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Kyle Grayson

Kyle Grayson (PhD York University, Canada) is a Reader in Security, Politics and Culture in the School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology at Newcastle University.

His research can be organised into two central themes. The first explores the intersections of governmentality, culture, economic rationalities, and political violence. His main empirical foci in this area have been the global drug war, assassination, targeted killing, and drone warfare. The second theme examines the intersections of popular culture and world politics, more specifically the ways in which popular culture can assist in theorising security practices. Topics have included reading UK migration politics through the children’s book series Paddington Bear, the imagined geographies of security and resilience in the television series Breaking Bad, and the aesthetics of drone strikes. He has published two books, Chasing Dragons: Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2008) and Cultural Politics of Targeted Killing (Routledge 2016) as well as journal articles in Political Geography, European Journal of International Relations, Security Dialogue, and the Review of International Studies.  Kyle currently is an associate editor of the journal Critical Studies on Security and a co-editor of the Popular Culture and World Politics book series with Routledge. He also serves as the Honorary Secretary of the British International Studies Association.