CritMil Studies

Postdoctoral job opportunity! jobbnorge.no/en/available-j…

Call for Abstracts! Critical Military Studies Section at EISA PEC 2026, Lisbon, 1-4 September: mailchi.mp/44e2a15face3/c…

EISA PEC25 Panel CfP: War Ontology and Ethics - mailchi.mp/66033f8e6f11/e…

My article for the 'Making Sense of State Violence' special issue of @CritMilStudies is now online! Thank you to everyone involved, the brilliant @warning_archive team, and others for really valuable feedback! @teachlearnwar @owendavidthomas @MargotTudor doi.org/10.1080/233374…

In the @CritMilStudies article ‘The aspirational promise of soldiering’, @MariaSternSGS and I analyse the grammar of military recruitment campaigns to better understand how armed service, and potentially sacrifice, for the nation-state is made attractive to young people globally.

Forgot to post the link... doi.org/10.1080/233374…

The @warning_archive workshop was a wonderful experience. Thanks to everyone involved for their feedback, comments, and exciting research. Thanks also to the reviewers, and the editors at @CritMilStudies

Freshly published today! My article, ‘Brokering a postcolonial Malaysia’ is out in @CritMilStudies as part of the special issue ‘Making Sense of State Violence,’ organised by @teachlearnwar @owendavidthomas @MargotTudor

🛑Hey you! Yes you! 🛑 Do you study off-limits military sites? ✅ Do you dabble in discourse? ✅ Do you think more articles should have pictures? ✅ My new @CritMilStudies article "From Front Lines to Fun Runs" is for you! Free download: tinyurl.com/3zej37tn Summary 🧵 👇

One for the @CritMilStudies folks out there.

The @EdinburghUP book series Advances in Critical Military Studies edited by Sarah Bulmer and @VmBasham has just published its 10th book - the brilliant 'Martialling Peace' by @nlwegner. Check it out here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-martialli…

Did you know that Critical Military Studies journal turns 10 in 2025? @DrHarrietGray, Paul Higate, and Ross McGarry are putting together a special issue 'Evaluating the Intellectual Project of Critical Military Studies: its First Decade in Review'. CfP: mailchi.mp/3bae98f0cf80/c…

Join contributing authors, alongside guest editors @hannah_r_west, Sarah Bulmer, @DrSophyAntrobus, and @NickCaddick1, for an online discussion of their recent special issue Voices of the Veteran (tandfonline.com/toc/rcms20/9/1…) on 11 Sept 2023, 12.30-1400 UK time!

Somewhere over the Rainbow (Crossing)🌈- In this new Encounters piece for @CritMilStudies I offer some initial reflections at the start of a broader project exploring LGBTQ 'allyship' at NATO: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Do check out this excellent piece from 2021!

Please apply and share widely- we are looking for a PostDoc at the TMC Network! @CritMilStudies @cpsa_acsp @isanet @IFJPglobal @rn_wps @CdsnRcds @CIMVHR_ICRSMV @_researchNS @ResearchMSVU @RWE_CAF_Network @sicema_msvu

CfP: Critical Perspectives on NATO workshop - Newcastle University (UK) - 25 - 26 May 2023 - mailchi.mp/7dd2a2ec5da4/c…

My thanks to Eli Wright @FrontlinePaper for his engagement & permission to include images of his powerful work. My thanks finally to my @StAndrewsIR & @StAndrewsHist colleagues Faye Donnelly, @ProfTonyLang & @DrRoryCox for their appreciated editorial support of this creative work

that has begun to explore US military/veteran artwork in the context of post-9/11 controversial wars supported by a @MYBISA Early Career Research Grant. (More publications coming soon!) My thanks to @MYBISA for the funding to facilitate this project.

and the possibilities that its inbetweenness and incompleteness offer – to be glimpsed and potentially grasped in how torture is engaged, in how IR can more ethically and complexly account for its meanings and contestations. This is the first publication to come out of a project