Nicolai Gellwitzki

Consider this call for a BISA panel on state personhood ✨ - and share widely!🙏

📢Call for Abstracts📢
Bianca Naude and I are looking to put together a panel on state personhood for #BISA2026!

We are looking for new conceptualizations of state personhood, new critiques, as well as reflections on relevant post-2004 disciplinary and political developments!✨

@mybisa.bsky.social

New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨

I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.

Time for a short thread! 🧵👇

NEW ARTICLE OUT IN OPEN ACCESS

How do small and peripheral states respond to big EU initiatives? In a new article by Daniel Šitera and myself, we look at Czechia's reluctant and gradual warming to the idea of "EU digital sovereignty". 1/2

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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Politics journal article: A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️

✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias

💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain

@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

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A very neat piece.

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My latest article, "The Declining Kingdom? Emotional Ascription, Emotional Expectations, and Humour in the International Framing of the UK in Crisis”, is now available in @politicsjournal.bsky.social as part of a special issue on Global Britain. 🇬🇧

Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄

New Methods for New Histories (Online) Workshop 2: Rethinking Internationalisms: Histories and Pluralities

✨Don't forget to sign up to our upcoming ONLINE conference on 'New Methods for New Histories (Online)' - we've structured the whole workshop as a virtual space; benefitting from global speakers, a roundtable structure and regular breaks! Pls get tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/new-method...

✍️ If you are a scholar working in EU Studies and comparative regionalism, please do send us your best work! We're a multi-disciplinary, methodologically and theoretically pluralist journal open to the full range of rigorous work in our scope. We also publish policy commentaries.

Can't wait to read it!! 🤓

EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the

New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social ai and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

EU–UK relations after Brexit: the emotional (de)politicization of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine To what extent does the politics of emotions drive processes of (de)politicization? This article studies the case of the intense ‘vaccine war’ between the

New article by @ngellwitzki.bsky.social and Anne-Marie Houde in International Affairs that explores the emotional dynamics underpinning the UK’s ‘vaccine war’ with the EU post-Brexit. Read the article in full here tinyurl.com/484vn386

Outstanding work by exceptional scholars and truly admirable people. Huge congratulations @annemhoude.bsky.social and @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social ! 🤓⭐🥳🙌

Luke and I wrote a paper!

Two years ago, the Sycamore Gap Tree was cut down in the dead of night. Responses to this "act of vandalism" made us think about the role of nature in ontic space, and dualism between human and non/human allows for destruction of nature.

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Today is the deadline — last chance to apply if you have not done so yet 🤓👇

Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!

🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

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OPEN LETTER: 225 UK Academics & Writers to Keir Starmer New anti-immigrant rules are bad policy & will only validate the far-right

Final Version:

225 (!) UK-based politics academics signed our open letter warning anti-immigrant rhetoric will only embolden the far-right

Text & signatories here -

www.politicalphilosophypodcast.com/starmer

Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace Extensive research shows how neoliberal economic policies, enforced through international peacebuilding interventions, exacerbate inequality and undermine their intended goal of fostering peace. Ye...

I am really excited to share my new article at @jisb.bsky.social

"Breaking the Mould: Economic Utopias as Pathway to Peace"

I argue that economic policy for peacebuilding needs to escape the ever same prescriptions and instead become an inventory of emancipatory possibilities.

Sociability, Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology:

#Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan

Find the paper here (open-access):

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CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.

All details below 👇

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Forum on Charlotte Epstein’s Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics - Jens Bartelson, Nina C Krickel-Choi, R B J Walker, Lauren Wilcox, 2025 In this forum, four authors discuss Charlotte Epstein’s book Birth of the State: The Place of the Body in Crafting Modern Politics published in 2021. After havi...

📢Publication alert!📢
I have a small part in this forum on Charlotte Epstein's excellent book 'The Birth of the State'.✨
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I was invited to reflect on the link between her argument and ontological security - not an easy task and probably the hardest 2,000 words of my life. 1/2

CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop.

All details below 👇

www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

Call for papers: @annemhoude.bsky.social & I are convening a workshop on "The global politics of hope" for the inaugural
@mybisa.bsky.social - ISA workshop later this year.
Pl share & consider applying!
DEADLINE: 30 May, 2025
More details 👇
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Please share - registration is open until June🌞

We have a very exciting lineup of speakers and facilitators this year! You can sign up here - store.york.ac.uk/product-cata... - and find out more about our programme here - sites.google.com/view/raceand...

‘How do I really want to be as a man?’ Masculinities, critical consciousness, and contraceptive decision-making – findings from an interview study in Germany This paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning. Through twelve qualitative interviews, three of which were couple interv...

My second journal article is out in Culture, Health & Sexuality. It is the final paper of the MANFOKUS project. Our paper examines how men in Germany reflect on (their) masculinities in the context of contraception and family planning.

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If you haven’t already, do take a moment to read this brilliant piece by the great @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social on memes in International Relations. It is insightful, sharp, and a lot of fun! 🤓

The Politics of Fear and Hate: Experience, (De)Legitimization, and (De)Mobilization Abstract. Critical security studies and emotion research in international relations have highlighted that the emotion of fear is a pivotal driver of materi

@ngellwitzki.bsky.social has published a new article in IPS, exploring how fear and hate are mobilised in public discourse to (de)securitise and (de)politicise, linking macro-level narratives with micro-level affect and action for various political ends academic.oup.com/ips/article-...

The politics of fear is in full effect | Nicolai Gellwitzki, Charlie Price

Charlie Price and former PAIS PhD Nicolai Gellwitzki argue that fear dominates society due to a lack of positive political vision. To progress, we must transform this fear into hope for a better future. @iai.tv @ngellwitzki.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social