Today = 7th 🎂 of publication of Je mehr Gewalt, desto weniger #Revolution: Texte zum gewaltfreien #Anarchismus & anarchistischen #Pazifismus, which includes my "Leo #Tolstoi über den Staat" (translation of 2008 #AnarchistStudies original) https://graswurzel.net/gwr/produkt/je-mehr-gewalt-desto-weniger-revolution/
28.2.2025 11:39Today = 7th 🎂 of publication of Je mehr Gewalt, desto weniger #Revolution: Texte zum gewaltfreien #Anarchismus & anarchistischen...Reminder for interested Londoners: this is tonight :)
18.2.2025 08:41Reminder for interested Londoners: this is tonight :)Re: #Ukraine #peace talks in Paris, maybe time has finally come to also consider "civilian-based defence" for Europe's security? Training entire populations in #nonviolent civil disobedience cheaper & less destabilising than exponential militarism https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275
17.2.2025 12:23Re: #Ukraine #peace talks in Paris, maybe time has finally come to also consider "civilian-based defence" for Europe's ...📢 Looking fwd to presenting my International Affairs paper articulating #pacifist reflections on #Ukraine (full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275) at Richmond American International University in London next Tuesday, 5pm: https://richmond.ac.uk/news-events/news/guest-lecture-event-questioning-the-warist-orthodoxy/.
12.2.2025 11:25📢 Looking fwd to presenting my International Affairs paper articulating #pacifist reflections on #Ukraine (full paper here:...Looking fwd to leading a guest session on #pacifism, #nonviolence, international politics & conflict for James Rogers' Cornell students in 30 mins, including this paper I recently published on Ukraine: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275.
11.2.2025 13:12Looking fwd to leading a guest session on #pacifism, #nonviolence, international politics & conflict for James Rogers' Cornell...The UK Higher Education funding model is broken. Sign this petition to add pressure to change it: https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/e/2PACX-1vTY20tsLYA7JVe6X354VD_e8oS4FGHmm6DEyBBPYj8i6aOO7S5_vyzqpxle8nWYaShxT0NMQ3yU5vfw/pub?pli=1
7.2.2025 11:00The UK Higher Education funding model is broken. Sign this petition to add pressure to change it:...PM me if you want to join me with Pacifism & Nonviolence Research Group colleagues at 1pm tomorrow for webinar led by Noga Glucksam on ' #Peacebuilding as #Rewilding: Ecosystem Thinking for Post-Conflict Reconstruction': https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/pacifism-and-nonviolence-research-group/
4.2.2025 09:21PM me if you want to join me with Pacifism & Nonviolence Research Group colleagues at 1pm tomorrow for webinar led by Noga Glucksam on...Enjoying day 2 of #VirtualBISA2025. Presented at kick-off slot yesterday (on #pacifist reflections on #Ukraine: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275), & presenting again in closing slot tomorrow (on anarcho-pac reflections for critical #terrorism studies) https://virtualconference.bisa.ac.uk
14.1.2025 10:24Enjoying day 2 of #VirtualBISA2025. Presented at kick-off slot yesterday (on #pacifist reflections on #Ukraine:...2/ Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their implicit #complicity & noticing process which numbed them into accepting such complicity
3/ Then reflects on 4 specific #subversive characteristics of defam: #disruption of automated perception, implicit #concession of problem, corrosion of respect for traditional #hierarchies, & encouragement of #empathy
11.1.2025 21:162/ Article focuses on T’s #defamiliarization of common justifications of #violence (with examples), encouraging readers to admit their...Today's the 6th 🎂 of my article exploring the subversive potential of #Tolstoyan #defamiliarisation. Freely available here: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/The_subversive_potential_of_Leo_Tolstoy_s_defamiliarisation_a_case_study_in_drawing_on_the_imagination_to_denounce_violence/9468479
Short thread summary: 1/ T is primary example of master of #literary technique of ‘#defamiliarisation’ (looking at the familiar as if new) to shake readers into recognising absurdity of common views & practices
