Emma Hutchison is a UQ Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia. Before this, she was the 2010 Australian European University Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
Dr Hutchison's research focuses on emotions and trauma in world politics, particularly in relation to the politics and ethics of community, security, humanitarianism and international aid.
Current Key Research Projects
Along with these key research areas, Dr Hutchison is also interested in, and undertaking smaller projects on, the politics of aesthetics, visual culture, literature and contemporary feminism.
Further information on her research and forthcoming publications is available at https://uq.academia.edu/EmmaHutchison.
CURRENT RESEARCH GRANTS
"Emotions and the Future of International Humanitarianism", Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA), DE180100029.
"Emotions and the History of Humanitarianism", UQ Foundation Research Excellence Award.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Single-Authored Books
Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After Trauma. Cambridge Studies in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2016/2018.
*Awarded the British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize for 2017.
*Awarded the ISA Theory Section Best Book Award for 2017-2018.
Edited Collections
"Making War, Making Sense?" (with Asli Calkivik), in Millennium: Journal of International Studies, forthcoming 2019/2020.
"Emotions and World Politics" (with Roland Bleiker), in International Theory, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2014.
Journal Articles
"Making War, Making Sense? Debating Jens Bartelson's War in International Thought" (with Asli Calkivik), Millennium: Journal of International Studies, forthcoming 2019/2020.
"Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 47, No. 2, 2019.
"Emotions, Discourse and Power in World Politics" (with Roland Bleiker), International Studies Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, 2017.
"Theorizing Emotions in World Politics" (with Roland Bleiker), International Theory, Vol. 6. No. 3, 2014.
"A Global Politics of Pity? Disaster Imagery and the Emotional Construction of Solidarity after the 2004 Asian Tsunami", International Political Sociology, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2014.
"The Visual Dehumanization of Refugees" (with Roland Bleiker, David Campbell and Xzarina Nicholson), Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 48, No. 4, 2014.
"Affective Communities as Security Communities", Critical Studies on Security, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2013.
"Trauma and the Politics of Emotions: Constituting Identity, Security and Community after the Bali Bombing," International Relations, Vol. 24, No. 1, 2010.
"Unsettling Stories: Jeanette Winterson and the Cultivation of Political Contingency", Global Society, Vol. 24, No. 3, 2010.
"Emotional Reconciliation: Reconstituting Identity and Community After Trauma" (with Roland Bleiker), European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2008.
"Fear No More: Emotions and World Politics" (with Roland Bleiker), Review of International Studies, Vol. 34, 2008.
Book Chapters
"Humanitarian Emotions Through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid", in Dolorès Martin Moruno and Beatriz Pichel (eds.), Emotional Bodies: Studies on the Historical Performativity of Emotions. Illinois: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2019/2020.
"Trauma", in Roland Bleiker (ed.), Visual Global Politics. Interventions Book Series, Routledge, 2017.
"Grief and the Transformation of Collective Emotions After War" (with Roland Bleiker), in Linda Ahall and Thomas Gregory (eds.), Emotions, Politics and War. Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2015.
"Art, Aesthetics and Emotionality" (with Roland Bleiker), in Laura J. Shepherd (ed.), Gender Matters in World Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations, 2nd edition. Milton Park and New York: Routledge, 2014.
"Imaging Catastrophe: The Politics of Representing Humanitarian Crises" (with Roland Bleiker and David Campbell), in Michele Acuto (ed.), Negotiating Relief: The Dialectics of Humanitarian Space. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
"Emotions in the War on Terror" (with Roland Bleiker), in Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak (eds.), Security and the War on Terror. London: Routledge, 2008.
Dr Hutchison has published with leading academic journals and university book presses, and is meanwhile internationally recognised for her research on emotions and world politics. In addition to scholarly impacts, Dr Hutchison's research engages an audience beyond academic circles. She has been in close contact with humanitarian NGOs and she provides commentaries through social media, most recently in a series of blogs for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Through her new research on emotions and humanitarianism, Dr Hutchison is furthering policy linkages and collaborations, through working with humanitarian aid and development NGOs, such as the ICRC, Red Cross Australia, Oxfam International, CARE and Save the Children, as well as with governmental organisations at national and international levels.
Dr Hutchison is also part of a interdiscplinary resaerch team undertaking new work on the politics and ethics of humanitarian imagery. Formally partnering with the World Press Photo Foundation, this research seeks to question and develop principles to guide practices of imaging human suffering and crisis.
