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Published! In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba. Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others! Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Listen to hostess @sindhurajasekaran.bsky.social & @qmanivannan.bsky.social talk about the quintessence of care, of grief as political action, and writing with honesty, in this brilliant episode of the The Subjective Space podcast. Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4yjv...

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A joy to engage w/ @drljshepherd.bsky.social's book 'The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing' through this forum in Int. Politics. In my piece, I weave with/about the book's threads on the embodied, entangled self & complicity in the neoliberal academy. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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New issue of @ispjournal.bsky.social & in it our article on care-full research now has pg #s! In it @caltinmollica.bsky.social, Hayley Payne, Casey Odger-Jewell, & Savannah Spalding & I reflects on lessons a youth-led, adult-supported project can offer Intl Studies broadly doi.org/10.1093/isp/...

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Written an awesome piece of international theory? Or know someone else who has? Nominations open for 2025 Sussex International Theory Prize for the best piece of innovative theoretical research in International Relations published in book form in 2024: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen... #inttheory #IR

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Must-read paper by the brilliant ⭐ @drasmaabdi.bsky.social ⭐ who is an expert on all things feminist political economy, informal economies, women's informal labour, and feminist solidarity, with a focus on the Middle East, particularly Iran 👇👇👇

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These are my reflections on the thoughtful pieces written by brilliant colleagues in response to my 2023 book. If you're interested in the forum, all pieces will be OA on the thread below. If you're interested in the book, it too is OA. Download from "Features" tab here rowman.com/ISBN/9781538...

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Publication alert! In this article with International Politics, I converse with @drljshepherd.bsky.social “The Self and Other Stories”, contending w. her text’s absences, and celebrating its vulnerability. I ask what it means to consider writing as doing justice. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Do not relinquish your hope. Hope sustains. Hope heals. Hope encourages. Hope restores. Hope renews. Hope reinvigorates. Don’t let them take your hope. Hope is how we made it. Hope is how we will make it.

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Happy to share my piece for International Politics' book forum on @drljshepherd.bsky.social's The Self and Other Stories. I urge us to move towards an International Relations that is more relational, personal, caring and yes, messy! Read here: rdcu.be/d8jsk #feminist #internationalrelations

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📢I write on'Feminist Decolonial Historiography' as methodological disruptor in IR & foreign policy analysis for Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis-A New Subfield. Thank you Jacqui True & Karin Aggestam for this incredible journey filled with feminist joy!✨ shorturl.at/VYO8x @brisunipress.bsky.social

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I'm looking for contributions to a panel on histories & futures of international human rights for EISA 2025. We could explore questions of impunity, alternative histories of international human rights, creative strategies around the language of international human rights, transversal alliances

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What exactly is ontological (in)security? And what is ontological security's ethical, reparative, and transformative potential? In my new article in @internatltheory.bsky.social, I suggest drawing on Melanie Klein rather than Giddens to conceptualise these questions doi.org/10.1017/S175... 🧵👇

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Sophie Lewis & Lola Olufemi: Enemy Feminisms @lrbbookshop.bsky.social Date: Mar 6 • 2:00 pm Location: 14 Bury Pl, London, WC1A 2JL www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sophie-lew...

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I had this article on the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts published recently, six years after I started working on it. It's 20,000 words but there's a Back to the Future reference hiding in the footnotes for anyone who gets that far. #censuspolitics

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Wonderful wake up to a new Special Collection of @risjnl.bsky.social honoring Emma’s work on emotions and the influence it had on international relations scholarship. Big thanks to the editorial team. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...

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Emma Hutchison’s work on emotions and international relations defined and informed a generation of scholarship. We have put together a special collection honoring the legacy of Emma's work, including her RIS article and 8 others which have built on it. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Every gazan go fund me I see makes me more enraged that our govt is funding a genocide and leaving hundreds of thousands of people to try to fundraise their way to safety while we pay for them to be bombed

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I'm grateful to Security Dialogue for publishing my new (open access) article exploring how discourses on promoting 'diversity of thought' circulate in the UK national security policy community, and the political work they do in relation to hegemonic security thinking 🧵: doi.org/10.1177/0967...

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📢 We are hiring 2 Associate Lecturers in International Relations @uniofstandrews.bsky.social, with a focus on Conflict and Security. Both will play a central role in supporting and teaching on a new online Postgraduate programme in Conflict & Security in Policy and Practice

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After almost a decade of thinking, researching and writing... this came in the post today. 🤓 🥂

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What an amazing collaboration! This is going in at #1 on my "must read" list for the new year...

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Stamps of the (unrecognised) Turkish Federated State of Cyprus showing solidarity with the Palestinians (1980, 1981) #conflictsky #polscisky

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Forensic Architecture’s latest report documents the extent and intent of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, strengthening South Africa’s case in the ICJ charging Israel with the crime of genocide. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/mapping-the-genocide-in-gaza/ #Palestine #Israel

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When burning hospitals are no longer news ‘The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide’ aje.io/i3k7pq

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An utterly damning and horrific image.

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I’m excited to share that my book “Unequal Access. Categorising refugees in European Resettlement and Humanitarian Admission Programmes” will be published next year @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social! Pre-orders are now available tinyurl.com/b5kuxrj4 Looking forward to sharing this work with you all soon!

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If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...

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Researching how practices of love and care help people imagine worlds in the wake of loss has filled my life with joy and meaning this year. Philipp Schulz and I loved chatting to @pollypw.bsky.social of @europeanisa.bsky.social about this work. open.spotify.com/episode/4IEC...

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Watch our latest @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @kayatbarry.bsky.social talks to Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her fascinating research on art and migration, including participatory photography to document the lives of migrant farming workers in Australia. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...

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New & still feeling my way around here so trying an introduction via a recent essay Emma Hutchison & I wrote for @coco-journal.bsky.social with our wonderful colleagues, Josephine Bourne & Hoang Young-ju: the result of a long collaboation and much soul-searching. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

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Please read this excellent paper by Güneş Daşlı & @emmamurphy.bsky.social: Moving beyond binary identities in transitional justice: recognising the complexity of agency in agonistic spaces, part of our @caltinmollica.bsky.social SI on transitional justice www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen. What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.

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Not a single person has been put on trial for killing 72 people at Grenfell. But they can lock up non-violent protestors for 21 years, because they are a 'danger'.

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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

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Just published: our correspondence in The Lancet in support of UNRWA. Read here: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... It should be easy for all health providers, scholars, & advocates to urgently speak out in support of UNRWA as the humanitarian conditions in Gaza are more dire than ever.

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Spoke to the #PeoplePowerPolitics podcast about bureaucratic politics in #Pakistan & how it stalled the country's transition to #democracy 🇵🇰 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p... Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/6f2iJ31... New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/how-have-bur... #PoliSky

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More interesting #WPS research #UNSCR1325 #WomenPeaceSecurity @spaceforpeace.bsky.social

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Due to a withdrawl, there is now an opening for a paper presentation in an #ISA2025 panel on statehood and conflict. ✉️ me a title, a 200-word abstract and 5 keywords at [email protected] by Friday November 29 1200 UK time. And feel free to share with your networks. #conflictsky #polscisky

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