Out now! This new article, by @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social is well worth a read, I highly recommend it:
Militarizing Femininity on Social Media: Female Empowerment and Heteronormative Logics in the Representation of the Japan Self-Defense Forces
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New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨
I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.
Time for a short thread! 🧵👇
That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of any major beef between Fuentes and Kirk, at least not as extreme as with others like Shapiro. Going to look into it!
Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t have immediately thought he was satirising a Pepe meme. More making a joke about the alt-right guys who use the Gopnik meme as weird pro-Putin solidarity. Not sure!
🖖Hi people! We are launching our new BISA working group, Critical Alternatives for World Politics! We have been working on this for a while now :) It will be a great space to experiment with and create new methods and approaches to IR. Please make sure to follow and join us :)🥰
In our latest issue, Anne-Marie Houde examines the "micro-political foundation that enables and legitimises government action" by focusing on the everyday emotions of ordinary citizens.
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Thank you! So far, I’ve got nothing to say on mayonnaise!
🍅 Ketchup in Far-Right Memes
📝 A new research paper on how to study Far-Right memes has been published by Dr Charlie Price in International Political Sociology.
🔗 Read it here: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Moreover, without an appreciation for the silly/serious nature of far-right memes and politics and the homes they provide, we will never truly grasp the appeal of engaging with such communities.
These online spaces are technically accessible but conceptually inaccessible; significant prior knowledge is required to be part of online humorous far-right communities, and I argue this serves a bordering function.
Through an analysis of the seemingly silly memes manufactured by the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement, I argue for understanding memes as central to home-building efforts by online far-right communities.
Simultaneously, far-right politics have the potential for serious harm, so these communities cannot be seen as exclusively silly.
The paper is explicit in arguing that we pay attention to far-right memes, but do not take them “too seriously” because far-right groups often take the opportunity to ridicule mainstream and leftist moral panics around memes.
In this paper, I challenge the distinction between silly and serious and argue for a space that recognizes the simultaneous existence of these concepts when it comes to researching far-right memes.
Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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Politics journal article: A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism
My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ✍️
✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias
💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain
@sotonpolitics.bsky.social
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“Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement” by @charlieprice.bsky.social
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Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄
Reposting this now that my paper has an issue number. Please feel free to check it out!
Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!
🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...
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Having marked over 180 essays, 4 dissertations, and moderated 3 modules, it’s easy to forget the fun aspects of teaching. Then a student who wrote about the role of food in far-right politics makes you this…
🚨New Publication🚨I'm thrilled to share my latest article on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine and its impact on EU-UK relations, now available on @iajournal.bsky.social's website. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
As always, it has been a joy to work with @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on this project.
🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize!
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏
New episode of "Parlons Commission" @euradio.bsky.social with Pr. @husseinkassim.bsky.social !
We talked about the people who work in the Commission (who they are, their relationship to the European project) and the process of “presidentialisation” of the institution.
euradio.fr/emission/KY8...
✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...
My paper has an issue number now, so please read it! Especially if you're that guy who emailed me about my apparent lack of critical thinking skills after I critiqued some conspiracy theories in a different paper...
A great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
🚨Events this week! 🚨
Foreign Policy WG book talk today! 🌎
@epir-bisa.bsky.social - Emotions and the right 🎉
@astropoliticswg.bsky.social annual general meeting and book talk📚
Africa and International Studies WG & @chathamhouse.org - The future of UK-Africa relations🌟
Learn more -
I wrote about this phenomenon in the context of the First World War Centenary a while ago in an article for the Review of International Studies which you can read here:
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With today being #VEDay80, there’s lots of vicarious militarism in the air, with many examples of people being encouraged to live vicariously through their military ancestors. I present to you Exhibit A
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