New Publication 📢🚨 How exactly do narratives help manage (existential) anxiety? In our new article in Political Psychology Dr Anne-Marie Houde and I address this question by further developing the Kleinian approach to ontological security. A short 🧵👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/po…

Is it 'political violence' rather than 'terrorism' bc the shooter might be w**te? (Weirdly, that's not being specified either as it usually is). Whatever happened to 'mentally ill lone wolf?' Curious about the agreed term 'political violence' here, & how quickly it got agreed.

Nope, not vicariously identifying with this one - je ne suis pas MAGA!

University of Chicago's Robert Pape says political violence "moving into the mainstream" - This is probably the foremost scholar on political violence - a v sobering analysis from 2023 to contextualise Trump shooting ⁦American_Politics⁩ ⁦OPEU⁩ youtube.com/watch?v=RRB8yJ…

No, the rhetoric of political violence is not a "both sides" problem. Latest in @theAtlantic

My new (also, my first) article is out now in Geopolitics! I draw on Spivak to make the case for essentialising borders around the resistance practices that we want to see against them. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New paper! Remember a while back the Queen died? Well, Nicolai Gellwitzki, Dr Anne-Marie Houde, Lauren Rogers and I have a new paper in International Political Sociology where we explore the impact of the Demise of the Crown on the ontological security of the national self. academic.oup.com/ips/article/18… 1/

🧵Check out this thread Ben Rosher wrote about our new article with Nicolai Gellwitzki and Lauren Rogers, which just came out in International Political Sociology. 🥳 The paper explores the impact of Queen Elizabeth II's death on the UK's autobiographical narratives. 🇬🇧👑

Have you ever wondered how exactly social collectives "go on" with established autobiographical narratives in times of change and how they can "move on" from them? If so, check out our new paper in International Political Sociology and Ben Rosher's thread summary below! 🧵🤓

New article by Nicolai Gellwitzki, Ben Rosher Dr Anne-Marie Houde & Lauren Rogers Keep Calm and Carry on? Fissure, Perception, and Narrative Contestation Following the Demise of the Crown academic.oup.com/ips/article/18…

2025 entry to our new Politics of Climate Change MA is now open! Find out more here: warwick.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

Join Anne-Marie Houde on November 21, 2024, from 16:00-18:00 (London) for "Focus Groups: Motivations, Data Collection, and Analysis." Explore focus groups in political research. RSVP: forms.gle/wDNAdKQYwq2dNJ…. Details: politikon.iapss.org/index.php/poli…

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Is this what Harris meant when she said she was 'nauseously optimistic?

Even though the Venn diagram of our followers is almost a circle and Nicolai Gellwitzki has already posted about this... Our paper on the relationship between fear, agency, and the unconscious in securitisation processes is out in Millennium Journal! #OpenAccess journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…

Excellent to see this one out now!

Adding this to the 'vicarious militarism' file.

In his article in the latest RIS issue @JosephHaigh introduces the concept of "vicarious military subjectivity" as he discusses the way in which WWI is commemorated in Britain. It is free to read now! buff.ly/4gCKgy0