Helle Malmvig

Primary research areas

Helle Malmvig’s research focuses on international politics of the Middle East. She is particularly interested in aesthetic and popular cultural discourses and practices of war, ethnic and sectarian identity politics, and visual and aesthetic modes of resistance and counter-conducts, particularly in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, Israel Palestine and Iran.

Current research

Visuality, sound, violence and war 

Currently Helle Malmvig is particularly interested in how warfare is performed audially and visually in popular culture and by the hyperreal practices of soldiers and militias themselves.

Aestheticization and humorization of international politics

This project in the making is interested in the implications of what Malmvig calls ‘humorization of politics’,  and how that relates to postmodern conditions of truth and the spectacle of politics.