Dr Kandida Purnell

Associate Professor of Interest Relations

Contact:
Email: purnelk@richmond.ac.uk
School: School of Communications, Arts & Social Sciences
Research centres: International Visual Arts and Cultures (IVAC) / The State, Power and Globalisation (SPG)

About
Kandida Purnell is an Associate Professor at Richmond American University London. Kandida has over a decade’s experience teaching in the English, Scottish, and US systems while her interdisciplinary research into the local-global politics of bodies takes a methodologically innovative, feminist, and de-colonial approach and draws and builds on contemporary international social and political theory using mixed/innovative methods.

Kandida has written on the body politics of the Global War on Terror, resistance practices, mass casualty events, repatriation and commemoration processes, the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kandida’s monograph ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics’ was published by Routledge in 2021. In 2023 ‘When This is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’ (co-edited with Professor Jenny Edkins, Professor Lucy Easthope, and Dr Amy Cortvriend) and ‘Land of the Brave: Gender, Race, and Class and the Cultural Politics of Militarisation’ (co-authored with Dr Natasha Danilova and Emma Dolan) will be published by Bristol University Press – Policy Press and Edinburgh University Press – Advances in Critical Military Studies.

Qualifications

Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy (2022)
Associate Fellow, UK Higher Education Academy (2014)
PhD International Relations (University of Aberdeen, 2017)
MA International Relations (Kings College London, 2009)
BA Politics with International Studies (University of Surrey, 2005)

Teaching & learning

Some of the courses I teach:

IR7100: Research Methods
IR7450: Conflict and Post-Conflict Studies
INR4100: Introduction to International Relations
PLT3103: Comparative Political Systems
DEV5200: Research Methods and Practices
CRM5400: Terrorism and Counterterrorism
IR6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (International Relations)
PL6296/8: Senior Seminar I and II (Political Science)
INR7303: Securities and Insecurities: Bodies, Identity, Images
INR6400: Peace and Conflict Studies

Publications

Purnell, Kandida. 2021. Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts: Widening, Deepening, and Embodying Ontological (In)Security in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021
Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and The Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic’, London and New York: Routledge.
Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Out of Touch, Out of Tune: The Social-Political Construction of Atmospheric Walls during the COVID-19 Pandemic’s First Wave’, Emotions and Society ,vol xx, no. xx,1–18DOI: 10.1332/263169021X16171227433111
Purnell, K. 2021. ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and The Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic’, Routledge Interventions Series.
Danilova, N. and Purnell, K. 2020, ‘The ‘museumification’ of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain’s wars’, Critical Military Studies. Vol. 6(3-4): 287-305.
Purnell, K. 2018, ‘Grieving, Valuing and Viewing Differently: The Global War on Terror’s American Toll‘, International Political Sociology, Vol. 12(2): 156-171. Impact Factor: 1.923.
Purnell, K. and Danilova, N. 2018, ‘Dancing at the Frontline: Rosie Kay’s 5SOLDIERS De-Realises and Re-Secures the Global War on Terror’, Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 6(3): 370-375.
Purnell, K. 2015, ‘Body Politics and Boundary Work Nobodies on Hunger Strike at Guantánamo (2013–2015)‘, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol.39 (4): 271-286.
Purnell, K. 10/09/2020. ‘Fit for purpose? Boris Johnson’s two bodies and the UK “Better Health” strategy’, Somatosphere, URL: http://somatosphere.net/2020/johnson-two-bodies-better-health.html/
Bird, J, Lawton, K and Purnell, K. 2010, ‘Green and Decent Jobs: The case for local action’, Institute for Public Policy Research, URL: https://www.ippr.org/publications/green-and-decent-jobs-the-case-for-local-action

Research outputs

With Edkins, Jenny, Easthope, Lucy, and Cortvriend, Amy. 2023. ‘When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic’. Bristol University Press, Policy Press.
Purnell, Kandida. 2021. Bodies Coming Apart and Bodies Becoming Parts: Widening, Deepening, and Em-bodying Ontological (In)Security in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021, ksab037, https://doi.org/10.1093/isagsq/ksab037
Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Rethinking the Body in Global Politics: Bodies, Body Politics, and The Body Politic in a Time of Pandemic’, London and New York: Routledge.
Purnell, Kandida. 2021. ‘Out of Touch, Out of Tune: The Social-Political Construction of Atmospheric Walls during the COVID-19 Pandemic’s First Wave’, Emotions and Society, Vol. 3(2): 277-293, DOI: 10.1332/263169021X16171227433111
With Danilova, Natasha. 2020, ‘The ‘museumification’ of the Scottish soldier and the meaning-making of Britain’s wars’, Critical Military Studies. Vol. 6(3-4): 287-305.
Purnell, Kandida. 2018, ‘Grieving, Valuing and Viewing Differently: The Global War on Terror’s American Toll’, International Political Sociology, Vol. 12(2): 156-171.
With Danilova, Natasha. 2018, ‘Dancing at the Frontline: Rosie Kay’s 5SOLDIERS De-Realises and Re-Secures the Global War on Terror’, Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 6(3): 370-375.
Purnell, Kandida. 2015, ‘Body Politics and Boundary Work Nobodies on Hunger Strike at Guantánamo (2013–2015)’, Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Vol.39 (4): 271-286.

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