Anne McNevin
Associate Professor of Politics
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mcnevina@newschool.edu
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My teaching and research begins with enduring political questions about sovereignty, citizenship and political community. I am interested in the transformation of these things in relation to displacement, mobility, borders, and the global governance of migration. I also have interests in spatiality and temporality in world politics and in critical and post-colonial approaches to International Relations. My recent work has focused on the governmentality of Migration Management in the Indonesian context and I am working on a new project that examines conceptual starting points for Migration and Mobilities research.
Before joining The New School, I was based at Monash University as a Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and prior to that I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne.
Degrees Held
PhD, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University, 2006.
Recent Publications
Books
Contesting Citizenship: Irregular Migrants and New Frontiers of the Political. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.
(with Manfred B. Steger, eds.) Global Ideologies and Urban Landscapes, London and New York: Routledge, 2011.
Peer Reviewed Articles
“Hospitality as a Horizon of Aspiration (or, What the International Refugee Regime Can Learn from Acehnese Fishermen).” Journal of Refugee Studies, 2018. DOI.org/10.1093/jrs/fey014 (co-authored with Antje Missbach)
"Luxury Limbo: Temporal techniques of border control and the humanitarianisation of waiting" International Journal of Migration and Border Studies, 4(2), 2018 (co-authored with Antje Missbach).
"Learning to live with irregular migration: towards a more ambitious debate on the politics of 'the problem'" Citizenship Studies. 21(2), 2017.
"The Rationalities of Migration Management: control and subversion in an Indonesia-based counter-smuggling campaign" International Political Sociology. 10(3), 2016: 223-240 (co-authored with Antje Missbach and Deddy Mulyana).
“Beyond Territoriality: rethinking human mobility, border security and geopolitical space from the Indonesian island of Bintan” Security Dialogue. 45(3) 2014, 295 – 310.
“Ambivalence and Citizenship: Theorising the Political Claims of Irregular Migrants” Millennium, 41(2) 2013, pp.182-200.
“Becoming Political: Irregular Migrant Activism through Community Theatre” Local-Global: Identity, Security, Community, 8 (2010), pp. 142-156.
“Irregular Migrants, Neoliberal Geographies and Spatial Frontiers of ‘the Political,’’ Review of International Studies, 33 (4), 2007, pp. 655-674.
“The Liberal Paradox and the Politics of Asylum in Australia,” Australian Journal of Political Science, 41 (4), 2007, pp. 611-630.
“Political Belonging in a Neoliberal Era: The Struggle of the Sans-Papiers,” Citizenship Studies, 10 (2), 2006, pp. 135-151.
Book Chapters
“Forced Migration in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific” in Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh et. al. (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Refugee and Forced Migration. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014, pp.639-650.
“Global Migration and Mobility: Conceptual Approaches, Governing Rationalities and Social Transformations” in Manfred Steger, Paul Battersby and Joseph Siracus (eds.) Sage Handbook of Globalization, London: Sage, 2014, pp.644-661.
“Undocumented Citizens? Shifting Grounds of Citizenship in Los Angeles” in Peter Nyers and Kim Rygiel (eds.) Citizenship, Migrant Activism and the Politics of Movement, New York and London: Routledge, 2012, pp. 165-183.
“Confessions of a failed feminist IR scholar: feminist methodologies in practice in Peshawar,” in Bina d’Costa and Katrina Lee Koo (eds.) Gender and Global Politics in the Asia-Pacific, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, pp. 115-128.
Research Interests
Critical and post-colonial International Relations; theories of citizenship; radical democratic theory; Migration Studies, Border Studies, Governmentality.
Current Courses
Independent Study