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My article for the 'Making Sense of State Violence' special issue of @CritMilStudies is now online! Thank you to everyone involved, the brilliant @warning_archive team, and others for really valuable feedback!
@teachlearnwar @owendavidthomas @MargotTudor
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In the @CritMilStudies article ‘The aspirational promise of soldiering’, @MariaSternSGS and I analyse the grammar of military recruitment campaigns to better understand how armed service, and potentially sacrifice, for the nation-state is made attractive to young people globally.
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Forgot to post the link...
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The @warning_archive workshop was a wonderful experience. Thanks to everyone involved for their feedback, comments, and exciting research. Thanks also to the reviewers, and the editors at @CritMilStudies
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Freshly published today!
My article, ‘Brokering a postcolonial Malaysia’ is out in @CritMilStudies as part of the special issue ‘Making Sense of State Violence,’ organised by @teachlearnwar @owendavidthomas @MargotTudor
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🛑Hey you! Yes you! 🛑
Do you study off-limits military sites? ✅
Do you dabble in discourse? ✅
Do you think more articles should have pictures? ✅
My new @CritMilStudies article "From Front Lines to Fun Runs" is for you!
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One for the @CritMilStudies folks out there.
US Army personnel at Fort Sill in Lawton, Oklahoma, launched Halloween candy to kids using a M142 HIMARS rocket system
[📹 US Army Fort Sill]
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Please apply and share widely- we are looking for a PostDoc at the TMC Network! @CritMilStudies @cpsa_acsp @isanet @IFJPglobal @rn_wps @CdsnRcds @CIMVHR_ICRSMV @_researchNS @ResearchMSVU @RWE_CAF_Network @sicema_msvu
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My thanks to Eli Wright @FrontlinePaper for his engagement & permission to include images of his powerful work.
My thanks finally to my @StAndrewsIR & @StAndrewsHist colleagues Faye Donnelly, @ProfTonyLang & @DrRoryCox for their appreciated editorial support of this creative work
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and the possibilities that its inbetweenness and incompleteness offer – to be glimpsed and potentially grasped in how torture is engaged, in how IR can more ethically and complexly account for its meanings and contestations. This is the first publication to come out of a project
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understandings of/around (the) tortured, torturer, and torturing that in turn lead to more subversive & destabilising critical insights around torture & its contestation in the War on Terror. It hopes to begin a process of unlearning that enables the richness of (un/non)knowing –
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to unpick the aesthetic politics of Wright’s Torture Mask Triptych & to unveil multiple contestations, regarding the sites, subjects and (after)lives it encompasses & the modes of (un)knowing it pursues. To view torture as/from a site of discomfort reveals troubling slippages in
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the nexus between art and torture is a potent affective/aesthetic site that IR needs to engage further:for art is a key site of knowing/un-knowing/non-knowing torture.
Via an open-ended narrative approach, the chapter embraces a scholarship of discomfort bit.ly/3U9LQfC
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My latest publication “Facing Torture through Art and the Afterlives of War: Behind the Mask” is available in Contesting Torture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives with all royalties to @FreefromTorture.Engaging with veteran artist Eli Wright’s Torture Mask Triptych, it explores how
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This piece may also be of interest to related networks and colleagues and the Veteran Art Movement @DefenceResNet
@MltryAfterlives @CritMilStudies @VisualisingWar
#NarrativeIR #VisualIR #AutoethnographicIR
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I have a new article in @CritMilStudies where I explore entanglements between sites of political violence, militarism, dance music and culture.
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So glad to see this important research now available in English so that I might assign it to my classes!
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Loved writing this piece for @CritMilStudies
From CMS champions #NewVoices: as protests take place in India over new recruitment processes, now is a great time to check out Dr Saawani Raje-Byrne's @saawaniraje brilliant piece on the politicisation of India's armed forces: kcl.ac.uk/who-guards-the-gua…
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Why have armed forces long failed to provide women soldiers and officers with functional and fitting military gear and uniforms? @FiaSundevall, Alma Persson and I have tried to answer this question in two recently published articles. 1/