Personal photographic encounters of/with the pandemic’s pathological politics

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Laura Mills

Laura Mills is a lecturer in International Relations at the University of St Andrews. Her research critically explores how everyday life and culture are co-constitutive of global politics through examinations of cultural diplomacy, (the afterlives of) war, militarism, and security, aesthetics and creative methods. Her first monograph – Post-9/11 US Cultural Diplomacy: The Impossibility of Cosmopolitanism – is forthcoming with Routledge New International Relations Series. She is the founding co-editor of Openings, a creative interventions section in the journal Contemporary Voices: The St Andrews Journal of International Relations.