Allyson Edwards

My husband was talking brought up Cynthia Enrivo earlier, but called them Cynthia Enloe by accident & I just realised he does truly listen to me 💓

An imposing building in Berlin with wooden double doors, tall windows and a balustrade

Powerpoint slide with a photo of young Russians in military style uniforms looking at some papers, with the title The Militarization of Youth in Putin's Russia

Looking forward to presenting work that @allysonedwards1.bsky.social and I have been doing on youth militarisation in #Russia today at a workshop at @swp-berlin.org in #Berlin

Our analysis shows UK defence businesses are benefiting from the skills of high-tariff graduates who studied everything from geography to history or modern languages.

Based on this @russellgroup.bsky.social analysis which shows industry needs a wide range of skills - eg 40% of high-tariff graduates working in defence studied humanities and social sciences
www.russellgroup.ac.uk/policy/polic...

✨ Pleased to see my article w/ Maryna Shevtsova & Katerina Krulisova has been published in the Journal of Pol and Mil Sociology.

The article explores 🇺🇦, 🇷🇺 & 🇬🇧, 🇺🇸 media representations of the ICCs arrest warrant against Maria Lvova-Belova & Vladimir Putin.

journals.upress.ufl.edu/jpms/article...

How Russian Parents Can Protect Their Children from Indoctrination in Schools - The Moscow Times Opinion | Starting on Sept.1, trial runs of “conversations about important things” began in kindergartens — targeting children as young as three to seven in over 100 kindergartens across Russia and oc...

#OpEd Parents cannot just assume that their children will not be affected by attempts to brainwash them. They must take decisive action, recommends teacher Dima Zitser.

'We threw hand grenades!' Russian kids as young as 8 get taste of military training Schoolchildren enjoyed a riverside adventure this week, but it was no ordinary holiday camp.

The militarization of Russian children continues: www.reuters.com/world/we-thr...

Lavrov wears a USSR sweatshirt, & people will still comment: "wHaT aBOuT NaTo?"

Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges of war crimes, for stealing Ukrainian children.
Putin is wanted by the ICC on charges...

Starting our ✨official✨ honeymoon off (only 10 months after the fact) with a wedding trip for friends!

Looking less beaut, and much more travel friendly today as we start our journey to Chile! 🇨🇱

Last minute preparations are underway for my presentation at #IPSA2025 tomorrow morning. I'll be presenting mine & @jgmaber.bsky.social work on a panel with my wonderful colleagues. If you're an early bird with an interest in Ukraine and Russia, come find us at 9am.

Attending Ban Ki Moon's keynote speech at #IPSA2025

I'm on my way to Seoul for #IPSA2025 to present mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on Russian youth militarization.
This paper will eventually become the introduction to our book, and applies a feminist IR lens to youth militarization.

Reach out if you want to meet for a ☕!

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You're going to be in Seoul? I'll be there too - flying out tomorrow! Let's meet!

Who else is going to be at #IPSA2025 in Seoul? I'll be presenting mine and @jgmaber.bsky.social work on feminist approaches to Russian youth militarisation! Reach out if you fancy a coffee ☕

No, my next conference is IPSA!

For the first time in years, I won't be at BISA 😭 will miss catching up with the BEST people. 💔

Oh noooo 🙄

🧵NEW research: How is the Russian state turning young people into patriots via Telegram? Spoiler: It’s not just about war—it’s about influencers.

We analyzed hundreds of posts by two state youth leaders. What we found is disturbing.👇

A new Stalin monument in a Moscow metro station is not just historical revisionism — it is a signal. As Putin deepens authoritarian rule and isolates Russia from the West, the glorification of a dictator responsible for mass terror is no coincidence. Nearly 700,000 were executed under Stalin. 1/2

The research shows the growing use of social media by societal actors to support the mission of state, and in the case of Russia, to bring militarised patriotism further into a young person's everyday experience. (5)

Despite the different techniques Nagornyy & Zanko employ, we found both leaders use Telegram to engage youth with the patriotic projects of their groups and promote a young person's 'active engagement' with state politics as a characteristic of being a 'good young patriot.' (4/)

We consider to what extent these two figures employ social media influencer techniques to engage their audience.
For different reasons, we found:
- Nagornyy does employ SMI techniques✅
- Zanko does not employ SMI techniques ❎ (3/)

The work examines the online presence of Youth Patriotic Group leaders - Nagornyy (Yunarmiya) & Zanko (Victory Volunteers) - on Russian social media site, Telegram, over a 6-month period. (2/)

✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!

🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

My new favorite book

Get Zanko on the phone asap!

Russia looks to frame war as an inevitable part of life on Victory Day Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.

Ahead of #Russia's Victory Day celebrations tomorrow, my new piece co-authored with @jgmaber.bsky.social is out in The Conversation! It examines the Kremlin's obsession that its youth know and understand the #Kremlin's version of the past: theconversation.com/russia-looks...

"A celebration of military mothers", right up there with introducing patriotic education. Trump is taking another leaf out of Putin's book. 👀

I remember reading somewhere (though can't remember the exact source) that for fundamental change to happen, it needs to happen over roughly two generations (roughly 40 years).