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Dr Joe Turner
Senior Lecturer

Biography

My research focuses on the organisation of violence in Northern liberal states, specifically how border regimes reproduce structural, epistemic and bio-physical violence. In my work I explore how post metropoles like Britain function as postcolonial states, and how border regimes in such spaces are structured by imperial and colonial histories and hierarchies of human value. In this way I am interested in how the knowledge and practice of borders, citizenship and mobility form a central role in colonial/global systems of international politics. My work is interdisciplinary in character, drawing from international relations, political geography and history. In my research I draw widely on postcolonial and postcolonial feminist theories as well as theoretical innovations from Foucauldian studies and material theories of race, gender, sexuality and capitalism. I have previously published work on citizenship and domestication, family visa regimes, intimate methods and internal colonisation. My articles have appeared in disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals and my forthcoming monograph Bordering Intimacy will be published with Manchester University Press.         

Career

I hold a PhD from the University of Sheffield, an MA from Newcastle University and a BA from the University of Sheffield. After finishing my PhD, I was an Associate Lecturer at the Aston University Birmingham before becoming a University Teacher at the University of Sheffield. From 2016-2019 I held a Fellowship in International Migration in the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Sheffield. I joined the University of York as Lecturer in September 2019. 

Contact details

Dr Joe Turner
Senior Lecturer
Department of Politics and International Relations
University of York
Heslington Lane
York
YO10 5DD

Tel: +44 (0)1904 324642