Academic Editor, Third World Quarterly
Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen.
Research interests:
Social theory; International Political Economy; Social Policy and Civil Society
About
Ritu Vij is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen. Her primary areas of research and teaching are in political economy and international political theory. In the past few years, she has principally engaged the problem of precarity in International Relations and Social Theory. Previously, she has explored heterotopias of homelessness through work produced by artists and rough sleepers in Tokyo; cinematic narratives of precarity in Japan; and engaged anthropological work on ‘Precarious Writings’. Among her recent publications most relevant for readers of TWQ are a co-edited Special Issue ‘Precarity: Aesthetic and Poetic Explorations’ for Global Studies Quarterly; an article, ‘Broken Passages: From the Subaltern to the Precariat’ included in the SI (2025); “The Global Subject of Precarity” in Globalizations 2019, and a co-edited volume Precarity and International Relations, (Palgrave 2021). Her ongoing work includes a co-edited collection on ‘Political Imaginaries of the ‘Slum’; an article on “Reimagining Precarious Futures”; an article, ‘Subaltern Dreamscapes’ for a project on ‘Mapping Global Injury’; and a book manuscript on ‘Rethinking Subalternity/Precarity in the Post-Colony’.
Contact: r.vij@abdn.ac.uk
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