Research outputs
2025
Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the "Bad" Migrant at Europe's Borders
Bird, G., & Schmid, D. (2025). Who is Disposable? The Making and Re-Making of the "Bad" Migrant at Europe's Borders. JOURNAL OF RACE ETHNICITY AND POLITICS. doi:10.1017/rep.2025.10023
2024
Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime
Schmid, D., & Bird, G. (2024). Theorising the ‘migration fix’: workerisation and exclusion in the European border regime. New Political Economy, 1-13. doi:10.1080/13563467.2024.2434927
Reflections on patchwork ethnography and activist scholarship: The role of methods in witnessing and participating in worldmaking at the margins of the EU
Bird, G. (2024). Reflections on patchwork ethnography and activist scholarship: The role of methods in witnessing and participating in worldmaking at the margins of the EU. Global Studies Quarterly, 4(3). doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksae074
Archives of border crossing: Crafting emotional proximity and distance on the walls of Athens
Bird, G., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2024). Archives of border crossing: Crafting emotional proximity and distance on the walls of Athens. JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT, 27(2), 226-254. doi:10.1057/s41268-024-00328-3
The Négritude Movement
Bird, G. (2024). The Négritude Movement. Oxford University PressNew York, NY. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.1164
Critiquing the Canon: Political Theory
Bird, G. (Ed.) (2024). Critiquing the Canon: Political Theory (1st ed.). Oxford University Press.
2023
The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies
Bird, G. (2023). The Integration Nation: Immigration and Colonial Power in Liberal Democracies. INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW, 57(2), 858-860. doi:10.1177/01979183221139251
Humanitarianism and the ‘Migration Fix’: On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations
Bird, G., & Schmid, D. (2023). Humanitarianism and the 'Migration Fix': On the Implication of NGOs in Racial Capitalism and the Management of Relative Surplus Populations. GEOPOLITICS, 28(3), 1235-1261. doi:10.1080/14650045.2021.2008361
2022
Recognizing Everyday Youth Agency: Advocating for a Reflexive Practice in Everyday International Relations
Beattie, A., & Bird, G. (2022). Recognizing Everyday Youth Agency: Advocating for a Reflexive Practice in Everyday International Relations. Global Studies Quarterly, 2(4). doi:10.1093/isagsq/ksac060
Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhood at the EU Border
Bird, G. (2022). Constructing Vulnerability and Victimhoodat the EU Border. Polity. doi:10.1086/721564
GENDERED ASSUMPTIONS OF VULNERABILITY: A CASE STUDY OF GENDERED IMPACTS OF COVID-19 ON DISPLACED POPULATIONS AT THE BORDERS OF EUROPE
Bird, G. (2022). GENDERED ASSUMPTIONS OFVULNERABILITY: A CASE STUDY OFGENDERED IMPACTS OF COVID-19ON DISPLACED POPULATIONSAT THE BORDERS OF EUROPE. In The Impacts of COVID-19 on Migration and Migrants from a Gender Perspective. IOM UN Migration.
