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Critical Military Studies WG at BISA
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Critical Military Studies Working Group at the British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social

https://www.bisa.ac.uk/members/working-groups/cms

Conveners: @gabicosta.bsky.social, @lauramills.bsky.social, Hannah Richards and Alice Cree
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CALL FOR PAPERS:
Please see the below CfP for what looks to be a fascinating panel for next year’s BISA conference. Do reach out to Nico and Mark if you would like to submit an abstract.
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Circulating Violence and Capital: The (Geo)Political Ecologies and Geographies of Military Technologies Military spending, production, and innovation has reached historic highs, while sites and conditions of armed violence across the globe proliferate and intensify. The development and deployment of military wares is happening in the context of – and exacerbating – rising global temperatures, ecological collapse and the devastation of lived environments at multiple sites across Palestine, Ukraine, Tigray, Yemen, Myanmar, Sudan and beyond. This panel invites contributions that trace and interrogate the production and circulation of military technologies and their position within global circuits of violence and capital. How do military hard- and software circulate? What actors, cultures, social and power relations have emerged to facilitate and profit from their circulation? What political ecologies and geographies are found along the before-, mid- and aftermaths of weapons systems? Put differently, what socioecological harms link sites of extraction, production, testing, use and disposal? What are the climate impacts of armed violence? And how are the production, circulation and profiteering from military technologies normalised and legitimated? We invite abstracts on themes such as (not exhaustive): • Tracing military supply chains and logistics • Socioecological before, mid and aftermaths of weapons production and use • Resource metabolism of military technologies • Weapons production and the green transition (e.g. integration of advanced military and lower-carbon technologies) • Studies of the normalisation and legitimation of arms production and military-industrial relations • Geopolitical ecologies of emerging military technologies (e.g. military AI and growing influence of venture capital and Big Tech) • The politics of knowledge production about weapons and military supply chains • Movements resisting the arms trade • Movements linking struggles such as for demilitarisation, collective liberation and social and ecological justice • Feminist, decolonial and abolitionist approaches to war-, weapons- and wealthmaking Please send an abstract of about 250 words to Nico Edwards (ne204@sussex.ac.uk) and Mark Griffiths (Mark.Griffiths@newcastle.ac.uk) along with your name, affiliation, career stage and location by 12pm GMT Friday 31 October 2025. The panel will be submitted to BISA’s Critical Military Studies Working Group. Convenors: Nico Edwards (University of Sussex/Newcastle University); Mark Griffiths (Newcastle University); Benjamin Neimark (Queen Mary University of London); Anna Stavrianakis (University of Sussex)
October 28, 2025 at 4:31 PM