Kate Schick

Lecturer

BA Hons Otago, MLitt, PhD St Andrews

Profile

Kate joined the Programme in February 2009.  Prior to this, she was an Economic and Social Research Council Fellow at the University of St Andrews, where she also completed an MLitt in International Security Studies (Commonwealth Scholar) and a PhD in International Relations (NZ Top Achiever Doctoral Scholar).  Her research focuses on the ways in which contemporary political theory and International Relations theory deal with trauma and suffering in world politics.  She draws on a wide range of disciplinary sources from psychology and psychotherapy, historical trauma studies, cultural studies and political theory.  Her work addresses both theoretical literature about suffering and modernity and empirical questions about post-conflict reconciliation.

Research Interests

Kate is working on a book project, entitled Gillian Rose: A good enough justice. This book will emphasise the contribution Rose's 'speculative' Hegelianism can make to debates in contemporary radical political theory. She is also exploring the ways in which ideas of 'working through' trauma can inform International Relations debates on the aftermath of war and the role of memory and emotion in world politics.

Publications

Kate Schick, Gillian Rose: A good enough justice (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming).

Kate Schick, 'Acting out and Working Through: Trauma and (In)security', Review of International Studies (forthcoming).

Kate Schick, ‘“To lend a voice to suffering is a condition for all truth”: Adorno and International Political Thought’, Journal of International Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2009), pp. 138-160.

Kate Schick, ‘Beyond rules: A critique of the liberal human rights regime’, International Relations, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2006), pp. 345-351.

R. Sutherland, M.E. Pipe, K. Schick, J. Murray, and C. Gobbo, ‘Knowing in advance: The impact of prior event information on memory and event knowledge’, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 84, No. 3 (2003), pp. 244-263.

Current Teaching

INTP 248 - Conflict Analysis
INTP/POLS 427 - Special Topic: War and its Aftermath

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