Reflections from ‘the Field’: the Activist and the Activist Scholar in Conversation
Bird, G., & Bernet, L. (2022). Reflections from ‘the Field’: the Activist and the Activist Scholar in Conversation. Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, 3(2), 144-167. doi:10.1163/25903276-bja10038
2021
The emotional expression of solidarity
Amanda Russell, B., Bird, G., Rozbicka, P., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2021). The emotional expression of solidarity. In Subversive Pedagogies (pp. 188-205). Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003217183-14
The ‘badlands’ of the ‘Balkan Route’: policy and spatial effects on urban refugee housing
Bird, G., Obradovic-Wochnik, J., Beattie, A. R., & Rozbicka, P. (2020). The ‘badlands’ of the ‘Balkan Route’: policy and spatial effects on urban refugee housing. Global Policy. doi:10.1111/1758-5899.12808
The emotional expression of solidarity: The subversive potential of collective emotions in and beyond the classroom
Beattie, A. R., Bird, G., Rozbicka, P., & Obradovic-Wochnik, J. (2021). The emotional expression of solidarity: The subversive potential of collective emotions in and beyond the classroom. In Subversive Pedagogies Radical Possibility in the Academy (pp. 188-205). doi:10.4324/9781003217183-14
2020
Covid-19 discloses unequal geographies
Kallio, K. P., De Sousa, M. L., Mitchell, K., Häkli, J., Tulumello, S., Isabel Meier., . . . Riding, J. (2020). Covid-19 discloses unequal geographies. Fennia - International Journal of Geography, 198(1-2), 1-16. doi:10.11143/fennia.99514
Inside African Politics, 2nd edition
Bird, G. (2020). Inside African Politics, 2nd edition. JOURNAL OF MODERN AFRICAN STUDIES, 58(3), 493-494. doi:10.1017/S0022278X20000348
The Everyday at the border: examining visual, material and spatial intersections of international politics along the ‘Balkan Route’
Obradovic-Wochnik, J., & Bird, G. K. (2020). The Everyday at the border: examining visual, material and spatial intersections of international politics along the ‘Balkan Route’. Cooperation and Conflict: Nordic journal of international studies, 55(1), 41-65. doi:10.1177/0010836719882475
Inequalities faced by unaccompanied minors in Greece during COVID-19
Bird, G., Beattie, A. R., Obradovic-Wochnik, J., & Rozbicka, P. (2020). Inequalities faced by unaccompanied minors in Greece during COVID-19. FENNIA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHY, 198(1-2), 10-11. Retrieved from https://www.webofscience.com/
2019
A festival of human crisis
Rozbicka, P., Bird, G., & Beattie, A. (2019). A festival of human crisis. Riffs.
African Socialism
Bird, G. K. (2019). African Socialism. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 127-169). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_5
Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought Conclusions
Bird, G. K. (2019). Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought Conclusions. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 207-214). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_7
Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought Introduction
Bird, G. K. (2019). Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought Introduction. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 1-15). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_1
Kantian Framework
Bird, G. K. (2019). Kantian Framework. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 17-49). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_2
Postcolonial Philosophers
Bird, G. K. (2019). Postcolonial Philosophers. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 171-205). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_6
The Negritude Movement
Bird, G. K. (2019). The Negritude Movement. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 83-126). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_4
Understanding the Debate Between Universalism and Relativism
Bird, G. K. (2019). Understanding the Debate Between Universalism and Relativism. In FOUNDATIONS OF JUST CROSS-CULTURAL DIALOGUE IN KANT AND AFRICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT (pp. 51-81). doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4_3
2018
Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought
Bird, G. K. (2019). Foundations of Just Cross-Cultural Dialogue in Kant and African Political Thought. Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-97943-4
Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project
Bird, G. K. (2018). Bringing African Scholarship Back In: Lessons from the Pan-African Political Project. In Recentering Africa in International Relations:Beyond Lack, Peripherality, and Failure (pp. 261-281). Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved from https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783319675091
2017
Rethinking the role of the arts in politics: lessons from the Négritude movement
Bird, G. K. (2017). Rethinking the role of the arts in politics: lessons from the Négritude movement. The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(4), 458-470. doi:10.1080/10286632.2017.1311328
2016
Beyond the nation state: the role of local and pan-national identities in defining post-colonial African citizenship
Bird, G. (2016). Beyond the nation state: the role of local and pan-national identities in defining post-colonial African citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 20(2), 260-275. doi:10.1080/13621025.2015.1132567
100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda
Oldekop, J. A., Fontana, L. B., Grugel, J., Roughton, N., Adu-Ampong, E. A., Bird, G. K., . . . Sutherland, W. J. (2016). 100 key research questions for the post-2015 development agenda. DEVELOPMENT POLICY REVIEW, 34(1), 55-82. doi:10.1111/dpr.12147
2013
Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence
Bird, G. (2013). Michael J. Shapiro: Discourse, Culture, Violence. POLITICAL STUDIES REVIEW, 11(3), 393-394. doi:10.1111/1478-9302.12028_4