Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
Writes about the politics of images & emotions across conflict, security, resistance, humanitarianism. Prof of International Relations UQ. Runs @visualpolitics.bsky.social. https://www.rolandbleiker.com
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Roland Bleiker
@bleiker.bsky.social
· Jan 6
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...
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
Available to Watch: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker
Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).
www.rolandbleiker.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Cait Hamilton discuss their fascinating and unusual new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. www.rolandbleiker.com/news/https/w...
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NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
NEW ISSUE from @risjnl.bsky.social -
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
Review of International Studies - Volume 51 - Issue 5 - https://cup.org/43fcXN1
On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Icon, Distributed: The Spectral Visual Politics of News Photography - Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson, 2025
Photographic icons provide broad audiences with a stable resource for public discourse and a sense of continuity. However, changes to our media landscape, most ...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:51 AM
On the role of icons in news media: Cormac Opdebeeck-Wilson’s insightful new essay open access in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Here a blog that summarises my chapter in Andrew Carrr’s book in memory of Brendan Sargeant, one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers. I use my previous visual autoethnography of Korean security to engage Sargeant’s concept of the strategic imagination. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/aesthet...
Aesthetic Imagination and Security Policy — Roland Bleiker
By Roland Bleiker
www.rolandbleiker.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Here a blog that summarises my chapter in Andrew Carrr’s book in memory of Brendan Sargeant, one of Australia’s leading strategic thinkers. I use my previous visual autoethnography of Korean security to engage Sargeant’s concept of the strategic imagination. www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/aesthet...
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🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots
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November 10, 2025 at 4:22 AM
🎆 NEW OA ARTICLE ALERT 🎆
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
'Populism, visual technologies, and the self-mediation of ‘the people’ from the 2002 Venezuelan coup to the 2021 US Capitol riots' in @risjnl.bsky.social
How do populist publics visually represent themselves & how have shifts in visual technologies altered this process?
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Please join us for the first Annual Emma Hutchison Memorial Lecture:
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
Michael Barnett (GWU) on Mobilising Compassion.
Comments by Bina D’Costa (ANU) and Fiona Terry (ICRC).
4 Dec 2025 4.30-5.45pm followed by reception.
All welcome. More info & RSVP here: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/emma-hu...
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My article “Visualising the COVID-19 Pandemic through Tropes: An Autoethnographic and Critical Perspective” is finally out in the @cambridgecria.bsky.social
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Visualising the COVID-19 pandemic through tropes: an autoethnographic and critical perspective
The article explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified a narrative of uncertainty, perpetuating existing social hierarchies related to gender and racial discrimination. Using a critical vis...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:53 AM
My article “Visualising the COVID-19 Pandemic through Tropes: An Autoethnographic and Critical Perspective” is finally out in the @cambridgecria.bsky.social
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Upcoming Event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton on Art and Human Rights — Roland Bleiker
Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton join us online to discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation (Rowman and Littlefield 2025).
www.rolandbleiker.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Eliza Garnsey and Caitlin Hamilton discuss their new book Creating Justice: Human Rights and Art in Conversation. Wed 5 Nov 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Details & Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
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Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo put together a fantastic Editor's Collection for RIS on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Resolution 1325 was passed 25 years ago and these articles reflect on where we came from, and what is still missing ⤵️
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October 23, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Dr. Katrina Lee-Koo put together a fantastic Editor's Collection for RIS on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Resolution 1325 was passed 25 years ago and these articles reflect on where we came from, and what is still missing ⤵️
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Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.
October 24, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Huge congratulations to Haneol Mun on a fantastic Ph.D. project presentation (SOI) today for a great thesis on The Political Power of Cinema in East Asia. Thanks to readers Nicole George, @minranliu.bsky.social and Anais Hull and chair Andrew Phillips.
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
October 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Available to watch: our most recent @visualpolitics.bsky.social Program event with Marguerite La Caze, Professor of Philosophy at UQ, who discusses her new book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP 2024). Chaired by Cormac Opdebeeck Wilson. www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
October 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Please join us in person or online for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event: Prof Marguerite La Caze (Philosophy UQ) discusses her book Film and Everyday Resistance (Northwestern UP). Wed 8 Oct, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
September 21, 2025 at 9:19 AM
A three-step guide to creating political villains: an intriguing new open-access visual essay in @viscomjournal.bsky.social by Maximillian Guarini - who we were lucky to host as visitor at @visualpolitics.bsky.social a couple of years ago. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.
