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Shabnam Holliday

@shabnamholliday.bsky.social

Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Plymouth | IR: Revolution, Gramsci, Populism, historical sociology, Global order| Iran | SEPAD Fellow | posts personal UoP website: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shabnam-holliday

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The image is a promotional flier for the Exeter is for Everyone celebration which is taking place on Saturday 25th October to oppose the far right patriots march. The celebration will meet from 11am at Bedford Square.

The image is a promotional flier for the Exeter is for Everyone celebration which is taking place on Saturday 25th October to oppose the far right patriots march. The celebration will meet from 11am at Bedford Square.

Will you take a stand on Saturday to protect the right of everyone to coexist safely and with dignity in Exeter?
Read our full statement of solidarity: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/10...

23.10.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 16    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Competition over the Values of World Order: Iranโ€™s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement and Israelโ€™s โ€˜Operation Rising Lionโ€™ - Middle East Centre Competing values drive conflict and narratives, with Israel and Iran appealing to a moral universe as they engage in war. Shabnam Holliday's new piece examines the values underpinning Israeli Prime Mi...

My piece on the #Iran-#Israel June War in LSE Blogs, @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social โ€œ.

I explore the values of world order by juxtaposing #woman_life_freedom and Operation Rising Lion of the #Netanyahu government.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...

14.09.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Competition over the Values of World Order: Iranโ€™s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement and Israelโ€™s โ€˜Operation Rising Lionโ€™ - Middle East Centre Competing values drive conflict and narratives, with Israel and Iran appealing to a moral universe as they engage in war. Shabnam Holliday's new piece examines the values underpinning Israeli Prime Mi...

Competing values drive conflict and narratives, as with Israel and Iran's moral claims in their war. @shabnamholliday.bsky.social's new piece examines the values underpinning Netanyahu's 'Operation Rising Lion' through the prism of Iranโ€™s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...

03.09.2025 09:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Book Launch: Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology

Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST).

Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...

10.06.2025 09:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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BBC Open Letter | PDF | Bbc | Gaza Strip An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals

Here's the text of the open letter protesting against the BBC's coverage of #Gaza. Robbie Gibb comes under particular scrutiny
www.scribd.com/document/883...

02.07.2025 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@cais-exeter.bsky.social

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Historicizing the Global AbstractThis chapter challenges the preoccupation (โ€œchronofetishismโ€) of internationalโ€“politicalโ€“sociological scholarship with the present. The rare studie

Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook!

Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...

01.07.2025 09:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iranโ€“Israel Nexus - Shabnam J Holliday, 2020 This article contends that the international is integral to populism. Thus, it calls for populism scholarship to embrace the interconnectivity between the domes...

A reminder in @polstudies.bsky.social of how long the #Iran - #Israel conflict has been in the making and the implications for global order. By @shabnamholliday.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

28.06.2025 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

In @polstudies.bsky.social

28.06.2025 09:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

There are discussions regarding how & if Iranโ€™s regime will evolve/survive.

My article shows how the Islamic Republic reinvented itself following the largest protests it had seen at the time, 2009, & intensification in #Iran-#Israel relations under Ahmadinejad

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

28.06.2025 09:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

Looking for some in-depth analysis on Iran-Israel?

My article, Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iranโ€“Israel Nexus,
looks at Islamic Republic constructions of Israel under Ahmadinejad & Rouhani:

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

22.06.2025 20:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iranโ€™s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes - Shabnam J Holliday, 2025 Contributing to neo-Gramscian IR and debates regarding world order, this article puts forward Gramsciโ€™s domination as a framework for better understanding the d...

My article, โ€˜Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iranโ€™s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimesโ€™, is now in print.
It looks at #Iran- #Israel #US relations through Green Movement.

shows how sanctions were detrimental to organic democracy.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

22.06.2025 17:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Our latest issue is still free to access until the end of the month, so be sure to check out fantastic articles from @chrishesketh.bsky.socialโ€ฌ, @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, & more.

buff.ly/KJ3teXT

01.04.2025 12:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatamiโ€™s Dialogue among Civilisations | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatamiโ€™s Dialogue among Civilisations - Volume 51 Issue 1

Our article on Dialogue among civilisations has been published in @risjnl.bsky.social.

Wastnidge & I show how Dialogue among Civilisations is an example of moving beyond the West/non-West bifurcation in a Global IR and is itself a blurring of โ€˜Westโ€™ & โ€˜non-Westโ€™

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

12.03.2025 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Toxic period products: the hidden health and environmental crisis Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected

๐ŸŒก๏ธ Toxic period products: the hidden health and environmental crisis

Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected

By Natalie Bennett

@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

11.12.2024 15:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 51    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Thanks for getting in touch. I am sorry to have missed you, I had to head back. I hope it was all positive! ๐Ÿ™‚

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29.11.2024 20:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10197    ๐Ÿ” 750    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 544    ๐Ÿ“Œ 285

Just found this list, thanks for adding me, such a great and useful list.

24.11.2024 21:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032321718817476

My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iranโ€™s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7

13.11.2024 06:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

go.bsky.app/8yfzmLa Let me know if you or someone you know should be added to this list! AncientBlueSky

10.11.2024 09:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 125    ๐Ÿ” 46    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Iโ€™m looking forward to presenting on #Iranโ€™s role in #Russiaโ€™s invasion of #Ukraine at MESA next week.

Iโ€™ll be part of Iran 1400 Projectโ€™s panel (iran1400.org), Vexing questions about the interplay of Iranโ€™s regional and domestic politics.

mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024...

09.11.2024 07:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
https://theconversation.com/political-sectarianism-is-fracturing-america-242327

Ahead of Tuesdayโ€™s election I wrote a piece on sectarianism in the US informed by work done by SEPAD on the Middle East. It highlights some worrying trends. t.co/29RPASpUOu

03.11.2024 03:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Sage Journals: Your gateway to world-class research journals Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iranโ€™s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7

16.04.2024 16:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Book Review- Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space - Stratheia Dr Bowen looks beyond the Cold War, examining the contemporary relevance of space in conventional warfare and counterinsurgency.

A very positive review of Original Sin! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social stratheia.com/book-review-...

"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."

16.04.2024 15:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

A book worth checking out if you have an interest in space security, now with review for more info!

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16.04.2024 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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@sainsburys.bsky.social i did the @greenpeaceeu.bsky.social #thebigplasticcount. 52% of my of my plastic is soft, much of that comes from my Sainsburyโ€™s delivery. Is it necessary is it recyclable?

17.03.2024 22:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatamiโ€™s Dialogue among Civilisations | Review... Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatamiโ€™s Dialogue among Civilisations

Our new article co-written with Edward Wastnidge on Global IR and how Iranโ€™s complex history and Dialogue among Civilisations problematise the west/non-west bifurcation @risjnl.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

13.11.2023 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iranโ€™s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regime... Contributing to neo-Gramscian IR and debates regarding world order, this article puts forward Gramsciโ€™s domination as a framework for better understanding the d...

Thinking about the idea of a western liberal world order and the extent to which it is built on consensus: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

21.12.2023 09:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations! Will definitely check it out

21.12.2023 13:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thrilled to see my chapter "The Illiberal Global Politics of Religions and Civilizations" now online (first view).

It is part of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Illiberalism (ed. Marlene Laruelle). Terrific project!

academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

21.12.2023 12:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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