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This essay builds on the COVID-19 pandemic and the ways in which love has been played out politically in relation to migration. In Canada, the pandemic rendered visible the often invisible care work traditionally performed by women, and now increasingly so by women of color and asylum seekers. Building on queer theorist Sara Ahmed's understanding of immigration policies as a form of 'conditional love,' I investigate various processes of (de)politicization that occurred when love and care became politically mobilized. I use the 'love-body-care' constellation as working points to tease out some disciplining and transformative possibilities brought about by love. I then examine how the pandemic unexpectedly made visible the politics of touch, love, and care between state-sanctioned hierarchized bodies. I notably unpack the 'guardian angel' metaphor that was mobilized to speak of those doing care work, and especially those working as continuing care assistants for the elderly — overwhelmingly asylum seekers and women of color in Quebec. Running through the discussion lie lingering existential, political questions: who cares (in both the practical and emotional understandings of the term), and how do we care about each other — with what political consequences?

"International Relations as a Social Science" published on by Oxford University Press.

With its 2009 report on the state of the discipline of International Relations (IR), the Teaching, Research, and International Policy (TRIP) Project of the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations aimed to tackle directly Ole Waever's claim that IR 'is and has been an American social science'. The TRIP project engaged in an ambitious ten-country survey about the 'state of the discipline.' The choice of the ten countries reflects an obvious yet unmentioned selection criteria: the countries use English as the main language of scientific communication. I suggest that the impacts on knowledge production of this imperative to write in English in order to be acknowledged as 'doing IR' have been understudies in their theoretical, material, and emotional implications. A turn to postcolonial theory, I suggest, would prove a useful place to start in seeking to account for the political and emotional components tied to a politics of language in the discipline, politics which goes beyond the mere acknowledgement of English as a practical lingua franca that enables communications beyond frontiers or as an imperialist language that simply threatens intellectual diversity. Adapted from the source document.

Introduces a special issue of this journal focusing on the study of sociology within the context of international relations.

"Feminist Perspectives on Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.