Ellen Martin

With the aim of interrogating and destabilising military power, my research is exploring how the British public diversely perform militarism in their everyday spaces. I am interested in the subtle, embodied and affective performances by which violence and war (and their gendered and racialised hierarchies) are made possible. I am particularly attentive to how the public engages with militarism because their support, ambivalence, indifference, and sometimes resistance are rarely the focus of research, despite being central to understanding how militarism works. My research contributes to ongoing conversations in feminist IR and Critical Military Studies.