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Fiona McConnell is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research spans a wide array of topics within the social sciences, particularly in the subfields of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, education, history, and law.

Their work has been published extensively in several academic venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • Political Geography
  • International Political Sociology
  • Area
  • Territory Politics Governance
  • Geopolitics

McConnell's research covers themes related to peacebuilding and international security, law in society and culture, Southeast Asian sociopolitical studies, migration, refugees and integration, global education and multiculturalism, historical and contemporary political dynamics, and educator training and historical pedagogy.

Recent papers include:

  • "Mapping Chinese Diplomacy: Relational Contradictions and Spatial Tensions" (2021), published in Geopolitics
  • "Tracing modes of politics at the United Nations: Spatial scripting, intimidation and subversion at the Forum on Minority Issues" (2020), published in Environment and Planning C Politics and Space

Collaborative work with other scholars is evident, including frequent co-authorship with Jonathan Harris, Ruth Craggs, Costas M. Constantinou, Alex Manby, and Katherine Brickell.

Their scholarly output engages deeply with international and spatial dimensions of political processes, diplomacy, and legal geography, reflecting a multidisciplinary approach within social sciences.

Best Publications

  • Mimicking state diplomacy: the legitimizing strategies of unofficial diplomacies

    Fiona McConnell;Terri Moreau;Jason Dittmer

  • Liminal geopolitics: the subjectivity and spatiality of diplomacy at the margins

    Fiona McConnell

  • De facto, displaced, tacit: The sovereign articulations of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile

    Fiona McConnell

  • Critical Geographies of Peace

    Philippa Williams;Fiona McConnell

  • Central Asian ‘Characteristics’ on China’s New Silk Road: The Role of Landscape and the Politics of Infrastructure

    Troy Sternberg;Ariell Ahearn;Fiona McConnell

  • Geographies of Peace

    Fiona McConnell;Nick Megoran;Philippa Williams

  • Citizens and Refugees: Constructing and Negotiating Tibetan Identities in Exile

    Fiona McConnell

  • Conceptualizing ‘diaspora diplomacy’: Territory and populations betwixt the domestic and foreign

    Elaine L. E. Ho;Fiona McConnell

  • Transprofessional Diplomacy

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  • Performing Diplomatic Decorum: Repertoires of “Appropriate” Behavior in the Margins of International Diplomacy

    Fiona McConnell

  • Liminality and the diplomacy of the British Overseas Territories: An assemblage approach:

    Fiona McConnell;Jason Dittmer

  • Political Geography and the environment

    Tor A. Benjaminsen;Halvard Buhaug;Fiona McConnell;Joanne Sharp

  • Understanding legitimacy: Perspectives from anomalous geopolitical spaces

    Alex Jeffrey;Fiona McConnell;Alice Wilson

  • Governments-in-Exile: Statehood, Statelessness and the Reconfiguration of Territory and Sovereignty

    Fiona McConnell

  • Working at the margins? Muslim middle class professionals in India and the limits of ‘labour agency’:

    Philippa Williams;Al James;Fiona McConnell;Bhaskar Vira

  • The Fallacy and the Promise of the Territorial Trap: Sovereign Articulations of Geopolitical Anomalies

    Fiona McConnell

  • Governmentality to Practise the State? Constructing a Tibetan Population in Exile

    Fiona McConnell

  • Diplomatic Cultures and International Politics: Translations, spaces and alternatives

    Jason Dittmer;Fiona McConnell

  • Constructing legitimacy without legality in long term exile: Comparing Western Sahara and Tibet

    Alice Wilson;Fiona McConnell

  • Rehearsing the State: The Political Practices of the Tibetan Government-In-Exile

    Fiona McConnell

  • Thinking with diplomacy: within and beyond practice theory

    Costas M Constantinou;Jason Dittmer;Merje Kuus;Fiona McConnell

  • Rethinking the Geographies of Diplomacy

    Fiona McConnell

  • Interventions on Europe's political futures

    Fiona McConnell;Merje Kuus;Alex Jeffrey;Heaven Crawley

  • The geopolitics of Buddhist reincarnation: contested futures of Tibetan leadership

    Fiona McConnell

  • Leaky Geopolitics: The Ruptures and Transgressions of WikiLeaks

    Simon Springer;Heather Chi;Jeremy Crampton;Fiona McConnell

  • Introduction: Geopolitics and its Critics

    Klaus Dodds;Merje Kuus;Joanne Sharp

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Dittmer
Jason Dittmer University College London
Halvard Buhaug
Halvard Buhaug Peace Research Institute
Tor A. Benjaminsen
Tor A. Benjaminsen Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Merje Kuus
Merje Kuus University of British Columbia
Adrian Smith
Adrian Smith University of Oxford
Nicholas J Gill
Nicholas J Gill University of Exeter
James D. Sidaway
James D. Sidaway National University of Singapore
Vincent Pouliot
Vincent Pouliot University of Montreal
Nick Vaughan-Williams
Nick Vaughan-Williams University of Warwick

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