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  • Rafi Youatt

    Associate Professor and Chair of Politics

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    youattr@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - 6 East 16th Street

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    Rafi Youatt

    Profile

    Rafi Youatt is Associate Professor of Politics at NSSR. His research and teaching are primarily in the field of global politics, with interests in critical IR, borderlands and mobility, planetary politics and environmental political thought, political geography; and interpretive methods. He is the author of two books and numerous journal articles. His current book project studies how international political order is grounded and ungrounded in a trio of imperial and post-imperial borderlands.


    Degrees Held

    PhD 2007, University of Chicago, Political Science

    MA 2001, University of Chicago, Committee on International Relations

    BA 1997, University of California, Berkeley, Political Science


    Recent Publications

    BOOKS

    (University of Michigan Press, 2020).

    . University of Minnesota Press, (2015).

    SELECTED ARTICLES and CHAPTERS

    ',' Public Seminar (2023), also in Eurozine.

    ''ÌýInternational Politcal Sociology. (2022).

    .'ÌýBorderlands (2022).

    ' (with Miriam Ticktin). Borderlands, (2022), introduction to special issue.

    .'ÌýReview of International Studies. (2022)

    '.' in J. Pereira and A Saramago, eds. Nonhuman Nature and World Politics: Theory and Practice.Ìý(2020)Ìý

    ' in Eroukhmanoff, C. and M. Harker, eds. Reflections on the Posthuman in International Relations: The Anthropocene, Security, and Ecology. (2017)

    Anthropology Now. (2017) 

    ‘’,ÌýInternational Political Sociology. (2017)

    ‘’ In Political Theory and the Animal-Human Relationship. Grant, J. and V. Jungkunz, eds. (SUNY Press, April 2016).

    ‘.’ Entry for Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory. Gabrielson, T., Hall, C., Meyer, J., and Schlosberg, D., eds. (Oxford University Press, 2016).

    ‘’ Millennium Journal of International Studies. 43(1) (2014), pp. 207-223.

    ‘.’ Political Research Quarterly. 65(2), (2012), pp. 346-358.

    ‘’ Environmental Values. (2008). 17(3), pp. 393-417.


    Current Courses

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Spring 2026


    GPOL 7300, Spring 2026


    GPOL 6135, Spring 2026

    Future Courses


    GPOL 7300, Fall 2026

    Past Courses

    Directed Dissertation Study
    GPOL 7991, Fall 2025

    Geopolitics: Int'l & Planetary
    LPOL 3117, Fall 2025

    Independent Study
    GPOL 6990, Fall 2025

    PhD Seminar
    GPOL 7300, Fall 2025

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