CritMil Studies

T&F journal and community conceptualising, critiquing and challenging orthodoxies on military institutions, power, culture and practices. RTs not endorsements.

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Postdoctoral job opportunity! https://t.co/n2LADu5eSf

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Call for Abstracts! Critical Military Studies Section at EISA PEC 2026, Lisbon, 1-4 September: https://t.co/fNEfBXz9yI

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EISA PEC25 Panel CfP: War Ontology and Ethics - https://t.co/CsnaZXOO7O

[Simon Peplow @simpep]

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

https://t.co/xVDnlVROIS

[Sanna Strand @sannastrand]

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.

[David R. Saunders @davidsaundershk]

Forgot to post the link...
https://t.co/obBKD9a6EW

[David R. Saunders @davidsaundershk]

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

[David R. Saunders @davidsaundershk]

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

[Philip Luke Johnson @phillegitimate]

🛑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 🧵 👇

[Jamie Johnson @jamcjo]

One for the @CritMilStudies folks out there.

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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

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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

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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!

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Do check out this excellent piece from 2021!

[Weronika Grzebalska @WeronikaZuzanna]

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.🧵⬇️

[Transforming Military Cultures Network @TMCultures]

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

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CfP: Critical Perspectives on NATO workshop - Newcastle University (UK) - 25 - 26 May 2023 - https://t.co/XYw3SMNGKg

[Dr Laura Mills @millslaurajayne]

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

[Dr Laura Mills @millslaurajayne]

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.

[Dr Laura Mills @millslaurajayne]

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