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| Vivienne Jabri | |
|---|---|
| Name | Vivienne Jabri |
| Occupation | Political theorist; Academic; Author |
| Known for | Critical theorizing on war, security, sovereignty, and gender |
Vivienne Jabri Vivienne Jabri is a political theorist and academic known for work on war, security, sovereignty, and gender. Her scholarship addresses the intersections of international relations, critical theory, and postcolonial studies, engaging debates across contemporary political thought, human rights, and cultural critique. She has held academic positions and contributed extensively to journals, edited volumes, and public discourse.
Jabri completed undergraduate and graduate studies that combined interests in political thought and international affairs at institutions associated with modernist and postcolonial scholarship, studying alongside figures connected to London School of Economics, King's College London, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of Edinburgh, University of Manchester, University of Warwick, University of Birmingham, and Queen Mary University of London. Her doctoral research engaged texts and debates linked to theorists from the Frankfurt School, Michel Foucault, Hannah Arendt, Antonio Gramsci, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and Jacques Derrida. She trained in interdisciplinary methods that drew on forums and centers such as the British International Studies Association, Royal Institute of International Affairs, Institute of Social Research (Frankfurt), School of Social Science, and archives associated with the Modern Records Centre.
Jabri has held academic appointments and visiting positions across universities and research institutes known for international studies and critical theory, including posts aligned with University College London, Goldsmiths, University of London, University of Sussex, City, University of London, University of York, University of Glasgow, Princeton University, Columbia University, New York University, and research fellowships associated with the Leverhulme Trust, Economic and Social Research Council, and British Academy. She has served on editorial boards for journals connected to the fields represented by International Relations, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, and interdisciplinary outlets that bridge Cultural Studies and Political Theory. Jabri has supervised doctoral candidates working on topics related to sovereignty, humanitarianism, and gendered violence and has participated in collaborative projects funded by organizations such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Nuffield Foundation, and Wellcome Trust.
Jabri's research interrogates the politics of war, intervention, and exceptionalism through engagements with theorists and case studies that evoke the practice and critique of sovereignty and violence. She draws on the intellectual legacies of Carl Schmitt, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, and Edward Said to analyze contemporary crises related to humanitarian intervention, counterinsurgency, and the securitization of populations. Her work connects debates on sovereignty to historiographies involving the British Empire, Ottoman Empire, United States, France, Israel, United Kingdom, Iraq War, Afghanistan War (2001–2021), Syrian Civil War, and postcolonial state formations. Jabri advances theoretical interventions that incorporate feminist perspectives informed by scholars like Judith Butler, Cynthia Enloe, Iris Marion Young, and Chantal Mouffe to examine gendered dimensions of conflict, displacement, and detention, referencing policy arenas such as United Nations Security Council resolutions, International Criminal Court, European Court of Human Rights, and UNHCR operations. Her analysis also dialogues with methodological approaches from poststructuralism, critical theory, postcolonial studies, and contemporary debates in International Relations theory including connections to realism, liberalism, and constructivism.
Jabri is author and editor of monographs and edited collections that have appeared alongside scholarship by leading scholars in political thought and international studies. Her books and chapters are situated within publishing venues and series associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Manchester University Press, and major academic journals such as International Affairs, Security Dialogue, Review of International Studies, European Journal of International Relations, and Journal of International Political Theory. Her influential texts examine themes of sovereignty, humanitarianism, and gender in relation to conflicts including the Gulf War, Kosovo War, Libyan Civil War, and interventions in the Horn of Africa. She has contributed chapters to edited volumes alongside scholars linked to the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and university research centers.
Selected works include monographs and edited volumes that are frequently cited in discussions of international political theory and critical security studies; her scholarship is engaged in course syllabi at institutions like Yale University, Harvard University, Princeton University, London School of Economics, and Sciences Po.
Jabri's contributions have been recognized through fellowships, research awards, and invitations to speak at conferences organized by bodies such as the British International Studies Association, International Studies Association, European Consortium for Political Research, Royal Institute of International Affairs, and learned societies including the British Academy and Royal Society of Arts. She has received grants from funding councils and trusts including the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Economic and Social Research Council, Leverhulme Trust, and other charitable foundations that support humanities and social science research.
Jabri has participated in public debates and media commentary on matters of intervention, rights, and security appearing in venues linked to BBC, The Guardian, New Statesman, The Independent, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and policy forums at institutions such as Chatham House, Council on Foreign Relations, Brookings Institution, and international conferences hosted by United Nations agencies. She has delivered keynote lectures at universities, think tanks, and international summits addressing humanitarian policy, gendered violence, and postcolonial critiques of intervention.
Category:Political theorists Category:International relations scholars