«We need to name a problem in order to address it. But naming problems does not make them go away. And yet, naming matters. Complaining about problems does not make them go away, either. And yet complaining matters.»
Congrats, Alex!
When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!
🚨new publication🚨
So happy that @luisebendfeldt.bsky.social and my article ‘What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden’ is out now with @coco-journal.bsky.social. We explore the curation of ideas of war, preparedness, ‘home’ + martial peace
Available OA here: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
slightly annoying that this paragraph is so succinct yet comprehensive as am hoping to write about AI myself this week but: this is very good
📢 We have some exciting reads for you!
1. Our Researcher, Dr @louiseridden.bsky.social, recently published her article "Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection" in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Link here: doi.org/10.1163/2772...
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My new article ‘Mission Impossible?
Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract.
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
📢JPN 3:1 now out. Includes articles on uncivil #obedience, unarmed civilian protection (#UCP), counter #misogyny, #German pacifism, & Martin Luther King (#MLK), plus 2 book reviews ➡️ brill.com/view/journal...
In the article, I explore the complexity of the role of precariousness and vulnerability in civilian-to-civilian protection and its intersection with gender, age, and provide a feminist critique of the association between protection and strength
So happy to say that my new article 'Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection' is now out (and open access 🥳) with @jpacnv.bsky.social! Check it out here 👇
brill.com/view/journal...
Universities also need a system to reallocate research cash as more and more colleagues lose their jobs and depts close. Otherwise large numbers of taxpayer-funded Research Council projects will just fall apart as people leave. Of course, being Britain, this hasn't been properly thought about. 🇬🇧
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is available in paperback 🎉 Now under £30 with @cambridgeup.bsky.social and here’s a 20% discount code to make it more affordable. Will be doing a giveaway once my author copies arrive 😏
💫Join us for the 12th @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS2025 in Krakow, Jagiellonian University, 2-4 July 2025
💫With @drmmartind.bsky.social we are very happy to invite you to submit your proposals for our workshop on Feminist Visual Methodologies
💫Deadline: 11.02.2025💫
eisa-net.org/workshops-ew...
Sci fi had us worried about sentient, clever AI but stupid AI is the real threat isn't it. They're going to enmesh this completely unreasonable tech in everything and it'll gradually reduce us to paste. Didn't even need sentience, just the worst nerds and gullible politicians
🚨Call for abstracts! 🚨
Is your work curious about promises, narratives, and practices of protection? About how protection is instrumentalised, lived, and experienced? Submit to our Protection in IR and beyond section, organised by @BendfeldtLuise and me! #EISAPEC2024