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Charlie Price

@charlieprice.bsky.social

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Teaching Fellow in IR and Security, University of Warwick. I write about the far-right and borders, sometimes emotions and sometimes memes. Strong opinions about Science Fiction.

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Do you like ketchup? Not only are you wrong, but you may be a fascist. Not really, but in my 🍅New Publication🍅 "Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce", in International Political Sociology, I argue that memes about ketchup showcase Neo-Nazi solidarity.
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Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations

Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

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Kasper Arabi @kasperarabi.bsky.social · 22d

New paper out in @risjnl.bsky.social! 🚨

I explore the everyday foundations of structural power in the international system and advance a new theoretical framework that reconceptualizes the state as a mediator between the two levels.

Time for a short thread! 🧵👇

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 25d

That’s interesting, I wasn’t aware of any major beef between Fuentes and Kirk, at least not as extreme as with others like Shapiro. Going to look into it!

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 25d

Maybe I’m missing something but I wouldn’t have immediately thought he was satirising a Pepe meme. More making a joke about the alt-right guys who use the Gopnik meme as weird pro-Putin solidarity. Not sure!

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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · Aug 26

🖖Hi people! We are launching our new BISA working group, Critical Alternatives for World Politics! We have been working on this for a while now :) It will be a great space to experiment with and create new methods and approaches to IR. Please make sure to follow and join us :)🥰

BISA Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social · Aug 26

🎆We are incredibly excited to launch
BISA's new working group: Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP)! CAWP aims to foster a collegiate space for creative, experimental, and non-mainstream research in IR 🎉Follow us on here and join us at:
www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Aug 5

In our latest issue, Anne-Marie Houde examines the "micro-political foundation that enables and legitimises government action" by focusing on the everyday emotions of ordinary citizens.

📄👉 buff.ly/EnKTOSZ

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Thank you! So far, I’ve got nothing to say on mayonnaise!

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Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) @warwickpais.bsky.social · Jul 29

🍅 Ketchup in Far-Right Memes
📝 A new research paper on how to study Far-Right memes has been published by Dr Charlie Price in International Political Sociology.
🔗 Read it here: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Moreover, without an appreciation for the silly/serious nature of far-right memes and politics and the homes they provide, we will never truly grasp the appeal of engaging with such communities.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

These online spaces are technically accessible but conceptually inaccessible; significant prior knowledge is required to be part of online humorous far-right communities, and I argue this serves a bordering function.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Through an analysis of the seemingly silly memes manufactured by the far-right Nordic Resistance Movement, I argue for understanding memes as central to home-building efforts by online far-right communities.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Simultaneously, far-right politics have the potential for serious harm, so these communities cannot be seen as exclusively silly.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

The paper is explicit in arguing that we pay attention to far-right memes, but do not take them “too seriously” because far-right groups often take the opportunity to ridicule mainstream and leftist moral panics around memes.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

In this paper, I challenge the distinction between silly and serious and argue for a space that recognizes the simultaneous existence of these concepts when it comes to researching far-right memes.

Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

Ketchup Is the Whitest Sauce: Memes as Silly/Serious Bordered Spaces in International Relations

Abstract. This paper draws on previous scholarship on humor, memes, and seriousness in International Relations to produce a novel means for understanding o

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Dr Fran Melhuish @fransplains.bsky.social · Jul 28

My latest article is out #OA in @politicsjournal.bsky.social ‪✍️

✅ The first academic study of Anglofuturism
✅ Expands our understanding of 'forward-looking' nostalgias

💡 Part of forthcoming special issue on Global Britain

@sotonpolitics.bsky.social

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Politics journal article: A new Elizabethan age: The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) and the nostalgic politics of Anglofuturism

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · Jul 10

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“Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement” by @charlieprice.bsky.social

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Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social · Jul 1

Find mine and @ngellwitzki.bsky.social’s new article on EU-UK relations and the emotional (de)politicisation of the Covid-19 vaccine in International Affairs' new issue 📄

International Affairs @iajournal.bsky.social · Jul 1

With summer in full swing, we have launched our July issue today!☀️

🌏 Special section on Central Asia and the Indo-Pacific
🔖 Articles on climate politics, EU-UK relations and more
💻 Policy papers on US foreign policy & AI governance
📚 24 book reviews

Read NOW: academic.oup.com/ia/issue/101/4

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Guillermo Alonso Simón @galonsosimon.bsky.social · Jun 19

Reposting this now that my paper has an issue number. Please feel free to check it out!

Guillermo Alonso Simón @galonsosimon.bsky.social · Dec 12

🚨Publication alert! 🚨

Happy to announce the publication of my first solo academic work! I critique how 'convergence' is deployed in debates about the Eurozone crisis and beyond, offering a constructivist edge to discussions about capitalist restructuring in the Eurozone.

doi.org/10.1111/jcms...

Opening the Black Box of ‘Convergence’ in the European Monetary Union: A Discursive Analysis

‘Convergence’ stands out as a prominent signifier in discourse about the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), recently also gaining prominence in debates within Comparative Political Economy (...

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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · Jun 10

Delighted to see this out! It was a real pleasure to co-author this piece with the brilliant @annemhoude.bsky.social on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ vaccine and its significance for EU–UK relations. It’s open access - do have a look!

🔗: academic.oup.com/ia/advance-a...

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · Jun 11

Having marked over 180 essays, 4 dissertations, and moderated 3 modules, it’s easy to forget the fun aspects of teaching. Then a student who wrote about the role of food in far-right politics makes you this…

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Anne-Marie Houde @annemhoude.bsky.social · Jun 10

🚨New Publication🚨I'm thrilled to share my latest article on the emotional (de)politicisation of the ‘Oxford’ COVID-19 vaccine and its impact on EU-UK relations, now available on @iajournal.bsky.social's website. 🇬🇧🇪🇺

As always, it has been a joy to work with @ngellwitzki.bsky.social on this project.

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Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social · Jun 3

🎉 We’re thrilled to announce the winners of the 2025 EPIR Thesis Prize!
🏆 Winners: Anne-Marie Houde & Uygar Baspehlivan
🎖 Honourable Mention: Shambhawi Tripathi
Their theses impressed our judges with originality, critical insight, and innovative methods. Congratulations to all! 👏

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Lola Avril @lolaavril.bsky.social · May 23

New episode of "Parlons Commission" @euradio.bsky.social with Pr. @husseinkassim.bsky.social !
We talked about the people who work in the Commission (who they are, their relationship to the European project) and the process of “presidentialisation” of the institution.

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Hussein Kassim – qui travaille à la Commission européenne ?

Dans ce septième épisode, Lola Avril rencontre Hussein Kassim, professeur de science politique à l’université de Warwick. Il évoque le parcours du personnel de la Commission européenne ainsi que la pr...

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Allyson Edwards @allysonedwards1.bsky.social · May 22

✨Excited to share our research "Creating Good Young Patriots," which was published as an Advance Article in
@cpcs.bsky.social @irgarner.bsky.social!

🔗 online.ucpress.edu/cpcs/article...

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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · May 22

My paper has an issue number now, so please read it! Especially if you're that guy who emailed me about my apparent lack of critical thinking skills after I critiqued some conspiracy theories in a different paper...

EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · May 22

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“Fantasy and the figure: ideological bodies in the Nordic Resistance Movement” by Charlie W. Price: t1p.de/lpjet

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