T&F journal and community conceptualising, critiquing and challenging orthodoxies on military institutions, power, culture and practices. RTs not endorsements.
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.
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
🛑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: https://t.co/SHV8IByTl9
Summary 🧵 👇
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: https://t.co/HIsHF2eRU9
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: https://t.co/uJSmmr8aRG
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 (https://t.co/muYRTqRpCX) on 11 Sept 2023, 12.30-1400 UK time!
This article on the #regendering of contemporary 🇵🇱 #paramilitary organizing came out in @CritMilStudies in 2021. Based on field research with paramilitary CSOs, I explored the silent gendered transformation of the sector that has escaped scholarly and media attention.🧵⬇️
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