Dr Sophia Dingli

Lecturer - International Relations (Political & International Studies)

Adam Smith Building, Bute Gardens

Biography

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

International Relations

Publications

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2021

Dingli, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 (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)

2019

Purewal, Navtej K. and Dingli, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 (Eds.) (2019) Gendering Security and Insecurity: Post/Neocolonial Security Logics and Feminist Interventions. Series: Thirdworlds. Routledge: London. ISBN 9780367196639

2018

Kennedy, Caroline and Dingli, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 (2018) Gender and security. In: Collins, Allan (ed.) Contemporary Security Studies. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780198804109

Dingli, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 and Cooke, Thomas N. (Eds.) (2018) Political Silence: Meanings, Functions and Ambiguity. Series: Interventions. Routledge: Abingdon. ISBN 9781138097353

Cooke, Thomas N. and Dingli, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 (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, Sophia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 and Khalfey, Sameera (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, Sofia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-5680 and Purewal, Navtej (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)