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Rosa Maryon BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Dr Rosa Maryon

(she/her)

BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA

Research student

School of Law and Politics

Email
MaryonRM@cardiff.ac.uk

Overview

I have a PhD in International Relations from Cardiff University. My PhD research looked at the role of security policy in the reconfiguration regime legitimacy in Tunisia in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism. I am particularly interested in the link between neoliberalism and illiberal security policies and practices in the global south. My main research interests are critical approaches to Security Studies, International Politics Economy, the International Relations of Middle East and North Africa.

I have a masters in Politics and Development Policy in Africa and the Global South (Politique et développement en Afrique et les pays du Sud) from the Laboratory of African Studies in the World based at Sciences Po Bordeaux. My master's thesis was entitled 'La stabilisation du régime déocratique en Tunisie: est-elle actuellement remise en cause?' (Is the stabilisation of the Tunisian democratic regime threatened?). In this thesis, I identified three main threats to the new democratic regime in Tunisia faced as it sought to stabilise itself following the revolution. These threats included, the securitization of the terrorist threat leading to the implementation of illiberal security policy, a lack of economic opportunities and a certain 'recycling' of the elites associated with the former, authoritarian regime. This thesis was supervised by René Otayek.

I have a second masters from Cardiff University in the ESRC Social Science Research Methods program specialising in International Relations. My master's thesis was entitled 'Securitization discourse in Post-Ben Ali Tunisia: the Reactualisation of the Security Pact'. In this thesis, I examined the way in which securitization discourse in post-transition Tunisia sought to justify a reversion to liberal security policies and practices associated with the former authoritarian regime. I argued that this represented a reactualisation of the Tunisian 'security pact' associated with the seminal work of Beatrice Hibou (2006). This master's thesis was supervised by Hannes Hansen-Magnusson

I have two undergraduate degrees. Firstly, I have a Politics and International Relations degree from Cardiff University. Secondly, I have a Politics and Economics degree from Sciences Po Bordeaux. I achieved First Class Honours in both these degrees. These degrees were completed alongside each other as part of the prestigious Cardiff-Bordeaux (or FIFRU) programme. In 2014, I won the Cardiff University Undergraduate Student of the Year Scholarship.

I have taught several different undergraduate Politics and IR modules at both Cardiff University and the University of the West of England. These include modules about International Relations theory, Globalisation, International Development, Colonialism, Crisis and Change, Terrorism, Security and Migration, Gender and Global Politics and Research Methods. I am particularly interested in innovative teaching methods and have guest lectured on courses designed for Post Graduate Teachers. In 2021, I was nominated for the Oustanding Teaching Award at the University of the West of England. I was nominated again for the Outstanding Teaching Award in March 2022. I am an associate fellow of HEA for which I won a prize from the exam board. I have recently submitted my fellow of HEA for approval.

I am open to collaborative projects working on critical approaches to security, neoliberalism, migration, post colonialism, critical global political economy and racial capitalism particularly those with an empirical focus on the Middle East and North Africa.

Publication

2023

2021

Articles

Book sections

Thesis

Research

My research interests include the international relations of the Middle East and North Africa particularly contemporary Tunisia. My other research interests include post-colonial IR theory, security, terrorism research and the going research agenda of authoritarian neoliberalism. My research is particularly focused on the interaction between neoliberal economic policies and illiberal security policy. 

Publications

Maryon R.M & Tholens, S. 2022. Terrorism and Organised Crime in Europe. In: Angel, V & Jones  E. (Eds) Developments in European Politics 3. Bloomsbury.

Maryon, R.M 2023. The role of SA in reconfiguring Tunisia's transition. Mediterranean Politics.

