Jamie Johnson

"in theater"

And the next train is also held at the station and significantly delayed. A day in the life of the UK commuter.

EMR train to and from work cancelled today. Exceptional service.

YouTube video by London Review of Books (LRB) Adam Tooze: Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War

Adam Tooze gave the inaugural 𝘓𝘙𝘉 Autumn Lecture, ‘Electrostates, Petrostates and the New Cold War’, at the New School in New York City on 27 October 2025.

Watch the lecture in full here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLnx...

The making of a racial scandal: security and the location of critique Abstract. Scandals have become an important mode of making visible and knowable the violence of security practices. This is done through a revelatory mecha

Essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of scandals.

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Ten years of fortress Europe has served only cruelty, profiteers and racists. The next decade is up to us | Maurice Stierl The hard right and far right are the political winners from the migration ‘crisis’, but only because centrist parties keep legitimising them, says migration and border researcher Maurice Stierl

www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Remember to check out Thomas Gregory's new Review of International Studies editors selection 🌟

Entitled 'Restraining War' ft Moya Lloyd, Joanna Tidy, Maja Zehfuss and more! 📚

All free to read until end of Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/a0PA50XGJ2f

Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR

“The question therefore is not so much whether we are the masters or the slaves of our machines, but whether machines still serve the world and its things, or if, on the contrary, they and the automatic motions of their processes have begun to rule and even destroy world and things” - Arendt

What do these two pictures have in common (besides @sebkaempf.bsky.social's infectious smile)?

They are both behind-the-scenes of the RIS podcast! Have a listen to our recent discussions with Poppy Winanti and Thomas Gregory!

🎧 www.buzzsprout.com/2395572

When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss This article offers a new account of Liz Truss’s premiership by analysing the political economy of the 2022 mini-Budget crisis. Engaging with literature on depoliticisation, statecraft, and the Cit...

More here: doi.org/10.1080/1356...

🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.

We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
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£20 administration fee?! The cost of altering a booking on @eastmidsrailway.bsky.social is more than the price of my original ticket.

Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology

Two or more Open-rank Professorships in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen:

jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

Interesting for both it’s historical account of US conduct in Vietnam and Afghanistan, and for it articulating a US way of war that is uninterested in signalling any adherence or deference to notions of just war.

“The Onion stands at the ready to act as a mouthpiece of the world’s elite, using its distinguished reportage to parrot whatever the party line happens to be. Genocide, eugenics, incest—no topic is too taboo to find support in our paper so long as it has been approved by a trustworthy establishment”

This begs the question of why we have collectively chosen to make this such a difficult phenomena to explain.

Why choose the mystification and psychologising when such an obvious and intuitive answer is so readily available?

So pleased to share Elke Schwarz’ and my new article on morality and meaning in the cyber-nuclear age @elkeschwarz.bsky.social

Some fantastic reviews coming in on the new book, co-authored with @rhyscrilley.bsky.social and @m-deceit.bsky.social colleagues
@ou-gcsj.bsky.social

Reparation for extractivist genocide: harm, responsibility and implications for a just transition There has been increasing focus on the links between genocide and extractive megaprojects. Meanwhile, proposals for a ‘just transition’ to low carbon energy are increasingly concerned with ecologic...

Great new piece out in The International Journal of Human Rights.

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

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians The Israel- and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has strongly denied the allegation.

The hallmarks of settler colonial genocides: offering relief as an opportunity to kill; complete dehumanisation (“zombie hordes”) and an exultation at the infliction of pain & suffering.

Gaza aid contractor tells BBC he saw colleagues fire on hungry Palestinians www.bbc.com/news/article...

On war, wounds, law and ethics.

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

After scrambling around trying to find a reason to govern, I’m so thrilled war has furnished him with a purpose.

Thanks Emil, some great ones in here. Really appreciate you taking the time.

Good question. I’m thinking mainly of academics talk about these processes.

Cheers Chris - all added to the list!

I mean, you're not wrong.

*river guy slow nod gif*

Cheers Alex, added to the list! Hopefully something to report about this line of thought in the not too distant future...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Does anyone have access to this 1994 article by Eric Dunning?:

'Sport in Space and Time: "Civilizing Processes", Trajectories of State-Formation and the Development of Modern Sport'

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

My institution sadly does not have access :(