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Uygar Baspehlivan

@ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Research Associate @ Queen Mary University London. Studying memes, digital politics, critical theory, and subjectivity.

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Amin Samman @aminsamman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Looking forward to this! Thanks to @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for the invitation to present my book Currency of Nihilism to the BISA working group on Critical Alternatives for World Politics. Come join us for the seminar. Details below.
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
@benandersongeog.bsky.social @davidjbissell.bsky.social @joeblakey.bsky.social @vickyblake.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @jbrigstocke.bsky.social @gbuttars.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @marxinhell.bsky.social @mckenziewark.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
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Debbie Lisle @debbielisle.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Finally! I’ve been banging on about Failure for a while now - lot’s more to think about, but I wanted to put this into the world as a starting place. Bonus - they let me keep the swears! academic.oup.com/ips/article-...
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Making It Worse: Productive Failure as Global Common Sense
Abstract. This paper examines how our collective responses to global challenges like war, migration, and climate change are being shaped by the desire to t
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🔉We have kicked off todays event with our new Working Group @cawpbisa.bsky.social! 🎊Todays event gives an opportunity to learn the aims of the group as well as introduction to the convener team @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social @chenchenzhang.net and Leah de Haan.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New BISA WG! 🎉 Critical Alternatives for World Politics - fostering a welcoming space for experimental, creative & non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of International Studies - join today! 🌟 Info here 👉 buff.ly/1Pxr7Bz @nataliejester.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social
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About Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP)
The Critical Alternatives for World Politics (CAWP) Working Group aims to foster a welcoming space for experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research and researchers at the margins of…
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
🖖Hi people! We are launching our new BISA working group, Critical Alternatives for World Politics! We have been working on this for a while now :) It will be a great space to experiment with and create new methods and approaches to IR. Please make sure to follow and join us :)🥰
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Roland Bleiker @bleiker.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Drawing on surrealism & anti-colonial thought, Sara Wong’s new open-access article in @risjnl.bsky.social offers an interesting engagement with aesthetic politics. She argues for shift from representation to “what aesthetics do or could do.” www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Pasko Kisić-Merino @paskokisic.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
I got interviewed about my PhD thesis on the relationship between neoliberal social media and the normalisation of far-right fantasies by @reacpolrn.bsky.social the Reactionary Politics Research Network. Many thanks to @aurelmondon.bsky.social for conducting the interview!
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
🏆 We are pleased to announce @alvinahoffmann.bsky.social as the author of the Best Article in the European Journal of International Relations. Congratulations! 👏 Honorable mention to Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, Ricardo Soares De Oliveira 🔗 buff.ly/hqpQJSz
Best article in EJIR 2025. Congratulations to Alvina Hoffmann for the article 'What makes a spokesperson? Delegation and symbolic power in Crimea'.
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Check out my dear and awesome friend Charlie's new piece on the silly/serious politics of digital reaction! 👇👇
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🎉 Best Article in the @risjnl.bsky.social winner this year was @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social for: 'Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes' with judges finding the 'theoretical approach original & highly relevant' 🌟 Summary - buff.ly/Rvd09Wk DOI -
Purple certificate card with the BISA 50 year logo, the words WINNER and Best Article in the Review of International Studies Prize

Uygar Baspehlivan  - Theorizing the memescape: the spatial politics of internet memes

“Receiving this award as an early career scholar is both a true honour and an incredible opportunity! I am so humbled to be recognised by a panel of such excellent critical scholars. I hope this award will inspire other ECRs and PhD students to experiment more with their objects of theorisation and widen interest in the everyday politics of moving digital media."
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Have you read the 2024 winner of the RIS Best Article Prize? Uygar Baspehlivan's article "Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes" is #OpenAccess, and a must read for anyone interested in visual IR! 👉 buff.ly/fZmc0Ch
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DoingIPS @doingips.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
🚨 Launch of the first MA in International Political Sociology at @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social, starting September 2025. Applications are now open for 2025-26. The programme adopts a problem-driven approach, bridging disciplines to address complex challenges in World Politics. More information here:
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International Political Sociology - Queen Mary University of London
Explore the intersection of politics, sociology, and global issues with the MA in International Political Sociology at Queen Mary University of London. Study power, inequality, and global transformati...
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our 11th joint winners were Anne-Marie Houde and Ugyar Baspehhlivan of the Emotions Working Group Prize – best PhD thesis in Emotions and Politics and IR 🎉 #BISA2025
Anne-Marie Houde and Ugyar Baspehhlivan collecting their award from the EPIR convenors.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Our fourth winner was Uygar Baspehlivan🎉 Uygar Baspehlivan won the Review of International Studies: Best Article Prize for his article 'Theorizing the memescape: the spatial politics of internet memes' 📝 #BISA2025
Purple BISA prize certificate card with the BISA 50 logo and the words:
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Best Article in the Review of International Studies Prize