Maryon, R, M. Under review. EU externalization, racial capitalism and anti-black racism in EU-Tunisia cooperation on migration

Conferences and workshop papers

BISA Postcolonial/decolonial/anticolonial working group Annual Workshop (September 2022) - Security assistance, the donor cartel and the rise of neoliberal security state: the case of post 2011 Tunisia (workshop paper)

EISA conference (Athens September 2022)  - Securing the state in post transition Tunisia: Performativity of the (authoritarian) Neoliberal State (Conference paper)

EISA conference (Athens September 2022) – Racial Capitalism, State Violence, and Technologies of Control I: Erasure, Confinement, Dehumanization

EISA conference (Athens September 2022) - It's like a prison': exploring anti-black racism, colonialism and racial capitalism in EU-Tunisia cooperation on migration (Conference paper)

UWE Department of Social Science Away Day (July 2022 ) - 'It's like a prison': exploring anti-black racism, colonialism and racial capitalism in EU-Tunisia cooperation on migration (Conference paper)

SASE Conference (Mini conference on racial capitalism) July 2022 – 'It's like a prison': exploring anti-black racism, colonialism and racial capitalism in EU-Tunisia cooperation on migration (Conference paper)

UWE Staff Research Talk ( December 2021)- Securing the state in post transition Tunisia: Performativity of the (authoritarian) Neoliberal State (Conference paper)

Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit (November 2021 ) - Securing the state in post transition Tunisia: Performativity of the (authoritarian) Neoliberal State (Conference paper)

Millennium conference 2021 (September 2021 - forthcoming) – Securing the state in post transition Tunisia: Performativity of the (authoritarian) Neoliberal State (Conference paper)

Millennium conference 2021 (forthcoming) – Panel organiser and panel chair   Thinking With and Beyond Political Economy in the Study of Authoritarian Neoliberalisms: Spatialisation, (Im)mobilities and Exclusions (conference panel)

BISA May 2021 – Authoritarian Neoliberalism in Tunisia's Pandemic Response (Conference paper)

Society of Terrorism Research Conference 2018– Security: at what cost? Securitization of the Terrorist threat in Post-transition Tunisia (Conference paper)

Women's Graduate Conference 2018 - Security: at what cost? Securitization of the Terrorist threat in Post-transition Tunisia (Conference paper)

Blog articles

Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit Blog Series

Maryon. R,M. 2018. "Leaky Bodies: Rethinking masculinity, hardness and sexual violence in the DRC" interview with Dr Rachel Massey. 22.03.2018 Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit Blog. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/leaky-bodies-rethinking-masculinity-hardness-and-sexual-violence-in-the-drc-dr-rachel-massey/  

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Haiti, Liberia and Ethiopia (1914-1945): Black sovereignty in a white world. Musab Younis. 22.03.2018. Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit Blog. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/haiti-liberia-and-ethiopia-1914-1945-black-sovereignty-in-a-white-world-dr-musab-younis/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. The Web of Responsibility in and for the Artic. Dr Hannes Hansen-Magnusson. Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit Blog. 26.03.2018. Available at : https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/the-web-of-responsibility-in-and-for-the-artic-dr-hannes-hansen-magnusson/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Chronotopes, Governmentality and the Changing Regulation of Traditional Medicine in Kenya. Professor John Harrington. 22.04.2018. Cardiff University International Studies Research Unit Blog. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/chronotopes-governmentality-and-the-changing-regulation-of-traditional-medicine-in-kenya-professor-john-harrington/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Education in Singapore's Soft Power Strategy. Guest speaker Dr Danita Catherine Burke. 26.04.2018 Available at : https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/education-in-singapores-soft-power-strategy-guest-speaker-dr-danita-catherine-burke/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Guest Speaker Catherine Eschle. Theorising Feminist Organizing in and against Neoliberalism: Beyond Co-optation and Resistance? International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online) 23.05.2018. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/guest-speaker-catherine-eschle-theorising-feminist-organizing-in-and-against-neoliberalism-beyond-co-optation-and-resistance/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Managing Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction in Changing Arctic'  – Dr Richard Caddell. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). 7.11.2018 Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/managing-biodiversity-beyond-national-jurisdiction-in-changing-arctic-dr-richard-caddell/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Anticipating Emerging Biotechnology Threats – A Case Study of CRISPR. Dr Kathleen Vogel. 09.11.2018. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/anticipating-emerging-biotechnology-threats-a-case-study-of-crispr-dr-kathleen-vogel/

Maryon, R, M. 2018. Frontiers In International Relations: ISRU Annual Frontiers In International Relations Lecture with Professor Ruth Blakeley. 05.12.2018. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/isru-annual-frontiers-in-international-relations-lecture-with-professor-ruth-blakeley/ 

