So, this is not only a matter of project and human resource management, but affects the very logic of these organisations. Can one expect that they will take care of their people and see it as part of the very work they set out to do? /3

They are the first to being let go - not the staff at headquarters, who have their hands on the budget. These are highly educated people who often have taken quite significant risks to work in these fields in repressive contexts. 2/

It’s quite obvious, but worthwhile to highlight again: the cuts in funding for aid/development/human rights work in the West do not only have implications for Western NGOs or potential beneficiaries in the countries where projects are implemented. They also hit “local staff“ in these countries. 1/

Kann natürlich auch sein, dass der Bundeskanzler ein Buch von sich in den Klingelbeutel wirft.

It’s quite obvious, but worthwhile to highlight again: the cuts in funding for aid/development/human rights work in the West do not only have implications for Western NGOs or potential beneficiaries in the countries where projects are implemented. They also hit “local staff“ in these countries. 1/

Look at this beautiful chapter, co-authored with @tbonacker.bsky.social on how Global South(s) is conceptualized across disciplines! Out now and Open Access, in an incredible Handbook edited by @sidtrip.bsky.social & Solveig Richter www.bloomsburycollections.com/encyclopedia...

"Eine Großmobilisierung lässt sich nicht durch den schlechtesten Slogan erklären, der irgendwo auf einem Poster steht." Neuer @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social Artikel von Jannis Grimm, @teraqerat.bsky.social @felixanderl.bsky.social & Nina Moya Schreieder jacobin.de/artikel/gaza...

At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...

New paper with @mhamjediers.bsky.social German judges have discretion to apply rehabilitative juvenile criminal law (Jugendstrafrecht) or punitive adult criminal law to 18–20-year-old offenders. We show that immigrant youths are ~10 percentage points less likely to be sentenced under juvenile law

🎤 🫳 www.spiegel.de/ausland/absc...

I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4

Katrin Köppert @katonymous.bsky.social : Digital Blackface, memetischer Faschismus und Geschlecht 18–20 Uhr tu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/62793925879?pwd=Gtgvfgj1WUSKpLwEaGQXhEpDc59bPe.1 Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Kunst-Forschung-Geschlecht“ der Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien.

Satellite images show that most of the 260,000 civilians in Sudan’s el-Fasher are likely still trapped, as mass RSF killings continue

Uiuiui 😮‍💨

Wichtige Recherche von @correctiv.org zur Vergabe von Forschungsmitteln nach politischem Gutdünken ohne das Ethik- & Qualitätsstandards eingehalten werden: “Das übereinstimmende Fazit der vom Ministerium beauftragten Experten: Das Projekt sei „aus verschiedenen Gründen nicht förderungswürdig“.”

Diese Recherche von @correctiv.org legt einen Skandal offen und bekommt viel zu wenig Aufmerksamkeit. Knapp 9 Millionen € für ein Projekt mit „verheerenden“ wissenschaftlichen Gutachten - gefördert vom Forschungsministerium! correctiv.org/aktuelles/in...

That’s it from us. Happy weekend!

Alejandro Esguerra is offering comments, encouraging authors to search for their audience, and making suggestions about where to find them 🕵️‍♂️

Sari Shrayteh‘s talk deals with predictions as part of popular culture in unstable situations, eg coffee readings, palmistry, or astrology in the news during wartime

Thomas Müller focuses on how RAND sustains authority in situations of ever changing expertise

In the second presentation @tobiaswiss.bsky.social puts Clausewitz in good company, reading him as a practice theorist of war

Lena Runge explains that variation in conflict intensity is easier to tackle in conflict forecasting than predicting proper onset

We now are at our last panel on ”Violence, Contingency and the Future“ with presentations by Lena Runge, Tobias Wille, Thomas Müller, and Sari Shrayteh and comments by Alejandro Esguerra 🔮

