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Roland Bleiker
Researcher at University of Queensland
Publications - 137
Citations - 3569
Roland Bleiker is an academic researcher from University of Queensland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Politics & International relations. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 135 publications receiving 3115 citations. Previous affiliations of Roland Bleiker include Australian National University.
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Fear no more: emotions and world politics
Roland Bleiker,Emma Hutchison +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that although emotions play a significant role in world politics they have so far received surprisingly little attention by International Relations scholars and draw on feminist and other interpretive approaches to facilitate cross-disciplinary inquiries.
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The Aesthetic Turn in International Political Theory
TL;DR: We have all grown accustomed to familiar representations of the international and its conflicts, and we gradually forget that we have become so accustomed to these politically charged and distorting metaphors that we accept them as real as mentioned in this paper.
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Theorizing emotions in world politics
Emma Hutchison,Roland Bleiker +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors survey the development of the respective debates and then offer a path forward, arguing that the key challenge is to theorize the processes through which individual emotions become collective and political, and further suggest that this is done best by exploring insights from two seemingly incompatible scholarly tendencies: macro theoretical approaches that develop generalizable propositions about political emotions and micro approaches that investigate how specific emotions function in specific circumstances.
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The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees
TL;DR: The authors examine how media images of asylum seekers have framed ensuing debates during two crucial periods over the past decade and demonstrate that refugees have primarily been represented as medium or large groups and through a focus on boats, which reinforces a politics of fear that explains why refugees are publicly framed as people whose plight, dire as it is, nevertheless does not generate a compassionate political response.
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Aesthetics and World Politics
TL;DR: The authors argue that aesthetic sources can offer alternative insight: a type of reflective understanding that emerges not from applying the analytical skills that are central to the social sciences, but from cultivating a more open-ended level of creativity and sensibility about the political.