Simona Rentea, Ph.D.
Department of Political Science
International Relations
Education
Ph.D. University of Manchester, UK
Practice Areas
- International Relations
- Politics
- Political Theology
Research Interests
Dr. Rentea conducts research in the field of International Relations. In particular, her interests address key questions in International Relations (IR) about the nature of the political, the relationship between the medieval and the modern, the possibility of moving beyond the Westphalian order, modalities of imagining the international and the global, the possibility of radical change within the system. She is also interested in political theology, the relationship between politics and science and liberal biopolitics. Continuing her broader interest in the 鈥減olitics of imagination鈥�, she has recently started a new project on alternative responses to the economic crisis for an elucidation of the imaginary of crisis, the construction of alternative modes of political and economic organization and re-thinking of the international/global/transversal in the practices of European anti-austerity and anti-precarity movements, particularly in Spain.
Publications and Media Placements
Books
(2015) The Ashgate Research Companion to Biopolitics (ed. with Sergei Prozorov), (London: Ashgate).
Journal Special Issues
(2011) 鈥淧olitics of the Encounter: Law between Immanence and Transcendence鈥�, Law & Critique, Vol. 22 (2) (with Stewart Motha and Andreja Zevnik): 鈥淧olitics of the Encounter:
Editorial Introduction鈥� Law & Critique, Vol. 22 (2).
(2013) 鈥淭he Power of Life鈥檚 Excess: contesting sovereignty from sites that do not
exist鈥�, Theory & Event, Vol. 16 (4) (with Andreja Zevnik and Erzsebet Strausz): 鈥淭he Power of Life鈥檚 Excess:
Editorial Introduction鈥�, Theory & Event, Vol. 16 (4).
Book chapters
(2015) 鈥淭he Biopolitical Dispositif of Liberalism鈥� in The Ashgate Research Companion to Biopolitics, (London: Ashgate).
In preparation/progress
Beyond Westphalia? The Limits of Authority and the Political in International Relations
Theory, Single-authored monograph.
鈥淔rom the Katechontic to the Eschatological in Contemporary Liberal Biopolitics鈥�,
Contemporary Political Theory
鈥淎uthority and Imagination in the Post-Westphalian Era鈥�, Journal of International Relations and Development.
鈥淏ecoming Common: Anxiety and Imagination in Anti-Austerity Movements in Spain鈥�, Theory and Event.
Special Issue on The Rise of Podemos, Open Democracy.
Conference Papers and Invited Talks
(2014) Fourth Global International Studies Conference (WISC), Frankfurt, Germany: 鈥淭he Political Theology of Liberalism鈥�, 7 -9 August 2014.
(2014) Graduate School for International Affairs, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Lecture series: 鈥淚R Theory and the Demise of the Westphalian Orde谤鈥�, 1-15 June 2014 (invited).
(2014) Centre for Advanced International Theory: 鈥淎uthority and Imagination in the Post-Westphalian Era鈥�, 3 March 2014, University
of Sussex, UK (invited).
(2014) Special Workshop Europe鈥檚 Common: Spaces of Action, Battles for Knowledge: 鈥淧recarious Imagination in Late Capitalism鈥�, University of Manchester, 13鈥�14 January
2014 (invited paper).
(2013) Eight Pan-European Conference on International Relations: 鈥淔rom the Katechontic to the Eschatological in Contemporary Liberal Biopolitics鈥�,
Warsaw, 18 鈥� 21 September 2013 (paper presented as part of the Global Biopolitics
Section, convened with Sergei Prozorov).
(2013) British International Studies Association Annual Conference, Roundtable organizer and participant: The IR Scholar as Public Intellectual, Birmingham,
20 鈥� 21 June 2013.
(2012) International Conference The Powers of Life and Death: Biopolitics Beyond Foucault: 鈥淎bstract Life and the Manipulation of the Natural Frame in Contemporary Liberal
Biopolitics鈥�, University of Helsinki, 15- 16 November 2012 (invited paper).
(2012) BISA- ISA (International Studies Association) Conference: 鈥淪peaking Truth to Power in the Age
of Science-based Policy鈥�, Edinburgh, 22鈥�24 June 2012.