Michael Magcamit

Hello! I’m Michael Magcamit, Lecturer in Global Politics and Leverhulme International Fellow (2024-2025) at the University of Manchester in the UK. Prior to joining Manchester in August 2023, I was a Lecturer in Security Studies at Leicester, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Queen Mary, and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Musashi. 

Research

My research and teaching interests sit at the intersections of Critical International Security, Peace & Conflict, IPE, and Populist Foreign Policy  with a specialist focus on Southeast and East Asia. 

My research projects on ethnoreligious conflicts and the security politics of international trade have been funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020 Program and the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, respectively. These projects led to the publication of my two books, Ethnoreligious Otherings and Passionate Conflicts (Oxford University Press 2022) and Small Powers and Trading Security (Palgrave/Springer 2016 and 2018). 

My work probing the (non)traditional dimensions of international security has also been published in journals such as the International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, International Politics, Political Science, and International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, among others. 

I am currently working on a research project, entitled, 'Decolonising Peacebuilding through the Affective Peace Framework', that is being funded by the Leverhulme Trust. In collaboration with Hiroshima University (IDEC), I am exploring the potential utility and function of affect-based approaches towards decolonising traditional peacebuilding programmes and inititatives in Southeast Asia's conflict-affected communities. 

Teaching and Supervision

At Manchester, I am (co)convening the following courses: 

• (PGT) POLI70401 Graduate Seminar in IR Theory
• (PGT) POLI70461 Security Studies
• (UG) POLI20521 Questions in Global Politics
• (UG) POLI20902 How to Conduct Politics Research

I hold a UK Advance Higher Education Fellowship and am supervising the following PhD researchers:

• Valerie Momas:  Hauntological Analyses of Racial Capitalism (co-supervised with Aoileann Ní Mhurchú, Manchester)
• Yohan Kim: The Affective Othering of Low-Wage Migrant Workers in the UK (external supervisor, Leicester)