This page highlights selected publications across my main research areas: politics of discourse, knowledge production, and International Relations, qualitative methodology, discourse analysis, reflexivity. For a complete and regularly updated list of publications, please see my Google Scholar.
Discourse and Knowledge in World Politics
Audrey Alejandro, Conceptualizing technicization: the history of medicalized male circumcision, European Journal of International Relations, 2(1), 2025, 336-352.
Audrey Alejandro, Methods, In Beate Jahn and Sebastian Schindler (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia of International Relations. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp. 245–250. [About the history of methods in International Relations.
Audrey Alejandro, Studying knowledge: An analytical guide for international politics, in Handbook of Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics ed. by Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Xymena Kurowska, Birgit Poopuu, Andrea Warnecke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 126-140, 2025.
Audrey Alejandro and Joshua Feldman, The discursive process of resemantisation: how global health discourses turned male circumcision into an anti-HIV policy, International Relations, [online first], 2024, Replication data.
Audrey Alejandro, Do international relations scholars not care about Central and Eastern Europe or do they just take the region for granted? A conclusion to the special issue, Journal of International Relations and Development, 24, 4, 2021, 1001-1013.
Audrey Alejandro, Diversity for and by whom? Knowledge production and the management of diversity in international relations, International Politics Reviews, 9, 2021, 280-285.
Audrey Alejandro, Eurocentrism, Ethnocentrism and Misery of Position: International Relations in Europe, a problematic oversight, European Review of International Studies, 4, 1, 2017, 5-20.
Discourse and Knowledge in Society
Jessica Lang and Audrey Alejandro, Dehumanized in Death: Representations of Murdered Women in American True Crime Podcasts, International Journal of Communication, 18(21), 2066-2086, 2024.
Gustav Meibauer, Kiran Phull, Audrey Alejandro, Gokhan Ciflikli, Alternative metrics, traditional problems? Assessing gender dynamics in the altmetrics of political science, European Political Science, 2024, 179-198, Replication data.
Gustav Meibauer, Kiran Phull, Audrey Alejandro, Gokhan Ciflikli, Alternative metrics, traditional problems? Assessing gender dynamics in the altmetrics of political science, European Political Science, 2024, 179-198, Replication data.
Methodological Innovation
- Computational Discourse Analysis
Audrey Alejandro, The future of reflexivity in practice: building a collective methodological agenda, Nature Reviews Methods Primer, 2026, 6-11.
Audrey Alejandro and Alexander Stoffel, Reflexivity for Qualitative Research Quality and the Quality of Reflexivity, Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research Quality, edited by Uwe Flick, SAGE, 331-345.
Audrey Alejandro and Eleanor Knott, How to Pay Attention to the Words We Use: The Reflexive Review as a Method for Linguistic Reflexivity, International Studies Review, 2022, 24, 3 [online first]
Audrey Alejandro, Reflexive discourse analysis: A methodology for the practice of reflexivity, European Journal of International Relations, 27, 1, 2021, 150-174.
Audrey Alejandro, How to Problematise Categories: Building the Methodological Toolbox for Linguistic Reflexivity, International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2021, online.
- Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis
Audrey Alejandro, Marion Laurence, Lucile Maertens, Discourse Analysis, in International Organization and Research Methods: An Introduction, Fanny Badache, Leah R. Kimber and Lucile Maertens (eds.), Michigan University Press, 2023, 162-170.
Audrey Alejandro, Coding Qualitative Data - Am I doing it the right way?, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2020.
- Writing
Iga Lehman, Janna Tiennari, Ken Hyland, and Audrey Alejandro, Forum: The case for reflexive writing practices in management communication and organization studies, Management Communication Quarterly, 38(3), 698-729, 2024.
Audrey Alejandro, In the teaching pot of the crazy weird witch, poem written and recited as part of a "strike poetry" teach out organised for LSE students, link to the live recording here, link to the text here.
- Role-Play Simulations
Audrey Alejandro, Lucile Maertens, Zoé Cheli, Augustin Fragnière, Oriane Sarrasin, Designing role-play simulations for climate change decision-making: A step-by-step approach to facilitate cooperation between science and policy, Environmental Science & Policy, 152, 2024, 10365
Lucile Maertens, Audrey Alejandro, Zoé Cheli, Walking in policymakers’ shoes – Using role-play to foster better research/policy relations, LSE Impact blog, 2024.
- Research Design
Audrey Alejandro, The Case for Asking “What Is This a Case Of?”, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2025.
Eleanor Knott and Audrey Alejandro, From Conceptual Misalignment to Reconceptualizing: Demonstrating the Process of Reconceptualization, Global Studies Quarterly, 2024.
Audrey Alejandro, Why the Qualitative Versus Quantitative Divide is Overrated, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2024.
Audrey Alejandro, Checklist questionnaire when revising a research assignment/project, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Audrey Alejandro, How to identify a research topic, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022
Audrey Alejandro, How to construct and formulate research questions, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Audrey Alejandro, What is analysis ? Some tips to become more analytical, The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2019.
Audrey Alejandro, 分析的定义，以及一些“提升分析能力”的小技巧, [Chinese translation of What is analysis ? Some tips to become more analytical], The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Audrey Alejandro, ?Qué es él análisis? [Spanish translation of What is analysis ? Some tips to become more analytical], The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Audrey Alejandro, 分析的定义，以及一些“提升分析能力”的小技巧, [Chinese translation of What is analysis ? Some tips to become more analytical], The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Audrey Alejandro, ?Qué es él análisis? [Spanish translation of What is analysis ? Some tips to become more analytical], The Methodological Artist - Personal blog, 2022.
Book, Edited collections and Special Issues
Audrey Alejandro, Decentring Agency in World Politics: Writing for Reflexivity as a Collective Experiment, Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences, 5(1), 39-42, 2024. This is the introduction to the full forum available here.
Audrey Alejandro, Western dominance in International Relations? The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2019. Chapter outline, podcast, and reviews.
Reviewed in Revue Francaise de Science Politique (2021), Revue Interdisciplinaire de Travaux sur les Amériques (2020), Contexto Internacional (2020), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2020), Intelligere, Revista de História Intelectual (2020), Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2019), The Journal of Development Studies (2018).
Knud Erik Jørgensen, Audrey Alejandro, Alexander Reichwein, Felix Rösch, Helen Turton, Reappraising European IR Theoretical Traditions, London: Palgrave, 2017.
Reviewed in Global Affairs (2019) and Journal of Foreign and Security Policy (2018).
Audrey Alejandro, Western dominance in International Relations? The Internationalisation of IR in Brazil and India Abingdon, UK and New York: Routledge, 2019. Chapter outline, podcast, and reviews.
Reviewed in Revue Francaise de Science Politique (2021), Revue Interdisciplinaire de Travaux sur les Amériques (2020), Contexto Internacional (2020), Cambridge Review of International Affairs (2020), Intelligere, Revista de História Intelectual (2020), Millennium: Journal of International Studies (2019), The Journal of Development Studies (2018).
Knud Erik Jørgensen, Audrey Alejandro, Alexander Reichwein, Felix Rösch, Helen Turton, Reappraising European IR Theoretical Traditions, London: Palgrave, 2017.
Reviewed in Global Affairs (2019) and Journal of Foreign and Security Policy (2018).
Here I organise my (selected) publications around my main areas of research.
Please don't hesitate to contact me at a.alejandro ( @ ) lse.ac.uk if you need access.
Please don't hesitate to contact me at a.alejandro ( @ ) lse.ac.uk if you need access.