João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Zion Suzuki - a Black-Japanese goalkeeper - makes the national soccer team of Japan more diverse than most International Relations, and Criminology departments at UK HEIs. 063
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Licensing costs paid to El Mundo, El País and Getty Images were covered by the University of the West of England (Bristol, England/U.K.)’s School of Social Sciences and its Social and Public Policy Research Group (SPPRG). 🧵 5/5 000
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026"Contingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press" forms a @JournalREP.bsky.social's Special Issue titled "Who's the EU for?" - edited by @NawalAbu72.bsky.social, Anna Agathangelou and Christian Kaunert. 🧵 4/5doi.orgContingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press | Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics | Cambridge CoreContingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press 100
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 06/06/2026[...] the Russo-Ukrainian War’s refugees were portrayed as “Oriental European Others” whose movement was compelled yet “civilized” and whose whitened visibility rendered them absorbable by the “Western European Us”, thereby co-constructing distinctive “Contingent Safe Waters”. 🧵 3/5 100
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 04/06/2026"Contingent Safe Waters: Aesthetic Dissensus Between Metaphor and the Whitening of the Russo-Ukrainian War’s Refugees in the Spanish Press" forms a @JournalREP.bsky.social's Special Issue titled "Who's the EU for?" - edited by @NawalAbu72.bsky.social, Anna Agathangelou and Christian Kaunert. 🧵 4/5 000
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026[...] Visually and textually, both news outlets disrupted those meanings through non-Orientalist, Off-White re-racializing lenses. As a result, [...]. 🧵 2/5elmundo.esEuropa recibe a los hijos y las mujeres de UcraniaLa señora Alexandra, una mujer pequeña pero fuerte que ya cumplió los 60 años, ha sido capaz de caminar 15 kilómetros tirando de una gran mochila a la espalda y de dos de sus... 100
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 03/06/2026🚨 Publication Alert 🚨 - Please 💬🔄❤️! In "Contingent Safe Waters", Dr. @MTroteM.bsky.social and I demonstrate that El Mundo and El País textually used Water Metaphors conventionally linked to danger (e.g., Avalanche) to describe the movement of Russo-Ukrainian War's refugees. However, [...]. 🧵 1/5 110
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Our workshop will occur at the Jagiellonian University (Kraków, 🇵🇱 Poland) between July 02-04, 2025. Check our CfP and submit your proposal by February 11, 2025: EISA-net.org/Abstract-Sub... 🧵 2/2 000
João Raphael da Silva @dasilvajr.bsky.social · 06/02/2025📣 CfP 🚨 In @EuropeanISA.bsky.social's 12th European Workshops in International Studies, Professor Rachel Monaghan (Coventry University) and I will host a workshop titled "The Past, Present and Future of the Radical Environmental and Animal Rights Movement". 🧵 1/2 133
