Daniela Lai
@danielalai.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR. Working on some combination of feminist IPE, transitions, steel, socioeconomic/post-war justice. Occasionally research methods. My views, etc... She/her/hers
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Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack.
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
November 7, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Hey peeps. I’ve started a Substack.
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
I’ll be writing about politics and my research (with the odd piece on football)
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November 5, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027!
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
October 31, 2025 at 6:00 AM
📣 The Joint Management Committee of the ECPR Standing Group on International Relations and EISA are looking for a new editorial team to take over the running of ejir.bsky.social from 1 January 2027!
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
🔗 Find the complete Call for Editors document here: buff.ly/B4O8NdN
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OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai:
#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
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#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
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October 28, 2025 at 5:03 PM
OnlineFirst - "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" by Daniela Lai:
#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
#steel #disarticulations #greentransition #steelmaking #politicaleconomy
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
October 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
📢 Roundtable: Dayton Peace Agreement – 30 Years On
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
Join leading experts to discuss lessons learned since 1995.
🗓 19 Nov | 🕒 3–5 PM
📍 LJMU, John Foster Building, Room G.01, Liverpool
🔗 Register via eventbrite.com/e/dayton-peace…
Speakers from Oxford, York, LSE & Liverpool Unis
Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A.
This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC!
doi.org/10.1177/0308...
This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC!
doi.org/10.1177/0308...
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October 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Very happy to share that my article "Infinitely recyclable? Scraps and disarticulations in the steelmaking green transition" was just published in Environment and Planning A.
This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC!
doi.org/10.1177/0308...
This is truly made in @europeanisa.bsky.social, written in 2024 for EWIS and then revised for PEC!
doi.org/10.1177/0308...
Diolch 🏴🙌
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nation.cymru/opinion/refo...
Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales
Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...
nation.cymru
October 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Diolch 🏴🙌
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nation.cymru/opinion/refo...
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🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
www.royalholloway.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
🚨Hiring a fully funded (3.5 years) PhD for the @ldnsocmedobs.bsky.social to research social media and politics. Candidates should have quantitative/computational skills and/or be interested in content curation/moderation. UK home candidates only unfortunately. www.royalholloway.ac.uk/media/hquftp...
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Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...
September 29, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Making War Safe for Capitalism: The World Bank, IMF, and the Conflict in Ukraine has finally been released! Please ask your local or university library to get it! You can also use my author code (BUP50) if you'd really like to get it epub or hard-copy
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...
bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/making-war-s...
Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!
📣 The call for workshop proposals for #EWIS2026 in Izmir is now open!
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
🗓️ Deadline: 24 November 2025
🔗 More info here: buff.ly/HG9Jyqu
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Join us in Izmir next July for #EWIS2026!
Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25
And my role as the President of the EISA has come to an end. Happy to pass it to Daniela Lai @danielalai.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Thank you Beste! Very happy to start my term as President of the @europeanisa.bsky.social here at #EISAPEC25
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Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence
Steelmaking has come back to the forefront of discussions around war, in the context of the global political and economic reconfigurations brought about by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite ...
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July 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence, by @danielalai.bsky.social
Very happy to have this article out with RIPE:
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com
July 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Very happy to have this article out with RIPE:
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Steel mills, markets and war: mapping gendered circuits of violence www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism
July 4, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Nice to have landed back in the UK as it confirms its sure and steady decline into authoritarianism
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Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies
July 2, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Greetings from #EWIS2025 where @europeanisa.bsky.social president @besteisleyen.bsky.social gives an overview of the grants EISA has been able to give out as part of our redistributive policies
The original title of this article, straight out of 2003, was that Israel's attack has a "real chance of bringing about regime change" in Iran. With not a hint of criticism.
How the dismantling of Iran’s regional proxies paved way for Israel’s attack
Netanyahu has been systematically and successfully weakening his regional foes, now Tehran is in the crosshairs
www.theguardian.com
June 15, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The original title of this article, straight out of 2003, was that Israel's attack has a "real chance of bringing about regime change" in Iran. With not a hint of criticism.
EISA statement on attacks to higher education funding across Europe
📣 The EISA Governing Board has issued a statement regarding attacks to higher education funding
🔗 Read the full statement here: bit.ly/43Gh8C9
🔗 Read the full statement here: bit.ly/43Gh8C9
June 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
EISA statement on attacks to higher education funding across Europe
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🎉 The full programme for #EWIS2025 is now available on our website: bit.ly/3TcCKjh
🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...
🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...
June 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
🎉 The full programme for #EWIS2025 is now available on our website: bit.ly/3TcCKjh
🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...
🇵🇱 We look forward to seeing many of you in Krakow next month...
"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters
BREAKING: A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel, Israel's Foreign Ministry says.
A Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel
Israel’s Foreign Ministry says a Gaza-bound aid boat carrying Greta Thunberg and other activists has been diverted to Israel.
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June 9, 2025 at 6:30 AM
"diverted" is when the 75 bus goes through an alternative route due to roadworks, not when a boat is seized in international waters
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Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
April 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Heartened to see that close to 900 fellow academics and educators have already signed our letter in support of trans rights, trans wellbeing & trans inclusion, and against essentialist, anti-scientific, racialised & regressive views of womanhood. Please do read, share & sign! tinyurl.com/mud7va29
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Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/
April 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Over the last few months, I've been working with colleagues in BiH and @ecodiya.bsky.social on updating the #LandMatrix database on land deals in BiH. We also wrote a small report, now published! You can check out the database here: landmatrix.org/map/
Took me a while to find time to read this, but I'm glad I did www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Took me a while to find time to read this, but I'm glad I did www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
My thoughts on the government intervention to save British Steel
💡New! The Government’s argument for stepping in to save Scunthorpe’s British Steel leaned heavily was about economic security. But @danielalai.bsky.social argues too much focus on security obstructs the many other challenges that buttressing steelmaking poses.
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April 24, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My thoughts on the government intervention to save British Steel
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Many @europeanisa.bsky.social colleagues have received phishing emails from me.
Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.
Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.
April 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Many @europeanisa.bsky.social colleagues have received phishing emails from me.
Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.
Do not reply to these emails, delete them and report as spam.