DoingIPS (International Political Sociology)

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DoingIPS brings together researchers working in the broad area of International Political Sociology (IPS). At the crossroad of different disciplines, they explore different theoretical and methodological lines of thought that are deployed in IPS and key themes of debate that are currently shaping this growing and stimulating field. More than a finite research group, DoingIPS is a hub that aims to promote International Political Sociology by adopting a flexible and inclusive approach.

Since its inception, International Political Sociology (IPS) has been defined by its distinct effort to articulate a critique of dogmatic conceptualisations of international politics. To that aim, it explores the conceptions of the ‘social’ and ‘political’ that historically have been inscribed in ‘the international’ and investigates how the ‘international’ is produced across multiple, transversal and inter-connected sites of political and social life. Doing so, IPS creates a site for developing concepts, methods and theories that go beyond the inherited models of territorialised sovereignty, state/society relations and the international system while engaging some of the most pertinent challenges in world politics today.

The interest in IPS has been steadily growing over the last two decades. In 2016 the journal International Political Sociology celebrated its 10th anniversary with special issue. At the same time, the Routledge ‘Handbook of International Political Sociology and an edited volume International Political Sociology: Transversal Lines’ were published. Between them, these initiatives propose distinct lines of research that have shaped the lineages of critical international studies. IPS has also become a vibrant place for research that works across International Relations and other social sciences and for critical reflections on the relation between political theory, sociology, word politics, human geography, anthropology and law.

DoingIPS is an international hub with national networks in Brazil, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, and co-founded a Standing Section on Doing International Political Sociology at the European International Studies Association.

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Yes

Offers funding

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Founding year

2017

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University affiliation(s)

Queen Mary, University of London
London

Partner Infrastructures

TheoryLAB

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London

Partner Universities

King's College London (KCL)

University of Warwick, Coventry

Additional Partnerships

Rede IPS Brasil (IPS Brazil Network), Brazil; Working Group International Political Sociology (AK IPS), German Political Science Association (DVPW), Germany; Sociologie politique des relations internationales (SPRI), Association Française de Science Politique, France; European International Studies Association (EISA), Switzerland