Lea David
@leadavid.bsky.social
The Past Can't Heal Us: The Danger of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (Cambridge UP) A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch and Marbles:Desire Objects and Human Rights (Columbia UP) Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, UCD
Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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overseer holding a whip several thousand miles away, collapsing that moral space.’ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Thinking Allowed - Objects and Stories - BBC Sounds
How objects like shoes and watches help tell the history of slavery and wartime atrocities
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New article alert! Some crazy stuff here 🔻 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Whose Right to Memory? The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Legal Disputes - Law and Critique
There is a growing amount of literature on the ways in which the law has been utilised to promote a wide spectrum of memory agendas, from penalising Holocaust and genocide denials to penalising a stat...
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Gaza and the Sociology of War, open access, with @sinisamalesevic.bsky.social in Journal of Genocide Research www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Organized Callousness: Gaza and the Sociology of War
Published in Journal of Genocide Research (Ahead of Print, 2025)
tandfonline.com
Very excited to receive @leadavid.bsky.social's new book in the mail! Her focus is on "desire objects" and their emotional power in shaping public memory and institutions. And @columbiaup.bsky.social has once again produced a beautiful book!
You want to know more about my new book? Here is my ASA leceure. Enjoy youtu.be/_cxta9jJYf0?...
A Victim’s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles: Desire Objects and Human Rights with Dr. Lea David
YouTube video by ASA Peace, War, and Social Conflict Section
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The recording of this ASEN event is now available on Youtube: @leadavid.bsky.social @asenevents.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcWq...
Mechanisms of National Solidarity
YouTube video by ASEN
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New publication alert, open access 🔻 Enjoy! doi.org/10.1111/nana...
The victims' shoes trope and emerging solidarity in political protest
By providing an overview of the rich and surprising ways in which the victims' shoes trope becomes utilised in political protests as the focus of interaction ritual chains, this article elaborates on...
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The book cover was made by a Serbian artist Vladimir Miladinovic. He collected the replica artefacts that were found on the bodies of the 87 Kosovo Albanians, killed by the Serbian police forces, and were found in 1999 in the refrigerator lorry, discovered in the river Danube.
Jenny Wüstenberg@jennywustenberg.bsky.social · 2y agoVery excited to receive @leadavid.bsky.social's new book in the mail! Her focus is on "desire objects" and their emotional power in shaping public memory and institutions. And @columbiaup.bsky.social has once again produced a beautiful book!
UCD Starter Pack just got an upgrade! If you're working with/for University College Dublin and are new to BlueSky, here's a great place to start (and to be added, if you like). go.bsky.app/CXsbzf
10 month postdoc fellowship at the University of Edinburgh on the topic 'Making a Nation' and postimperial identities:
Once in a life time experience! The most beautiful sea, great food, and the best possible lecturers! The best of the best, not to be missed 🔻Do apply!
Sinisa Malesevic@sinisamalesevic.bsky.social · 2y agoJoin us in Zadar in June 2025. Open to all graduate students and the early career academics.
Lea has a new book, which is really great:
Lea David@leadavid.bsky.social · 2y agoIt is happening! My second book is out and it can be yours 😁
Breaking: The ICC has officially issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes. It was a unanimous ruling.
Coming in January: the fourth edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction. An innovative textbook that engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. Massive thanks to all 24 wonderful contributors!!! www.routledge.com/Global-Polit...
Mine and super cool 😎 Open access 🔻 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The victims' shoes trope and emerging solidarity in political protest
By providing an overview of the rich and surprising ways in which the victims' shoes trope becomes utilised in political protests as the focus of interaction ritual chains, this article elaborates on...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
The video recording from our ASEN project discussion 'Nation-States and Reactions to Covid in Europe': www.youtube.com/live/-LsE740...
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