Nilanjana Premaratna

Resistance to illiberal peacebuilding: towards a new research agenda In recent years, liberal peacebuilding has been increasingly displaced by illiberal peacebuilding – illiberal norms and practices that prioritise regime control, stability, and order through econom...

Are you interested in (illiberal) peacebuilding, resistance, or struggles between competing visions of peace? Read this new article written with @malinakebo.bsky.social, @npremaratna.bsky.social & Lars Waldorf 😃
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YouTube video by MyBISA #BISA2025 keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics

Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...

🌍 Applications open: Funded International Visiting Research Fellowships (2025–2026)

As part of our commitment to global collaboration, we invite scholars outside the UK to build or expand research ties with our staff and research clusters.

📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
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Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool Discover Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

JOB! Closing date TODAY for a Grade 7 fixed-term position at Liverpool on Politics and Communication! Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.

Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.

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Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf wins world’s top photo prize at this year’s World Press Photo competition.

— in pictures aje.io/tjmgxz

Don't Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism's Sadistic Eroticization of Power The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which T...

Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...

We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.

The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.

Apply Now for PhD Studentships 2025 We are recruiting 6 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales a…

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Four students having a discussion during a seminar

NEW WORKSHOPS🚨

Announcing the first BISA-ISA joint workshops: "Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities" hosted by @nclpolitics.bsky.social (10-12 Oct)

Proposal deadline 28 Feb

For details & to submit: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/inaugur...

Hello friends! What did you love reading this year?

Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).

Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.

Studying Narratives in International Relations Abstract. Many scholars in international relations (IR) share an interest in narratives. With few, notable exceptions, IR scholars seem to lack clear metho

⚡️New article on how to study narratives in IR ⚡️This article by @ksailormoon.bsky.social, Stefan Groth and myself might be helpful in showing how narrative analysis can be applied to questions within IR. Interesting for all practice, visuality and discourse scholars!!
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#poetry #freepalestine