Joe Gazeley
Job Title
PhD title: “They have many chains to bind us”: state formation, foreign policy and the colonial pact in Mali, c.1958-2020
City (Address)
EdinburghCountry (Address)
UKResearch interests
Research interests
Mali, Foreign Policy Analysis, European Security, French Postcolonial Relations, State Formation, Political History
Research experience
Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (Current)
Visiting Postgraduate Research Fellow at the Institut des mondes africains/Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2019)
Research Assistantship working on the project 'Security Sector Reform and Historical Memory' at ICESI University, Colombia (2017)
Traineeship at the European Parliament working on EU Migration Policy, Borders, European Security and Brexit (2016)
Background
Commentary and analysis
President Keita falls to a coup in Mali: 1968 is here again at http://democracyinafrica.org/mali_coup/
Why was Mali hit with another coup? at https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/08/20/why-was-mali-hit-with-another-coup/
I was interviewed for the NRC Handelsblad by Bram Vermeulen about my thesis and Mali coups (Dutch language, paywall) at https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2020/09/06/waarom-mali-steeds-maar-staatsgrepen-heeft-a4010976
Ghosts of juntas past: Can France get it right in Mali this time? at http://democracyinafrica.org/ghosts-of-juntas-past-can-france-get-it-right-in-mali-this-time/
ATT, Mali's 'soldier of democracy' moves on at http://democracyinafrica.org/att-malis-soldier-of-democracy-moves-on/
Post-Brexit Britain must do better than ‘doomed’ Mali deployment at https://politics.co.uk/comment-analysis/2020/12/07/post-brexit-britain-must-do-better-than-doomed-mali-deployme
Supervisors
Dr Emile Chabal
Qualifications
PhD in Politics, University of Edinburgh (2017-2021)
MA International Conflict and Security with International Migration, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies (2015-2016)
Doble Grado Political Science and Public Administration, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Erasmus Exchange (2013-2014)
BA (Hons) Politics and International Relations with Spanish, University of Kent (2011-2015)
Awards
Scouloudi Foundation Junior Research Fellowship 2020
BISA Founders Fund Grant 2020
Erasmus+ Funded Research Fellowship 2019
Tweedie Exploration Fellowship 2019
University of Kent MA Scholarship (Brussels School of International Studies) 2015-16
Publications
Higher Education teaching experience
Tutor on the post-graduate course Research Design (PGSP11208), University of Edinburgh (2020)
Tutor on the course Africa in World Politics (PLIT10003), University of Edinburgh (2018)
Selected presentations
Seminar presentation, ‘Transposing the Mali model of state building to Mozambique’ at the African Politics Research Group, University of Edinburgh (March 2021)
Fellows’ seminar presentation , ‘Individual, bankrupt petty states: the Dakar coup and the collapse of the Federation of Mali’, Institute of Historical Research, London (March 2021)
Seminar presentation , ‘The political risks of technocratic state building in Mali’, Foreign Policy Research Group, University of Edinburgh (February 2021)
Seminar on Franco-Malian relations, 'Beyond la Françafrique: The Franco-Malian relationship post-independence', Institut des mondes africains (2019)
BISA 2019 Panel: ‘Colonial continuities and African movements for justice and decolonisation in the present’, London, UK
BISA 2018 Roundtable Discussion 'Pedagogies of Solidarity: Critique, Collaboration, and Care in the Neoliberal University'‚Äã, Bath, UK
Crime and Violence in Colombia (2017), ICESI University, Colombia
Seminar on Brexit 'What it is, what it means and why you should care', ICESI University, Colombia (2017)
Memberships
CSMCH (Centre for the Study of Modern and Contemporary History) Steering Committee
African Politics Research Group
BISA (British International Studies Association)
Languages
English, Spanish, French