The discussion went from inherent liberal biases, the linkage between truth and lie in post-truth-politics, what life is grieveable, and mass suffering and the states moral responsability connecting the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, among others #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Now its Ben Christians turn to ask questions, challenge the panelists, and provide ideas for specifying their ideas. Ben, for instance, suggests to look at other cases to link the Palestinian suffering of violence to public empathy in Germany. #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

And as last presentation for this panel (and the before the lunch break) we have Sebastian Schindler on "Nothing Can Be Unjust”: Post-Truth and the Anarchization of Global Politics" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

As a second panelist, Mingyue Li presents her research on BRICS in Contestation: Epistemic Violence during German-Chinese Public Discourses (2021-2024) #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

The second panel today starts with @roykaradag.bsky.social on "Death by Historical Analogy: The Illegitimate Victimhood of Palestinians in Germany" #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Finally, @mariamsalehi.bsky.social gives feedback, comments and questions on the presentations #RethinkingViolenceDPVW

Romany Schmidt speaks about Narratives of Violence as a Transformative Force in South Korean Cinema #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Jannis Grimm talks about his paper on Transnational Solidarities and Local Legacies of Civil War: Linking Gaza and Northern Ireland #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Eva Johais presents a joint paper project on War Agency in the Digital Age: the Memetic Politics of the North Atlantic Fella Organiza-tion (NAFO) #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Katja Freistein starts the panel off with herpaper on The Body Politics of the Far Right #RethinkingViolenceDVPW

Good morning, we are back for our second panel on "The Display and Cultural Production of Violence" with @Katja Freistein @@ksailormoon.bsky.social, @EvaJohais, @jannisgrimm.bsky.social and @RomanySchmidt. #Ordersofviolence #RethinkingViolenceDVPW #IPS

Take away: The stake of IPS is not only in doing more empirical work, but in the conceptual-analytical organisation of how we do empirical work

Now, Jef Huysmans gives a keynote, exploring how the war in Ukraine has shifted debates on European security, leading to a dominance of “war codification“

In #Gabès in #Tunesien demonstrieren seit Mitte Oktober Tausende Menschen gegen die umwelt- und gesundheitsschädliche Phosphatindustrie. Auf dis:orient ordne ich die aktuellen Geschehnisse ein: www.disorient.de/magazin/prot... #Tunisia #Environment

We start our workshop with the first panel on “Legacies of war and Violence“ with Jan Busse, recounting the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict as a history of political violence

In den nächsten 2 Tagen berichten @mariamsalehi.bsky.social und @mariaketzmerick.bsky.social vom Workshop der DVPW-AKs Konflikt- und Gewaltforschung sowie Internationale Politische Soziologie am @zmo-berlin.bsky.social. Gemeinsam denken wir über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft von Gewalt nach.

Come to Bologna in May 2026 for Workshop on *Obstructionism in International Organizations* @johnshopkinssais.bsky.social Co-organized w/ @borzyskowski.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk Submit by Dec 15👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please spread the word 🙏

We have published an English translation of our working paper on the "All Eyes on Gaza/Zusammen für Gaza" demonstration @protestinstitut.bsky.social You can download it here.

Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A. This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC! doi.org/10.1177/0308...

@ckreudersonnen.bsky.social and I are happy to announce two open research positions in our joint DFG-funded project VARICRIS (👉 bit.ly/varicris). We are recruiting a #PostDoc and a #PhD candidate 🧵: #PoliSky #PoliSkyJobs #polsci 🌐

Ich freue mich sehr, dass Annelise Finney, Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendiatin in meiner Forschungsgruppe @interactfu.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social, den diesjährigen Sylke-Tempel-Essaypreis gewonnen hat! internationalepolitik.de/de/journalis...

❓𝗪𝗲𝗿 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗳𝘂̈𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗮? Forschende der #FUBerlin @interactfu.bsky.social, @zfk-mr.bsky.social und @dezim-institut.de legen erstmals repräsentative Daten zur Zusammensetzung und Motivation der Teilnehmenden der Pro-Palästina-Demonstration am 27. September vor: 🔗 www.fu-berlin.de/presse/infor...