📢Applications are open for the 2027 Mohamed Ali Foundation Fellowship 🎓Find more about the fellowship programme and the application process here: www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

📢WE ARE HIRING📢 We are recruiting an Assistant Professor with research and teaching expertise in Comparative Politics, whose work uses quantitative research methods and has a regional focus on Africa, Asia, Latin America or the Middle East. Apply here durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Get to know new BISA trustee Alice Finden (Durham University) 🌟 Learn about her research background, her areas of research and the benefits of being part of a working group as a previous convenor of Critical Terrorism Studies Working Group 🎉 Read the full article here 👉 : https://ow.ly/YT5I50ZyOKO

In discussion: Alice Finden

New trustee Alice Finden discusses her career journey, trusteeship and the benefits of working groups.

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🚨New Article🚨 In their latest paper, Ferhat Cagri Aras and Bahar Baser focus on India’s evolving diaspora governance policy under the Modi government. It shows how state mechanisms help to create ideologically filtered political spaces beyond national borders. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The saffron diaspora: Hindutva mobilization and state-led diaspora governance in the United Kingdom

In line with the neoliberal trends in global politics, home states started showing more interest in harnessing their diasporas for economic, political and cultural benefits. For illiberal home stat...

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In NLR 159: Rentier Regimes Jack Copley (@jackcopley.bsky.social) assessesTimothy Mitchell’s conceptualization of capital as capture of the future. newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

In 'Easting the West', @chenchenzhang.net stares into the abyss of digital reactionary discourse in China, showing how the Chinese right appropriates the language of postcoloniality to reproduce racial and civilisational hierarchies and justify exclusion. A conversation with @clydewang.bsky.social.

Easting the West: A Conversation with Chenchen Zhang | Made in China Journal

At a time when right-wing populism appears to be rampaging through global politics, studies about its discourses and strategies remain thin and even marginal in the field of international relations. T...

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Dr Bleddyn Bowen, Co-Director of our Space Research Centre, and PhD researcher Scott Mackie look at the UK’s new defence investment plan and say it’s disappointing that it is unclear on its long-term plan for space. Discover more 👉 www.durham.ac.uk/research/cur... @sgiadurham.bsky.social

I joined forces with my PhD student Scott Mackie to put together some thoughts on what the Defence Investment Plan means for the UK's military posture in space. @sgiadurham.bsky.social theconversation.com/new-uk-defen...

New UK defence plan fails to deliver on space, despite the military’s growing reliance on satellite systems

New defence spending offers little clarity on the future direction of military space.

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Check out our colleague Javier Moreno Zacarés's contribution to the latest issue of New Left Review on dynamics of American capitalism newleftreview.org/issues/ii159...

Javier Moreno Zacarés, Dynamics of American Capitalism, NLR 159, May–June 2026

Following his widely praised Ages of American Capitalism, Jonathan Levy’s The Real Economy proposes a theoretical counterpart, grounding a concept of capital in a fusion of Smith, Keynes, Freud, Deleu...

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@sgiadurham.bsky.social is #hiring! We're looking for a political theorist to work in a one year full-time teaching position teaching position. Applications close at midnight on Tuesday 14th July. Please contact Beth Kahn at elizabeth.kahn@durham.ac.uk if you have any questions. lnkd.in/ec2mYsEE

🚨New Article🚨 Kodili Henry Chukwuma's new paper in @thirdworldq.bsky.social conceptualises terrorism trials as opaque shows, highlighting the ambivalent reproduction of law and order. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Opaque trials: prosecuting terrorist suspects in Nigeria

This article examines the prosecution of Boko Haram suspects in Nigeria through an analysis of official reports and court documents from the so-called Kainji trials. Moving beyond dominant narrativ...

