Connor Clery
PhD
Politics and international relations
Connor Clery is a PhD Candidate, Sessional Tutor and Research Assistant in social and political science. I use critical theory to better understand resistance, security and peace, and conflict in global politics. My expertise lies in delivering high-quality research in challenging contexts, which require developing institutional partnerships, engaging with key stakeholders and managing complex projects. Sociological and anthropological approaches to critical IR are of particular interest to me. I welcome conversations about future collaboration.
Contact:
Thesis
Resistance, precarity and the administration of life: peace praxis at the Colombian periphery
My research uses a critical, qualitative and exploratory design to understand resistance, security and peace, and conflict. Drawing on fieldwork in Urabá, Antioquia with former combatants from Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, I argue human experiences of (in)security and practices of resistance illuminate state and international peace-making enterprises as manufacturing violent and confining social conditions. The key contributions of the research to political science and international relations are the theorisation of: resistance as a distinct and relational political process, occurring alongside war and peace; and the peripheries as a meaningful ontological category that structures and produces global political order.
Research interests
- Resistance
- Security
- Peace and conflict
- Critical Theory