Journal Article: Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations
Hutchison, Emma (2019) Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47 2: 284-298. doi:10.1177/0305829818811243
Book Chapter: In public: collectivities and polities
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2019). In public: collectivities and polities. In Jane Davidson and Joy Damousi (Ed.), A cultural history of emotions: in the Modern and Post-Modern Age (1920-2000+) (pp. 145-159) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Book Chapter: Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2018). Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics. In Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (Ed.), Researching emotions in international relations: methodological perspectives on the emotional turn (pp. 325-342) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65575-8
Emotions and the future of international humanitarianism
(2018–2024) ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Emotions and the History of International Humanitarianism
(2018–2020) UQ Foundation
Emotional cultures and the politics of humanitarianism
(2016–2018) UQ Fellowships
Trauma, Dignity and the Struggle over Recognition: The Emotional Dynamics of Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation
Doctor Philosophy
The Cultural Landscape of Homeland: Remembering and imaginings of Tibet from exile
Doctor Philosophy
The `Stories-So-Far': The Construction of Protection Space as the Everyday Politics of Protection in Indonesia
Doctor Philosophy
Emotions and World Politics
Theorizing emotion and affect in world politics. Examining the politics and ethics of affective communal attachments, and the implications of such attachments for conceptions and practices of humanitarianism, international aid and development. Prospective RHD students interested in these (and surrounding) emerging debates are encouraged to get in touch about potential supervision.
Humanitarianism
Research on humanitarianism emerges from previous and current work on emotions and community in world politics, and in particular how images and the emotions they solicit shape humanitarian responses. Especially interested in exploring the emotional underpinnings - and historical development - of contemporary humanitarianism.
The Politics and Ethics of Disaster Imagery
Research in this area intersects with both ARC Discovery Project sponsored research, conducted together with Prof. Roland Bleiker and Prof. David Campbell, and new work on emotions and humanitarianism. These projects investigate in how images help to shape humanitarian sentiments and responsibilities. In doing so, they examine the politics and ethics of dominant forms of disaster imagery, analyzing in particular the roles emotions and culture play in paradoxically enabling yet also limiting responses to humanitarian crises. Prospective RHD students in these and associated research areas are also encouraged to get in touch.
Affective communities in world politics: collective emotions after trauma
Hutchison, Emma Affective communities in world politics: collective emotions after trauma. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
In public: collectivities and polities
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2019). In public: collectivities and polities. In Jane Davidson and Joy Damousi (Ed.), A cultural history of emotions: in the Modern and Post-Modern Age (1920-2000+) (pp. 145-159) London, United Kingdom: Bloomsbury.
Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2018). Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics. In Maéva Clément and Eric Sangar (Ed.), Researching emotions in international relations: methodological perspectives on the emotional turn (pp. 325-342) Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65575-8
Hutchison, Emma (2018). Trauma. In Roland Bleiker (Ed.), Visual global politics (pp. 298-305) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hutchison, Emma (2018). Trauma. In Roland Bleiker (Ed.), Visual global politics (pp. 306-313) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Grief and the transformation of emotions after war
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2015). Grief and the transformation of emotions after war. In Linda Åhäll and Thomas Gregory (Ed.), Emotions, politics and war (pp. 210-221) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Imaging catastrophe: the politics of representing humanitarian crises
Hutchison, Emma, Bleiker, Roland and Campbell, David (2014). Imaging catastrophe: the politics of representing humanitarian crises. In Michele Acuto (Ed.), Negotiating relief: the politics of humanitarian space (pp. 47-58) London, United Kingdom: Hurst & Co Publishers.
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2013). Reconciliation. In Roger Mac Ginty (Ed.), The Routledge handbook of peacebuilding (pp. 81-90) Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2012). Ungendering the links between emotions and violence: towards a political appreciation of empathy and compassion. In Linda Åhall and Laura J. Shepherd (Ed.), Gender, agency and political violence (pp. 151-168) Houndmills, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan.
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2008). Emotions in the war on terror. In Alex J. Bellamy, Roland Bleiker, Sara E. Davies and Richard Devetak (Ed.), Security and the war on terror (pp. 57-70) London, England: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203028094
Fear no more: Emotions and world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2008). Fear no more: Emotions and world politics. In Costas M. Constantinour, Oliver P. Richmond and Alison M. S. Watson (Ed.), Cultures and politics of global communication (pp. 115-135) Cambridge , U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations
Hutchison, Emma (2019) Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 47 2: 284-298. doi:10.1177/0305829818811243
Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2018) Methods and methodologies for the study of emotions in world politics. Researching Emotions in International Relations: Methodological Perspectives On the Emotional Turn, 325-342. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-65575-8_14
Discourse and emotions in international relations
Koschut, Simon, Hall, Todd H., Wolf, Reinhard, Solomon, Ty, Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2017) Discourse and emotions in international relations. International Studies Review, 19 3: 481-508. doi:10.1093/isr/vix033
