Dr Sam Ritholtz

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out! It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, & it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote & thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at ucpress.edu/books/the-way-…

Very much looking forward to discussing "The Trump Effect" with fellow panelists Maryhen Jiménez, @tomlongphd & David Doyle later at St. Antony's College, @UniofOxford today! lac.ox.ac.uk/event/main-sem…

And this book will be so good!!!

@estebanscu Uff si porfa!!! I would love that!

@SamRitholtz @mengiatschalaer @sarahschulman3 @amiasrinivasan @IESOGI @MicroRainbow @RainbowRailroad @refugeestudies @MigOxford @Politics_Oxford @NaomiUCPress @ucpress @SOGICA1 Cannot wait to read it! Are you going to present it at the EUI? We should organize it, Sam!!

It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out! It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, & it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote & thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at ucpress.edu/books/the-way-…

A final thanks to the long list of people/orgs whose work inspired this book, & whose feedback helped improve it: @mengiatschalaer @sarahschulman3 @amiasrinivasan @IESOGI @MicroRainbow @RainbowRailroad @refugeestudies @MigOxford @Politics_Oxford @NaomiUCPress @ucpress @SOGICA1

The photograph on the front of the book is of a flower trapped in ice, taken by the incredibly talented Carlos Saavedra as part of his series 'Limipia' on the trans community in Colombia. You can follow more of his work here: instagram.com/carlosaavedra7/

@cordeliarizzo That’s amazing! Let’s connect! I have a graduate student working on tapestry in global politics as well.

@SamRitholtz My dissertation examines this, through the practice of embroidering in México.

To wrap up the year, I am happy to share a new article, written with Anna Corrigan, in Security Dialogue. Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We argue that these pieces constitute materialities of dissent that center intimate domestic items as objects of political critique, conceptualizing artistic production and its associated material intimate practice in domestic spaces as crucial sites of meaning and politics.

Considering the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo, we analyze how their artistic practices in Latin America corrupt the intimate material of domestic life to display the fragments left after enforced disappearance, thereby confronting the stigma placed on grieving families

1/ Ayer la administración Trump retiró asistencia económica para Colombia en la “guerra contra las drogas” y sigue atacando lanchas supuestamente usadas para traficar cocaína en el Caribe y el Pacífico. Decisiones peligrosas y principalmente simbólicas. 🧵

#homefront article of the week: @SamRitholtz presents an unflinching study of anti-#LGBTQ brutality in the #ColumbianCivilWar—and the tabloid coverage that shamefully promoted it & thus perpetuated #stigma. Disquieting, graphic, & sadly essential reading. doi.org/p5v9

Thrilled to Announce Pub of Special Issue @ps_polisci on Contemp & Future #LGBTQ Scholarship in Political Science in Honor of @KenSherrill2's first @APSAtweets conf paper 50 Years Ago. Great late summer beach reading @LGBTQCaucus @sexualitypolsci bit.ly/3GWBluU

Come along to the UCL Institute of the Americas for the inaugural meeting of the Latin American Research Community! A new interdisciplinary network of PhD students working on Latin American topics. More details of the event below! 👇🏻 ucl.ac.uk/americas/event…

🛤️Displacement should never mean more danger. 🏳️‍🌈While fleeing persecution, many #LGBT refugees face continued threats; on the road, at borders, and in shelters meant to protect them. 🙌It’s time to ensure safety, dignity, and rights every step of the way.

The new newsletter of the APSA section on Qualitative and Multi-Method Research is just out. Among other things, it includes a discussion on 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘮𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘛𝘪𝘮𝘦, Marcus Kreuzer's book on comparative history analysis. Free download: qmmrpublication.com/_files/ugd/7e0…