Birgit Poopuu
Professor of International Relations
School of Governance, Law and Society
A-146
+372 6409 464
birgit.poopuu@tlu.ee
Thursdays at 4-5pm in room A146 or in zoom; or we can also over email find another suitable time
Introduction
I am a scholar-activist who mainly works in the field of critical peace and conflict studies. I work with a multitude of IR perspectives: from postcolonial, feminist to relational approaches. My research stays curious about: whose knowledge and lives matter in world politics. I have studied the EU鈥檚 peace missions, Syrian revolution, conceptualised violence and reflected on what relations matter for our world.
Currently, I am working on getting to a more contextual, and critical-relational understanding of violence. This work sits at the intersection of feminist-postcolonial-relational scholarship, demanding that diverse types and sites of violence are seen together, as only then we can imagine a more just peace.
In my spare time I like to go stand-up paddleboarding, bog walking, thrift shopping. I like creative and arts based activities: I make collages, and am fond of (spoken word) poetry.
Main tasks
Teaching courses: International Relations Doctoral Course; Perpectives on Global Security; Politics and Power of Resistance; Peace and Conflict Analysis
Research: European Horizon Twinning grant A critical relational perspective on peace & security in CEE Principal Investigator
Head of IR Master's programme
Associate editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development
Co-editor of the Estonian gender studies journal Ariadne L玫ng
Co-director of the Central and Eastern European Security Hub (CEEShub: https://securityhub.ee)
Areas of research
peace and conflict studies
critical perspectives to International Relations (feminist, decolonial and relational)
(non-)violence
security
revolution/the politics & power of resistance
knowledge production
creative/arts-based methods