This is today! Don’t miss out on the amazing Todd McGowan talking all things Lacanian politics👇🏻🙌🏻

Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group@epir-bisa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨NEXT EVENT🚨 📖 Seminar series session with Todd McGowan (U of Vermont), presenting his new ‘Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan’ and introducing Lacanian psychoanalysis for politics & IR. 🗓️ Wednesday 10 December, 4pm BST (online) 🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

📢 Read our PhD candidate @acullellcano.bsky.social's new publication titled, "We’re the Goodies’—Lacanian Vernacular Peace: Ideology, Derry Girls, and Ontological (In)Security in Northern Ireland" published in New Directions in Vernacular Security Research. 🔗 bit.ly/4pfrsct #PoliSky #AcademicSky

‘We’re the Goodies’—Lacanian Vernacular Peace: Ideology, Derry Girls, and Ontological (In)Security in Northern Ireland

This chapter advances a poststructuralist intervention into vernacular security studies (VSS). It articulates a Lacanian reconceptualisation of the vernacular as an ideological site managing ontologic...

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🚨New publication🚨 📖‘We’re the Goodies—Lacanian Vernacular Peace: Ideology, Derry Girls, and Ontological (In)Security in Northern Ireland’. Chapter I n Jarvis, L., Lister, M., Oyawale, A. (eds) New Directions in Vernacular Security Research. 🔗doi.org/10.1007/978-3-… 🧵👇🏻

🔔Reminder that there’s just one week to go to make your submissions for #BISA2026! Deadline: 3 Nov We’re looking forward to your panel/paper submissions to our section✊🏻👇🏻

BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🎉 We are OPEN now for abstract, roundtable and panel submissions for #BISA2026 🎉 'Is International Studies ready for what comes next? New thinking, new directions' 🌎 Submit here! 👉 buff.ly/kK9oIlM @visitbrighton.bsky.social @simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social

🚨 Read our PhD candidate @acullellcano.bsky.social's latest article for the @lseusablog.bsky.social, where he explores the untouchable nature of #Brexit in British politics through the lens of ontological security theory. ➡️ Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... #AcademicSky #PoliSky #UK

🚨📝 Some weeks ago it was Brexit’s 5th anniversary, and people have been stopping me on the street, grabbing me by the elbow, asking me But Albert, Brexit is shit, why don’t we talk about it? So I wrote a piece about it for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social, using ontological security theory👇🏻

LSE British Politics and Policy@lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social · last yr.

💥New! Despite polls showing that many have now regretted voting to leave the EU, there is little appetite to reopen the question of Brexit. Albert C. Cano uses ontological security theory to explain why this is. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Our PhD candidate and recipient of the 2024 Phelan US Centre Summer Research Grant, @acullellcano.bsky.social has published an article for LSE USAPP blog exploring the Irish American diaspora's influence on US-Ireland relations and #NorthernIreland policies. 📰 Read here: bit.ly/3R0zs1o

How Irish America still influences Northern Ireland and its politics | USAPP

"P20230414KR-0675" by Biden White House Archived is United States government work Elite diasporic peacebuilding: Continued lobbying by Irish American politicians When it comes to elite diasporic groups, both the Friends of Ireland (FI)—the caucus founded by the Four Horsemen in 1981—and the INC continue to be active. Just in February 2025, Congressmen Mike Kelly (R-PA)

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🚨New publication‼️ 📝Writing for the #USAPP BLOG from Phelan Centre I argue that Irish American diaspora has continued to exert its lobbying and community-building influence from across the Atlantic, keeping much in touch with Northern Irish politics and issues of peace and justice. t.co/5sgwhJJBpv

What links Trump’s pledges to rename the Gulf of Mexico, rechristen Mount Denali, and ‘take back’ the Panama Canal? With insights from ontological security and neuroscience, I explore how US imperial ambitions still resonate through the emotional appeal of sea power in Trump’s inaugural speech 🌊

The Loop@ecprtheloop.bsky.social · last yr.

🌎 Trump’s pledges to rename the Gulf of Mexico & ‘take back’ the Panama Canal are intended to evoke America’s imperial past. 🌊 @bscarvalho.bsky.social analyses how the emotional appeal of sea power sheds light on the political psychology behind Trump’s motivations. 👉 bit.ly/3Qib8YK

Don’t miss our PhD candidate Albert Cullell Cano @acullellcano.bsky.social on Spanish national TV discussing the impact of #Brexit on #UK. 📺 Be sure to turn on the English subtitles to catch his insights: www.rtve.es/play/videos/...

Cinco años del 'Brexit': ¿cómo ha cambiado Reino Unido?

Un día como hoy de hace cinco años, Reino Unido hacía efectivo el 'Brexit', que traería consigo muchas consecuencias a nivel político, social y económico

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Important things to consider when choosing where to attend grad school: 💜 Color of the graduation robes 🎓 Floppiness of the hat 🥳 Excellence of the other PhD students Thanks @lseir.bsky.social!

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD candidate @acullellcano.bsky.social, along with @elsor.bsky.social & Shreya Bhattacharya, for publishing @millennjournal.bsky.social's Special Issue “Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies.” journals.sagepub.com/toc/mila/52/3

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📄Our Special Issue 'Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies' is out now! It was put together by the Vol. 52 editors @acullellcano.bsky.social, @elsor.bsky.social, and Shreya Bhattacharya. Check out the engaging collection below ⤵️ shorturl.at/yO5Iv

Remapping the Critical: Imagining Anti-Hierarchical Futures in International Studies - Albert C. Cano, Eva Leth Sørensen, Shreya Bhattacharya, 2024

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