Shabnam Holliday
@shabnamholliday.bsky.social
Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Plymouth | IR: Revolution, Gramsci, Populism, historical sociology, Global order| Iran | SEPAD Fellow | posts personal
UoP website: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shabnam-holliday
UoP website: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/shabnam-holliday
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Will you take a stand on Saturday to protect the right of everyone to coexist safely and with dignity in Exeter?
Read our full statement of solidarity: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/10...
Read our full statement of solidarity: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/10...
October 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Will you take a stand on Saturday to protect the right of everyone to coexist safely and with dignity in Exeter?
Read our full statement of solidarity: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/10...
Read our full statement of solidarity: exeter.greenparty.org.uk/news/2025/10...
My piece on the #Iran-#Israel June War in LSE Blogs, @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social “.
I explore the values of world order by juxtaposing #woman_life_freedom and Operation Rising Lion of the #Netanyahu government.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
I explore the values of world order by juxtaposing #woman_life_freedom and Operation Rising Lion of the #Netanyahu government.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
The Competition over the Values of World Order: Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement and Israel’s ‘Operation Rising Lion’ - Middle East Centre
Competing values drive conflict and narratives, with Israel and Iran appealing to a moral universe as they engage in war. Shabnam Holliday's new piece examines the values underpinning Israeli Prime Mi...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
My piece on the #Iran-#Israel June War in LSE Blogs, @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social “.
I explore the values of world order by juxtaposing #woman_life_freedom and Operation Rising Lion of the #Netanyahu government.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
I explore the values of world order by juxtaposing #woman_life_freedom and Operation Rising Lion of the #Netanyahu government.
blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
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Competing values drive conflict and narratives, as with Israel and Iran's moral claims in their war. @shabnamholliday.bsky.social's new piece examines the values underpinning Netanyahu's 'Operation Rising Lion' through the prism of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
The Competition over the Values of World Order: Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement and Israel’s ‘Operation Rising Lion’ - Middle East Centre
Competing values drive conflict and narratives, with Israel and Iran appealing to a moral universe as they engage in war. Shabnam Holliday's new piece examines the values underpinning Israeli Prime Mi...
blogs.lse.ac.uk
September 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Competing values drive conflict and narratives, as with Israel and Iran's moral claims in their war. @shabnamholliday.bsky.social's new piece examines the values underpinning Netanyahu's 'Operation Rising Lion' through the prism of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom Movement blogs.lse.ac.uk/mec/2025/09/...
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Book Launch: Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology
Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST).
Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST).
Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
June 10, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Book Launch: Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology
Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST).
Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
Interested in all things IPS? Join us for our online book launch featuring Co-Editor Ole Jacob Sending and Discussant Ingvild Bode on June 16 at 2 pm (CEST).
Details for the @dvpw.bsky.social event: www.dvpw.de/gliederung/a...
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Here's the text of the open letter protesting against the BBC's coverage of #Gaza. Robbie Gibb comes under particular scrutiny
www.scribd.com/document/883...
www.scribd.com/document/883...
BBC Open Letter | PDF | Bbc | Gaza Strip
An Open Letter to BBC Management, Written by BBC Journalists and Signed by Media Industry Professionals
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July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Here's the text of the open letter protesting against the BBC's coverage of #Gaza. Robbie Gibb comes under particular scrutiny
www.scribd.com/document/883...
www.scribd.com/document/883...
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Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook!
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Historicizing the Global
AbstractThis chapter challenges the preoccupation (“chronofetishism”) of international–political–sociological scholarship with the present. The rare studie
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook!
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Historicizing the Global
AbstractThis chapter challenges the preoccupation (“chronofetishism”) of international–political–sociological scholarship with the present. The rare studie
doi.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Delighted that my chapter 'Historicizing the Global' in the weighty Oxford Handbook of International Political Sociology is now out in both print & ebook!
