Nilanjana Premaratna
@npremaratna.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Politics. Researches arts, culture, peacebuilding with a focus on Sri Lanka, South and SE Asia; interested in creative practice and methods. She/her/hers
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Are you interested in (illiberal) peacebuilding, resistance, or struggles between competing visions of peace? Read this new article written with @malinakebo.bsky.social, @npremaratna.bsky.social & Lars Waldorf 😃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Resistance to illiberal peacebuilding: towards a new research agenda
In recent years, liberal peacebuilding has been increasingly displaced by illiberal peacebuilding – illiberal norms and practices that prioritise regime control, stability, and order through econom...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Are you interested in (illiberal) peacebuilding, resistance, or struggles between competing visions of peace? Read this new article written with @malinakebo.bsky.social, @npremaratna.bsky.social & Lars Waldorf 😃
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...
#BISA2025 keynote: Professor Roland Bleiker - Seeing and sensing world politics
YouTube video by MyBISA
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July 30, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Here a video of my keynote at the recent 50th Anniversary #BISA2025 conference in Belfast. I am more writer than speaker, so this was a challenge. But I am grateful for the invitation and glad I did it for - and with - Emma Hutchison. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBWg...
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🌍 Applications open: Funded International Visiting Research Fellowships (2025–2026)
As part of our commitment to global collaboration, we invite scholars outside the UK to build or expand research ties with our staff and research clusters.
📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
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As part of our commitment to global collaboration, we invite scholars outside the UK to build or expand research ties with our staff and research clusters.
📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
🔗 bit.ly/internationa...
July 3, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🌍 Applications open: Funded International Visiting Research Fellowships (2025–2026)
As part of our commitment to global collaboration, we invite scholars outside the UK to build or expand research ties with our staff and research clusters.
📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
🔗 bit.ly/internationa...
As part of our commitment to global collaboration, we invite scholars outside the UK to build or expand research ties with our staff and research clusters.
📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
🔗 bit.ly/internationa...
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JOB! Closing date TODAY for a Grade 7 fixed-term position at Liverpool on Politics and Communication! Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 at University of Liverpool
Discover Lecturer in Media and Politics - Grade 7 jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
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June 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
JOB! Closing date TODAY for a Grade 7 fixed-term position at Liverpool on Politics and Communication! Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNI734/l...
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
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Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
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Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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May 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
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Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf wins world’s top photo prize at this year’s World Press Photo competition.
— in pictures aje.io/tjmgxz
— in pictures aje.io/tjmgxz
April 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Palestinian photographer Samar Abu Elouf wins world’s top photo prize at this year’s World Press Photo competition.
— in pictures aje.io/tjmgxz
— in pictures aje.io/tjmgxz
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Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
Don't Take the Bait — Kristi Noem and Fascism's Sadistic Eroticization of Power
The image above is an altered detail from a video posted on X by Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, along with a series of still photographs from her tour of the El Salvador prison to which T...
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March 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Thanks to @religiondispatches.bsky.social for republishing my essay on the fascist eroticization of power in Kristi Noem’s prison video. religiondispatches.org/dont-take-th...
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We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
March 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We are pleased to mark 20 years since our @mybisa.bsky.social working groups emerged. Thanks to @livunipol.bsky.social at @liverpooluni.bsky.social for welcoming us to Liverpool for a full-day workshop.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
The workshop features two panels, a working group convenors roundtable and the exhibition.
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NEW WORKSHOPS🚨
Announcing the first BISA-ISA joint workshops: "Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities" hosted by @nclpolitics.bsky.social (10-12 Oct)
Proposal deadline 28 Feb
For details & to submit: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/inaugur...
Announcing the first BISA-ISA joint workshops: "Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities" hosted by @nclpolitics.bsky.social (10-12 Oct)
Proposal deadline 28 Feb
For details & to submit: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/inaugur...
February 12, 2025 at 10:12 AM
NEW WORKSHOPS🚨
Announcing the first BISA-ISA joint workshops: "Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities" hosted by @nclpolitics.bsky.social (10-12 Oct)
Proposal deadline 28 Feb
For details & to submit: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/inaugur...
Announcing the first BISA-ISA joint workshops: "Transforming the International: Scholarship and Solidarity in a World of Inequalities" hosted by @nclpolitics.bsky.social (10-12 Oct)
Proposal deadline 28 Feb
For details & to submit: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/inaugur...
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Hello friends! What did you love reading this year?
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
December 19, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Hello friends! What did you love reading this year?
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...).
Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.
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⚡️New article on how to study narratives in IR ⚡️This article by @ksailormoon.bsky.social, Stefan Groth and myself might be helpful in showing how narrative analysis can be applied to questions within IR. Interesting for all practice, visuality and discourse scholars!!
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Studying Narratives in International Relations
Abstract. Many scholars in international relations (IR) share an interest in narratives. With few, notable exceptions, IR scholars seem to lack clear metho
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January 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
⚡️New article on how to study narratives in IR ⚡️This article by @ksailormoon.bsky.social, Stefan Groth and myself might be helpful in showing how narrative analysis can be applied to questions within IR. Interesting for all practice, visuality and discourse scholars!!
academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...
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October 26, 2023 at 6:13 PM