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Dr Shine Choi PhD

Senior Lecturer

Doctoral Supervisor
School of People, Environment and Planning

Shine co-edits the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Feminist Journal of Politics (2022-2029). Her main areas of research are in critical theories and methods in International Relations, Security Studies and East Asia with a focus on feminist and non-western developments, in particular Africa-Asia and Third World diplomacy. Her research projects variously examine ethico-political questions that emerge in the intersections of non-western diplomacy, feminism and imperial wars that attend to aesthetic and cultural dimensions of these questions that help extend our political imaginaries.

She is currently working on a methodologically and politically experimental book, terrible monumental politics::diplomacy of the vanquished that tries to reinhabit the international and the global by turning to (north) Korea in international politics not as a case study but a creative-critical method that helps map moments of surrender in transregional security arrangements and non-western diplomatic practices of non-alignment as interlinked sites of shifting international order.

Shine co-edits the book series, Creative Interventions in Global Politics with Rowman and Littlefield, and serves as a Co-Editor-in-Chief of International Feminist Journal of Politics (2022-2029). Her main areas of research are in critical theories and methods in International Relations, Security Studies and East Asia with a focus on feminist and non-western developments, in particular Africa-Asia and Third World diplomacy. Her research projects variously examine ethico-political questions that emerge in the intersections of non-western diplomacy, feminism and imperial wars that attend to aesthetic and cultural dimensions of these questions that help extend our political imaginaries.

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Professional

Contact details

  • Ph: |+64 (0)6 951 6219
    Location: 3.13, Social Science Tower
    Campus: Palmerston North

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Queen's University of Belfast (2012)

Certifications and Registrations

  • Licence, Supervisor, Massey University

Research Expertise

Research Interests

  • International Relations theory
  • Visual global politics
  • Aesthetics and intercultural relations
  • North Korea in international politics
  • Asia-Africa relations and Third World politics
  • Postcolonial feminist theory
  • Critical methods
  • Boundary events

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Citizenship (160602): Comparative Government and Politics (160603): Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific (160606): International Relations (160607): Political Science (160600): Political Theory and Political Philosophy (160609): Studies In Human Society (160000)

Keywords

Intersection of security, human rights and humanitarianism; Border; Conflict and postconflict; Cultural diplomacy; North Korea; Inter-Korean relations; international politics in Asia; Feminism; Visual politics; Art and politics; intercultural relations