Uygar Baspehlivan  - Theorizing the memescape: the spatial politics of internet memes

“Receiving this award as an early career scholar is both a true honour and an incredible opportunity! I am so humbled to be recognised by a panel of such excellent critical scholars. I hope this award will inspire other ECRs and PhD students to experiment more with their objects of theorisation and widen interest in the everyday politics of moving digital media."
Uygar collecting his award given to him by editor of the RIS. In the background there is a BISA powerpoint slide with details of the prize.
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
🏆🏆Absolute pleasure to be awarded the: -RIS Best Article Prize for "Theorising the Memescape: The Spatial Politics of Internet Memes -Honourable Mention for BISA Michael Nicholson Best Thesis Prize @MYBISA -BISA Emotions in Politics and IR Working Group Best Thesis Prize
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Arife Kose @arifekose.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
I enjoyed this talk by @robtoes.bsky.social on the rhetoric of reactionary digital politics. I liked the idea of 'ambient extremism.' I think it's very useful to understand how reactionary rhetoric leaks into our daily conversations by blurring boundaries. I also liked+ www.spui25.nl/programma/am...
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Ambient Extremism in Reactionary Digital Politics
In this second talk of ACES’s “Diagonalism” series, Robert Topinka engages with the idea of “ambient extremism.” This type of contemporary digital reactionary politics entails a dissolution of distinc...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📣Applications for the second Reactionary Politics Summer School are open📣 The summer school provides a space to develop key skills for the research of reactionary politics. It will be hosted hybrid and attendance is free. Bursaries are also available. Sign up below! reacpol.net/summer-schoo...
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Summer School - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
My review of The Technological Republic by Palantir CEO Alex Karp and exec Nicholas Zamiska is out. They call for Silicon Valley to re-align with the Pentagon, where democracy is obsolete, engineers shift from apps to weapons, and code becomes law. Tech is no longer just for profit. It’s for war.
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Incredibly honoured to have received BISA Emotions in Politics Working Group's Best Thesis Prize! And to share it with the lovely @annemhoude.bsky.social! Double the honour 😊😊
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
A whole new issue! Check out Volume 51, Issue 2 on our website now! All articles are free to read until the end of the month 🥳
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Jana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Following the outcome of the recent regional elections and in response to the rising tide of fascism in the region (and beyond), we've sent a letter to the VC asking Durham University to publicly commit to the safety and wellbeing of its international/migrant staff and students. Excerpts below:
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Uğur Aytaç @uguraytac.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
We're hiring! I'll be co-supervising a PhD at Utrecht University on the global governance of socially disruptive technologies. Political philosophy/ethics project focused on legitimacy & good governance. More info: edu.nl/9admd Deadline: June 3, 2025 (apologies for the short notice!)
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IPS Section @isaipssection.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Are you a graduate student who presented at the 2025 ISA in Chicago? If you were part of a panel sponsored or co-sponsored by the IPS section, consider applying to the 2026 IPS Graduate Student Paper Award! Self-nominations are encouraged!
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Dr Amy Gaeta @amygaeta.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
*seeking diabetic people based in the UK* Great opportunity to help researchers who are seeking to design better diabetic food tracking technology! Please share. Expression of interest here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A brightly coloured poster which says invites diabetic people in the UK to take part in a focus group online or in person to talk about their experience of diabetic carbohydrate tracking and what might make it better. There is a QR code to the link below to express interest. Participants will be paid with a £20 love to shop gift card, and the study has been granted ethical approval by the University of Sheffield. Expression of interest form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf7cFTJl9AI7NfJf-O9Y3Mziy6w0akanKmCVYKPblVswmscHg/viewform?usp=dialog
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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Working on my presentation for the Spinoza/Marx conference this Friday and coming back to my central point that all attempts to derive a theory of ideology from ultimately become about the relation between minds and bodies, and how one reads EIIP7 www.unemployednegativity.com/2024/04/one-...
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One, Two, Many Spinozist-Marxisms: A Postscript to The Double Shift
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
my hard pivot to environmental (still digital) politics going strong. really enjoyed Ted DeLay's Future of Denial, this one's going super well too 😇
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Daniel R. McCarthy @drmccarthy.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Interesting piece on memes and international politics here www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
Theorising the memescape: The spatial politics of Internet memes - Volume 50 Issue 1
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Charlie Price @charlieprice.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A great discussion and fantastic questions! These @mybisa.bsky.social working groups aren't just good fun, they're great spaces to share and develop ideas in a friendly academic space. 10/10 would recommend. Thank you for organising @epir-bisa.bsky.social and @annemhoude.bsky.social !
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