11.1.2025 21:16Today's the 6th 🎂 of my article exploring the subversive potential of #Tolstoyan #defamiliarisation. Freely available here:...Looking forward to #BIAPT2025 starting tomorrow esp to two panels on pacifism/nonviolence on Friday: on #pacifist pol thought (11:15) and on #animals & #nonviolence (16:15): https://www.associationforpoliticalthought.ac.uk/conference/apt-2025-2/
8.1.2025 21:49Looking forward to #BIAPT2025 starting tomorrow esp to two panels on pacifism/nonviolence on Friday: on #pacifist pol thought (11:15) and on...📢 new 📰 in International Affairs articulating #pacifist critique of reactions to Russian invasion of #Ukraine ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275 #nonviolence #pacifism #war #Russia #NATO #militarism
Summary:
1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass #nonviolent civil disobedience
2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence & violence in 'human nature')
3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism
🎄⛪️Today Christians celebrate the birth of (someone who, if they paid attention, they'd note was) an #anarchist: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/christian-anarchism-a-political-commentary-on-the-gospel #christmasnotjustforconsumerism #interestingdinnerconversations
25.12.2024 13:54🎄⛪️Today Christians celebrate the birth of (someone who, if they paid attention, they'd note was) an #anarchist:...Today = 3rd 🎂 of Λέων #Τολστόι: Η δουλεία της εποχής μας: το #κράτος, which includes Greek translation of my #AnarchistStudies titled "Leo #Tolstoy on the #State: A Detailed Picture of Tolstoy's Denunciation of State #Violence & #Deception"
30.11.2024 21:24Today = 3rd 🎂 of Λέων #Τολστόι: Η δουλεία της εποχής μας: το #κράτος, which includes Greek...Short thread summary: Day frequently mentioned Tolstoy, but almost only his #fiction. Paper explores extent of Tolstoy’s influence beyond just fiction based on close reading of #archivalsources.
Demonstrates Tolstoy’s #political & #religious views did leave significant impression on Day & #CatholicWorkerMovement
Notably: D had early (if discreet) passion for T; T’s helped cement D’s #anarchism & #pacifism, & T (through #Hennacy) helped inspire CW’s embrace of #civildisobedience
29.11.2024 11:45Short thread summary: Day frequently mentioned Tolstoy, but almost only his #fiction. Paper explores extent of Tolstoy’s influence beyond...🪦#DorothyDay died today in 1980. Here's a free article exploring the extent to which she was influenced by #LeoTolstoy: https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Leo_Tolstoy_s_impact_on_Dorothy_Day_and_the_Catholic_worker_movement/13667594?file=26231840 #anarchism #pacifism #anticlericalism
29.11.2024 11:44🪦#DorothyDay died today in 1980. Here's a free article exploring the extent to which she was influenced by #LeoTolstoy:...Note also separate studentship to support racialised minority groups: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/positive-action-studentship/
21.11.2024 15:06Note also separate studentship to support racialised minority groups:...See also https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research-degrees/proposal/ for helpful #tips on drafting your application.
Also check out my great colleagues and potential co-supervisors around #pacifism & #nonviolence: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/pacifism-and-nonviolence-research-group/, #anarchism: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/arg/, but also political #theory: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/eplrg/ & #security studies: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research/css/
21.11.2024 15:04See also https://www.lboro.ac.uk/subjects/politics-international-studies/research-degrees/proposal/ for helpful #tips on drafting your...🧑🎓 💷 Interested in a funded #studentship for a #PhD with us at Loughborough University's School of Social Sciences and Humanities? Follow this link: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd-opportunities/ssh-studentship/. Deadline 30 January. If particularly interested in working with me, please get in touch.
21.11.2024 15:04🧑🎓 💷 Interested in a funded #studentship for a #PhD with us at Loughborough University's School of Social Sciences and...Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.
20.11.2024 13:33Core chapters explore T’s #pacifism, #anarchism, #anticlericalism, #asceticism & #nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising...