The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention with Dr Patrick J. Vernon

Dr Patrick J. Vernon discusses their new book The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention.

The book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UK’s responses, failed responses and non-responses to atrocity crimes. Taking humanitarian intervention as its central focus, it uses queer international relations scholarship to draw attention to the ongoing coloniality of the British state and of liberal norms of violence in world politics more broadly.

This book launch features an introduction by Professor Vivienne Jabri (King's College London) and has Dr Patrick J. Vernon (King's College London), Dr Andrew Delatolla (University of Leeds) and Dr Jamie J. Hagen (Queens University Belfast) in conversation about the research and arguments presented in the book.

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