#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social - Contested sites of solidarity: Refugee simulations as simulacra - cup.org/4dUsWGm - @umutozguc.bsky.social #FirstView
Umut Ozguc
@umutozguc.bsky.social
#Borders #IR #CriticalSecurityStudies #IPS #Walls Convenor @acbsnetwork.bsky.social MacquarieUni
Great to see Beryl Pong's article 'Volumetric mediations' is out in Area. It is the first article in an SI on 'Atmospheric Borders' edited by @kayatbarry.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social Andrew Burridge and I @acbsnetwork.bsky.social rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Area | RGS Geography Journal | Wiley Online Library
This paper contributes to scholarship on drones’ more-than-military realms as they pertain to the atmospheres they create in visual culture. Focusing on two humanitarian drone documentaries, Ai Weiwe...
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Please join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Lilie Chouliaraki @liliechouliaraki.bsky.social (LSE) discusses her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood. Wed 7 May, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Upcoming Event: Lilie Chouliaraki on The Symbolic Politics of Victimhood — Roland Bleiker
Prof Lilie Chouliaraki will join us online to discuss her new book Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood (Columbia University Press, 2024)
rolandbleiker.com
Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: @emilyfaux.bsky.social (@nclpolitics.bsky.social) discusses collage as method for her Ph.D. research on nuclear weapons and war. Wed 9 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10). In person 501/(39a). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Upcoming Event: Emily Faux on Representing Nuclear War — Roland Bleiker
Join us for our next Visual Politics event with Emily Faux (Newcastle University, UK) on Representing Nuclear War.
rolandbleiker.com
As Australian Critical Border Studies Network @acbsnetwork.bsky.social, we are pleased to have Henk van Houtum present his new book Free the Map. Join us on the 16th of April. @henkvanhoutum.bsky.social @arijerrems.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social events.humanitix.com/free-the-map...
Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration
Get tickets on Humanitix - Free the Map. From Atlas to Hermes, towards a new cartography of borders and migration . Online. Wednesday 16th April 2025. Find event information.
events.humanitix.com
We've made some new additions to our Critical Border Studies starter pack. If you are new and would like to join let us know! go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN
In tribute to Emma Hutchison @risjnl.bsky.social has curated a collection celebrating the impact of her work. This includes her RIS article alongside 8 other pieces inspired by her ideas. Emma’s research on emotions in IR shaped an entire generation of scholarship. @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
Excited to welcome Professor Jessica Auchter & Dr Tom Gregory to @richmonduni for the first 'State, Power, & Globalisation' Research Centre events under my Directorship! Join us on 14 Sept & 26 Oct for talks/discussion on 'Global Corpse Politics' & 'Weaponizing Civilian Protection’. All welcome!
"Israel has forcibly displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants ... multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death" www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...
‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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theconversation.com/best-books-o...
Best Books of 2024: our experts share their standout reads
We’ve invited writers, from fields as diverse as wildlife ecology, politics and literature, to nominate their best books of 2024. And this year, the Books & Ideas team share their own picks, too.
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You love to see it. Exec salaries & uni governance both need urgent reform. And well done to the union for their report, yet again showing their value. [perhaps some of the free riders who like pay rises that come from union bargaining, but don't like paying annual union dues, will now do so?]
In case you missed it, we made this critical border studies starter pack last week. There have been quite a few additions since then but still some space. Let @arijerrems.bsky.social know if you'd like to be added go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN
Here a video of our last event: Federica Caso interviewed by Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about Settler Military Aesthetics and her new Edinburgh UP book, which exaines war commemorations are part of broader militarised forms of governing societies. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
Available to Watch: Federica Caso on Settler Military Aesthetics — Roland Bleiker
Dr Federica Caso is interviewed by Dr Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson about her new book Settler Military Politics: Militarisation and the Aesthetics of War Commemoration (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). T...
rolandbleiker.com
If you are interested in affective politics, check out the BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group account. They do great work.
Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group@epir-bisa.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are delighted to announce that the Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) @mybisa.bsky.social Working Group is now officially on Bluesky 😊 Stay tuned for a Starter Pack on Emotions in Politics & IR coming soon!
Union report out today finds: - 306 senior uni execs earn more than their state premiers - average Vice Chancellor salary over $1 million - Unis spent $734 million in 2023 on "consulting” etc Meantime, we're constantly told by execs we have to cut spending newshub.medianet.com.au/2024/11/new-...
New report reveals deep governance crisis in Australian universities - News Hub
A damning new report has uncovered a shocking governance crisis in Australian universities, with 306 senior executives now earning more than their state premiers. The National Tertiary Education Union...
newshub.medianet.com.au
Is there a starter pack for all things security studies? Critical security studies?
a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a hospital room .
ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other in a hospital room .
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A bit about the Australian Critical Border Studies Network for the benefit of our new followers. We are a bit of an academic garage band convened by @arijerrems.bsky.social @umutozguc.bsky.social @kayatbarry.bsky.social and Andrew Burridge. The last few years we've organised a bunch of stuff... 1/6
Border violence theconversation.com/another-rush...
Another rushed migration bill would give the government sweeping powers to deport potentially thousands of people
The sweeping new removal powers are not restricted to the non-citizens with criminal histories who feature so prominently in political speeches and media reports.
theconversation.com
Following the trend we have started a Critical Border Studies starter pack. Reply to this if you would like to be added or have suggestions go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN
“To be truly meaningful, [decolonisation] has to be about critiquing power and knowledge, exploring how power is constituted in knowledge, and how that enables structures of domination to be upheld.” Interview with our amazing UQ colleague Heloise Weber. globalsouth.org/2024/11/helo...
Heloise Weber on Global Development Inequalities & Injustices - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
In this edition of our Meet the Editor’s series, we speak with TWQ Academic Editor Heloise Weber. She currently works in the School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of ...
globalsouth.org
Working on critical border studies starter pack for @acbsnetwork.bsky.social go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN
Hey IR folks, Australasia's biannual festival of International Relations (the OCIS conference) is in the beautiful city of Sydney next July. Join us in the land of Oz! ocis.org.au/call-for-pap...
Call for Papers – 2025 OCIS
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Newly delivered. New chapters on More-than-Physical Geography, Postcolonial, Decolonial, and Anticolonial Geographies, and Black Geographies. Much else updated too.
New & still feeling my way around here so trying an introduction via a recent essay Emma Hutchison & I wrote for @coco-journal.bsky.social with our wonderful colleagues, Josephine Bourne & Hoang Young-ju: the result of a long collaboation and much soul-searching. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
