Dr Sam Ritholtz

Fellow of All Souls College; DPhil @RefugeeStudies; Research queer experiences of conflict & displacement, new book:

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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 https://t.co/x39tXnrF77

[Graeme Reid @IESOGI]

Humanitarian systems are designed to protect the most vulnerable. But what happens when some people remain invisible within those systems?

[Dr. Jamie J. Hagen 🍉 @Jamiejhagen]

Do you research or work in civil society on issues related to queer justice, peace or security? Join me & @SamRitholtz at @OfficialUoM, 12 & 13 Oct., 2026 for the Security Peace & Justice for Queer Lives in Conflict conference.
Express your interest! https://t.co/PJ4vMDxm58

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

@llschenoni Felicitaciones!

[Annette Idler @AnnetteIdler]

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! https://t.co/OYqVm0Jga6

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

And this book will be so good!!!

[Will Freeman @WillGFreeman]

This is a core theme of the book I'm writing.

Latin America has long had liberal democratic laws, but real power has often resided elsewhere, with what I call 'parallel powers.'

Landowners' enforcers, paramilitaries, or today, organized crime groups, tolerated, bargained...

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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 https://t.co/x39tXnrF77

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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: https://t.co/jDgFy7k5VS

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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

https://t.co/fm10nkvtOX

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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.

[Dr Sam Ritholtz @SamRitholtz]

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

[Michael Weintraub @miweintraub83]

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. 🧵

[Home Front Studies @HomeFrontSt]

#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. https://t.co/MWQslEzENe

[Scott Nicholas Siegel @snsiegel76]

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 https://t.co/YKUUpVHTPz