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Huge thanks to the editors Stacie Goddard, @georgelawson.bsky.social , & Ole Jacob Sending for the hard work
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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A reminder in @polstudies.bsky.social of how long the #Iran - #Israel conflict has been in the making and the implications for global order. By @shabnamholliday.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus - Shabnam J Holliday, 2020
This article contends that the international is integral to populism. Thus, it calls for populism scholarship to embrace the interconnectivity between the domes...
journals.sagepub.com
June 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A reminder in @polstudies.bsky.social of how long the #Iran - #Israel conflict has been in the making and the implications for global order. By @shabnamholliday.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
There are discussions regarding how & if Iran’s regime will evolve/survive.
My article shows how the Islamic Republic reinvented itself following the largest protests it had seen at the time, 2009, & intensification in #Iran-#Israel relations under Ahmadinejad
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
My article shows how the Islamic Republic reinvented itself following the largest protests it had seen at the time, 2009, & intensification in #Iran-#Israel relations under Ahmadinejad
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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June 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
There are discussions regarding how & if Iran’s regime will evolve/survive.
My article shows how the Islamic Republic reinvented itself following the largest protests it had seen at the time, 2009, & intensification in #Iran-#Israel relations under Ahmadinejad
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
My article shows how the Islamic Republic reinvented itself following the largest protests it had seen at the time, 2009, & intensification in #Iran-#Israel relations under Ahmadinejad
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Looking for some in-depth analysis on Iran-Israel?
My article, Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus,
looks at Islamic Republic constructions of Israel under Ahmadinejad & Rouhani:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
My article, Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus,
looks at Islamic Republic constructions of Israel under Ahmadinejad & Rouhani:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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June 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Looking for some in-depth analysis on Iran-Israel?
My article, Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus,
looks at Islamic Republic constructions of Israel under Ahmadinejad & Rouhani:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
My article, Populism, the International and Methodological Nationalism: Global Order and the Iran–Israel Nexus,
looks at Islamic Republic constructions of Israel under Ahmadinejad & Rouhani:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
My article, ‘Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes’, is now in print.
It looks at #Iran- #Israel #US relations through Green Movement.
shows how sanctions were detrimental to organic democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
It looks at #Iran- #Israel #US relations through Green Movement.
shows how sanctions were detrimental to organic democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes - Shabnam J Holliday, 2025
Contributing to neo-Gramscian IR and debates regarding world order, this article puts forward Gramsci’s domination as a framework for better understanding the d...
journals.sagepub.com
June 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
My article, ‘Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regimes’, is now in print.
It looks at #Iran- #Israel #US relations through Green Movement.
shows how sanctions were detrimental to organic democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
It looks at #Iran- #Israel #US relations through Green Movement.
shows how sanctions were detrimental to organic democracy.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Our latest issue is still free to access until the end of the month, so be sure to check out fantastic articles from @chrishesketh.bsky.social, @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, & more.
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April 1, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Our latest issue is still free to access until the end of the month, so be sure to check out fantastic articles from @chrishesketh.bsky.social, @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, & more.
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Our article on Dialogue among civilisations has been published in @risjnl.bsky.social.
Wastnidge & I show how Dialogue among Civilisations is an example of moving beyond the West/non-West bifurcation in a Global IR and is itself a blurring of ‘West’ & ‘non-West’
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Wastnidge & I show how Dialogue among Civilisations is an example of moving beyond the West/non-West bifurcation in a Global IR and is itself a blurring of ‘West’ & ‘non-West’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations - Volume 51 Issue 1
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March 12, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Our article on Dialogue among civilisations has been published in @risjnl.bsky.social.
Wastnidge & I show how Dialogue among Civilisations is an example of moving beyond the West/non-West bifurcation in a Global IR and is itself a blurring of ‘West’ & ‘non-West’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Wastnidge & I show how Dialogue among Civilisations is an example of moving beyond the West/non-West bifurcation in a Global IR and is itself a blurring of ‘West’ & ‘non-West’
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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🌡️ Toxic period products: the hidden health and environmental crisis
Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Toxic period products: the hidden health and environmental crisis
Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected
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December 11, 2024 at 3:47 PM
🌡️ Toxic period products: the hidden health and environmental crisis
Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
Chemicals in period products pose health and environmental risks, yet UK regulations lag, leaving consumers uninformed and unprotected
By Natalie Bennett
@nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social
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November 29, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032321718817476
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November 13, 2024 at 6:50 AM
My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7
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November 10, 2024 at 9:57 AM
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I’m looking forward to presenting on #Iran’s role in #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine at MESA next week.
