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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.

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This book is a refuge. For the collective involved, writing and editing created a warm and welcoming home, and that in itself is a precious gift in and around academia today. But reading it is a long-sought shelter too. Brimming with beauty and generosity as much as rebellious honesty, Writing Saved Me will jolt you into a fresh awareness to all that it takes to make our disciplines and institutions more hospitable, but all along it will keep reassuring you: you are not alone. This is a rich and provocative account of the writing that underpins the work we put into the world. Visible here are the traces of the people we carry with us, the selves we hope we can be, the relationships for which we try to create and hold space in what are sometimes (often) deeply inhospitable environments. This collection chronicles what the authors have survived, and how, and what has been sacrificed along the way - and reckons with how writing can hold out a measure of joy and relief in the darkness. It deserves to be treasured.

For many students, their first experience of IR in the classroom is trying to fit ideas into grey-block paradigms that originate in old scholarly conversations from the 1980s. This is a monochrome world without people, populated instead by lists of abstract concepts. This collection brings the people back into IR, with all the wonderful mess and complexity that implies. Each contribution is a peak into one of the many personal worlds that underpin the public faces we see in peer-reviewed articles and monographs. --Lucian M. Ashworth, Memorial University of Newfoundland This book is a refuge. For the collective involved, writing and editing created a warm and welcoming home, and that in itself is a precious gift in and around academia today. But reading it is a long-sought shelter too. Brimming with beauty and generosity as much as rebellious honesty, Writing Saved Me will jolt you into a fresh awareness to all that it takes to make our disciplines and institutions more hospitable, but all along it will keep reassuring you: you are not alone. --Anna Selmeczi, University of Cape Town This is a rich and provocative account of the writing that underpins the work we put into the world. Visible here are the traces of the people we carry with us, the selves we hope we can be, the relationships for which we try to create and hold space in what are sometimes (often) deeply inhospitable environments. This collection chronicles what the authors have survived, and how, and what has been sacrificed along the way - and reckons with how writing can hold out a measure of joy and relief in the darkness. It deserves to be treasured. --Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney Writing for survivance, writing to repair, these tales bear witness to academic warriors shaking their metaphorical dreadlocks loose in an attempt to both let their hair down AND signal their refusal to be converted to fodder in the neoliberal academy. --Annie Paul, Editor-in-chief, PREE (preelit.com), the digital magazine of Caribbean writing

This is a rich and provocative account of the writing that underpins the work we put into the world. Visible here are the traces of the people we carry with us, the selves we hope we can be, the relationships for which we try to create and hold space in what are sometimes (often) deeply inhospitable environments. This collection chronicles what the authors have survived, and how, and what has been sacrificed along the way - and reckons with how writing can hold out a measure of joy and relief in the darkness. It deserves to be treasured.--Laura J. Shepherd, The University of Sydney

For many students, their first experience of IR in the classroom is trying to fit ideas into grey-block paradigms that originate in old scholarly conversations from the 1980s. This is a monochrome world without people, populated instead by lists of abstract concepts. This collection brings the people back into IR, with all the wonderful mess and complexity that implies. Each contribution is a peak into one of the many personal worlds that underpin the public faces we see in peer-reviewed articles and monographs. This book is a refuge. For the collective involved, writing and editing created a warm and welcoming home, and that in itself is a precious gift in and around academia today. But reading it is a long-sought shelter too. Brimming with beauty and generosity as much as rebellious honesty, Writing Saved Me will jolt you into a fresh awareness to all that it takes to make our disciplines and institutions more hospitable, but all along it will keep reassuring you: you are not alone. This is a rich and provocative account of the writing that underpins the work we put into the world. Visible here are the traces of the people we carry with us, the selves we hope we can be, the relationships for which we try to create and hold space in what are sometimes (often) deeply inhospitable environments. This collection chronicles what the authors have survived, and how, and what has been sacrificed along the way - and reckons with how writing can hold out a measure of joy and relief in the darkness. It deserves to be treasured. Writing for survivance, writing to repair, these tales bear witness to academic warriors shaking their metaphorical dreadlocks loose in an attempt to both let their hair down AND signal their refusal to be converted to fodder in the neoliberal academy.

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Cristina (Maria Da Rosa Bagaço) Masters lives in Manchester where she teaches international politics at the oh so lofty University of Manchester. Capricorn, tiger or ox depending on the day, lover of high-quality tinned tuna in olive oil. Mostly a crap academic; works way harder at becoming/being a better human being. She loves eating carbs, drinking grapefruit gin, dancing salsa on2, reading all things fiction (but mostly not when written by white men). Is looking for like-minded co-travellers to be unruly and make mischief with. shine choi works and lives in aotearoa new zealand. Her current research interests include non-alignment, monumental politics, postcolonial korean history, aesthetics, critical/creative methods and global feminist conversations. She mostly reads and is currently writing a shy reluctant book. Marysia Zalewski lives in Wales and Scotland and works at Cardiff University. She thinks a lot about gender. Can drift into despair about the awful shit that happens here and elsewhere…. Loves writing and thinking with people (especially this lot in this book!). Though writing remains very hard! Currently working on a project on – well, yes, gender….There’s always so much more to think about with gender. Would like to write a book called ‘Things that stay with you.’ Would like to put on an exhibition. Written a good bit about ‘feminist IR.’ Had lots of ‘real world’ jobs in my former lives – though still works as a mother and daughter. Watches way too many films. Swati Parashar would have liked to be a detective or a spiritual guru, but instead teaches and researches at the School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Her work is situated at the intersections of feminism and postcolonialism, but she is not a favourite of either of these 'camps', critiquing and messing around with them. She has lived and worked in many countries and is at home with her 'homelessness'. When not predicting test cricket scores, she likes to listen to Indian classical music and old Bollywood songs. Be warned, that her best writings come when she is sufficiently provoked or angry.

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