The Research Centre in International Relations (RCIR) at King’s College London invites you to join a conversation entitled "In the Ruins of Progress: From Sápmi to the Marshall Islands."

The wide-ranging conversation on wastelanding, ecological catastrophe and disposability between Dr Ida Danewid, from the University of Sussex and Dr Joanne Yao, from Queen Mary, University of London, will be chaired by Dr Kiran Phull of the Department of War Studies, and will be followed by a Q&A.

About the speakers:

Dr Ida Danewid is Associate Professor in Gender & Global Political Economy (International Relations) at the University of Sussex. Ida is a social and political theorist. Her work is located at the intersection of radical political theory, intellectual history, and political economy. She is particularly interested in anticolonial and black radical thought, gender studies, carceral geography, and the global history of anarchist and abolitionist struggle. Her first book, Resisting Racial Capitalism: An Antipolitical Theory of Refusal (Cambridge University Press, 2023), explores the role of state power in the making of racial capitalism and was awarded the BISA L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize in 2024.

Dr Joanne Yao is Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London. Her research centers on environmental history and politics, historical international relations, international hierarchies and orders, and the development of early international organizations. Her first book, The Ideal River (Manchester University Press, 2022) examines the construction of the ‘ideal river’ in the European geographical imagination and the establishment of the first international organizations. The book was awarded the BISA L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize in 2023. Joanne’s ongoing work focuses on the history of Antarctica and early outer space exploration.