📢We had a fascinating concluding event for the year today with @epir-bisa.bsky.social ! 👉📚Topic 'Emotions and the right – navigating feeling in the study of populism and reactionary politics' w/ @theoaiolfi.bsky.social @charlieprice.bsky.social @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social and Elisabeth Mörking
A zoom meeting in which one speaker is gesturing with their hands.
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Don't forget to join us tomorrow!
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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Juliana Gleeson and I will be speaking about our books on sexual liberation histories later this month. The event will be live-streamed on YouTube, 27 May, 5pm BST. Registration link here: www.eventbrite.com/e/1342159758...
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Queer, Trans, and Intersex Liberation History
Join us for a discussion of 'Hermaphrodite Logic' and 'Eros and Empire' with authors Juliana Gleeson and Alexander Stoffel.
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Ben Rosher @benrosher.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Labour cabinet meetings be like
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
George W. Bush was the worst President of the last few generations and it's really not close. what we in the US are (rightly!) up in arms about is that Trump is the worst President for us, specifically - which is a different thing
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Matthias Leese @matthiasleese.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
we all fail rather frequently in different aspects of academic work - but we rarely talk about it check out this🔥@ispjournal.bsky.social forum on understanding, reflecting, and coping with failure @meibauir.bsky.social @ncrenic.bsky.social @jrodehaun.bsky.social academic.oup.com/isp/article/...
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Forum: Dead-Ends, Disasters, Delays? Reflecting on Research Failure in International Studies and Ways to Avoid It
Abstract. This forum urges international relations (IR) practitioners to rethink the nature of both failure and success, and their own responsibility in bu
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ECD Group/ EISA @ecdeisa.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
🔥Tune into the latest #EISAVoices episode. 🎤Featuring Rahul Rao (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) in conversation w/ Polly Pallister-Wilkins (@pollypw.bsky.social) on his new book: ➡️📕"The Psychic Lives of Statues: Reckoning with the Rubble of Empire" Out now w/ @plutopress.bsky.social.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 07/05/2025
"Capitalism has entered a radical and apocalyptic phase. There is no utopian vision in any of this." Interview ⤵️
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Naomi Klein: 'What They Want Is Absolutely Everything'
The ‘Shock Doctrine’ author explains the dark logic of Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s path of destruction and why billionaire oligarchs are so angry.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
🏆New @bisa-ecpwg.bsky.social prize🏆 'Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize' To honour the best environment or climate politics postgraduate / early-career paper presented at the BISA Annual conference. details - buff.ly/yYqV0eZ @ckweatherill.bsky.social @ctmcateer.bsky.social
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Early-Career Environment and Climate Politics Paper Prize- Environment and Climate Politics | BISA
- Environment and Climate Politics Working Group
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I am finally sitting down to think more carefully about potential book series to submit my monograph to, which will be based on my PhD thesis, Meme-ing Global Politics. I would love some series/publisher recommendations that are open to critical theoretical research on digital politics.
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Nicolai Gellwitzki @ngellwitzki.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
CFP: Join us for The Art of Politics - a workshop on the aesthetics of repression, resistance & reparation, co-convened by Melissa Chacón, @sara-de-jong.bsky.social, @drharrietgray.bsky.social & me for the inaugural BISA/ISA workshop. All details below 👇 www.isanet.org/Conferences/...
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Powerful message from yesterday that @uniofbath.bsky.social students and staff support trans rights - hope senior management and HR are paying attention
Around 100 people assembled in front of a sign saying 'welcome to the University of Bath' with trans flags and banners
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Uygar Baspehlivan @ubaspehlivan.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
This looks incredible! I'm sure this will be essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of digital-cultural aesthetics. Pre-ordered. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Amateurs!
Amateurs! is the story of how YOU created internet culture and why it matters. Web 2.0 invited users to create: blogs, vlogs, tweets, memes and more. For the first time in history, art became *the* fu...
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The decision by Gregg Popovich to step down as head coach of the San Antonio Spurs brings back a very fond memory. I got a kind note from him a few years ago as he was reading my book *The Slave Ship*.
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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
You don’t win politically by winning over your opponents, but by building a political bloc that can defeat them.
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
This is why the geographic dimensions of extremism stressed by scholars like @milleridriss.bsky.social are critical. The far-right has spent over a decade operating in key youth spaces almost unopposed, letting them frame the debate however they choose. We need to meet these kids where they are.
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isatheory.bsky.social @isatheory.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Excited to share The Palgrave Handbook on the Pedagogy of International Relations Theory, ed by Jamie Frueh, Jacqui Ala, Michael P.A. Murphy & Paul F. Diehl. A comprehensive guide on teaching IR theory. Interested in reviewing for our newsletter? Email: pooja74_ise@jnu.ac.in
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