I am very excited to start my dream job today as an Assistant Professor @GuelphPOLS. Fortunate to join such a collegial and talented department where I'll have the opportunity grow the new @jls_uguelph program, especially the area of emphasis on "Global Relations and Governance."

📢 For anyone working on the #ICC’s investigation in the Philippines and the prosecution of former President Rodrigo Duterte over crimes against humanity committed during his so-called drug war, this special issue is looking for folks to write on just that! 👇

📢 Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of JCEAS on "Norm Contestation & the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East & Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct 15. Link to full CfP below 👇 https://t.co/bJsQ4lKwI4 #IRtheory #IRnorms

Hun Joon Kim (Korea University) and I are co-editing a special of Journal of Contemporary East Asian Studies on "#NormContestation and the Politics of #TransitionalJustice in East and Southeast Asia." Please send us your 250-word abstract by Oct. 15. CfP 👇 https://t.co/J340bFUMKG

📢 Publication alert! A new Global Studies Quarterly special forum on localization in world politics—co-edited by Jennifer Welsh, Emily K.M. Scott & @adamkochanski out now! Featuring an insightful intro by the editors. 👉 https://t.co/0lOeUSLnlp

Tendencias actuales de la "localización" de fenómenos políticos.

Thrilled to see this out. It was immensely rewarding to be part of this group. Thank you so much for inviting me, your always constructive feedback, leadership, and endurance. Special thanks to @OumarKBa and @AmitavAcharya for your valuable comments on my article.

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 @DimaToukan @OliverKaplan @MaxBellSchool @CIPSS_McGill @GuelphPOLS @iddbirmingham @SSHRC_CRSH Last but not least, our thanks to the @GSQ_Journal editorial team and a special thanks to @AmitavAcharya for providing inspiration and ideas for the project. /end

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 @DimaToukan @OliverKaplan A great big thank you to @MaxBellSchool, @McGillPoliSci, @CIPSS_McGill, @GuelphPOLS, @iddbirmingham and @SSHRC_CRSH #ConnectionGrant 19/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 @DimaToukan @OliverKaplan Want to hear even more!? Check out the Localization in World Politics Podcast: 18/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 @DimaToukan @OliverKaplan You can find the whole Special Forum here: 17/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 @DimaToukan @OliverKaplan and Emily Paddon Rhoads discuss “insider-led” localization and show information and communication technologies for civilian protection have facilitated rebalancing of relationships between global humanitarians and local actors. 16/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci @lunakc13 Our final set of authors explore localization in humanitarian and development assistance. @DimaToukan examines the cooptation of civic action under conditions of authoritarianism in Jordan. 15/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K @merveerdilmen @Lerrning @McGillPoliSci Discussing localization of disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) norms in Nepal, @lunakc13 examines how female ex-combatants navigate “everyday” local norms and how such norms shape their agency in a postwar context. 14/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines @Anyeko_K On forced migration, @merveerdilmen, @Lerrning's James Milner and @McGillPoliSci's Megan Bradley draw on the experience of Burundian refugees in Tanzania and demonstrate that displaced groups move between dominant and marginalized subaltern positions. 13/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 @erinbaines and @Anyeko_K analyse the memory practices of families whose loved ones went missing during periods of political violence, and point to a more emancipatory potential for localization. 12/

@AlexLHinton @Elena_Lesley @SesaySesay18 develops a postcolonial perspective on the localization of norms, explaining how political elites in Africa localize the norm of individual criminal accountability. 11/

Exploring localization in transitional justice, @AlexLHinton and @Elena_Lesley develop the metaphor of “torque” to capture how localization can move in a circular motion, outside-in and inside-out. 10/

Lisbeth Zimmermann argues for a more circular understanding of norm localization in IR. She argues it can “travel on” horizontally to other contexts or vertically when localized norms and institutional models move “upwards” & reshape global norms. 9/

In the Special Forum, scholars and practitioners reflect on these ideas in IR, and across areas of practice. 8/

This understanding is crucial particularly because in today's period of foreign aid retrenchment, backsliding on laws that protect civilians and humanitarian action, and increasing protectionism, what localization looks like is rapidly changing. 7/