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Mirko Palestrino

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Senior Lecturer in International Political Sociology @QMPoliticsIR | Military Sociology, Critical War Studies, IR Theory | Victory, Time, War Bodies

London, England
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@palestrinomirko
Mirko Palestrino
8 months
Hot off the press!🚒🔥🧯My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIR at https://t.co/HzUmYJUI0v. What does it argue? A 🧵
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@FredWindfeld
Frederik Carl Windfeld
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🎈 New piece out in @millennjournal! I look at how imagined futures of “emergent and disruptive tech” loop back to shape present-day politics of war — and how the history of military ballooning (1783–1907) helps us see this recursive logic in action. https://t.co/FnIQsyfYcQ
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Contemporary discussions over emergent and disruptive technologies in military affairs are often framed in futurist and existential terms. The article theorises...
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@EJIntSec
European Journal of International Security
3 months
🚀 "‘If I could turn back time’: Temporal security narratives, ontological disruption, and Germany’s Zeitenwende" from @gloefflmann & @MalteRiemann is our Friday treat! 🌎👉 Read in full: https://t.co/iohpGEBqha
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@palestrinomirko
Mirko Palestrino
3 months
In an expected, but timely, turn of events, with @europeanisa in full swing, my first book “Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield” has been now published digitally, with the EISA-OUP Series Voices in IR. Print version in December. https://t.co/suDmrCkWE0
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Abstract. This book rethinks hegemonic understandings of military victory as the outcome of war by focusing on the relationship between victory and time. W
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@doingips
DoingIPS
5 months
🚨 Launch of the first MA in International Political Sociology at @QMPoliticsIR starting Sep 2025 – applications are now open for 2025-26. The programme adopts a problem-driven approach, bridging disciplines to address complex challenges in World Politics. https://t.co/XWVd152Jv6
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@EuroJournIR
EJIR (European Journal of International Relations)
5 months
🧵1/10 “’Sow the seeds of victory’: wartime gardening and the ontology of military victory“ by @palestrinomirko https://t.co/b0aCCQOt19
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@EuroJournIR
EJIR (European Journal of International Relations)
5 months
Summer is there with a new issue of the European Journal of International Relations- Vol. 31, issue 2! 🧵In this thread you can find all the articles included: 📚Read the full issue here:
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@doingips
DoingIPS
5 months
Final DoingIPS PhD Seminar of the year happening Friday, 27 June 2025 at @QMUL ! Presentations by @annie_m_hsu (@UniofOxford) with discussant @mjbayly (@LSEIRDept) and @brunnofcunha (@QMUL) with discussant @mattspikedavies (@UniofNewcastle and @IRI_PUCRio).
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@doingips
DoingIPS
5 months
The Call for Papers for next year's *8th edition* of the London-based DoingIPS PhD Seminar Series is now live at https://t.co/92343wqhgg. We welcome PhD students from all disciplines who work on IPS, broadly conceived. Please help us share far and wide!!
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Aims Into its 8th year, the ‘Doing IPS’ PhD Seminar Series introduces graduate students to research inspired by International Political Sociology’s (IPS) commitment to challenge methodological and...
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@EuroJournIR
EJIR (European Journal of International Relations)
6 months
Our June issue (vol. 31:2) is now available online! You can find the full issue here: https://t.co/sl8z95s1YO 🧵Scroll down for the key insights from each article in this thread:
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@bolshierowbot
Rowan Lubbock
6 months
Great to see my article on passive revolution and postwar Malthusian anxieties in the lastest issue of @EuroJournIR. A special treat to have a couple of other articles form my @QMPoliticsIR cohorts @palestrinomirko and JF Drolet in the same issue! https://t.co/EK9hWp7v20
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In this article, I argue that the re-emergence of Malthusian limits in the post-war period was universally accepted as a principal challenge to the integrity of...
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@palestrinomirko
Mirko Palestrino
7 months
🚨 My book, Military Victory Beyond the Battlefield: Outside Wartime, now has a webpage! As Trump seeks to rename Veterans Day to Victory Day, the timing couldn’t be better. Out in December with @OUPAcademic as part of @europeanisa Voices in IR. Preorder: https://t.co/QuDsuzMrGh
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@INTPOLITSOCIO
International Political Sociology
7 months
🧐Scholars have shown how #race #war shapes IR. 🤔But how have the legacies of slavery and race war influenced the conception of #class #war in global politics? ✍️Jacob Kripp unpacks how race war intersects other narratives of war as global politics. https://t.co/mjls3oKc6V
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@gloefflmann
Georg ‘Dr. Maverick’ Löfflmann
7 months
The Time Team is going to Bologna! @MMalksoo, @TheRealistHom, Norma Rossi, @MalteRiemann, @palestrinomirko and yours truly will deliver a cracking panel on ‘Temporal Security in IR’ for #EISA2025. Ciao ragazzi.
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@BrasilIps
IPS Brazil Network
8 months
As inscrições estão abertas para a 10a edição da Escola de Inverno da IPS! Prazo de inscrições 15 de maio em https://t.co/i1bgA0PaJ9. O cronograma completo pode ser encontrados no link acima. Para qualquer dúvida, envie-nos um e-mail: ipswinterschool@puc-rio.br
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@palestrinomirko
Mirko Palestrino
8 months
Hot off the press!🚒🔥🧯My new article on wartime gardening and the meaning and politics of military victory is now out #openaccess in @EuroJournIR at https://t.co/HzUmYJUI0v. What does it argue? A 🧵
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@tarsisdaylan
Tarsis Brito
8 months
Early Career IR scholars interested in materiality, race, and coloniality (and how they relate to each other), consider applying to this @europeanisa workshop @i_brandimarte and I are co-organising at EISA! We are excited to read your abstracts! Reach out if you have questions!
@europeanisa
EISA
8 months
✅ Dangerous Intimacies: Race, Coloniality, and Materiality in Global Politics ✉️ Italo Brandimarte and Tarsis Brito 🗓️ Deadline: 26 April 2025 @i_brandimarte  @tarsisdaylan
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@DrSophieHarman
Sophie Harman
8 months
Thrilled that Sick of It has been shortlisted for the Susan Strange Best Book Prize and to be alongside two fantastic scholars and books
@MYBISA
BISA - British International Studies Association
8 months
📚Just announced - our Susan Strange Best Book Prize shortlist of 3 excellent books 📚 https://t.co/TxlnpkwVZL Congratulations to all the authors! @DrSophieHarman @LaraMonteCo @LeeJarvisPols @OxUniPress @ViragoBooks @DukePress @uniofwarwick @QMPoliticsIR @IRSussex
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@doingips
DoingIPS
8 months
There's still time to register to the Spring Symposium 2025 on 'Haunting Histories' organised by the Research Group in IPS @QMPoliticsIR. Incredible line up of speakers! Full details and registration link at: https://t.co/7173Y6jqoN
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@EuroJournIR
EJIR (European Journal of International Relations)
8 months
In his new article in EJIR, @palestrinomirko examines the social construction of victory through the example of wartime gardening. You can find the full publication here: https://t.co/6NdTs51Bb4
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@doingips
DoingIPS
8 months
Registration link here below to join the Research Group on IPS @QMPoliticsIR @QMUL_HSS for a roundtable event on 'Un/Mapping the International' next Thursday 20March, 1-3pm. Thanks to Ana Barclay and @brunnofcunha for organising. https://t.co/tAy1ILCI8K
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Investigate different ways of imagining, composing, dispersing and disrupting the spatiality of the international
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