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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · 1d

Det var så snabbt men så kul!
Tusen tack @lunduniversity.bsky.social 🍂🫶🏽🎨

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · 5d

✨ Mobilising translocal knowledge and ‘terrorismo lingüístico’ (Azaldúa)
✨ Creating our own space of knowledge production and praxis
✨ Proposing methods integrating decoloniality
✨ A politics of friendship: emotions as a response to disembodied rationality

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · 5d

Based on an auto-ethnographic account, we critique #neoliberal academia through language, space and time and propose four reflexive paths to counter its consequences👇🏾

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · 5d

Creative Tensions is out 🐘
With Agnese Pacciardi, we trace the contribution of our #feminist #antiracist collective Lüvo @luvolove.bsky.social in contesting the terms imposed by #neoliberal academia on research & pedagogy

The article is open access here 👉🏾 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Creative tensions: Lüvo’s feminist decolonial praxis in working through/and against neoliberal academia

This article delves into the challenges of conducting activist research with communities labelled as ‘marginalised’ within the confines of neoliberal academia. Through autoethnography and feminist ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 10d

"Justifying retreating from the #OttawaConvention as 'self-defence' sets a dangerous precedent […] Leaving the CCM seems the next step. What follows then? Will states return to chemical weapons—or withdraw from the Geneva Convention?"

H. Garbino & @priscyll.bsky.social in @ecprtheloop.bsky.social

Are landmines legitimate self-defence? The folly of leaving the Ottawa Convention

The Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines is under serious challenge. In 2025, six state parties — Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Ukraine — began the procedure to withdra...

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The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · 15d

📝 The #OttawaConvention banning anti-personnel #Landmines is under serious challenge. In 2025, 6 state parties began the procedure to withdraw. 
🗣️ @priscyll.bsky.social & Henrique Garbino argue for a critical assessment of this decision and its consequences.
👉 bit.ly/46HfQqL

Are landmines legitimate self-defence? The folly of leaving the Ottawa Convention

The Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines is under serious challenge. In 2025, six state parties — Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Ukraine — began the procedure to withdra...

bit.ly

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Jun 19

Lida and I are so honored to receive this prize for our blog on #Afghanistan on @ecprtheloop.bsky.social • we extend this award to all the women of Afghanistan fighting against gender apartheid💫

European Consortium for Political Research @ecpr.bsky.social · Jun 16

🎉 Congratulations Priscyll Anctil Avoine & Lida Ahmad on winning @ecprtheloop.bsky.social Best Blog Prize for their piece 🏆 UN collusion with the Taliban is betraying Afghan women

⭐ Winning piece ➡️ buff.ly/g33mB9N

🔍 Read more ➡️ buff.ly/BGHevIz

#ECPRPrizes #Conflict #GenderSky #Islam #Polisky

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Jun 13

'It makes full use of the form’s freedoms to link research findings to political conviction, and powerfully confronts the double standards of states and political institutions in clear, impactful prose.'

The other amazing nominated blogs & editor's message here: theloop.ecpr.eu/2024-best-bl...

2024 Best Blog winner — revealed

In 2022, The Loop inaugurated a Best Blog prize to reward a contribution of exceptional value. We have now conferred our third £500 prize on the author of a piece judged by our independent jury to be ...

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Jun 13

❣️Jury members said they 'particularly admired this blog piece’s social and political relevance, timely nature, and excellent writing...'

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Jun 13

⭐ The blog post we wrote with Lida Ahmad for @ecprtheloop.bsky.social has been selected for the best blog award for 2024!

We feel deeply touched and also, we extend this acknowledgement to the collective struggle of Afghan women, and to all people living under oppressive regimes.

The Loop @ecprtheloop.bsky.social · Jun 13

🎉 Congratulations to our winners of the Loop Best Blog prize 2024, @priscyll.bsky.social and Lida Ahmad!
🥇 Read their winning article selected by our jury Benjamin Carver, @alexspalinska.bsky.social and 2023 prize winner, Brandon Mack.
#SupportAfghanWomen
➡️ ow.ly/W6zz50W3gpU

UN collusion with the Taliban is betraying Afghan women

Once again, the world has failed Afghan women and girls. 15 August 2024 marks three years of devastating attacks on women's rights, and freedom of movement under the gender-apartheid Taliban regime. L...

