🚨New First View Article 🚨 "Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins" by Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social & Prof Anastasia Sh is available online. And it's #OpenAccess! ➡️ buff.ly/3OrTeSV

#OpenAccess from RIS - Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins - cup.org/3HIPKHE - Prof Anastasia Sh & Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social #FirstView

New blog on Belfast's so-called 'peace walls', courtesy of SPERI @SPERIshefuni.bsky.social 🤗 bit.ly/3w25pzf The blog shares findings from my research, regarding the walls' effects for spatial mobility in Belfast. Thanks to Vicki Reif-Breitwieser and Dr Remi Edwards @remiedwards.bsky.social for the excellent editorial work! 👏

“Terrorism” is a harmful, colonial, racialised category which cannot be redeemed. So what’s the solution? Nothing short of abolition, as I argue in this article with Critical Studies on Terrorism! Read it here👇 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #openaccess

Some exciting professional news... I'll be working on SPERI's impact and engagement agenda, as well as advancing my own research on labour agency and control in agricultural supply chain governance Get in touch if you're interested in hearing more about either!

My new article for Critical Studies on Terrorism just went online (open access), exploring how knowledge about counterterrorism’s imbrication with structural racism is routinely refused and dismissed in UK policy making tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🇬🇧🚨 From the archives: 'Introducing the ‘conceptual archive’: A genealogy of counterterrorism in 1970s Britain' by Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social. 👉 Open access and available here: cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Privileged to be part of this important conversation on 🇵🇸. Big thank you to Dr Amna Kaleem Dr Rabea M. Khan and Alice Ella Finden 🏳️‍🌈 for leading us. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾BRISMES and Critical_Terrorism_Studies_WG for supporting the work: tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

🎉 Vol 50(4) is out!🎉 This issue includes NINE research articles with contributions from: Daniel R. McCarthy Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social Prof Anastasia Sh Wolfgang Minatti Peter Verovšek Heidi Wang-Kaeding & More! 📚Read Here ➡️ buff.ly/4dg0QlG

#DidYouKnow that many RIS articles are #OpenAccess? Check out this article by Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social & Prof Anastasia Sh: "Armed group formation in civil war: ‘Movement’, ‘insurgent’, and ‘state splinter’ origins" ➡️ buff.ly/3OrTeSV

Our special issue for Critical Studies on Terrorism, edited by Sarah Gharib and I over the past year, is finally complete. A 🧵of the articles in this special issue, ‘Decoloniality, Criticality, and Abolition - Can Critical Terrorism Studies remain ‘critical’? ’ ⬇️

Call for abstracts 📣 Dr Frank Maracchione @frankmaracchione.bsky.social and I are organising a section at EISA's 2025 Pan-European Conference! The section explores continuities underlying moments of crisis in international politics (see below). DM us if you're interested in joining, we'd love to hear from you!

Please send proposals for the section that Michael Livesey @malivesey.bsky.social and I are co-chairing at EISA's PEC Conference in Bologna. Topic: moving beyond the 'omnipresence' of crisis in international studies (IR/IPE), exploring continuities, structures and slow processes of change. Info: DM.