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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Aug 18

Happy to share this piece on ethnography in political science:

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Aug 15

NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!!

#Varieties of #Political #Ethnography: Caring for the Far Right?

By @olgademetriou.bsky.social & Antonis A. Ellinas

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · May 30

DGSi's 2nd Annual Conference on Peace and Conflict methodologies ponders 25 years of Women, Peace and Security. Durham, 2-3 June 2025. Do join!

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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · Mar 25

You make an award
winning film. You win a prize. You go home and get beaten by non state actors. The state shows up, arrests you and not them. Where is this ?

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Feargal Cochrane @feargalc.bsky.social · Mar 20

Quite something that UK is issuing travel advisories against its key ally! Actually though, the Visa Waiver Form most people sign (the one that asks if you are a war criminal or are guilty of moral turpitude) puts you beyond the legal process, not if you break the law -but if THEY SAY you have.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · Mar 20

Here:

Britain beefs up travel warnings over US border enforcement

Britain has in recent weeks revised its advice for citizens travelling to the United States to include a warning that anyone found breaking its entry rules could face arrest or detention.

www.reuters.com

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Ntina Tzouvala @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social · Mar 15

Let’s talk about the way a name
becomes a crime,
the way a crime
becomes an argument,
the way an argument
becomes a theory,
the way a theory
sits safely
in a syllabus
far from the fire.

publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i...

IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, THEY SAY | Public Anthropologist

A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench…

publicanthropologist.cmi.no

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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · Mar 8

When I first went to Law School, the pictures on the walls were all of white men.
In all the universities that I taught for the first two decades of my career the pictures on the wall were all mostly of white men & now we face erasure again, the unmaking of the collective “us” who are not white men.

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge

References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorities are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts m...

apnews.com

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · Mar 5

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

“Right to the Discipline” grants - Antipode Online

Call for Proposals, October 2024 Last year we received 225 strong applications with a success rate of 6.2%. We anticipate funding a similar number of 10-12 grants in the next application year. Antipod...

antipodeonline.org

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Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · Mar 3

We’re running an advanced workshop for political geography students on the geographies of settler colonialism and this is definitely top of the list to screen.

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Mar 3

The Palestinian-Israeli film "No Other Land" has won the Oscar for best documentary feature at this year's Academy Awards.

Watch our interviews with two of the co-directors.

Basel Adra: www.democracynow.org/2025/2/18/ba...

Yuval Abraham: www.democracynow.org/2024/4/5/no_...

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Phevos Simeonidis @phesimeonid.bsky.social · Feb 27

[/] Our latest with @omniatv.com and @efsyntakton.bsky.social on the Pylos shipwreck. TLDR; there was indeed a rope. And it was blue. And it was tied on the fishing vessel, as the survivors claim for the past couple of years. Read below:

omniatv @omniatv.com · Feb 27

#Pylos

📌 New evidence revealed: The piece of rope hanging from the bow of the fishing vessel points to its towing

📌 The Hellenic Coast Guard captain did not submit this picture to the authorities

A joint publication with @efsyntakton.bsky.social

omniatv.com/en/7476/a-bl...

A blue rope tightens the noose around the Hellenic Coastguard for the Pylos shipwreck - omniatv english

Today, omniatv and EFSYN reveal a shocking photo depicting, for the first time, the fishing boat carrying refugees, shortly before sinking off Pylos, with a piece of blue rope hanging from the bow, sn...

omniatv.com

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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Feb 21

normalising the erosion of IL: "the deal was a decision based on a security assessment and not by a desire to adhere to the principles of international law"

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Feb 21

Starmer to tell Trump that UK’s Chagos deal will avoid tensions with China

PM to claim if US rejects Mauritius’s claim to own the islands, Beijing will be drawn into the regional dispute Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands including the…

www.theguardian.com

Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Feb 6

Lovely to host Feargal Cochrane's talk on Belfast yesterday at DGSi, discussing covered rivers and covered histories and the hope ahead; thank you Bahar Baser for organising! @feargalc.bsky.social @baharbaser.bsky.social

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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Feb 5

@neophytosloizides.bsky.social only because Feargal follows you ! :)

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Emil Archambault @emilarchambault.bsky.social · Feb 3

Incredible. Trump put tariffs to coerce Mexico, and she got the US to commit to solve the more urgent problem (who knows whether the US will actually do anything).
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

Mexico had agreed to send 10,000 members of its national guard “to prevent drug trafficking from Mexico to the US, in particular of fentanyl”. In return, the US had agreed to work to prevent high-powered weapons crossing the border into Mexico. The tariffs would be paused for one month as a result, Sheinbaum added.

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · Jan 28

New #OpenAccess Intervention — "A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean" by #WeSmellGas antipodeonline.org/2025/01/28/a... wesmellgas.org

Intervention — “A Gas-Industrial Complex: Tracing the Colonial Cartography of the Eastern Mediterranean” - Antipode Online

WeSmellGas ([email protected]) Gas is expected to fuel the transition and time is fundamental. So we are here pushing to unlock as much gas as possible in the shortest time. (Managing Direct...

antipodeonline.org

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Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · Jan 21

Right on.

Frederick Deknatel @freddydeknatel.bsky.social · Jan 21

There’s at least one person in Washington with courage and conviction right now.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jan 21

Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"

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Noam Leshem @noamleshem.bsky.social · Jan 21

At long last, my new book, Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land, is now out!

Based on a decade of research, it documents the realities of sovereign abandonment and the many forms of political liveliness that persist in abandonment’s wake.

Published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Edges of Care

A firsthand look at the lives of those who reside in no man’s land—the violence they endure and their immense resilience. “No man’s land” invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, ...

press.uchicago.edu

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Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Dec 12

Ending the term with a packed week of Emma Rimpilainen speaking on displacement in Ukraine, Janina Pescinski on migration activism in Lampedusa and Trieste, and German Otalora Gallego brilliantly defending his PhD photovoice thesis on transformative justice in Colombia!

Olga Demetriou @olgademetriou.bsky.social · Dec 12

It's been a whirlwind of events at the Durham Global Security Institute this term: public lectures on cybersecurity, WWI war graves, the Nigerian Civil War and reflections on 2+ decades in the Royal Air Force.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · Dec 8

Powerful piece looking at experiences of those who were trapped in Diego Garcia. Here the thing, the Diego Garcia saga is just one of many examples of how people seeking asylum continue to be abandoned in horrendous conditions and without support by the UK, and elsewhere.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Diego Garcia: Stranded mum's three-year ordeal on military island

Shanthi tried her best to create a sense of normality for her children on the secretive military island Diego Garcia

www.bbc.com

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