Liane Hartnett

My new book, Air and Love, will be out in May. It's a history of migration and belonging, through the story - and food - of one family. Now more than ever, it's time to think about displacement and its legacies.

Image of the path leading to Chawton House from my visit there last summer

Today is Jane Austen’s birthday & one cool way to celebrate would be to donate to Chawton House, the historic house of her brother who provided her with a home during the years when her books were published. Today it’s a charity devoted to celebrating women writers. chawtonhouse.org/get-involved...

🚨 Thrilled to announce that my latest article, with the fantastic @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, is now out (open access):

"Crimes of Dispassion: Autonomous Weapons and the Moral Challenge of Systematic Killing"
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Superb new article on gender and US counterinsurgency by @naomich.bsky.social

📢 Delighted to share that this has finally made it into the world! 📢‘Women helping women’: Deploying gender in US counterinsurgency wars in Iraq and Afghanistan journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

@lhartnett.bsky.social @duncanbell.bsky.social @janeijking.bsky.social @lefteleven.bsky.social

Che Guevara and the case for revolutionary feminism in global politics Despite his renown, feminists have had little to say about the ideals or legacy of Che Guevara. In global politics, feminism is more commonly associated with pacifist movements, and his advocacy of...

Does feminist anti-militarism require pacifism or is there scope for revolutionary feminism in global politics?

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Here’s a fun conversation I had with Glenda Sluga and Heidi Tworek about the relationship between Global History and Historical IR (and our disorder project with Andrew Phillips, who gets a mention at the end 🙂)

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I am happy to announce that I will be the series editor for a new Routledge book series, 'Technology, International Relations and World Order'. The series will feature work on the politics of technology and relations of global power and authority.

A call for proposals will follow in a few days.

Tagore’s Early Twentieth Century International Thought Tagore's rare blend of globalism, anti-imperialism and anti-nationalism was grounded in a normative commitment to love and universalism.

My article in E-International Relations offers a brief introduction to Rabindranath Tagore's early twentieth century international thought:

The First Last Man – Penn Press Beyond her most famous creation—the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein’s Creature—Mary Shelley’s most enduring influence on politics, literature, and...

The *Final Installment* in my Mary Shelley trilogy is coming soon! www.pennpress.org/978081225402...

The indefatigable Eileen Hunt, @eileenmhunt.bsky.social, who has pretty much converted me to the cause of Mary Shelley, is On Here.

A book curse was a widely employed method of discouraging the theft of manuscripts during the medieval period in Europe. The use of book curses dates back much further, to pre-Christian times, when the wrath of gods was invoked to protect books and scrolls.

A book curse might read, for example, “If anyone take away this book, let him die the death; let him be fried in a pan; let the falling sickness and fever seize him; let him be broken on the wheel, and hanged. Amen.”

Why did no one tell me about book curses?

It is PUBLICATION DAY for 'Children, Childhoods, & Global Politics'! The volume, co-edited w Marshall Beier, brings together 20 scholars in 15 chapters. It has been a soul-sustaining project the past 3 yrs amidst a global pandemic & upheaval bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/children-chi...

Warmest congrats! This looks wonderful.

Very pleased to be part of this symposium. My contribution argues for a relational sociology of knowledge in IR. I argue we should see the disciplinary history of IR as part of a global knowledge production enterprise. IR didn't originate in one place, it was global at birth. doi.org/10.1017/S175...

Beyond elated to share the publication of *Catastrophic Diplomacy: US Foreign Disaster Assistance in the American Century* from @uncpress.bsky.social !

Our new symposium out in International Theory on Global IR and how it can avoid the essentialism trap. tl;dr we recommend more global history! (On that 🤝 I also had a nice chat with Glenda Sluga & Heidi Tworek, out from Toynbee Prize Foundation site soon) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In “Intellectual History or Philosophical History? The Indian Century as Global Miniature” @raphaellekhan.bsky.social and I discuss Shruti Kapila’s Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age
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Fascinating new article by @jcostalopez.bsky.social in CRIA on how the distinction between history and fiction gets "negotiated" and "settled" in historical IR #HistIR www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Quote with a picture of water that you took.

My latest article in @ejir.bsky.social engages with the neglected history of love in disciplinary IR and asks: how does love order? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Thanks, Jamie.This is very kind. I’m adding my Melbourne IR colleagues to this list:
@carlawinston.bsky.social, @drmccarthy.bsky.social &
@simonpratt.bsky.social.
Also, brilliant Australian-based intellectual historians:
@lukeglanville.bsky.social,
@drianhall.bsky.social & @lefteleven.bsky.social.

Thanks, Jamie.This is very kind. I’m adding my Melbourne IR colleagues to this list:
@carlawinston.bsky.social, @drmccarthy.bsky.social &
@simonpratt.bsky.social.
Also, brilliant Australian-based intellectual historians:
@lukeglanville.bsky.social,
@drianhall.bsky.social & @lefteleven.bsky.social.

All the Things I Want "An imaginary shopping list, whose first item is the undoing of a war, and whose other items are equally implausible"

i tried my hand at antipropaganda. a shopping list of impossible things: peace, safety, to live inside a loaf of bread, a wise goldfinch companion, for prayers to be answered. https://open.substack.com/pub/theswordandthesandwich/p/all-the-things-i-want?r=9ow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Joanne Paul, "Beyond Utopia: Thomas More as a Political Thinker," History of European Ideas (2023)

Until the end of October there is 30% off of my new book - Unparalleled Catastrophe: Life and Death in the Third Nuclear Age.

Scan the QR code below or visit the @manchesterup.bsky.social website...

Then use the code LAUNCH30 at checkout!

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Adam Shatz · Look at Don Juan · LRB 19 October 2023 In North America, Camus looked for Europe and failed to find it; in South America, he looked for Algeria, and although...

On Albert Camus

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...