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Amoz JY Hor
@amozhor.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Politics at Centre College.

Studies: Race & International Order; Emotions; Humanitarianism; Comp Racialization; Theory.

Site: https://amozhor.weebly.com
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We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)
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Palestinians say so-called 'yellow line' impossible to discern, as Israeli troops in Gaza continue to kill.
Israel kills Palestinian for nearing Gaza ‘yellow line’, bombs north
Palestinians say so-called 'yellow line' impossible to discern, as Israeli troops in Gaza continue to kill.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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This concentration camp was opened at Fort Bliss, the site of a former Japanese internment camp.

It also cost over $1B in private contracts to build in a place meant to hold 1000 people. So, basically it’s a fascist grift.
shorturl.at/qhuSc
November 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Dear search committees,
October 22, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Dear search committees and HR, while we should be absolutely worried about this, please do not take this as fact and aniticipatorily screen out international candidates. That would only make it a self-fulfilling prophecy. Check with your legal counsel.
new white house FAQ, which implies the $100k fee applies to cap-exempt orgs. what this means for universities:

1) if you hire a non-US citizen for a TT job, you have to pay the fee

2) if someone with an H1B visa on a TT job tries to change jobs, they also pay

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
H-1B FAQ
On Friday, September 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation, "Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers," that took an
www.whitehouse.gov
September 21, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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#OpenAccess from @risjnl.bsky.social -

World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige - cup.org/44fCIh0

- @elifkalay.bsky.social

#FirstView
July 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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Publication day! My article "World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige" is now available online, and it is also part of the special issue I am co-editing with Jelena Subotic (jelenasubotic@bsky.social) on global heritage politics. 1/
July 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The season of Western multilateral summitry (G7, NATO) may be over, but the diplomatic show must go on.
In this @ejir.bsky.social piece, I argue that summitry is a performance producing what I call the "social international," or the intl system of state persons

journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
July 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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It's publication day!

Take a look if you are curious about the narrative modes through which states pursue world heritage recognition
#OpenAccess -

Confirming, suturing and transforming international recognition: the case of world heritage - cup.org/4de49e6

- @elifkalay.bsky.social

#FirstView
May 8, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Wonderful wake up to a new Special Collection of @risjnl.bsky.social honoring Emma’s work on emotions and the influence it had on international relations scholarship. Big thanks to the editorial team. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
In Memoriam: Emma Hutchinson
In Memoriam: Emma Hutchinson
www.cambridge.org
January 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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So happy to have this piece in the volume! Thanks to @amozhor.bsky.social and @jittipm.bsky.social for the contribution!
We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)
January 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Here it is: a tribute to Emma Hutchison, my amazing wife and research collaborator. I hope it does justice to the brilliant scholar and the remarkable person she was. Sorry it took me a while after Emma’s passing to gather enough strength to honour her. www.rolandbleiker.com/tribute-to-e...
January 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
We found it surprising at how little was written on Emotions and Global Governance, so @jittipm.bsky.social and I wrote this essay for the Oxford Handbook on Emotions and IR (edited by @simonkoschut.bsky.social & @andrewagross.bsky.social) :)
January 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...
Yolande Bouka
#QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation
www.queensu.ca
November 26, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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Happy to share that my essay “The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition” is now out in Ethics & International Affairs. In it I argue that racialisation in the international order means we need to take seriously global calls for abolition. doi.org/10.1017/S089...
The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition | Ethics & International Affairs | Cambridge Core
The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition - Volume 38 Issue 2
doi.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:30 PM
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My article on the political economy of anti-Chinese racism is out in the latest issue of the American Political Science Review (open access).

The baton of Sinophobia that awaits the next US administration has a longer and more ambivalent history in British colonial capitalism in Southeast Asia. 👇
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
From “Chinese Colonist” to “Yellow Peril”: Capitalist Racialization in the British Empire - Volume 118 Issue 4
www.cambridge.org
November 18, 2024 at 2:18 PM
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Thanks everyone for the generous interest in this starter pack. Very glad it's been useful 🙏. It's already reached its limit of 150 people (non-dormant accounts only) so I can't add more people to this one. But there are some other great starter packs with overlapping themes, linked below 🧵
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
November 17, 2024 at 1:05 PM
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Reasons why our struggles in Latin America are deeply entangled with Palestine's liberation/decolonization.

Israel’s role in Indigenous/campesino genocide in Guatemala
—technologies of violence imported from Israel are still used to repress the movements in Guatemala.🧵1/
November 16, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Centre College is looking to hire a tenure-track Americanist (and for me, gaining a colleague) 🙂

apply.interfolio.com/152336

If you know any cool Americanists, pls share with them!
August 27, 2024 at 12:00 PM
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🚨New Article🚨

From our special issue The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order: 'Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha' by Oumar Ba

Read OPEN ACCESS here: academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha
Abstract. In adopting the Malabo Protocol and creating the African Court of Justice and Human Rights, the African Union has established the first ever regional
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2023 at 2:47 PM
Hello, we're looking to hire a (cool) Americanist at Centre College. I'm not on the search committee but happy to chat with people about the college and the job :)

If you know a cool Americanist, please help share this with them!
September 22, 2023 at 2:40 PM
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The program is out for ISA–Northeast, the best conference in all the land. I'm stoked to be on a Saturday panel with good comrades @amozhor.bsky.social, Michael Murphy, and friends yet to be met while presenting part of my book manuscript.
September 14, 2023 at 7:40 PM