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Interesting article from a Gramscian perspective in hegemony and post-growth 👇 - argues that the future will not be easily understood in traditional left-right terms

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It is definitely worth reading - the culmination of Archibugi's long engagement with the idea.

I just won't be purchasing it!

For an extended discussion of world government proposals see 👇 , The Universal Republic: A realistic utopia?, by Matthias Archibugi.

Caveat: eye watering price by OUP

#polisky #utopianIR

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Who on Earth Wants a World Government, What Kind, and Why? An International Survey Experiment Abstract. Amidst multiple transnational crises, global governance has retaken center stage in academic and public debates. While previous generations of th

Can't remember if I shared this before, but an interesting article from ISQ on global attitudes towards world government

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The Centre for Human Security and Social Change Director Lisa Denney will speak on this webinar on 10 September:

Navigating Crisis with Insight: Why the future of development cooperation needs political economy analysis

Register here: asiafoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The examples to trot out would be legion. Syrup bottles. Beer ads. Latte-sipping liberals. 'Hummus' as a password.

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I understand this is a serious issue, but 'Coercing Cracker Barrel' is too good to let go as a possible article title

'Coercing Cracker Barrel: Populism, Semiology, and Food Politics in Late Capitalism' - writes itself.....

Came across a reference to Croce's 'creative misreading' of Hegel in his work. I think my new favourite conceptual move will be to claim a 'creative misreading' in all my work.

With this said, Philip Wegner's take on non-reading in his Invoking Hope (2021) was very interesting

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I'm not sure the ISA-Science, Technology, Art and International Relations (STAIR) group has a bluesky account but they do have a LinkedIn profile if you are interested in sharing there as well

Introduction to special issue: exploring far-right utopias in practice Published in Journal of Political Ideologies (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)

Utopianists: Check out 👇 Special Issue on Far Right Utopias in Practice

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If 'blueprint' utopias had never existed scholars of utopianism would surely have needed to create them.

Otherwise, how would they (we?) know what to reject on page 3 of every book and article?

Not sure! I did quite like Blade Runner 2049 after not finding the original to be as good as I had heard

I increasingly watch a lot of dystopian films for research purposes.

This is right up there with any fictionalized dystopian future I've seen. Real 'front of train' vibes

Public vastly overestimate level of ‘graduate regret’, poll finds New research highlights misconceptions about higher education, with people more positive about universities than is commonly realised

'Fewer graduates regret going to university than is widely assumed and the public have a more favourable view of universities than people imagine, according to new research.' 1/3

a man is on a treadmill and says " it gets the people going " ALT: a man is on a treadmill and says " it gets the people going "

Reading up a little on temporality today and found the best reference ever in a scholarly work!

Andrew Hom, Silent Order: Temporal Turn in Critical IR, Millennium 2018

Reference: Blades of Glory, the 2007 Will Ferrell figure skating movie, line below quoted 🤣

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The UK Ministry of Defence, “Low-Carbon Warfare,” and the struggle to construct novel sociotechnical imaginaries of future war Why do defence organizations take some imaginaries of future warfare more seriously than others? In this article, we use the concept of “sociotechnical imaginaries” to chart the struggle of a vangu...

Interesting article developing socio-technical imaginaries perspective, applied to future of 'low carbon' war in the UK 👇

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Jamal is the winner of the 2024 Colonial, Postcolonial and Decolonial paper prize for early-career scholars! Be sure to read the newly publish piece 👇

Anarchy Is What the Balance of Power Made of It: Two Core Concepts and the Public/Private Distinction in International Relations Abstract. In this article, I question a familiar assumption in International Relations (IR): that the balance of power and anarchy are mutually reinforcing

Very interesting looking piece on Anarchy and Balance of Power:

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An Anarcho-Pacifist Reading of International Relations: A Normative Critique of International Politics from the Confluence of Pacifism and Anarchism Abstract. Pacifism and anarchism have been until recently largely missing on the landscape of international relations (IR) theories, even though they help

Late to the ball on this one this is an interesting piece on 'anarcho-pacifism' in IR 👇

A relatively neglected topic in the field (barring the longer-term project on pacifism in IR by Richard Jackson (@fr33palest1ne.bsky.social) of course!)

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Angell versus Mahan: revisiting International Relations on the eve of World War I - Seán Molloy, 2024 In 1912 a debate erupted between Alfred Thayer Mahan and Norman Angell. The debate revolved around what motivates states and what constitutes the fundamental ba...

Those interested in the historiography of IR/its continued salience see Sean Molloy on debate btw Normal Angell & Thayer Mahan 👇

My exposure to Angell was via @lucianashworth.bsky.social founder of the 'Limerick School' - big impact on a wide # of IR scholars

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#OpenAccess from @poppublicsphere.bsky.social -

A Tale of Two Liberalisms: Desegregating American Political Thought - cup.org/4fATs6z

- Susan McWilliams Barndt

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Maybe its the overcast sky, maybe it is writing about imagined futures, but I've finally got around to looking at the interesting work on existentialism in IR (e.g. 👇).

To go along with it, a great comic:

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That's a book title if I've ever seen one.

For IR folks interested in utopia and theory, @mattfluck.bsky.social and I are co-editing a volume, Reclaiming Utopia in International Relations, to be published by Bristol University Press (@brisunipress.bsky.social) next year

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I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

If folks are ever looking for helpful writing advice for students (UG and PG), check out the Purdue University OWL site.

While my own institution of course has great advice (*ahem*) the Purdue site is terrific in its clarity and simplicity

owl.purdue.edu/owl/index.html

I once made a deal with a spider that he could have the spare room if he left me the kitchen.

Wu-Tang Clan Throw Their Support Behind Zohran Mamdani - HipHopDX Mamdani is hoping to become the next mayor of New York.

Highlight of my day! Wu Tang!

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Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, and Decolonial Approaches Peace is often represented as a matter of time, as a political state that happens after war. This special issue contests this linear and binary view by giving an account of being and thinking betwe...

🧵⬇️Check out the great papers in our new special issue of Geopolitics (29, 5: 2024): Making Space for Peace in Contexts of ‘Non-war’ Violence: Challenging War-Peace Binaries Through Feminist, Spatio-Temporal, & Decolonial Approaches doi.org/10.1080/1465...