Emma Hutchison is an Honorary Associate Investigator (AI 2014–2015) with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the School of Political Science and International Studies at The University of Queensland. Her current research examines trauma and emotions in world politics, as well as how the emotional dimensions of disaster images shape humanitarian practices. As an Associate Investigator with CHE, she investigated the development of ‘humanitarian emotions’ during the modern era in order to trace the emotional origins of contemporary humanitarianism. Her research has appeared and is forthcoming in a range of scholarly books and journals. Her first book, Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After Trauma, was published in 2016 with Cambridge University Press, and was awarded the British International Studies Association Susan Strange Book Prize 2017, and the International Studies Association (ISA) Theory Section's 2017 Book Award .
Contact
e.hutchison@uq.edu.au
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Personal website
Research
Disaster Imagery and the History of Humanitarian Emotions
Selected Publications
Hutchison, E. 'Emotions, Bodies, and the Un/Making of International Relations'. Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2018). https://doi.org/10.1177/0305829818811243
Hutchison, E. Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions After Trauma. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Hutchison, E. and R. Bleiker. 'Emotions, Discourse and Power in World Politics'. Special Issue, 'Discourse and Emotions in International Relations'. International Studies Review, FirstView, 2017.
Selected Presentations
Keynote Presentation: ‘Humanitarian Emotions Through History: Imaging Suffering and Performing Aid’, ARC CHE Symposium on ‘Emotions, Media and History: Theory and Practice’, The University of Adelaide, 23 September 2016 (presented via video and Skype). Invited.
Selected Awards
Hutchison, E. Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia 2018 Paul Bourke Award for Early Career Research. Awarded 17 September 2018.
Hutchison, E. The International Studies Association (ISA) Theory Section's 2017 Book Award for Affective Communities in World Politics: Collective Emotions after Trauma (Cambridge University Press, 2016), announced 22 March 2018.
Hutchison, E. ARC DECRA DE180100029 $355,847.00 for project ‘Emotions and the future of international humanitarianism’. Awarded 10 November 2017.
Hutchison, E. UQ Foundation in Research Excellence Award AUD60,000 for project ‘Emotions and the History of International Humanitarianism’. Awarded 13 September 2017.
