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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush

@ferdoush.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Geography, @Lborouniversity.bsky.social, author of Sovereign Atonement, #politicalgeography, #borders, #state, #sovereignty, #citizenship, #migration, #refugees, #Finland, #Bangladesh, #UK

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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
'How warfare has been ‘gamified’ in Ukraine' - @uk.theconversation.com piece written by @ferdoush.bsky.social and @sarah-mills.bsky.social theconversation.com/how-warfare-... #gamification
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How warfare has been ‘gamified’ in Ukraine
Ukraine’s government says its system of rewarding points to troops for successful strikes is ‘delivering results’.
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Jussi P. Laine @jpluef.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Borders Through Acts of Motion now published. With @ferdoush.bsky.social, we argue that borders emerge from motion. From the entangled movements of humans, environments, infrastructures, and viral/material forces. @absborders.bsky.social @big-lab.bsky.social #border doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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Borders Through Acts of Motion: Towards a Posthumanist Theorization
Abstract. This article advances a posthumanist framework for understanding borders through the concept of acts of motion—the reflexive processes through wh
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Interested in a #PhD around the issues of #borders, #migration, #state, and #sovereignty? I am recruiting a fully funded PhD student to be based in @lborogeog.bsky.social at the Midlands campus of @lborouniversity.bsky.social for my @leverhulme.ac.uk funded project #GeoEx. Details below
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Geographies of example: Finding the example within the exception and beyond (GeoEx) | Postgraduate study | Loughborough University
The Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship to start in October 2026.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Extremely honored and happy to have it. Looking forward to starting the project! More to follow …
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Geography and Environment at Loughborough University @lborogeog.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Many congratulations to @ferdoush.bsky.social on securing a @leverhulme.ac.uk Research Leadership Award! 🎉 The project will seek to establish why and how some human lives are regarded as expendable while others are treated with exemplary care ⬇️ www.lboro.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Researchers to look at why some human lives are valued as more important than others
Researchers at Loughborough University are preparing to launch a new project which aims to answer the question - why and how are some human lives regarded as expendable, while others are deemed exempl...
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Thanks, of course, to @leverhulme.ac.uk and to colleagues within and beyond @lborogeog.bsky.social and @lborouniversity.bsky.social, especially @sarah-mills.bsky.social , @sophiecranston.bsky.social, @drjwharrison.bsky.social, @reecejones.bsky.social and Natalie Koch for their support.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The project will allow me to build my own team of postdoctoral and doctoral researchers and is valued at up to £1 million. More to follow soon.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
It is a four-year project comparing Bangladesh, Finland, and the UK as cases and asks one big question: why and how are some human lives regarded as expendable, while others are not only treated as worth protecting but also of exemplary treatment?
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
What a way to finish off the year! I am delighted and privileged to share that I have accepted a Leverhulme Research Leadership Award for my project titled “Geographies of Example: Finding the example within the exception and beyond” (GeoEx).
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This is part of a #SpecialIssue consisting six other papers offering a comparative discussion of #eight countries in #Europe Check out here www.tandfonline.com/action/doSea...
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
New #openaccess paper out in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies where we compare the experience & governance of #EU #TemporaryProtectionDirective in #Finland & #Sweden www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Unpacking the temporary protection of displaced people from Ukraine within the tightening migration governance in Sweden and Finland
This article focuses on the Swedish and Finnish implementation of the European Union’s Temporary Protection Directive (TPD), activated by the EU after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 202...
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Finally, I highlight the importance of reading the sovereign through the figures of both a "homo sacer" and a "homo exemplar" because the sovereign’s power is manifested not only via the production of a state of exception but also equally through the creation of a state of example.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
To achieve this, I present two cases from #Bangladesh and #Finland that demonstrate how one sovereign’s exception may be depicted as an #example by another, and how both the exception and the example may coexist within the same system.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The provocation of the paper, and its key contribution to knowledge, is to step back from the point where Agamben positions these two as indistinguishable and to clearly distinguish between them — simultaneously marking a shift in the current scholarship of the exception by bringing the example in.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
The paper focuses on the #example as a contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s #exception. In this paper, I argue that while equally crucial, the example remains a surprisingly under-studied phenomenon even though Agamben views it as the symmetrical opposite of the exception.
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I am excited share my new paper in the @Annals of the AAG! Open access, feel free to download from here www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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On the Example: The Need for a Complementary Contraposition to Giorgio Agamben’s Theorization of the Exception
Giorgio Agamben’s theorization of the exception marks a shift in geographical scholarship and other social sciences. I argue, however, that although equally crucial, the example remains a surprisin...
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Dr Azmeary Ferdoush @ferdoush.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Podcast on my book Sovereign Atonement is out on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social. Here I talk details about #state, #sovereignty, #territory, #citizenship, #infrastructure, #southasia, #governmentality and many more. Thanks to Anindita Ghosh for hosting. Link below newbooksnetwork.com/sovereign-at...
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Azmeary Ferdoush, "Sovereign Atonement: Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border" (Cambridge UP, 2024) - New Books Network
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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
New paper theorizing the politics of famine, with the 1974 Bangladesh famine as the case study www.researchgate.net/publication/...
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(PDF) Theorising the politics of famine: Bangladesh in 1974
PDF | 1974 saw the first-and last-famine in independent Bangladesh. The disaster killed two per cent of the population and caused a crisis of legitimacy... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...
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Ana Ballesteros-Pena @anaballesteros.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands by Gustavo de la Orden. @bordercrim.bsky.social blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/border-crimi...
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EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Fiction or Reality? Insights from the Canary Islands
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Theodor W. Adorno, Lectures 1949-1968, trans. Nicholas Walker - @politybooks.bsky.social, two volumes, February 2025 www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts
Lectures 1949-1968, Volume 1: Music, Literature and the Arts, When Theodor W. Adorno returned to Germany from his exile in the United States, he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at the Unive...
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