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · May 23

Finally got my copy🩵

Full chapter open access here👇🏾

www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...

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Linus Hagström @linushagstrom.bsky.social · May 23

The Swedish Defence University advertises a postdoc focused on ”narrative geopolitics” - or how widespread and emotionally charged narratives influence international security, great power relations, and geostrategic rivalry. Deadline August 31:
fhs.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Postdoc with a focus on narrative geopolitics

Description The postdoctoral position is part of the interdisciplinary research environment on narrative geopolitics, established with funding from the Swedish Armed Forces. The role involves interdis

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · May 19

Still time to register for the talk by Maw Day Myar, the Secretary General of the Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC). She will discuss women and gender in Karenni’s armed resistance movement. The event will be held in English. Register here👇🏾
www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

Women in the Karenni Armed Resistance Movement

Maw Day Myar is the Secretary General of the Karenni State Consultative Council (KSCC). She will discuss women and gender in Karenni’s armed resistance movement. The event will be held in English.

www.fhs.se

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Apr 25

The Swedish Defence University [email protected] just announced the award from the Feminist Theory and Gender Studies Section @isanet.bsky.social I received last month 💫

www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

Priscyll Anctil Avoine receives international award for community engagement

Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Associate Senior Lecturer at the Department of War Studies, has been awarded the International Studies Association's FTGS Early Career Award for Community Engagement.

www.fhs.se

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Apr 17

Our article on #DDR & parenthood with Sanne Weber is out in @intpeacekeeping.bsky.social ✨

It presents our decade-long reflections on reintegration/reincorporation processes in #Colombia through the silences on motherhood as a cornerstone of successful programs✨
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Apr 16

I work for this fantastic feminist & antiracist collective since more than 12 years now, and here, we explain our lines of work!
Join us, Write us, Spread the word!

🐘 Fundación Lüvo @luvolove.bsky.social · Apr 7

🐘 How much do you know about Lüvo?
Get to know our 8 axes of work!

🐘 Qué tanto sabes de Lüvo?
Conozca nuestras 8 líneas de trabajo!

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Apr 7

Tomorrow Dr. @svh.bsky.social will be in Stockholm🤩

Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 31

We are so happy and privileged to receive Dr. @svh.bsky.social at the GPS group at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social 🌼

She will discuss how #NATO has integrated the women, peace and security agenda in policy development & its military activities

Register here 🙌🏾

www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

Women, peace, and security at NATO

Welcome to a research talk with Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky about how NATO has integrated the women, peace and security agenda in policy development and as part of its military activities.

www.fhs.se

Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Apr 1

Yes absolutelyyy!

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 31

Good question! MA students?

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 31

We are so happy and privileged to receive Dr. @svh.bsky.social at the GPS group at @forsvarshogskolan.bsky.social 🌼

She will discuss how #NATO has integrated the women, peace and security agenda in policy development & its military activities

Register here 🙌🏾

www.fhs.se/en/swedish-d...

Women, peace, and security at NATO

Welcome to a research talk with Dr. Stéfanie von Hlatky about how NATO has integrated the women, peace and security agenda in policy development and as part of its military activities.

www.fhs.se

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 21

For you, what does it mean to be insurgent against systemic oppressions and structural inequalities?

Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 21

We had the fantastic opportunity to be accompanied by illustrator Violeta Iridiscente (Instagram), who powerfully captured our conversation on comprehensive security and insurgent feminism through live illustrations🌼

Tomorrow, we will hold our second workshop in Medellín✨

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 21

One of our guiding questions was how insurgent women's perspectives are included in the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, and the National Action Plan.

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 21

*Shaping the WPS Agenda?*
This week, we held one of our workshops on the political participation of women peace signatories and activists. As part of a @folkefba.bsky.social funded research project, we discussed insurgent feminism and our visions of security🧵

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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · Mar 13

Thank you @alejungs.bsky.social & MIT for receiving me to discuss our books on Feminist Security Studies!

One of them is available open access already!

library.fes.de/pdf-files/bu...

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