Introduction of special issue of Alternautas on COVID
Angus McNelly situates the Latin American experience of COVID-19 inside the wider global dynamics of the pandemic.
Doing IPS, PhD seminar series 2021/22: Call for papers Deadline 4 June 2021
CfP for Doing IPS seminars on the following themes:
–Migration, mobility and borders/border management
Citizenship, sovereignty, and exception
–Resistance
–Surveillance
–Technology and STS (Science & Technology Studies)
–Racialisation, racism and coloniality
–Socio-legal studies and human rights
–Transnational sociology of expertise
–Innovations and interventions in critical theory and methodologies
–Ethnography and fieldwork methodologies
Decoloniality, coloniality and mobility: A conversation with Walter Mignolo
Benedetta Zocchi and Manuela da Rosa Jorge speak with Professor Walter Mignolo about decolonial thinking, coloniality and mobility. Mignolo is one of the founding scholars of the modernity/coloniality/decoloniality collective.
New Publication: EU democracy projection in the Southern Mediterranean a practice analysis
Sarah Wolff and Anna Khakee have a new article in Mediterranean Politics which argues that democracy projection by the EU varies according to the organisation’s perceived interest, its ideational commitment to norms of dialogue, the degree of institutional inertia, and dominant policy discourses.
New Publication: Urban Geopolitics and the Decentring of Migration Diplomacy in EU-Moroccan Affairs
Sarah Wolff and William Kutz have a new article in Geopolitics journal which examines more fully how distinctly local aspects of Moroccan migration diplomacy have been harnessed as a force for geopolitical action today.
Workshop: Empire’s Endgame: Racism and the British State
Musab Younis will be chairing a roundtable for the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences on the legacies of empire in contemporary Britain.
New Research: Project Demed
In Project DEMED Ksenia Northmore-Ball and her research partners are developing a theoretical framework to capture citizen support for political projects and to trace autocratic and democratic indoctrination in 180 countries from 1900 to today.
New Publication: Framing immobility: Schengen governance in times of pandemics
In an article for the Journal of European Integration, Sarah Wolff examines the closing down of internal borders, lockdowns and quarantines in Europe, and asks what lessons can be drawn from these limits on mobility for the Schengen regime?
Op-Ed: Russia is a broker, not a peacemaker between Israel and Syria
In an op-ed for the Middle East Eye, Chris Phillips asks what role Russia is playing in the deals being mediate between Israel and Syria.
New Publication: Did Theresa May Kill the War Powers Convention? Comparing Parliamentary Debates on UK Intervention in Syria in 2013 and 2018
In an article published in Parliamentary Affairs, James Strong asks whether the War Powers Convention can survive Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to bypass the House of Commons and order military action in Syria in 2018.