I’ll be part of Iran 1400 Project’s panel (iran1400.org), Vexing questions about the interplay of Iran’s regional and domestic politics.
mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024...
I’ll be part of Iran 1400 Project’s panel (iran1400.org), Vexing questions about the interplay of Iran’s regional and domestic politics.
mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024...
mesana.org
November 9, 2024 at 7:56 AM
I’m looking forward to presenting on #Iran’s role in #Russia’s invasion of #Ukraine at MESA next week.
I’ll be part of Iran 1400 Project’s panel (iran1400.org), Vexing questions about the interplay of Iran’s regional and domestic politics.
mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024...
I’ll be part of Iran 1400 Project’s panel (iran1400.org), Vexing questions about the interplay of Iran’s regional and domestic politics.
mesana.org/pdf/MESA2024...
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Ahead of Tuesday’s election I wrote a piece on sectarianism in the US informed by work done by SEPAD on the Middle East. It highlights some worrying trends. t.co/29RPASpUOu
https://theconversation.com/political-sectarianism-is-fracturing-america-242327
t.co
November 3, 2024 at 3:41 AM
Ahead of Tuesday’s election I wrote a piece on sectarianism in the US informed by work done by SEPAD on the Middle East. It highlights some worrying trends. t.co/29RPASpUOu
My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7
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April 16, 2024 at 4:34 PM
My article in Political Studies on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s perceptions of #Israel gives some historical context to current events and how it relates to world order: ow.ly/qKgo30nAIn7
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A very positive review of Original Sin! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social stratheia.com/book-review-...
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
Book Review- Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space - Stratheia
Dr Bowen looks beyond the Cold War, examining the contemporary relevance of space in conventional warfare and counterinsurgency.
stratheia.com
April 16, 2024 at 3:08 PM
A very positive review of Original Sin! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social stratheia.com/book-review-...
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
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A book worth checking out if you have an interest in space security, now with review for more info!
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A very positive review of Original Sin! @hurstpublishers.bsky.social stratheia.com/book-review-...
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
"a seminal work... interweaving historical analysis with contemporary geopolitical discourse and making it accessible to a broader space-minded audience."
Book Review- Original Sin: Power, Technology and War in Outer Space - Stratheia
Dr Bowen looks beyond the Cold War, examining the contemporary relevance of space in conventional warfare and counterinsurgency.
stratheia.com
April 16, 2024 at 3:26 PM
A book worth checking out if you have an interest in space security, now with review for more info!
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@sainsburys.bsky.social i did the @greenpeaceeu.bsky.social #thebigplasticcount. 52% of my of my plastic is soft, much of that comes from my Sainsbury’s delivery. Is it necessary is it recyclable?
March 17, 2024 at 10:33 PM
@sainsburys.bsky.social i did the @greenpeaceeu.bsky.social #thebigplasticcount. 52% of my of my plastic is soft, much of that comes from my Sainsbury’s delivery. Is it necessary is it recyclable?
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Our new article co-written with Edward Wastnidge on Global IR and how Iran’s complex history and Dialogue among Civilisations problematise the west/non-west bifurcation @risjnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations | Review...
Towards a post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2023 at 1:29 PM
Our new article co-written with Edward Wastnidge on Global IR and how Iran’s complex history and Dialogue among Civilisations problematise the west/non-west bifurcation @risjnl.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Thinking about the idea of a western liberal world order and the extent to which it is built on consensus: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Beyond hegemony, world order as domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the nuclear sanctions regime...
Contributing to neo-Gramscian IR and debates regarding world order, this article puts forward Gramsci’s domination as a framework for better understanding the d...
journals.sagepub.com
December 21, 2023 at 9:12 AM
Thinking about the idea of a western liberal world order and the extent to which it is built on consensus: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....