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Juanita Elias

@juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

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Professor University of Warwick, Politics & International Studies | gender, political economy, care, migration, SE Asia | http://I-peel.org | Editorial board Review of International Political Economy | vice chair BISA | she/her .. more

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 8d

A year in working groups - 2024/25 with BISA 🌟

Come and read our article describing what all of our amazing working groups have been up to in the last academic year - we are extremely grateful to the conveners who are all volunteers 🎉

👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/news/year-wo...

A year in working groups - 2024/25

Find out what each of our working groups achieved in 2024/2025 academic year.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 8d

Could at least two of you be the next BISA Foreign Policy WG convener team - we are looking for a team of at least two conveners to join! 🎉

Interested? Please send an expression of interest to [email protected] by 30 September 🌟

@julietdryden.bsky.social Juanita Elias Sharad Joshi

Red glowing LED sign with the words VACANCY

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 23d

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures, by @justinalger.bsky.social, Kate J. Neville & @atterbalac.bsky.social

The emerging political economy of deep-sea mining: an analysis of opaque ownership structures

Despite the significant environmental and social concerns associated with deep-sea mining, the International Seabed Authority (ISA)—the organization tasked with governing the international seabed—i...

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24d

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year.

Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 28d

Join the @BISAPGN Committee for 2025-2026! 🎉
The deadline has been extended to 23 Sept so get your nominations in now!🌟

Find out more 👉 buff.ly/YzMZfRu

@bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social
@gnobisa.bsky.social @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

Join the PGN Committee for 2025-2026 - DEADLINE EXTENDED- Postgraduate Network (PGN) | BISA

- Postgraduate Network (PGN) Working Group

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Ali Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me

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Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state

Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just published - our #BISA2025 conference video featuring the best highlights 🎉

We would love you to watch it - spot yourself down below! 🌟

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#BISA2025 in Belfast - 50th anniversary conference

For our milestone 50th anniversary conference in June 2025, we visited Belfast, the gateway to Northern Ireland, where we held almost 400 panels, roundtables, keynotes, receptions and more. 1,200…

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 18

'Geographies of escalation - Disputes on territory, sovereignty and control in an ever-changing international system' w/ @glodesblum.bsky.social @unicampoficial.bsky.social🌎

25 Sept on zoom 💻

Sign up now for free 👉 buff.ly/ah7pOPw

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UG event: Geographies of escalation - Disputes on territory, sovereignty and control in an ever-changing international system

New event catered towards undergraduate students on the geographies of escalation.

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 18

BISA Aspiring Scholars Fund fostering future of IR scholarship🌟

"This empowered me to successfully complete my PhD thesis, which brought out the voices of an oppressed group of women in the Global South" @arunisamarakoon.bsky.social

Donate now 👉 buff.ly/bQxV1FA

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The British International Studies Association is a learned society that promotes the study of international relations and related subjects through teaching, research, and facilitation of contact…

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 18

Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa, by @drelisagambino.bsky.social and Costanza Franceschini

Flexible embeddedness: how Chinese lead firms internationalise in Africa

The ‘rise of the South’, and particularly that of China, has promoted lively debates around the centrality of Southern firms in shaping the contours of twenty first century economic globalisation. ...

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · Aug 18

Panda life... Not a single care.😅🤣 #bluesky

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 14

Reminder: the pre-registration deadline for accepted participants for the ISA-BISA workshops is TOMORROW! 🚨

Make sure you register now! 🌎

Info here 👉 buff.ly/mhwWR8k

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BISA ISA workshop flyer with the words:
PRE-REG DEADLINE - AUG 15TH
BISA-ISA Joint Workshops
October 10-12, 2025
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, England

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 8

Out now- our interview with @acadsocsciences.bsky.social about our funded EDI initiative! 🌟

Thanks to funding from @acadsocsciences.bsky.social & ESRC we have been improving our website accessibility - details found in the Q&A down below 🎉

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EDI Project Knowledge Sharing and Learning: Q&A with the British International Studies Association (BISA) – Academy of Social Sciences

The Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Project is a joint programme between The Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS), its member social science societies and the Economic and Social Research…

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 6

The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance, by Vanessa Endrejat, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Arjen van der Heide

The slumbering giant: towards a political economy of financialised insurance

This paper introduces the concept of financialised insurance through an analysis of the European insurance sector in the context of recent capitalist restructuring. It addresses a notable gap in th...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Aug 5

BISA and @isanet.bsky.social joint conference programme out now! 🌟

For all information about the workshops and the programme use the link down below - can't wait to see you all there in October 🎉

Find all information here 👉 buff.ly/0wNopP4

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Aug 1

How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine, by Luis Aue

How professions maintain coloniality: interprofessional strategies in the history of travel medicine

This article conceptualises how the political economy of interprofessional competition and compromises has sustained colonialist professional practices. When professions distinguish their work alon...

