Sophie Harman joins us to discuss global health, making films and seeing politics through the eyes of others.
Sophie Harman is Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University of London with interests spanning global health, African Agency, film and visual methods, and gender politics.ÌýSophie has pushed the boundaries of International Relations (IR) scholarship more than most, notably through her use of visual mediums to convey the lived experience of those at the receiving end of global health programmes. In 2019, she was nominated for the BAFTA for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director, or Producer for her work on the feature film Pili which tells the story of women living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.ÌýSophie has recently published the bookÌýSeeing Politics: Film, Visual Method and International RelationÌýand was awarded the Joni Lovenduski Prize for outstanding professional achievement by a mid-career scholar by the Political Science Association (PSA) in 2018.
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Projects and publications we discussed include:
- The :ÌýPili lives in rural Tanzania, working the fields for less than $2 a day to feed her two children and struggling to manage her HIV-positive status in secret.ÌýFor more information, watch Ìýor read theÌý.
- Ìý(McGill-Queen’s University Press).
- ‘’,ÌýInternational Affairs,Ìý97Ìý(3), pp.Ìý601–623.