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Emma Huddlestone

@emmahuddlestone.bsky.social

Lecturer in Sociology at UEA. Interested in critical military studies, military families and social justice.

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Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is what you need to keep an eye out for this Summer 🥳 #milwelfhist #military #welfare #history #socialsciences

Military Welfare History Network@milwelfhist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Coming this August! Military Welfare History since the Eighteenth Century: War and Welfare. This is the second publication, and the first edited volume, from the Military Welfare History Network. link.springer.com/book/9783032... #milwelfhist #military #welfare

John Kelly @jkelly1887.bsky.social · last yr.

My forthcoming monograph -British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: "Support the Troops - is now available to pre-order. www.routledge.com/British-Mili...

British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: “Support the Troops”

British Militarism, Sport, Remembrance: “Support the Troops” critically explores the complex and evolving relationship between sport and militarism in the UK, offering an in-depth analysis of how poli...

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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm grateful to Security Dialogue for publishing my new (open access) article exploring how discourses on promoting 'diversity of thought' circulate in the UK national security policy community, and the political work they do in relation to hegemonic security thinking 🧵: doi.org/10.1177/0967...

Diversity of thought as ‘mission critical’: Knowledge, politics and power in UK national security policymaking

Abstract
The idea that diversity and inclusion in policymaking institutions is a national security imperative because it enhances ‘diversity of thought’ has proliferated among policymakers in recent years. Building on critical, feminist and postcolonial scholarship arguing that constructions of gender, race and class undergird hegemonic militaristic and colonial approaches to security, this article analyses how the discourse on diversity of thought occasionally challenges, but more often reinforces these hegemonic approaches. Based on interviews with UK civil servants, the article explores how this discourse, and consequent measures to promote diversity of thought by creating a more diverse and inclusive workplace, have developed in the UK national security community, analysing how officials interpret the relationship between demographic diversity and knowledge production. Using feminist epistemologies as a heuristic, the article argues that although some officials view this agenda as a means to challenge militaristic thinking, the commonplace exclusion of structural power analysis places hard constraints on its ability to achieve this end and has enabled its recuperation by far-right anti-equality agendas. Ultimately, the politics of diversity are insufficient to overcome UK national security institutions’ commitment to militarism, which demands attention to the material structures that make militaristic approaches to security appear necessary.

Ros Edwards @rosedwards.bsky.social · 2y ago

ICYMI - hosted by @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Shelved lives: in #ThanksforTyping #podcast Ep.3 @RosEdwards2 & Val Gillies hear from Sophie Bridges @ChuArchives + @ChrisRenwick about what’s still undiscovered in the archives about the part played by wives in soc sci scholarship buff.ly/4aSSq22

Thanks For Typing: Wives in the archives: researching wives’ contributions to their husbands’ work

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Emma Huddlestone @emmahuddlestone.bsky.social · 2y ago

Enjoyed every minute of this! Thanks so much for visiting us in Norwich @rosedwards.bsky.social

Sociology UEA@sociologyuea.bsky.social · 2y ago

A wonderful, thought provoking UEA Sociology annual lecture from @rosedwards.bsky.social this afternoon, and some fantastic questions from our brilliant #Sociology students 👏

Ros Edwards standing at a lectern delivering the 2024 Sociology Annual Lecture at the University of East Anglia.