Immigration: the imagined problem of imagined communities...

In the last few years it has become somewhat of a fad to reject the term militarizaiton in IR. Well, here is what militarized policing under a far-right state government looks like. The pain and grief and horror is the embodied residue of what you seek to deny. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.

Use this template and email your local MP to fight back against the current xenophobic and unreasonable project to destroy HE in Britain! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #HigherEducation #UK

No redundancies at Newcastle! chng.it/tMbNtfJtcT

30% turnout, mate

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Gotta love political scientists

Registration now open! reacpol.net/suspect-citi...

I'm uploading the pre-print of my forthcoming article on the 2024 UK race riots and the need for an infrastructural approach to far-right studies. Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I'm running for the EISA Board. 1) More global south representation 2) A stronger membership-led organisation 3) Solidarity with precarious colleagues and causes 4) The protection of a critical ethos and practice in HE! Deadline 21st of April

Deadline extended, folks! There's still time to submit to REACT and join us in Bologna.

Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social

👇Now open access for your perusal!

My two cents on this jewel

Today is the first day of the @ducuuo.bsky.social strike against cuts. The future of higher education, our members jobs, & our students, is being ripped up across the UK. Brilliant work from the branch fighting back for us all, please send your solidarity. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

Dreadful news. 'UCU said that it believed as many as 1,000 professional services staff were likely to be threatened with redundancy under a plan to restructure every school within the university.'

All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.

Sure, it looks unfortunate. But can we really say for sure that his parents liked fascists?

Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up at 2pm GMT tomorrow! Sign up below.

Bristolians, this 26th at 5:30 in the Watershed I will take part in a special viewing of the Oscar nominated film I'm Still Here with a Q&A session on Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...

Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social

Subscribe to @reacpolrn.bsky.social's YouTube channel for the latest webinar/ interview! www.youtube.com/@ReacPolNet

Say no to the fundamentalists at Cardiff. No cuts or redundancies! Don't mess up with people's lives! www.change.org/p/save-mlang...

In this article by @furtadoht.bsky.social & Jessica Auchter, the focus is on how war on terror tropes and metaphors have been mobilised in contemporary commentary around the Ukraine war: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 5/12)

What a week

now that’s a front page

This is gold dust my friends.

An update by the always great @tomphillips.bsky.social the Bolsonaro is apparently in on the coup attempt. It's the "Bolsonaro paradox" all over again, which I described in my book Politics of Impunity (2022) www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

The Brazilian Federal Police revealed a plan to assassinate Lula, his VP and the Supreme Federal Justice. Bolsonaro's personal aid Mauro Cid and his running mate General Braga Netto are implicated, alongside other military personnel. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

these photos will be in future history books, in a chapter about the first live-streamed genocide that destroyed the myth of the "liberal international order"

Looking forward to the next Researching the Far Right: Methods & Ethics webinar (@crexuio.bsky.social @reacpolrn.bsky.social & CASEI) on Positionality, standpoint, & intersectionality with Imo Kaufman, Rae Jereza & Elsa Bengtsson Meuller 21 Nov 3-4pm CET/2-3pm BST Join us! reacpol.net/webinar-3/

📣 Critical Research on Reactionary Politics starter pack 📣 Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc) Work in progress (see below) 👇 go.bsky.app/AmREGSz 1/

Interested on the rise of reactionary politics? Here's a starting pack!

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

We all known that #terrorism is a contested concept, but very few dispute that it refers to illegitimate violence. With examples from #Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, #Palestine, we propose a different view of the term terrorism emphasising its relation w/human suffering. doi.org/10.1017/eis....

Happy two shame two collaborations with Jessica Auchter. The first one is Demystifying #Trauma in International Relations Theory, where we criticise #InternationalRelations theories which engage with #traumastudies for reproducing reactionary worldviews. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The Reactionary Politics Research Network is now on BlueSky! Follow us here and find updates: bsky.app/profile/reac...

Heard all the cool kids are here

Another amazing time at EISA! Can't wait for the next one! #EISALille @europeanisa.bsky.social

I always feel weird about this, but here it goes... ***Attention*** Shameless Self-Promotion My book, Politics of Impunity, is now available in paperback for £19.99 Get 30% discount ordering direct from EUP w/ the code PAPER30. edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politic...

On my way to Sussex to deliver the talk “Beyond the liberal and the necropolitical impasse” on the possibilities of radical accountability and transformative justice after Bolsonaro or, what can the Brazilian case teach us about IR’s failure to capture the intricacies of (political) violence