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 31

RIPE Editor @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social reflects on the history of IPEG at @mybisa.bsky.social - which was often entwined with the growth and development of our journal.

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – IPEG turns 54!- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA

- International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 31

🌟 Saba Joshi was awarded a BISA ECR Research Grant to consolidate her book project:

'Gender and land-use change in South and Southeast Asian resource frontiers' - examining gender & agrarian resistance in Cambodia & India 📚

Read here 👉 buff.ly/uY1SU7W

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Gender and land-use change in South and Southeast Asian resource frontiers

Read Saba Joshi's article on their research that was supported by the BISA Early Career Small Research Grant

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 28

New BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives 💸
'IPEG turns 54!' with @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social looking back at @ipegbisa.bsky.social history 🌟

"It has offered a fortifying mix of intellectual home and social support for the best part of 25 years” - Stuart Shields

Read here -

BISA at 50: Reflections and perspectives – IPEG turns 54!- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA

- International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Mar 17

⭐️Become a BISA trustee!⭐️

We are thrilled to announce that we have six trustee positions up for election to the BISA Executive Committee.

Find further details here - www.bisa.ac.uk/news/call-no...

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#trusteeelection
#executivecommittee

Call for nominations to serve on the BISA Executive Committee 2025

We're pleased to announce we have six trustee positions up for election to the Executive Committee.

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jul 21

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social

Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence

Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 11

@bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social Prize nominations 🌎

Honouring the best environment or climate politics postgraduate / early-career paper presented at the BISA Annual conference 📝
Nominations close - 16 August 2025 🌟

Nominate now! - buff.ly/tkk1lny

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Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA

- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group

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Women's Budget Group @womensbudgetgrp.bsky.social · Jul 10

The numbers are stark: 1.6 million children in 450,000 families are now affected. Eight years on from its introduction, 1 in 9 children across the UK is living under the two-child limit. 🧵 3/3

Read the full briefing 👇
cpag.org.uk/news/two-chi...

1 in 9 children in the UK is affected by the two-child limit.

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Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social · Jul 9

Very happy to have this article out with RIPE:
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 9

Our 2025 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize joint winners were @tonihaastrup.bsky.social Andreja Zevnik & @meghanetinsley.bsky.social
and @jessnorthey.bsky.social
🎉

Awarded for 'making significant contributions to promoting a more inclusive discipline' 🌟

Congratulations! 👉 buff.ly/OTk1esS

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jul 3

BISA, partnered with @unisouthampton.bsky.social politics department launched their first Methods Summer School 🌟

Michael Mo who was provided with BISA bursaries to attend told us his valuable takeaways and highlights from the course 🎉

read more here 👉 www.bisa.ac.uk/articles/met...

Methods Summer School - Knowledge, inspiration, and practical tools for development

Michael Mo discusses attending the BISA-sponsored PAIR methods summer school at Southampton.

Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another permanent job in my department for an assistant prof in International Organisations (remit of the position also includes non-governmental organisations and regional organisations) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR770/a...

Assistant Professor in International Organisations (110623-0625) at University of Warwick

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in International Organisations (110623-0625) on jobs.ac.uk!

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Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social · Jul 1

Job! Assistant Prof in IR (Conflict & Security) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNR672/a...

Assistant Professor in International Relations (Conflict and Security) (110624-0625) at University of Warwick

An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor in International Relations (Conflict and Security) (110624-0625) is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other...

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · Jun 30

The deadline to submit your @ipegbisa.bsky.social Book Prize 2025 nominations is TODAY at 5pm! 💵

Make sure you get them in before the deadline - read more about the prize below 👇
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

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Nominations open for the International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize 2025- International Political Economy (IPEG) | BISA

- International Political Economy (IPEG) Working Group

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · Jun 27

Thrilled to publish RIPE 32:4 ahead of schedule and summer vacations, as it contains another brilliant special issue: China’s Rise and the Reconfiguration of Global Economic Governance, edited by Eugénia C. Heldt and Susan Park. Most articles are open access!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrip20/3...

Review of International Political Economy

Volume 32, Issue 4 of Review of International Political Economy

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