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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Aug 28

In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa.bsky.social in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December.

academic.oup.com/book/60859?s...

Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime

Abstract. This book rethinks hegemonic understandings of military victory as the outcome of war by focusing on the relationship between victory and time. W

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Matthew Barnfield @mbarnfield.bsky.social · Aug 6

I have a new article out at @polstudies.bsky.social. In "Electoral Hope", I make the case that supposedly irrational "wishful thinking" is actually a crucial part of how voters make rational sense of their role in democracies.

OA link: doi.org/10.1177/0032...

Title page of article "Electoral Hope" in journal Political Studies.

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · Jul 10

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“’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko.bsky.social

t1p.de/ajj2p

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · May 7

I’ll write a complaint ASAP!! Thx so much Ale!!!

Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks Taif!!

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · May 7

Thanks Nina!!!

Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @oxfordunipress.bsky.social as part of @europeanisa.bsky.social Voices in IR. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

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Jan Eijking @janeijking.com · Mar 17

Looking forward to welcoming Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) for a launch event on his exciting book "Ethnos of the Earth" (CUP) this week Thursday. Join us if you're in Oxford!

20 March, 4pm • Brasenose College, Lecture Room VII
With comments from Faridah Zaman & Musab Younis

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EJIR @ejir.bsky.social · Mar 18

In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening.

You can find the full publication here: t1p.de/8n0sh

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thxxx!!!

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thxxxx!!!

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Carl Pierer @cp758.bsky.social · Mar 13

Fantastic new article by Mirko Palestrino in @EuroJournIN

- and what a timely and important argument!

Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · Mar 13

Read this as soon as you can!

Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

8/8. For now, super thanks to Emanuele Sciandra, @mbarnfield.bsky.social Italo Brandimarte @tarsisbrito.bsky.social @laurenbwilcox.bsky.social Stefano Guzzini and Kim Hutchings. Thx also to participants to the 2024 @theorylab.bsky.social and @doingips.bsky.social ECR workshop at @qmul.ac.uk.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

7/8. This might/might not be a prequel to a book on the making, temporalities, and sociologies of military victory which will be out in late 2025! Keep your eyes peeled for more on all things victory and time - esp. if you believe I might have, indeed, written a whole book on this.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

6/8. But gardens also helped reinforce global social hierarchies along raced, classed, and gendered lines. We need to rethink victory, then, because by constraining the study of victory to fighting and diplomacy we fail to understand how war ends and with what social effects.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

5/8. Attending to their relationship to time, however, I also demonstrate that victory gardens served to also mark the end of both wars. Indeed, they were one way in which governments successfully constructed clearly demarcated ‘wartime’ and ‘peacetime’.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

4/8. Victory gardens were virtually everywhere during the World Wars. Governments from all over the world fostered wartime gardening to enlist civilians to the war effort (esp. women) and counter food scarcity.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

3/8. Victory practices are both martial and peaceful, military and civilian, and always temporal in nature. Wartime gardening is a great example.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

2/8. I argue that this understanding of victory is limited/misleading. A temporal marker, victory has little to do with warfighting and everything to do with what I call ‘victory practices’: parading, monuments, and other practices that convince audiences that a given war is over.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

1/8. IR and War Studies - the two disciplines that are most concerned with the study of war - conceptualise victory as the outcome of conflict and the watershed moment between war and peace.

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Mar 13

Hot off the press! My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIN at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... What does it argue? A thread:

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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · Apr 4

Last chance to register for the 2nd DoingIPS Spring Symposium @QMUL, this year co-organised with
@qmpoliticsir.bsky.social's @elkeschwarz.bsky.social, @palestrinomirko.bsky.social and @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social
Sign-up link below. Pls share widely!!

www.doingips.org/symposium2024

Symposium 2024 — DoingIPS

www.doingips.org

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Mirko Palestrino @palestrinomirko.bsky.social · Nov 21

Happening tomorrow at QMUL, co-organised by @doingips.bsky.social and Global Politics Unbound. Join Hannah, Melissa and myself for what promises to be a great discussion of an incredibly exciting book!!

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