September 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
First talk of my trip - at the Université de Montréal - out of the way. Thanks to Vincent Pouliot for the invitation and to everyone who came along. If there are colleagues in town who would like to meet up, pease get in touch. I am here for a couple more days.
“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?”
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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September 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
“[How] can artistic practices enable us to visualize the legacies of conflict and visions for peace beyond established conventions?”
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Maria-Adriana Deiana & Heidi Riely (@hidrx2.bsky.social) explore this in a new article in @millennjournal.bsky.social. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
If you are in Brisbane, come join us for the inaugural professorial lecture by my wonderful colleague Andrew Phillips. Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? Wed, 17 Sep, 5pm - 7pm. All welcome, but need to register here: events.humanitix.com/who-killed-t...
Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next?
This event offers a compelling exploration of the global forces shaping our future—and why they matter for Australia, the Indo-Pacific, and the world.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:04 AM
If you are in Brisbane, come join us for the inaugural professorial lecture by my wonderful colleague Andrew Phillips. Who killed the Liberal International Order and what comes next? Wed, 17 Sep, 5pm - 7pm. All welcome, but need to register here: events.humanitix.com/who-killed-t...
Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
September 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Honoured to discuss “The Seductive Power of Grand Narratives” as part of this forum on Oliver Richmond’s ambitious and important @oxfordunipress.bsky.social book on The Evolution of the International Peace Architecture. Open-access in @coco-journal.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
September 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Available to watch: yesterday’s @visualpolitics.bsky.social event with Simon Philpott and William Clapton discussing their pioneering work on popular culture and world politics (including Will’s new @routledgebooks.bsky.social) www.rolandbleiker.com/past-events/...
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My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."
Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
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Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Grade 1
Company Description: Every institution values excellence. What matters most is why.
Griffith was created to be a different type of university. You’ll find we’re about leading research, academic excel...
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September 1, 2025 at 11:11 PM
My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies."
Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
Great project ✔️
Awesome supervisor ✔️
Excellent department ✔️
Lovely City ✔️
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...
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🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) at Cardiff University
Apply now for the Lecturers in Politics and International Relations (Teaching & Research) role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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September 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🎉 3 (grade 7) Lecturer positions open Cardiff University in:
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
🌎 Non-western (espc non US) Foreign Policy/War/Security Studies
📝 Political theory inc history of political thought
📚 History & theory of colonialism & its legacies in politics & IR
Apply here 👉
Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event:
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
September 1, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Join us for our next @visualpolitics.bsky.social event:
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
Simon Philpott & William Clapton discuss their pioneering research on popular culture & global politics.
Wed 3 Sept 5-6pm BNE time (UTC+10).
In person: 39a (501). Zoom rego here: www.eventbrite.com.au/e/uq-visual-...
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Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
Editor's Selection: Theory/Ideology with Benjamin Martill - Review of International Studies – The podcast
Creating conversations across articles, identifying linkages, bringing together articles that speak to similar topics is the purpose of our editor's selections. In this episode, Dr Benjamin Martill,…
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August 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Check out our @risjnl.bsky.social podcast: a must listen! 🎙️
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
@sebkaempf.bsky.social
looks at the most pressing issues of our time and reflects on the latest IR developments 🌟
ft guests: @sarahcdunstan.bsky.social @drbeezee.bsky.social @naomukoyama.bsky.social & more
Find it here 👉
Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
August 20, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Hello fellow educators and listeners,
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
August 12, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Hello fellow educators and listeners,
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
What topics would you like us to cover in our new podcast season? We are starting our planning for the next rounds of recordings and would like to hear from you. Any suggestions, any particular topics you'd like us to dive into? Please let us know ☺️
Al and Seb
Here a new blog about my old home Panmunjom and the intriguing links between militarisation and biodiversity: a review of Eleana Kim’s insightful book Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (Duke 2022). www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/inside-...
Militarisation and Biodiversity: Ecological Politics in the Korean DMZ — Roland Bleiker
By Roland Bleiker
www.rolandbleiker.com
August 12, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Here a new blog about my old home Panmunjom and the intriguing links between militarisation and biodiversity: a review of Eleana Kim’s insightful book Making Peace with Nature: Ecological Encounters Along the Korean DMZ (Duke 2022). www.rolandbleiker.com/blog/inside-...