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Ignasi Torrent

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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Hertfordshire

Biography

Ignasi Torrent is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Relations and the Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. He is also a researcher in the Critical Humanities and International Politics Research Group (CHIP), at the same university. In the past he has been affiliated with academic institutions such as the University of Westminster in London, the City University of New York and the University of Sierra Leone, among others. His research interests focus on critical peace and conflict studies, the challenges of the Anthropocene age and contemporary critical thought. He has numerous academic and non-academic publications about these topics in internationally recognized scientific journals and publishing houses. In 2021 he published the book Entangled Peace with Rowman and Littlefield.

Background and education

  • (2017) PhD, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Professional memberships & affiliations

  • European International Studies Association
  • International Studies Association

Research

Research interests

  • Critical Peace and conflict studies
  • International Security
  • The Anthropocene
  • New materialisms

Research projects

  • CHIP (Critical Humanities and International Politics Research Group). Link

Selected publications

  • Torrent, Ignasi.2024.Hope in the Anthropocene: From entanglements to radical openness.In:

    Pol Bargués, David Chandler and Valerie Waldow (eds.)

    .    Hope in the Anthropocene.Edinburgh:Edinburgh University Press.
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2024.Nuevos materialismos y sus límites.In:

    Itziar Ruiz Jiménez, Ángela Iranzo y Marta Íñiguez (eds.)

    .    Manual de Teorías Críticas en las Relaciones Internacionales.Madrid:Tirant lo Blanch.
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2023.Problematising Entanglement Fetishism in International Relations: On the Possibility of Being without Being in Relation.Review of International Studies,1-15
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2022.Scrutinising UN Peacebuilding: Entangled Peace and its Limits.Peacebuilding,DOI: 10.1080/21647259.2021.1999166LinkLogo open access
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2021.An introduction to “Peace, Conflicts and Security in the Anthropocene: Ruptures and Limits”.Journal on International Security Studies,7(1): I-VILinkLogo open access
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2021.Entangled Peace.London:Rowman and Littlefield.Link

  • Randazzo, Elisa; Torrent, Ignasi

    .    2020.Reframing agency in complexity-sensitive peacebuilding.Security Dialogue,LinkLogo open access
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2019.Problematising UN-local Civil Society Engagement in Peacebuilding: Towards Non-modern Epistemes Through Relationality.Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding,13(5):618-637Link
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2016.Application of an Analytical Frame for Armed Conflicts. A Comparison of the Cases of Burundi and the Central African Republic.ICIP Working Papers,2016/01LinkLogo open access
  • Torrent, Ignasi.2015.Criminalidad Transnacional Organizada y Reconstrucción Postbélica en los Balcanes.In:

    Ibáñez, J. and Sánchez, C. (eds.)

    .    Mercados Ilegales y Violencia Armada.Madrid:Tecnos.Link