Dr Sophia Dingli
- Lecturer - International Relations (Political & International Studies)
email:
Sophia.Dingli@glasgow.ac.uk
Adam Smith Building, Bute Gardens
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680Biography
Dr Sophia Dingli joined the School of Social and Political Science in September 2016 as Lecturer in International Relations. Sophia received her PhD in Politics from the University of Hull in 2013. Prior to coming to Glasgow, Sophia worked as a Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Hull, teaching across the programmes in Politics and International Relations. She has also worked as a Teaching Associate at the University of Nottingham and as a Project Manager at the University of Hull.
Sophia’s research interests lie in the intersection of Political Theory and International Relations. The main bulk of her research draws on post-colonial, feminist, post-modern, neo-kantian and realist international and political theory to explore and give precision the concept of silence, which is often used in International Relations but remains ill-defined and under-theorised. In her work she gives the concept definition and explores the place of silence in the domestic and international order. Related to this, she also explores new ways in which International Relations theory can engage with the phenomenon of silence through cross-disciplinary dialogue.
She has conducted extensive archival research on British colonial history in Yemen. She has also conducted research in Yemeni political history since the end of colonialism and writes on topics related to current events in Yemen, including the current war and peace process and US foreign policy in the country.
Sophia has also published work on Gender and Security and continues to engage with this topic. Finally, she is currently conducting research on peace theory, suggesting a realist intervention into the debates on the liberal peace and drawing upon the recent experience of Yemen to illustrate her arguments.
Research interests
Research groups
Publications
2019
Purewal, N. K. and Dingli, S. (Eds.) (2019) Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions. Series: Thirdworlds. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367196639
2018
Kennedy, C. and Dingli, S. (2018) Gender and security. In: Collins, Allan (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198804109
Dingli, S. and Cooke, T. N. (Eds.) (2018) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Cooke, T. N. and Dingli, S. (2018) Political silences, an introduction. In: Dingli, Sofia and Cooke, Thomas N. (eds.) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Dingli, S. and Khalfey, S. (2018) Silence, exit and the politics of piety: challenging logocentrism in political theory. In: Dingli, Sofia and Cooke, Thomas N. (eds.) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Dingli, S. and Purewal, N. (2018) Gendering (in)security: interrogating security logics within states of exception. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3, pp. 153-163. (doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1510295)
2015
2014
Dingli, S. and Kennedy, C. (2014) The Aden Pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden. Civil Wars, 16(1), pp. 86-104. (doi: 10.1080/13698249.2014.904987)
2013
Dingli, S. , Khalfey, S. and Leston-Bandeira, C. (2013) The effectiveness of incentive-driven role-play. European Political Science, 12(3), pp. 384-398. (doi: 10.1057/eps.2013.19)
Dingli, S. (2013) Is the failed state thesis analytically useful? The case of Yemen. Politics, 33(2), pp. 91-100. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2012.01453.x)
2012
Dingli, S. (2012) The politics of (re)unification: lessons from Yemen for Cyprus. Cyprus Review, 24(2), pp. 29-46.
Articles
Dingli, S. (2021) Conceptualising peace and its preconditions: the anti-Pelagian imagination and the critical turn in peace theory. Journal of International Political Theory, 17(3), pp. 468-487. (doi: 10.1177/1755088220951592)
Dingli, S. and Purewal, N. (2018) Gendering (in)security: interrogating security logics within states of exception. Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3, pp. 153-163. (doi: 10.1080/23802014.2018.1510295)
Dingli, S. (2015) We need to talk about silence: Re-examining silence in International Relations theory. European Journal of International Relations, 21(4), pp. 721-742. (doi: 10.1177/1354066114568033)
Dingli, S. and Kennedy, C. (2014) The Aden Pivot? British counter-insurgency after Aden. Civil Wars, 16(1), pp. 86-104. (doi: 10.1080/13698249.2014.904987)
Dingli, S. , Khalfey, S. and Leston-Bandeira, C. (2013) The effectiveness of incentive-driven role-play. European Political Science, 12(3), pp. 384-398. (doi: 10.1057/eps.2013.19)
Dingli, S. (2013) Is the failed state thesis analytically useful? The case of Yemen. Politics, 33(2), pp. 91-100. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9256.2012.01453.x)
Dingli, S. (2012) The politics of (re)unification: lessons from Yemen for Cyprus. Cyprus Review, 24(2), pp. 29-46.
Book Sections
Kennedy, C. and Dingli, S. (2018) Gender and security. In: Collins, Allan (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198804109
Cooke, T. N. and Dingli, S. (2018) Political silences, an introduction. In: Dingli, Sofia and Cooke, Thomas N. (eds.) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Dingli, S. and Khalfey, S. (2018) Silence, exit and the politics of piety: challenging logocentrism in political theory. In: Dingli, Sofia and Cooke, Thomas N. (eds.) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Edited Books
Purewal, N. K. and Dingli, S. (Eds.) (2019) Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions. Series: Thirdworlds. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367196639
Dingli, S. and Cooke, T. N. (Eds.) (2018) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353
Supervision
- Minassian, Manon Alaska
The role of care practices in the Sahrawis’ anticolonial resistance
Teaching
- Issues in International Relations (Honours)
- International Relations Theory (MSc Glasgow-Nankai JGS)