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We have ranked 85th in the QS World University Rankings 2027! Professor Karen O’Brien, our Vice-Chancellor and Warden, said: “To rise nine places to 85th in the QS World University Rankings is a tremendous achievement, in an outstanding year.” www.durham.ac.uk/discover/qs-world-university-rankings/

📚Introduction free to download📚 It's the official release day of my book and OUP has made the Introduction chapter free to read. academic.oup.com/book/62722/c... Take a look if you're interested in... why do I want to study ideas of 'the west' from without, why do I want to theorize the postliberal

Introduction: Constructing the West from the East

Abstract. This book is positioned at the intersection of two lines of inquiry: the co-production of hierarchical difference in world politics and reading t

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🎉 Congratulations to Will Plowright on receiving "Honourable Mention for Early Career Teaching" from @mybisa.bsky.social for adopting a trauma-informed approach to teaching humanitarian crisis through roleplaying.

Pleased to share a new article from @jeremyjschmidt.bsky.social and I, published in @politicalgeography.bsky.social. In the paper we make sense of a rise in water weaponisation by extending ideas of ambient vulnerability. Open access and available here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Congratulations to Professor Clive Jones on his contribution to the award-winning documentary Al-Mutahari: The Roots of the Yemen-Israel Conflict, which has received a 2026 Telly Award in the documentary short-form category. @sgiadurham.bsky.social www.tellyawards.com/winners/2026...

Al-Mutahari: The Roots of the Yemen–Israel Conflict | DNR - 2026 Bronze Winner - Telly Awards

Al-Mutahari: The Roots of the Yemen–Israel Conflict | DNR, 2026 Bronze Telly Awards General Winner for Documentary: Short Form (Under 40 Minutes)

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It's Karl Marx's Birthday today (He'd be 208). And by a happy coincidence, it's also the publication day of my book, Flourishing Together Karl Marx's Vision of the Good Society. academic.oup.com/book/62523

Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society

Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

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Just published! My book, Easting the West: Theorizing the Postliberal Conjuncture from China, is now available online for institutional users with subscription to Oxford Scholarship Online! academic.oup.com/book/62722 The print version will come out next month.

🎉Congratulations to SGIA researchers David Caldwell, Gidon Cohen and Nick Vivyan on winning the Environmental Politics Article of the Year 2025! 🎉 Read their award-winning paper here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @environmentalpol.bsky.social

This afternoon we had the pleasure of hosting a talk by Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social on their award-winning book The Spectre of State Capitalism (co-authored with Adam Dixon). Thanks for a stimulating discussion!

after a long wait, our forum article on the uses and abuses of the anticolonial in global reactionary politics is finally online! academic.oup.com/ips/article/... for the IPS @20 special issue

I'm looking for a part-time research assistant to support an externally funded, international project on the instrumentalization of anticolonial discourse in Asia and beyond. remote work OK but needs to be UK based. durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Deadline: 6 May 2026. Pictured: assorted Durham City commutes.

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📢 We're hiring a fixed-term Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics. Apply by 6 May 2026. Find out more here durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

Just published! My book, Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society, is now available via Oxford Academic Online: academic.oup.com/book/62523 In a happy coincidence the print version is due out on Marx’s birthday, May 5th.

Flourishing Together: Karl Marx’s Vision of the Good Society

Abstract. This book provides a novel interpretation of Marx’s vision of the good society that places the idea of self-realization in work at its centre. Th

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📢 We're hiring a fixed-term Teaching Fellow in Comparative Politics. Apply by 6 May 2026. Find out more here durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

🚨 New paper accepted at the @bjpols.bsky.social: we were in the field while Brexit dominated British politics. Do MPs respond differently when constituents disagree with the party line? What we find surprised us: a null! url: osf.io/preprints/os...

📢new publication📢 Alice Finden and Kavi Joseph Abraham argue that accounting for the affective registers in which archival encounters happen can allow for epistemic openings that make possible novel forms of decolonial political subjectivity. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic... @gsqjournal.bsky.social

Unsettling Feelings: Colonial Archives, Decolonial Possibilities

Abstract. How does the turn to colonial archives in social research connect to decolonial politics? In this paper, we explore this relationship by attendin

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Applications for our Assistant Professor in Middle East Politics post are closing soon. Apply now or find out more at durham.taleo.net/careersectio... @imeisdurham.bsky.social

🚨new open-access paper!🚨 How does meritocratic discourse contribute to the construction of ethnic majority male victimhood, legitimizing misogyny and narratives of 'reverse racism'? we use a relatively niche case here but elaborate on broader patterns www.cambridge.org/core/journal...