Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Please join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social (LSE) discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Wed 7 May, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

Just rereleased in paperback. @hmberents.bsky.social @brisunipress.bsky.social

Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social (@nclpolitics.bsky.social) discusses collage as method for her Ph.D. research on nuclear weapons and war. Wed 9 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...

As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...

We've made some new additions to our Critical Border Studies starter pack. If you are new and would like to join let us know! go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

In tribute to Emma Hutchison @risjnl.bsky.social has curated a collection celebrating the impact of her work. This includes her RIS article alongside 8 other pieces inspired by her ideas. Emma’s research on emotions in IR shaped an entire generation of scholarship. @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social

It attempts to separate the mythology of writing from the work of writing, as though the quotidian labour of expression is something that keeps you from your ideas rather than the exact process by which you discover them. internetprincess.substack.com/p/choosing-t...

When OpenAI complains about intellectual property theft

Excited to welcome Professor Jessica Auchter & Dr Tom Gregory to @richmonduni for the first 'State, Power, & Globalisation' Research Centre events under my Directorship! Join us on 14 Sept & 26 Oct for talks/discussion on 'Global Corpse Politics' & 'Weaponizing Civilian Protection’. All welcome!

"Israel has forcibly displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants ... multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death" www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

You love to see it. Exec salaries & uni governance both need urgent reform. And well done to the union for their report, yet again showing their value. [perhaps some of the free riders who like pay rises that come from union bargaining, but don't like paying annual union dues, will now do so?]

In case you missed it, we made this critical border studies starter pack last week. There have been quite a few additions since then but still some space. Let @arijerrems.bsky.social know if you'd like to be added go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

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Here a video of our last event: Federica Caso interviewed by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about Settler Military Aesthetics and her new Edinburgh UP book, which exaines war commemorations are part of broader militarised forms of governing societies. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...

If you are interested in affective politics, check out the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group account. They do great work.

Our special Issue on #borders #criticalborderstudies with @chrisagius13.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social and Samid Suliman.

Union report out today finds: - 306 senior uni execs earn more than their state premiers - average Vice Chancellor salary over $1 million - Unis spent $734 million in 2023 on "consulting” etc Meantime, we're constantly told by execs we have to cut spending newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/new-...

Is there a starter pack for all things security studies? Critical security studies?

Finally an explanation...

A bit about the Australian Critical Border Studies Network for the benefit of our new followers. We are a bit of an academic garage band convened by @arijerrems.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Andrew Burridge. The last few years we've organised a bunch of stuff... 1/6

Border violence theconversation.com/another-rush...

Following the trend we have started a Critical Border Studies starter pack. Reply to this if you would like to be added or have suggestions go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

“To be truly meaningful, [decolonisation] has to be about critiquing power and knowledge, exploring how power is constituted in knowledge, and how that enables structures of domination to be upheld.” Interview with our amazing UQ colleague Heloise Weber. globalsouth.org/2024/11/helo...

Working on critical border studies starter pack for @acbsnetwork.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

Hey IR folks, Australasia's biannual festival of International Relations (the OCIS conference) is in the beautiful city of Sydney next July. Join us in the land of Oz! ocis.org.au/call-for-pap...

Newly delivered. New chapters on More-than-Physical Geography, Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Anticolonial Geographies, and Black Geographies. Much else updated too.

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...

The ACBS Network is now on bluesky!