Catherine Charrett

Dr Catherine Charrett

Early Career Fellow 2018

Performing technologies in EU, Israeli and Palestinian security cooperation

This research aims to explore the networks that form around state security technologies in the European Union’s engagement with Israel and Palestine, and it uses performance art to critique these relationships. The project uses a feminist methodology to observe how different technologies produce political relationships, which I argue impact on how the EU regards Israeli versus Palestinian sovereignty.

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Research outcomes

Charrett, C. (2023).

The permit and the gun. Critical Studies on Security, 12(2), 115–117. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2023.2290881

Newfield, C., & Charrett, C. C. (2023).

Interview with Catherine Chiniara Charrett. International Politics, 60(3), 776-780.

Charrett, C. (2019).

The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian elections: A performance in politics. Routledge.

Areas of interest

International Relations Anti-Colonialism Sovereignty Diplomacy European Union Palestine Performing Arts Drag

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ECF4

Biography

Catherine Charrett is a Senior Lecturer in International Relations, (she/they). Catherine joined the University of Westminster in 2019, before that Catherine was a lecturer and researcher at Queen Mary University of London. Catherine's research interests include anti-colonial and anti-imperial perspectives on sovereignty and diplomacy. Catherine's doctoral research, completed at Aberystwyth University (2010-2014) was on EU-Hamas diplomacy following the 2006 Palestinian legislative elections. Catherine has published this work with Routledge, Interventions Book Series and several leading journals. Catherine uses transdisciplinary and queer methods in her approach to research dissemination, which includes political drag performances. Catherine was an Early Career Research Fellow (2018-2019) with the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) for her public engagement approach to research. Catherine current research is on spatial modes of anti-imperial resistance from the prisoners' movements to urban design. Catherine has an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and a BA in International Relations and Political Science from the University of British Columbia. Catherine is a co-convener for the BISA Colonial Postcolonial and Decolonial working group and chair of the ISA LGBTQA Caucus.

Biographical details correct as of 21.08.25