Writing Saved Me: When the International Gets Personal

Writing is a central part of the life of a scholar-academic. The writing that makes it into public spaces, however, is but a glimpse of the writing we do and might find meaningful. This edited volume is an attempt to collect writing that often remains hidden in academia – the email exchange with a student or colleagues, the writing that grapples with our loneliness, rage, and failures – and yet provide crucial insight into the ugly realities of global politics and the work that gets done on it (or not) in the neoliberal, extractive university.

Cristina Masters is senior lecturer in international politics at theUniversity of Manchester.

shine choi is senior lecturer at the school of people, environment and planning at Massey University.

Marysia Zalewski is professor of international relations atCardiff University. Her research has been supported by the British Academy, The Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland and The British Council.

Swati Parashar is professor in Peace and Development at the University of Gothenburg.