Almost a decade on from the UK’s EU referendum, has Britain finally moved on from #Brexit? @annemhoude.bsky.social and @louis-stockwell.bsky.social show that while Brexit has receded from the spotlight, it continues to haunt the political imagination of voters @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social.

Has Britain moved on from Brexit? - EUROPP

New research shows that while Brexit has receded from the spotlight, it continues to haunt the political imagination of British voters.

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📣 Anyone working on creative methods in political research and attending @mybisa.bsky.social #BISA2026 next year? We are looking for another participant in our roundtable on zine-making and creative methods as part of @cawpbisa.bsky.social if it sounds like you - please get in touch ASAP!

📢Call for Abstracts📢 Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026! We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨ @mybisa.bsky.social

Hi - I'm fundraising for Doctors Without Borders to provide clean water in Gaza where over 80% of water infrastructure has been destroyed. To learn more about the campaign please click here : www.justgiving.com/team/ultracy...

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. academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations

Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

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1/3. We're thrilled to announce the publication of: “The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis” by Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @sagepub.com

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧

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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 📄

International Affairs@iajournal.bsky.social · last yr.

With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️ 🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific 🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more 💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance 📚 24 book reviews Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4

Last day to send your paper proposal to our “Global Politics of Hope” workshop! @indrajitroy.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social @isanet.bsky.social

Professor Indrajit Roy@indrajitroy.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural @mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year. Pl share & consider applying! DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025 More details 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

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... 🧵👇

EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine

To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the

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Anne-Marie Houde@annemhoude.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨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.

🚨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.

📬 Forthcoming on European Politics and Society,the 2nd article on my @esrciaasurrey.bsky.social project on the early women of European integration,thanks to the writing time at ULB with @nathaliebrack.bsky.social more on this at the nxt @uaces.bsky.social annual general conf @cbesurrey.bsky.social

Honoured to be this year’s winner of the @epir-bisa.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social best thesis prize, and to share this recognition with the amazing @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ⭐️ Thank you to the judges!

Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group@epir-bisa.bsky.social · last yr.

🎉 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! 👏

Super interesting postdoc with some of the very best people in the field.

Linus Hagström@linushagstrom.bsky.social · last yr.

The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31: fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Join us in Newcastle for a workshop on the Global Politics of Hope!

Professor Indrajit Roy@indrajitroy.bsky.social · last yr.

Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural @mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year. Pl share & consider applying! DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025 More details 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

Just out in @secdialogue.bsky.social My new article, "From individual to collective: Vernacular security and #Ukrainian civil society in wartime" - part of the special issue on the 20th anniversary of #VernacularSecurity doi.org/10.1177/0967...

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 !

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.

📢We had a fascinating concluding event for the year today with @epir-bisa.bsky.social ! 👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking

📢Publication alert!📢 I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨ doi.org/10.1177/0010... I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2

Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics - Jens Bartelson, Nina C Krickel-Choi, R B J Walker, Lauren Wilcox, 2025

In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After havi...

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Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural @mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year. Pl share & consider applying! DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025 More details 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

✨ New Convener Announcement We are delighted to announce the new member of our team: Albert Cano ! Albert is a PhD Candidate in IR at the LSE working on Lacanian psychoanalysis, ontological (in)security theory, and critical peacebuilding studies. Welcome!l, Albert! 🎉

Just going to slowly introduce some of my research to BlueSky. I'm a critical theorist interested in political possibilities of new media, particularly memes. My first journal article was a theoretical framework for the political study of internet memes. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@ngellwitzki.bsky.social has published a new article in IPS, exploring how fear and hate are mobilised in public discourse to (de)securitise and (de)politicise, linking macro-level narratives with micro-level affect and action for various political ends academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

The Politics of Fear and Hate: Experience, (De)Legitimization, and (De)Mobilization

Abstract. Critical security studies and emotion research in international relations have highlighted that the emotion of fear is a pivotal driver of materi

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.

Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.

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🚨 New publication Alert 🚨 Why do political actors label micro-political events as driven by fear or hate? In my new article in IPS, I argue these labels are key to the politics of emotion & (de)securitisation dynamics🔗 academic.oup.com/ips/article/... @uoypolitics.bsky.social 🧵👇

The special issue I edited titled "Grappling with the climate crisis in IR" is now officially out, issue number and all!!🎊🎊🎊 🥳👇

Michal Kolmaš@michelpoiccard.bsky.social · last yr.

New issue of the Czech Journal of IR has just been published celebrating the anniversary of 60 years of publishing the journal! It's a special issue edited by @nckc.bsky.social. Titled Grappling with the Climate Crisis in IR: Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily - a short 🧵below

New issue of the Czech Journal of IR has just been published celebrating the anniversary of 60 years of publishing the journal! It's a special issue edited by @nckc.bsky.social. Titled Grappling with the Climate Crisis in IR: Existentially, Psychologically, Interdisciplinarily - a short 🧵below

🌟Upcoming event @epir-bisa.bsky.social with Nicholas Gribble - 3rd April 🌟 'Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone' - buff.ly/tFeSac3 @annemhoude.bsky.social @mtrotem.bsky.social @uomsoss.bsky.social

EPIR seminar series: Dis-membering, re-membering: understanding the affective force of violence through fantasies in (post)war Sierra Leone- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA

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Christopher Choong Weng Wai's article in our latest issue won the BISA CPD working group early career researcher best paper prize. It's out now in issue 51(1)! 📄 👉 buff.ly/xRr14KS @chrischoongww.bsky.social @MYBISA.bsky.social