Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science: doi.org/10.1017/S153...

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! #Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right? By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas doi.org/10.1017/S153...

DGSi's 2nd Annual Conference on Peace and Conflict methodologies ponders 25 years of Women, Peace and Security. Durham, 2-3 June 2025. Do join!

You make an award winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?

Quite something that UK is issuing travel advisories against its key ally! Actually though, the Visa Waiver Form most people sign (the one that asks if you are a war criminal or are guilty of moral turpitude) puts you beyond the legal process, not if you break the law -but if THEY SAY you have.

Let’s talk about the way a name becomes a crime, the way a crime becomes an argument, the way an argument becomes a theory, the way a theory sits safely in a syllabus far from the fire. publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...

When I first went to Law School, the pictures on the walls were all of white men. In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.

[/] Our latest with @omniatv.com and @efsyntakton.bsky.social on the Pylos shipwreck. TLDR; there was indeed a rope. And it was blue. And it was tied on the fishing vessel, as the survivors claim for the past couple of years. Read below:

normalising the erosion of IL: "the deal was a decision based on a security assessment and not by a desire to adhere to the principles of international law"

Lovely to host Feargal Cochrane's talk on Belfast yesterday at DGSi, discussing covered rivers and covered histories and the hope ahead; thank you Bahar Baser for organising! @feargalc.bsky.social @baharbaser.bsky.social

@neophytosloizides.bsky.social only because Feargal follows you ! :)

Incredible. Trump put tariffs to coerce Mexico, and she got the US to commit to solve the more urgent problem (who knows whether the US will actually do anything). www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

New #OpenAccess Intervention — "A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean" by #WeSmellGas antipodeonline.org/2025/01/28/a... wesmellgas.org

Right on.

At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out! Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake. Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Ending the term with a packed week of Emma Rimpilainen speaking on displacement in Ukraine, Janina Pescinski on migration activism in Lampedusa and Trieste, and German Otalora Gallego brilliantly defending his PhD photovoice thesis on transformative justice in Colombia!

It's been a whirlwind of events at the Durham Global Security Institute this term: public lectures on cybersecurity, WWI war graves, the Nigerian Civil War and reflections on 2+ decades in the Royal Air Force.

Powerful piece looking at experiences of those who were trapped in Diego Garcia. Here the thing, the Diego Garcia saga is just one of many examples of how people seeking asylum continue to be abandoned in horrendous conditions and without support by the UK, and elsewhere. www.bbc.com/news/article...