopolitics, culture, and political violence. Security Dialogue 2012, 43(1), 25-41.
• Grayson K. Biopolitics, Geopolitics, and the Regulation of Club Drugs in Canada. In: Montigny, E.A, ed. The Real Dope: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 2011, pp.264-284.
• Grayson KA. Clandestine Convergence: Human Security, Power, and Canadian Foreign Policy. In: Marshall Beier, J; Wylie, L, ed. Canadian Foreign Policy in Critical Perspective. Don Mills Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 85-98.
• Grayson KA. Dissidence, Richard K. Ashley, and the Politics of Silence. Review of International Studies 2010, 36(4), 1005-1019.
• Grayson KA. Human security, neoliberalism and corporate social responsibility. International Politics 2010,47 5 497-522.
• Grayson KA. Human Security: Sovereignty and Disorder. In:Chandler, D; Hynek, N, ed. Critical Perspectives on Human Security Rethinking Emancipation and Power in International Relations.London:Routledge,2010, pp. 172-185.
• Grayson K, Davies M, Philpott S. Pop Goes IR? Researching the Popular Culture-World Politics Continuum.. Politics 2009, 29(3), 155-163.
• Grayson KA. Chasing dragons: security, identity, and illicit drugs in Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
• Grayson KA. Human security as power-knowledge: The biopolitics of a definitional debate. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 2008, 21(3), 383-401.
• Grayson KA. The persistence of memory: The new surrealism and the 'War on Terror'. In: Dauphinée E; Masters C, ed. The Logics of Biopower and the War on Terror: Living, Dying, Surviving. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 83-108.
• Grayson KA. Promoting responsibility and accountability - Human security and Canadian corporate conduct. International Journal 2006, 61(2), 479-494.
• Grayson KA. A challenge to the power over knowledge of traditional security studies. Security Dialogue 2004, 35(3), 357.
• Grayson KA. Branding 'transformation' in Canadian Foreign Policy: human security. Canadian Foreign Policy 2004, 11(2), 41-68.
• Grayson KA. Discourse and the 'War on Drugs'. In: Beare ME, ed. Critical Reflections on Transnational Organized Crime, Money Laundering, and Corruption. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, pp. 145-170.
• Grayson KA. Securitization and the Boomerang Debate: A Rejoinder to Liotta and Smith Windsor. Security Dialogue 2003, 34(3), 337-344.
• Grayson KA. Human security in the global era. In: Drache D, ed. The Market or the Public Domain? : Global Governance and the Asymmetry of Power. New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 229-252.