The Coloniality of Humanitarian Intervention

This book scrutinises the practice of humanitarian intervention to explore the extent to which racism and heteronormativity, rooted in colonial understandings of time and space, are enacted through the UK’s responses, failed responses, and non-responses to atrocity crimes.

Patrick Vernon is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK. Their research looks at the role of gendered, sexual and racialised cultural representations in British political discourse and in the organisation of world politics more broadly. They are particularly interested in the study of political violence, having researched topics including online abuse, hostile media representations of minoritised groups, genocide and humanitarian intervention. Patrick has published in journals including Millennium, International Studies Review and The British Journal of Politics and International Relations.