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Authored Books

Gallagher, Julia (2017) Zimbabwe's International Relations: Fantasy, Reality and the Making of the State. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chan, Stephen and Gallagher, Julia (2017) Why Mugabe Won: The 2013 elections in Zimbabwe and their aftermath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Gallagher, Julia (2011) Britain and Africa under Blair: in pursuit of the good state. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Tomkinson, Jo, Mulugeta, Daniel and Gallagher, Julia, eds. (2022) Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, living and imagining identities through buildings. Oxford: James Currey. (Studies in Urban Africa)

Gallagher, Julia, ed. (2017) Images of Africa: creation, negotiation and subversion. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Gallagher, Julia, ed. (2016) Teaching Africa and International Studies: Forum Introduction. New York: Sage. (Politics: Vol. 36 No. 4)

Book Chapters

Batsani-Ncube, Innocent (2022) 'China's 'parliament building gift' to Malawi: exploring its rationale, tensions and asymmetrical gains.' In: Tomkinson, Jo, Mulugeta, Daniel and Gallagher, Julia, (eds.), Architecture and Politics in Africa: Making, Living and Imagining Identities through Buildings. London: James Currey, pp. 54-72. (Studies in Urban Africa)

Gallagher, Julia (2021) 'State-house: reading statehood through metaphors of home.' In: Meuser, Philipp and Adil, Dalbai, (eds.), Sub-Saharan Africa: Architectural Guide. Berlin: DOM Publishers.

Gallagher, Julia (2020) 'The monster that hid under a desk? Zimbabwe and the West.' In: Tendi, Miles, McGregor, JoAnn and Alexander, Jocelyn, (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Zimbabwean Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Oxford handbooks online)

Gallagher, Julia (2017) 'Theorising image: a relational approach.' In: Gallagher, Julia, (ed.), Image and Africa; creation, negotiation, subversion. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 1-21.

Gallagher, Julia (2017) 'Civilising norms and Africa: reflections drawn from psychoanalysis.' In: Epstein, Charlotte, (ed.), Against International Norms: postcolonial perspectives. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp. 57-73. (Worlding Beyond the West)

Gallagher, Julia (2014) 'Good state, bad state: loss and longing in postcolonial Zimbabwe.' In: Obadare, Ebenezer, (ed.), The Handbook of African Civil Society. New York: Springer Verlag. (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies; 20)

Journal Article

Daga, Moudwe and Gallagher, Julia (2024) ''Speaking proper French': citizen bids for state recognition in Chad and Côte d’Ivoire.' Global Discourse, 14 (1). pp. 79-95.

Gallagher, Julia (2022) 'Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa.' Political Geography, 98 (102674).

Manful, Kuukuwa Oduguamba, Batsani-Ncube, Innocent and Gallagher, Julia (2022) 'Invented modernisms: getting to grips with modernity in three African state buildings.' Curator: The Museum Journal, 65 (3). pp. 569-589.

Gallagher, Julia, Mulugeta, Daniel, Melake-Selam, Atnatewos and Tomkinson, Jo (2022) 'The histories buildings tell: aesthetic and popular readings of state meaning in Ethiopia.' Journal of Eastern African Studies, 16 (1). 2 -24.

Gallagher, Julia, Mpere, Dennis Larbi and Ndjoré, Yah Ariane Bernadette (2021) 'State Aesthetics and State Meanings: Political Architecture In Ghana And Côte D’ivoire.' African Affairs, 120 (480). pp. 333-364.

Gallagher, Julia (2018) 'Misrecognition in the making of a state: Ghana’s international relations under Kwame Nkrumah.' Review of International Studies, 44 (5). pp. 882-901.

Gallagher, Julia (2018) 'Zimbabwe’s consolidation as a gatekeeper state.' Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal, 3 (3). pp. 439-454.

Gallagher, Julia, Death, C., Sabaratnam, Meera and Smith, K. (2016) 'Teaching Africa and international studies: Forum introduction.' Politics, 36 (4). pp. 441-452.

Gallagher, Julia (2016) 'Creating a state: A Kleinian reading of recognition in Zimbabwe’s regional relationships.' European Journal of International Relations, 22 (2). pp. 384-407.

Gallagher, Julia (2016) 'Interviews as catastrophic encounters: loss and loneliness in IR research.' International Studies Perspectives, 17 (4). pp. 445-461.

Gallagher, Julia (2015) 'The battle for Zimbabwe in 2013: from polarisation to ambivalence.' Journal of Modern African Studies, 53 (1). pp. 27-49.

Gallagher, Julia (2014) 'Chopping the world into bits: object relations theory and the good governance norm.' International Theory, 6 (2). pp. 332-349.

Gallagher, Julia (2011) 'Ruthless player or development partner? Britain's ambiguous reaction to China in Africa.' Review of International Studies, 37 (5). pp. 2293-2310.

Gallagher, Julia (2009) 'Can Melanie Klein help us understand morality in IR? Suggestions for a psychoanalytic interpretation of why and how states do good.' Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 38 (2). pp. 295-316.

Gallagher, Julia (2009) 'Healing the scar: idealism, Africa and British policy under Blair.' African Affairs, 108 (432). pp. 435-451.

Saez, Lawrence and Gallagher, Julia (2009) 'Authoritarianism and development in the Third World.' Brown Journal of World Affairs, 15 (2). pp. 87-102.

Shows/Exhibitions

Gallagher, Julia and Manful, Kuukuwa (2023) Building Africa: the state of things! [Shows/Exhibitions]

Gallagher, Julia and Manful, Kuukuwa (2023) Building Africa Ethiopia. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Gallagher, Julia (2019) State-ments. [Shows/Exhibitions]

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Gallagher, Julia (2022) Making sense of the state: citizens and state buildings in South Africa. African State Architecture website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2021) State aesthetics and meanings of political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. Africa at LSE [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia, Gebrie, Daniel Mulugeta, Tomkinson, Jo and Melake-Selam, Atnatewos (2020) State-building in Ethiopia: tracing the state through architectural continuity and disruption. ASA website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2019) Building bureaucracies in West Africa. ASA website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2019) Properly African: properly a state. ASA website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2019) A timid Leviathan. ASA website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2019) Pop-up research in South Africa. ASA website [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2017) Research interview approaches in International Relations. OUP Blog [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2016) Diana Mitchell, Zimbabwean activist and writer – obituary. Guardian [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2011) Royaume-Uni/Zimbabwe: repenser les plaies de la colonisation? Alternatives Internationales [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Gallagher, Julia (2011) The Noble Cause: New Labour’s legacy on Africa. E-International Relations [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Films

Gallagher, Julia (2022) State aesthetics and state meanings: political architecture in Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire. SOAS University of London. Available from https://www.africanstatearchitecture.co.uk/post/vi....

Gallagher, Julia (2021) Architecture and Politics in Africa. SOAS University of London. Available from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Yb5iszb2s.

Other

Gallagher, Julia (2013) 'Britain and Africa: time to put the politics back in.' African Arguments (Jul 10). Royal Africa Society.

Gallagher, Julia (2013) 'Zimbabwe’s electoral observers hold the line in Harare.' African Arguments (Jul 29). Royal Africa Society.

Gallagher, Julia (2009) 'Britain’s idealisation of Africa: is “doing good” good enough?' Development Viewpoint (38). London: SOAS University of London.