Research Outputs

Journal

Yang, H., Gonzalez, VV., & Choi, S. (2025). The here and now of Asian Journal of Women’s Studies in its 31st year—with responses. Asian Journal of Women S Studies.
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2025). “Journal bending”: outgoing editors’ reflections on practicing feminist publishing. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 27(5), 969-973
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Chang, P., Choi, S., Kang, L., Kim, BM., Kim, ES., Gonzalez, VV., . . . Yang, H. (2025). Asian Journal of Women’s Studies 30th anniversary roundtable. Asian Journal of Women S Studies.
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Choi, S., Diaz, JM., Gonzales, VV., Jung, JY., & Szendi Schieder, C. (2024). Tensions, challenges, and opportunities for feminist scholarship in today’s imperial global knowledge structures. Asian Journal of Women S Studies. 30(3), 255-279
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Choi, S., Jung, JY., & Parashar, S. (2024). Remapping the feminist global: Cascading questions and conundrums. Asian Journal of Women S Studies. 30(3), 121-127
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choi, S., & Parashar, S. (2024). Remapping the feminist global: (un)doing feminisms. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26(5), 969-979
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Choi, S. (2023). Terrible security problem: an aesthetics approach and study of the Korean Nuclear Crisis. Critical Studies on Security.
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Agarwal, A., Chen, CC., Choi, S., Cruz, FA., Hoo, CP., & Watanabe, A. (2023). Forum: Searching for a Global Solidarity: A Collective Auto-Ethnography of Early-Career Women Researchers in the Asia-Pacific. International Studies Perspectives. 24(1), 88-114
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Choi, S. (2021). The Art of Monument Politics: The North Korean State, Juche and International Politics. Asian Studies Review. 45(3), 435-453
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choi, S. (2021). Telling our racism and sexism stories safely is a global security problem: a conversation between complainers. Critical Studies on Security. 9(1), 7-11
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Choi, S. (2020). Redressing international problems: North Korean nuclear politics. Review of International Studies. 46(3), 337-349
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Choi, S. (2017). The art of losing (in) the international. Millennium Journal of International Studies. 45(2), 241-248
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2025). The triumph of anti-genderism?. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 27(3), 523-525
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.Edited by: Choi, S.
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Choi, S. (2015). Love's cruel promises: Love, unity and North Korea. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 17(1), 119-136
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choi, S., Félix de Souza, NM., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2025). The costs of (not) building alternative visions of the world(s). International Feminist Journal of Politics. 27(2), 275-279
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2025). Violences of capitalism/political economies of war. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 27(1), 1-5
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Azarmandi, M., Beausoleil, E., Bickerton, SH., Choi, S., Fadgen, T., Greener, B., . . . Tan, L. (2024). Towards a tika political science: Restoring balance, reflecting our context. Australian Journal of Indigenous Education. 53(2)
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S., Greener, B.
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2024). Feminist resistance as a bulwark for democracy. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26(4), 739-743
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2024). The messiness of the global “political” and the “personal”. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26(3), 461-465
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choi, S., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2024). Queer, feminist, de/postcolonial, science. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26(2), 211-215
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2024). The damages done by the “anti-gender movement”. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 26(1), 1-5
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2023). The important work of theorizing the everyday, the small …. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 25(5), 797-800
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2023). What do we need feminist solidarity for?. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 25(4), 565-569
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2023). On violence: why feminist reflections and critique continue to matter. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 25(3), 365-367
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2023). A global feminist public sphere?. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 25(2), 157-159
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Choi, S., & Eschle, C. (2022). Rethinking global nuclear politics, rethinking feminism. International Affairs. 98(4), 1129-1147
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2022). “Woman, Life, Freedom”. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 24(5), 671-674
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2022). Rethinking masculinities, militarization, and unequal development. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 24(4), 515-518
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2022). No end to violence? Conflicts, emergencies, resistances. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 24(3), 341-344
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2022). Questioning war. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 24(2), 193-197
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choi, S., de Souza, NMF., Lind, A., Parashar, S., Prügl, E., & Zalewski, M. (2022). Nurturing a robust dialogic and collaborative space of accountability and transformation. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 24(1), 1-4
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Choi, SH., & Deiana, MA. (2017). Questioning the international: (Un)making Bosnian and Korean conflicts cinematically. Trans-humanities. 10(1), 5-30 Retrieved from http://www.trans-humanities.org/
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.
Choi, SH. (2017). The art of losing (in) the international. Millennium - Journal of International Studies. 45(2), 241-249
[Journal article]Authored by: Choi, S.
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Choi, SH. (2015). Love's cruel promises: Love, unity and North Korea. International Feminist Journal of Politics. 17(1), 119-136
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Book

