Two or more Open-rank Professorships in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Interesting for both it’s historical account of US conduct in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and for it articulating a US way of war that is uninterested in signalling any adherence or deference to notions of just war.

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

This begs the question of why we have collectively chosen to make this such a difficult phenomena to explain. Why choose the mystification and psychologising when such an obvious and intuitive answer is so readily available?

So pleased to share Elke Schwarz’ and my new article on morality and meaning in the cyber-nuclear age @elkeschwarz.bsky.social

Some fantastic reviews coming in on the new book, co-authored with @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and @m-deceit.bsky.social colleagues @ou-gcsj.bsky.social

Great new piece out in The International Journal of Human Rights. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering. Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

On war, wounds, law and ethics. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Does anyone have access to this 1994 article by Eric Dunning?: 'Sport in Space and Time: "Civilizing Processes", Trajectories of State-Formation and the Development of Modern Sport' journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... My institution sadly does not have access :(

Why are the marketing narratives of new (US) military contractors finding their way into the government speeches? Do they offer to write them? The trope of 'peace through strength' for the UK? A defence dividend? ... All of it seems so detached from the realities of war, possibly even politics.

Q. I'm assembling a list of the various terms we use to talk about the social processes through which war is produced. At the moment I have: militarisation, militarism, martial politics, military social harm, war preparedness, everyday modalities of war. What am I missing and where can I find it?

@jamcjo.bsky.social Liberal war rhetoric … it never changes.

Don't let the UK govt's confected outrage distract you from the key thing it could do to stop the carnage in Palestine: halt all military collaboration with and arms sales to/from Israel - thanks to @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social for hosting my piece - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-r...

Every day I learn something new about the casual brutality of Israel's assault on Palestinians. Today it's that Israel is the first air force to use F-35 fighter jets in "beast mode", allowing it to carry more & heavier bombs. I can just imagine the dudes coming up with the name.

Alex Adams has done it again. Strongly recommend this book for anyone interested in the intersections of war and popular culture.

New article in the British Journal of Criminology about the criminalisation of conspiracy theories and conspiracy denial in the social sciences. We should take conspiracy theories seriously and investigate conspiracies by political and corporate elites doi.org/10.1093/bjc/...

🗓️ Less than a month to go! We’re seeking contributions for an edited volume on secrecy in an era of polycrisis. Call for Chapter Proposals for edited volume: Secrecy Studies: Enduring Themes, New Directions Details at: buff.ly/bSnIaw6 Deadline: 1st June

This is an exciting time for secrecy research and an important time to understand how central it is to our current crises. Do consider contributing a chapter to what we hope will be a new definitive volume.

🌟@epir-bisa.bsky.social roundtable🌟 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ Elisabeth Mörking, @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social and @theoaiolfi.bsky.social 13 May and open to all 👉 buff.ly/nnegvCu @mtrotem.bsky.social

This is entirely reflective of Starmer’s general tendency to avoid positive statements of value or principle. Instead, he governs according to the rules and rulings that are made elsewhere. This is not only intellectually impoverished, it is also moral cowardice.

Dania Akkad of @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social explaining the transparency challenge around UK complicity in potential war crimes in Yemen: youtu.be/_beUBMq8gCI?...

Last episode of Crisis Point is out now. We wrap up the series offering a working theory of crisis and covering polycrisis, the novelty of 2008 and its aftermath, climate change, and what political economy can offer to make sense of the present. open.spotify.com/episode/3shV...

I have a new article in @politicalquarterly.bsky.social, researched and written with my former student and research assistant, Elliott Hill, on the Lough Neagh ecological crisis, rights of nature and rights of future generations. #LoughNeagh #openaccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

My former and current departments are hiring. Exeter (former) is hiring for Lecturer (Asst Professor) in IR. At Southampton (current department), @rikkidean.bsky.social is hiring a post doc for his ERC. Both departments are wonderful, and happy to speak glowingly of either. Links to each in thread.

This is possibly a different aspect of the @mikesavagelse.bsky.social thesis, that an economy organised around wealth undermines classic sociological/Marxist notions of historical modernity as a trajectory from past to future, in favour of historical resurrections and reverberations.

Dare I say there might be more to this current moment than this?

The War on Nature in Ukraine – "Fires and smoke foul the air. Toxins seep into the earth and water. Habitats for wildlife disappear. Experts call it ecocide" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great to see that more that attention is being paid to this issue. I enjoyed speaking to Zoe Corbyn about my research in @finandsoc.bsky.social on military venture capital. In today's Observer: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

As the name suggests, the “Signalgate” Scandal is about the use of a messaging platform to communicate a bombing campaign, rather than the bombing itself. With scandals, always first ask: what is the line that is being crossed? What practices are outside these terms of problematisation?

Adam Shatz on liberalism and the Palestine exception that has become the rule: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Just published: 'Nationalism and Magic' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... free access here: www.academia.edu/128296975/Na...

📚SHORTLIST ANNOUNCEMENT 📚 We are thrilled to announce our 2025 L.H.M Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025 shortlist! To read more about all the incredible books and their talented authors 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... #BookPrize #BookShortlist @rkrystalli.bsky.social

There’s that imperial boomerang

case in point of a thought I have often these days: you should decide whether hard pragmatism/realism is an aesthetic commitment or a practical commitment

1/ 📢 New research! How do societies make sense of violent events? In a new paper with @politicsandspace.bsky.social, Victoria Basham, @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and I explore how the London Bridge attack & Grenfell Tower fire were understood in media & public discourse—and why this matters. 🧵👇

In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening. You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

3 fully funded Phds in peace and conflict studies: www.coventry.ac.uk/research/res...

Trump is the author of this hell but he writex it with tools preserved, expanded, and ultimately sustained by first Obama and later Biden. Detaining a legal permanent resident for campus protest, under the flimsy pretense of aiding terror, can only be done with tools Bush built & Obama sustained.

The fact that some Democrats can't figure out how to make "billionaires illegally take over federal government to cut programs people depend on and enrich their friends" into a kitchen table issue seems like a skill issue on their part.

You know how the far-right is pretty big right now? Well I've got a 🚨New Publication🚨 on interpreting far-right ideologies! Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement is #OpenAccess in @ejir.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Funny how the hard choices produce such easy answers, and so often spat out with glee.

What does the Third Nuclear Age mean for the Nuclear Ban Treaty? And what should states parties do to ensure the TPNW can be successful in our current moment? Find out in this working paper submitted to the UN, authored by @carolinapanico.bsky.social and I: docs-library.unoda.org/Treaty_on_th...