Erika Cudworth
- Affiliation: University of East London
Erika Cudworth is Senior Lecturer in International Politics and Sociology at the University of East London. She is author of The Modern State: Theories and Ideologies (with Tim Hall and John McGovern) and Social Lives with Other Animals: Tales of Sex, Death and Love.
Books by Erika Cudworth
Posthuman International Relations
Complexity, Ecologism and Global Politics
Erika Cudworth, Stephen Hobden
In this bold intervention, Cudworth and Hobden draw on recent advances in thinking about complexity theory to call for a profound re-envisioning of the study of international relations. As a discipline, IR is wedded to the enlightenment project of overcoming the ‘hazards’ of nature, and thus remains constrained by its blinkered ‘human-centred’ approach. Furthermore, as a means of predicting major global-political events and trends, it has failed consistently. Instead, the… (more information)