Patrick Vernon

Patrick is currently exploring the heteronormative dimensions of mass violence and the responses to mass violence. In particular, he is interested in the ways in which cultural figures of adoration and/or hatred are deployed in order to mobilise violence. More broadly, he is interested in queer and postcolonial IR theory, post-truth politics and discourses/practices of sexuality, security and violence. He is a commissioning editor for E-International Relations and is a member of the POLSIS gender and feminist theory (GAFT) research group. 

• B.A. (Hons) International Relations with Political Science (Class I), University of Birmingham
• MRes Sexuality and Gender Studies, University of Birmingham

• Queer and postcolonial theory
• Discourses of sexuality and violence in global politics
• Critical security studies
• Atrocity crimes and humanitarian intervention

• ‘A Queer Time to be Alive: Locating Humanitarian Intervention within the Sexual Politics of Modernity’, Millennium Annual Conference, LSE (online), 22nd October 2021.
• ‘Queer Interventions in World Politics: Conflict, Coloniality and Sexuality, ESRC MGS 2021 Conference, 23rd June 2021, University of Birmingham.
• ‘Queering Genocide: Drawing Links Between Feminist Genocide Studies and Queer IR’, International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference 2021, 17th-20th February 2021, online. 
• Vernon P. (2019) Chair, ‘Keynote Discussion: Envisioned Engagements between Westminster and Sexuality and Gender Academia’, featuring Dr Emma Foster and Jess Phillips MP, 2019 ROLES Conference, 9^th May 2019, University of Birmingham
• Vernon P. (2019) ‘Queering Genocide: Heteronormative Narratives and ‘Doing Sex’ in Myanmar’, 2019 ROLES Conference, 9^th May 2019, University of Birmingham
• Vernon P. (2019) ‘Queering Genocide: Heteronormative Narratives and ‘Doing Sex’ in Myanmar’, 2019ASA Conference: Anthropological Contributions to Humanitarian Intervention, Friday 6^th September 2019, University of East Anglia, https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa19/panels#7986

• Vernon P. (2021) 'Queering Genocide as a Performance of Heterosexuality', Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Online First, available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298211033339
• The Office Politics of Sexuality: Open-plan Space as a Contemporary Panopticon’, Engender!, accessible at https://engenderacademia.wordpress.com/en-gender-volume-3-issue-3-2020/
• ‘Queering Genocide: How can sexuality be incorporated into analyses of genocide?’, E-IR Articles, accessible at https://www.e-ir.info/2021/01/13/queering-genocide-how-can-sexuality-be-incorporated-into-analyses-of-genocide/
• 'Democracy Must Be Defended: Reflecting on Myanmar's Coup', E-IR Articles, accessible at: https://www.e-ir.info/2021/02/04/democracy-must-be-defended-reflecting-on-myanmars-coup/