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Louise Ridden

@louiseridden.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Tampere University, IR PhD from Aberystwyth U. Interested in all things nonviolence, feminist IR, worldmaking, and political theories of bodies, spaces, temporalities.

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Ethel Baraona Pohl @ethelbaraona.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
«We need to name a problem in order to address it. But naming problems does not make them go away. And yet, naming matters. Complaining about problems does not make them go away, either. And yet complaining matters.»
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
When ChatGPT first took off this was the use case that confused me the most. People said they “only” used it to write “first drafts.” That’s the most important draft! That’s the thinking part!
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Louise Ridden @louiseridden.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨new publication🚨 So happy that @luisebendfeldt.bsky.social and my article ‘What if war comes? Curating affective militarism in Sweden’ is out now with @coco-journal.bsky.social. We explore the curation of ideas of war, preparedness, ‘home’ + martial peace Available OA here: doi.org/10.1177/0010...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 05/05/2025
slightly annoying that this paragraph is so succinct yet comprehensive as am hoping to write about AI myself this week but: this is very good
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CEEShub @securityhub.ee · 22/04/2025
📢 We have some exciting reads for you! 1. Our Researcher, Dr @louiseridden.bsky.social, recently published her article "Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection" in the Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence. Link here: doi.org/10.1163/2772... 1/2
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Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection
Abstract Unarmed civilian protection (ucp) is a nonviolent method of civilian-to-civilian protection and civilian self-protection. Without the use of weapons, ucp instrumentalises nonviolent bodies in...
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
My new article ‘Mission Impossible? Humanitarian Actors and the Civilizational Logic of International Aid Delivery during the “Congo Crisis,” 1960–1964’ is now open access with Humanity. Worth checking out for the photos, if nothing else. Here is (most of) the abstract. muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence @jpacnv.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📢JPN 3:1 now out. Includes articles on uncivil #obedience, unarmed civilian protection (#UCP), counter #misogyny, #German pacifism, & Martin Luther King (#MLK), plus 2 book reviews ➡️ brill.com/view/journal...
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Louise Ridden @louiseridden.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So happy to say that my new article 'Protection through Vulnerability: A Gendered Analysis of Unarmed Civilian Protection' is now out (and open access 🥳) with @jpacnv.bsky.social! Check it out here 👇 brill.com/view/journal...
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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Universities also need a system to reallocate research cash as more and more colleagues lose their jobs and depts close. Otherwise large numbers of taxpayer-funded Research Council projects will just fall apart as people leave. Of course, being Britain, this hasn't been properly thought about. 🇬🇧
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Margot Tudor @drmargottudor.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Blue Helmet Bureaucrats is available in paperback 🎉 Now under £30 with @cambridgeup.bsky.social and here’s a 20% discount code to make it more affordable. Will be doing a giveaway once my author copies arrive 😏
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Priscyll Anctil Avoine @priscyll.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
💫Join us for the 12th @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS2025 in Krakow, Jagiellonian University, 2-4 July 2025 💫With @drmmartind.bsky.social we are very happy to invite you to submit your proposals for our workshop on Feminist Visual Methodologies 💫Deadline: 11.02.2025💫 eisa-net.org/workshops-ew...
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Sci fi had us worried about sentient, clever AI but stupid AI is the real threat isn't it. They're going to enmesh this completely unreasonable tech in everything and it'll gradually reduce us to paste. Didn't even need sentience, just the worst nerds and gullible politicians
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Louise Ridden @louiseridden.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
🚨Call for abstracts! 🚨 Is your work curious about promises, narratives, and practices of protection? About how protection is instrumentalised, lived, and experienced? Submit to our Protection in IR and beyond section, organised by @BendfeldtLuise and me! #EISAPEC2024
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