Maryon, R, M. 2019. WIP Seminar with Dr Branwen Gruffydd Jones – 'The weapon of culture: anticolonial thought and practice from Paris and Dakar to Havana and Algiers' International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/wip-seminar-with-dr-branwen-gruffydd-jones-the-weapon-of-culture-anticolonial-thought-and-practice-from-paris-and-dakar-to-havana-and-algiers/

Maryon, R, M. 2019. 'The Vein, the Fingerprint Machine and the Automatic Speed Detector': A Performance by Dr Catherine Charrett 5.12.2018. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/the-vein-the-fingerprint-machine-and-the-automatic-speed-detector-a-performance-by-dr-catherine-charrett-5-12-2018/

Maryon, R, M. 2019. "Conceptualising the Establishment of Intergovernmental Organisations: Learning from IPCC and the IPBES" Dr Hannah Hughes & Dr Alice Vadrot. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/conceptualising-the-establishment-of-intergovernmental-organisations-learning-from-ipcc-and-the-ipbes-dr-hannah-hughes-dr-alice-vadrot/

Maryon, R. 2019. WIP Seminar with Dr Simone Tholens – "Knowledge Production in 21st Century Interventions: Security Assistance as a Global Assemblage" 13.03.2019. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/2019/03/26/wip-seminar-with-dr-simone-tholens-knowledge-production-in-21st-century-interventions-security-assistance-as-a-global-assemblage-13-03-2019/

Maryon, R. 2019. 'Security Governance Through Everyday Insecurity Practitioners: Stop Street-Harassment campaigns and authoritarian neoliberalism in Cairo' ISRU WIP Seminar with Dr Elisa Wynne-Hughes 20.03.2019. International Studies Research Unit Blog: Cardiff University Blogs (Online). Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/2019/04/05/security-governance-through-everyday-insecurity-practitioners-stop-street-harassment-campaigns-and-authoritarian-neoliberalism-in-cairo-isru-wip-seminar-with-dr-elisa-wynne-hughes-2/.

Maryon, R, M. 2020 'Frontiers in International Relations: The Bingo Project' ISRU/CCGP Frontiers Lecture with guest speaker Professor Kate Bedford – 20th of November 2019. International Studies Research Unit: Cardiff University Blogs. 13.01.2020. Available at: https://blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/isru/the-bingo-project-isru-ccgp-frontiers-lecture-with-guest-speaker-professor-kate-bedford-20th-of-november-2019/

 

Thesis

Securing the state in post-transition Tunisia: reconfiguring regime legitimacy in an age of authoritarian neoliberalism

Teaching

I currently work full time as a permanent Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of the West of England.

 

Cardiff University (2018-2020)

Introduction to International Relations (1st Year AS Module) – Tutor Seminar

Introduction to Globalisation (1st Year AS Module) – Tutor Seminar

 

Step-up Club (widening participation at Cardiff University) 2020

Social Science and Humanities Subject Stream

 

University of the West of England (since 2018-ongoing )

Modules taught at UWE:

Block Zero Induction to Social Science – Module lecturer

On campus extra Politics and IR supplementary sessions during covid pandemic– Module lecturer

From Plato to Nato – Module lecturer

Politics of Crisis and Change – Module Lecturer

Nature and the Use of Research – Module Lecturer

Gender and Global Politics – Module Lecturer

Terrorism, Security, and Migration in Europe – Module leader

International Development – Module Leader

 

Module Marking at UWE:

From Plato to Nato

Politics of Crisis and Change

Nature and the Use of Research

Gender and Global Politics

Terrorism, Security, and Migration in Europe

International Development

International Relations

Politics, States and Resistance

 

Guest lectures at UWE:

Development and Resistance in Latin America

Critical Reflections on Security and Strategy

 

Awards at UWE:

Oustanding Teaching Award 2020-21 – Nominated

Oustanding Teaching Award 2021-22 – Nominated

 

Other roles:

APT – 2018-ongoing

AS dissertation supervisor – 2021-ongoing

Student support officer for Politics and IR – 2020-2021

Level lead – 2021-ongoing

My Engagement champion for Politics and IR – 2021-ongoing

Foundation Year support office – 2022-ongoing

Second marker – 2020-ongoing

Supervisors

Elisa Wynne-Hughes

Elisa Wynne-Hughes

Senior Lecturer in International Relations

External profiles