Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded the Conflict Research Society’s Cedric Smith Prize!

On the 12th anniversary of the death of the UK’s former conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, watch these two Scottish women’s legendary reaction to her passing.

Big congrats to my friend! Always amazed to learn about your research 🙌🙌 Promise Frank Ejiofor

Another fantastic ASEN conference in Budapest. It was a brilliant experience presenting a conference paper for the first time alongside Charley Webb and getting to know great people from all over the world. The ideas are spinning for 2026 in Edinburgh already! #asen2025

Antonio Gramsci died this day in 1937, after a decade in a Fascist jail. "I hate the indifferent. I believe that life means taking sides. One who is really alive, can be nothing if not a citizen and partisan. Indifference is lethargy, parasitism, cowardice, not life."

We had a special guest at the end of #ASEN2025 to announce the topic and venue for next year's conference youtu.be/qqgnG7IOkY4

Drawing on 9-month autoethnographic engagement, with the AI companion XingYe , we explore the very gamification of intimacy – a design paradigm that commodifies emotional labour by rendering affection efficient, quantifiable and achievement-oriented. Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network

Delighted to see my new article in print in Africa Spectrum ! Gates Cambridge Politics and International Studies Cambridge Cambridge Centre of Development Studies

Our article on #racism #denial in #Asia is now available online Critical Sociology. We develop a typology to examine Global South discourses of racism in the #UnitedNations #CERD context. Happy to discuss! doi.org/10.1177/089692… #AcademicTwitter #newPub

My reflections in E-International Relations on #Hiroshima80 and #Nagasaki80 in an age of #nationalism. #NoMoreNukes 🙏 Kindly share. All comments welcome. IPSA ASEN The Nobel Prize Mayors for Peace 国際基督教大学社会科学研究所 ICU SSRI Peace Research Institute ICU Rotary Peace Center 🇯🇵 ISA Japan ICU Foundation ICU　国際基督教大学 Center for the Study of Genocide & Human Rights Memory Studies Association

States against Nations by Nicholas Kuipers By focusing on governments' use of meritocratic selection of bureaucrats, this book unearths a tension between state- and nation-building. 📚 cup.org/4oM1Eoo

Delighted to share my new publication in Nations and Nationalism!

We have a bit of a special #earlyview piece for today - Michael Billig and michael skey reflect on banal nationalism and responses to it, thirty years after Billig's seminal work. It's #openaccess and available now at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/na…

More information about my new book which will be published by the Cambridge University Press on 11 December: cambridge.org/ie/universityp…

Just published an #OpenAccess article with @UbiquityPress: Odessa, Vienna and Jerusalem: Zionism, Performative Nationhood and Multinational Empires | Modern Languages Open doi.org/10.3828/mlo.v0…

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