Introduction: emotions and world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2014) Introduction: emotions and world politics. International Theory, 6 3: 490-491. doi:10.1017/S1752971914000220
Theorizing emotions in world politics
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2014) Theorizing emotions in world politics. International Theory, 6 3: 491-514. doi:10.1017/S1752971914000232
Hutchison, Emma (2014) A global politics of pity? Disaster imagery and the emotional construction of solidarity after the 2004 Asian Tsunami. International Political Sociology, 8 1: 1-19. doi:10.1111/ips.12037
Visual cultures of inhospitality
Bleiker, Roland, Campbell, David and Hutchison, Emma (2014) Visual cultures of inhospitality. Peace Review, 26 2: 192-200. doi:10.1080/10402659.2014.906884
The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees
Bleiker, Roland, Campbell, David, Hutchison, Emma and Nicholson, Xzarina (2013) The Visual Dehumanisation of Refugees. Australian Journal of Political Science, 48 3: 398-416. doi:10.1080/10361146.2013.840769
Affective communities as security communities
Hutchison, Emma (2013) Affective communities as security communities. Critical Studies on Security, 1 1: 127-129. doi:10.1080/21624887.2013.790227
Unsettling stories: Jeanette Winterson and the cultivation of political contingency
Hutchison, Emma (2010) Unsettling stories: Jeanette Winterson and the cultivation of political contingency. Global Society, 24 3: 351-368. doi:10.1080/13600826.2010.485561
Hutchison, Emma (2010) Trauma and the politics of emotions: Constituting identity, security and community after the Bali bombing. International Relations, 24 1: 65-86. doi:10.1177/0047117809348712
Hutchison, Emma (2009) Leigh A. Payne, Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence; Maja Zehfuss, Wounds of Memory: The Politics of War in Germany. Millennium, 38 1: 201-204. doi:10.1177/03058298090380010118
Hutchison, E. K. (2008) Book Review: Elizabeth Dauphinée, The Ethics of Researching War: Looking for Bosnia (Manchester University Press, 2007). Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 37 1: 208-210. doi:10.1177/03058298080370011103
Emotional reconciliation: Reconstituting identity and community after trauma
Hutchison, Emma and Bleiker, Roland (2008) Emotional reconciliation: Reconstituting identity and community after trauma. European Journal of Social Theory, 11 3: 385-403. doi:10.1177/1368431008092569
Hutchison, Emma (2008) (Book Review of) Elizabeth Dauphinée's The Ethics of Researching War: Looking for Bosnia (Manchester University Press, 2007). Millennium - Journal of International Studies, 37 1: 208-210.
Fear no more: Emotions and world politics
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2008) Fear no more: Emotions and world politics. Review of International Studies, 34 Supp. 1: 115-135. doi:10.1017/S0260210508007821
Hutchison, Emma K. (2007) Book review: Political Theory and Methodology. Brooke A. Ackerly,Maria Stern and Jacqui True (eds), Feminist Methodologies for International Relations. Australian Journal of Political Science, 42 4: 720-721. doi:10.1080/10361140701687002
Trauma, Emotion and the Construction of Community in World Politics
Ms Emma Hutchison (2008). Trauma, Emotion and the Construction of Community in World Politics PhD Thesis, School of Political Science and International Studies, The University of Queensland.
The Politics of Post-Trauma Emotions: Securing Community After the Bali Bombing
Emma Hutchison (2008). The Politics of Post-Trauma Emotions: Securing Community After the Bali Bombing. Paper 2008/4, Department of International Relations, RSPAS, The Australian National University.
Understanding emotions in world politics: reflections on method
Bleiker, Roland and Hutchison, Emma (2007). Understanding emotions in world politics: reflections on method. Working Paper 2007/5, Dept. of International Relations, Australian National University.
Emotions and the future of international humanitarianism
(2018–2024) ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
Emotions and the History of International Humanitarianism
(2018–2020) UQ Foundation
Emotional cultures and the politics of humanitarianism
(2016–2018) UQ Fellowships
(2014–2017) UQ Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women
Trauma, Dignity and the Struggle over Recognition: The Emotional Dynamics of Palestinian Resistance to Israeli Occupation
Doctor Philosophy — Principal Advisor
Other advisors:
The Cultural Landscape of Homeland: Remembering and imaginings of Tibet from exile
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
The `Stories-So-Far': The Construction of Protection Space as the Everyday Politics of Protection in Indonesia
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Emotions and Political Violence: A Study of Mobilization in Maoist Movement in Nepal
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Visuals in the media coverage of protest movements
Doctor Philosophy — Associate Advisor
Other advisors:
Note for students: The possible research projects listed on this page may not be comprehensive or up to date. Always feel free to contact the staff for more information, and also with your own research ideas.
Emotions and World Politics
Theorizing emotion and affect in world politics. Examining the politics and ethics of affective communal attachments, and the implications of such attachments for conceptions and practices of humanitarianism, international aid and development. Prospective RHD students interested in these (and surrounding) emerging debates are encouraged to get in touch about potential supervision.
Humanitarianism
Research on humanitarianism emerges from previous and current work on emotions and community in world politics, and in particular how images and the emotions they solicit shape humanitarian responses. Especially interested in exploring the emotional underpinnings - and historical development - of contemporary humanitarianism.
The Politics and Ethics of Disaster Imagery
Research in this area intersects with both ARC Discovery Project sponsored research, conducted together with Prof. Roland Bleiker and Prof. David Campbell, and new work on emotions and humanitarianism. These projects investigate in how images help to shape humanitarian sentiments and responsibilities. In doing so, they examine the politics and ethics of dominant forms of disaster imagery, analyzing in particular the roles emotions and culture play in paradoxically enabling yet also limiting responses to humanitarian crises. Prospective RHD students in these and associated research areas are also encouraged to get in touch.