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Julia Bethwaite

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Tampereen yliopisto
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Julia Bethwaite is Doctoral Researcher in International Relations at Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University, Finland. Her research interests focus on the role of art in international relations and world politics, practices of cultural diplomacy and museum diplomacy, transnational cultural relations, elite networks and interaction of state and non-state actors within the transnational field of art. In her doctoral dissertation, she examines art institutions, such as the Venice Biennale and fine art museums, and forms of power, by focusing on Russian actors. Besides her doctoral research, she has worked as Academic Coordinator of the Master’s Degree Programme in Leadership for Change at the Faculty of Management and Business, Tampere University (2017–2022).  

Työtehtävät

Doctoral Researcher in International Relations

Luottamustoimet

Secretary of Finnish East European and Central Asian Club (FinEECA)

Member of the Board of the Finnish Association for Russian and East European Studies (VIETS)

Tutkimuskohteet

Forms of power, transnational field of art, cultural diplomacy, international and transnational cultural relations, the role of art in international relations, art biennials, art museums, transnational elite networks, Russia 

Tutkimusura

‘Cultural Statecraft in International Relations: The Case of Russia’, funded by the Academy of Finland at Tampere University, Finland (2017–2020), Principal Investigator: Tuomas Forsberg. 

‘Making Spaces of Justice Across the East-West Divide’, funded by the Kone Foundation (2016–2018), Principal Investigator: Anni Kangas. Participated as Doctoral Researcher in 2016–2017. 

‘The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Russian Studies – Choices of Russia Modernisation’, funded by the Academy of Finland (2012–2017). Participated as Research Assistant (2014–2015) and Doctoral Student (2015–2017) in the clusters ‘Foreign Policy’ and ‘Diversification of Economy’.

Merkittävimmät julkaisut

Bethwaite, J. (2017, May 19). Exploring the politics of the Venice Biennale. Politiikasta.fi. Retrieved from: http://politiikasta.fi/exploring-politics-venice-biennale/ [Blog post]

Bethwaite, J. (2018, February 9). The Alchemy of Davos. Vaikuttaja.fi. Retrieved from: https://vaikuttaja.uta.fi/the-alchemy-of-davos/. [Blog post]

Bethwaite, J. (2021, April 27). The Forum of Young Global Leaders and overlapping fields of power. The Global. https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/communications/news/forum-young-global-leaders-and-overlapping-fields-power [Blog post]

Bethwaite, J. (2022). Fine arts and international relations: Russian museum diplomacy. In T. Forsberg & S. Mäkinen (Eds.), Russia's cultural statecraft (pp. 50–74). Routledge. 

Bethwaite, J. (2022, November 25). Taidemuseot ja ilmastoaktivismi: Huomiopääomasta ympäristöpääomaksi. Politiikasta. https://politiikasta.fi/taidemuseot-ja-ilmastoaktivismi-huomiopaaomasta-ymparistopaaomaksi/

Bethwaite, J. (Forthcoming). The Wanderers in Shanghai: Russian fine art and hegemonic meta-capital in world politics. Europe-Asia Studies.

Bethwaite, J., & Kangas, A. (2018). The Scales, Politics, and Political Economies of Contemporary Art Biennials. Arts & International Affairs, 2(3), pp. 73–90. Available at https://theartsjournal.net/2018/02/07/the-scales-politics/  

Bethwaite, J., & Kangas, A. (2019). Parties, Pavilions and Protests: The Heteronomous World Politics of the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. New Perspectives, 27(2), pp. 29–61. Available at https://perspectives.iir.cz/download/02-2019-3-julia-bethwaite-anni-kangas-parties-pavilions-and-protests-the-heteronomous-world-politics-of-the-russian-pavilion-at-the-venice-biennale/ 

Bethwaite, J. & Kangas, A. (2020). Paradoxes of the Biennale. OnCurating, 46, pp. 494–502. Available at https://www.on-curating.org/issue-46-reader/the-paradoxes-of-the-biennale.html

Kangas, A., & Bethwaite, J. (2019). Venäjän Venetsian-paviljongin paradoksaalinen valta. Idäntutkimus, 1, pp. 23–44. Available at https://journal.fi/idantutkimus/article/view/81964 

Kangas, A., Kujala, J., Heikkinen, A., Lönnqvist, A., Laihonen, H., & Bethwaite, J. (Eds.). (2019). Leading change in a complex world: Transdisciplinary perspectives. Tampere University Press. Available at: http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-0845-2