@drnickismith.bsky.social
Associate Prof in Political Science @BhamPolsis (she/her)
In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉
‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍
Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Sex Isn't Real" by Beans Velocci, which traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of #trans life.
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All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...
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We believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future.
Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
Me in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social at the London Review Bookshop on her new book "Extractive Capitalism". Here or wherever you get your podcasts www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
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Join the Verso Book Club to be a part of our monthly online reading group!
These sessions will dig into the critical, though often messy, work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
I am so excited to be part of this event on the Global Politics of Abortion with the fabulous Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Sarah of Ad’iyah Collective, Prof Sophie Harman & Dr Sydney Calkin
28th January. Be there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pol...
@qmulsse.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social
From Friedrich Engels to Shulamith Firestone to NAncy Fraser, these books offer the foundations of Marxist Feminist theory.
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Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization by Nikita Dhawan. The cover is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them. The side of their desk reads “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.” The title is written in the upper left in white, with the word ‘Enlightenment’ in yellow. The subtitle is lower and to the right. The author’s name is in the bottom right.
Save 30% on #NewBook "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans," by Nikita Dhawan, which makes the case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical project of decolonization. #PostcolonialStudies buff.ly/2ToxO2i
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"How does settler colonialism shape world politics?"
Federica Caso's latest article explores this question through a critical examination of Australia as a case study. It's #OpenAccess on our website ⤵️
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Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, August 2025
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@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/from-frontie...
the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study call for fellowship applications is now open
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🎧 New Podcast Episode! 🎧
In this episode, our editor Seb Kaempf speaks with Professor Roland Bleiker about his 2025 BISA keynote address ⤵️
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Promotional page for “Connecting Abolition(s),” a two-day workshop taking place 12–13 May 2026 at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. The page announces a call for contributions focused on abolition in theory and practice, including border abolition, prison and police abolition, climate justice, settler colonialism, mutual aid, and international solidarity. The event includes panels, roundtables, and creative workshops, with plenary speakers Ajay Parasram and Amal Abu-Bakare. A submission deadline of 26 January 2026 and contact email cmfd@aston.ac.uk are listed, along with a note that limited funding is available, prioritising PhD students and early career researchers.
Aston uni Centre for Migration and Forced Displacement is looking for participants for a workshop on centring abolition as transformative practice in our daily lives within and outside of academia🌟
Deadline 26 Jan & workshop on 12-13 May 🎉
👉 More info on sheet attached below!
Dr Amal Abu-Bakare
Books on cyberfeminism, reproductive labour, desire, and more by the most prescient feminist theorists.
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Notes from the field article titled "Political (In)stability and Research on Gender-Based Violence in Africa: Experiences from Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau" by Enzo Lenine and Naentrem Sanca.
📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢
In "Political (In)stability and Research on Gender-Based Violence in Africa", Enzo Lenine and Naentrem Sanca discuss how political context can change research methods and possibilities.
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New research by #SFUSPP's @alibhagat.bsky.social & @gclebaron.bsky.social & Kam Phung (SFUBeedie) uncovers forced labour & exploitation risks faced by migrant farm workers in B.C. See the reports & National Post coverage.
Reports: www.sfu.ca/policy-schoo...
Coverage: nationalpost.com/feature/temp...
Looks like a very interesting @posthumanresinst.bsky.social online event on conceptualization of the #Anthropocene!
@maggieoneill.bsky.social @desfitzgerald.bsky.social @radhumslab.bsky.social @uccphilosophy.bsky.social @uccwomenstudies.bsky.social please share!
REGISTRATION IS OPEN FOR #BISA2026!!
Take a look at the conference programme and register now via the conference website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Participant registration deadline: 2 March
See you in Brighton 🌊🏖️
@simonrushton.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @visitbrighton.bsky.social
Our latest special forum on oligarchic sovereignty could not be more relevant this week. Check out the video introduction and be sure to read to #OpenAccess forum, which poses pertinent questions about tech billionaires in politics.
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🚨Exciting news! Today is pub day for my book Queering Women, Peace and Security: Expanding Feminist Approaches to Gender in Peacebuilding. 🚨
You can preorder print copies now and the online edition of the book is already available to subscribers to Oxford Academic at this link: bit.ly/4hP3wdc
My contribution to a forum on Shirin Rai's book Depletion: The Human Cost of Caring - out now in social politics academic.oup.com/sp/article/3...
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