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Injury and the International Politics of Global Justice Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies
Injury and the International Politics of Global Justice
Vivienne Jabri
King's College London
We witness the conduct of war targeting populations and are compelled to ask about the conditions of possibility for such conduct with impunity. War is constitutively of injury, but its mark must be traced in relation to the subject, to populations targeted, to infrastructures and public spaces, and the very possibility of politics. Using the concept of injury, and drawing on critical political thought, this lecture focuses on the concept's generative force, beyond conflict and beyond war, towards justice and the distinctly political processes that produce judgement and the potential of repair.
Vivienne Jabri is Professor of International Politics in the Department of War Studies at King's College London. She is Principal Investigator on the five-year ERC advanced project, Mapping Injury, funded as a UKRI Frontier Research Grant (Horizon Europe Guarantee). Her research interests centre on war and the political, international political theory, aesthetic thought, the postcolonial international, and critical approaches to global justice. She is author of five books, the most recent of which is the forthcoming Worlds in Conflict: War and the Limits of Politics (MIT Press, 2025). For Professor Jabri's current research project, see mappinginjury.org.
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