(2024). Southeast Asia-North Korea Relations: Drivers, Linkages, and Strategic Ambivalence.
[Edited Book]Authored by: Choi, S.Edited by: Choi, S.
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Hoo, CP., Choi, S., & Bridges, B. (2024). Preface. (pp. xii - xiv).
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Hoo, CP., & Choi, S. (2024). Introduction: Southeast Asia and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. In Southeast Asia North Korea Relations Drivers Linkages and Strategic Ambivalence. (pp. 1 - 10).
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Hoo, CP., Choi, S., & Bridges, B. (2024). Conclusion: Smaller States' Strategic Ambivalence: Southeast Asia's Engagement with North Korea. In Southeast Asia North Korea Relations Drivers Linkages and Strategic Ambivalence. (pp. 224 - 234).
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(2023). Writing saved me: When the international gets personal.
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Masters, C., Choi, S., Zalewski, M., & Parashar, S. (2023). Preface. (pp. viii - xviii).
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Choi, S. (2023). Complaint. In Writing Saved Me When the International Gets Personal. (pp. 29 - 46).
[Chapter]Authored by: Choi, S.Edited by: Choi, S.
Choi, S., Särmä, S., Masters, C., Zalewski, M., Brown, ML., & Parashar, S.(2023). ripping, cutting, stitching: feminist knowledge destruction and creation in global politics.
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Greener, B., Choi, S., & Forster, M. (2023). Rights. In S. McLennan, M. Forster, R. Hazou, D. Littlewood, & C. Neill (Eds.) Tu Rangaranga: Rights, responsibilities and global citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand. (pp. 81 - 95). Auckland, New Zealand: Massey University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Choi, S., Greener, B.Edited by: Hazou, R.
Choi, S. (2022). Creativity and Feminist Knowledge. In LJ. Shepherd, & C. Hamilton (Eds.) Gender Matters in Global Politics: A Feminist Introduction to International Relations. (pp. 22 - 33). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Choi, S. (2021). Everyday peace in critical feminist theory. In Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. (pp. 60 - 69).
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Choi, S., & Lisle, D. (2019). An exercise in question and conversation: does creativity need to be evaluated?. In S. Choi, A. Selmeczi, & E. Strausz (Eds.) Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics: Creativity and Transformation. (pp. 203 - 225). Milton Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Choi, S., Selmeczi, A., & Strausz, E. (Eds.) (2019). Critical Methods for the Study of World Politics Creativity and Transformation. Milton Park, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Choi, S. (2018). Borders. In Visual Global Politics. (pp. 35 - 41).
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Azizian, R., Choi, S., Belgrave, D., Greener, B., Harding, N., Hoverd, W., . . . Prinsen, G.(2018). The 2018 Strategic Defence Statement: Ten Different Views from Massey Scholars. Security, Politics and Development Network
[Discussion Paper]Authored by: Choi, S., Greener, B., Harding, N., Powles, A., Prinsen, J.Edited by: Greener, B.
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Choi, S. (2018). Borders. In R. Bleiker (Ed.) Visual Global Politics. (pp. 35 - 41). London, United Kingdom: Routledge
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Choi, SH. (2017). Re-viewing sovereignty, North Korean authoritarianism and art. In D. Howland, E. Lillehoj, & M. Mayer (Eds.) Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics. (pp. 239 - 265). : Palgrave Macmillan US
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Choi, S. (2016). Re-viewing sovereignty, North Korean authoritarianism, and art. In Art and Sovereignty in Global Politics. (pp. 239 - 265).
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Choi, S. (2016). Grey. In Making Things International 2 Catalysts and Reactions. (pp. 106 - 121).
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Choi, S.(2014). Re-imagining North Korea in international politics: Problems and alternatives.
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Choi, S.(2014). Re-Imagining North Korea in International Politics Problems and Alternatives. : Routledge
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Thesis

Choi, SH. (2012). How Do you Solve A Problem Like North Korea? Interrogating Culture(s) and Exploring Alternatives. (Doctoral Thesis) Choi, SH. (2012). How Do you Solve A Problem Like North Korea? Interrogating Culture(s) and Exploring Alternatives. (Doctoral Thesis)
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Other

Choi, SH. (2015). Border crossing as a method. : Sino-NK
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Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

I am interested in working with students pursuing theoretical and/or methodologically innovative research in any area of research within my area of research expertise and courses I have taught, which include:

North Korea in the World;

Two Koreas and Beyond;

East Asia, IR and Culture;  

Human Rights;

Globalization;

Political Economy of Soft Power;

International Relations;

Introduction to East Asian Studies;

Identities and Subjectivity

 

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Main Supervisor 1 0
Co-supervisor 2 1

Current Doctoral Supervision

Main Supervisor of:

  • Indeewari Galagama - Doctor of Philosophy
    Echoes of Silence: Unravelling Enforced Disappearances and the Quest for Reconciliation in Sri Lanka’s JVP Insurgencies (1971 & 1987–1989)

Co-supervisor of:

  • Robert Broughton - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Political Economy of Inclusivity: LGBTQ+ Rights as Strategic Tools and Contingent Assets
  • Christie Satti - Doctor of Philosophy
    Can Q methods, by tracking and tracing marginalisation, be a Hurstonian Spyglass?

Completed Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • 2025 - Mati Tareen - Doctor of Philosophy
    The Nexus of Human Security and Militarisation: A Case Study of Balochistan, Pakistan