Studying how gangs and govts do things with words. Teaching undergrads to do things with words. @Princeton @GC_PoliSci @USMEXUCSD @Noria_mxac 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
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My first article is alive and kicking!
"The Crime and State Terrorism Nexus: How Organized Crime Appropriates Counterinsurgency Violence" published *open source* by @Perspectives_T.
You can find it in the December 2019 issue: universiteitleiden.nl/perspe…
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New at PB, Philip Luke Johnson (@phillegitimate) reviews Álvaro Enrigue’s “You Dreamed of Empires” and Yuri Herrera’s “Season of Swamp,” two novels that “return to some of the best-known, canonical figures and episodes from Mexico’s past.”
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Militarization in Mexico takes some overt, violent forms. But it’s also creeping into more quotidian parts of life. Great 🧵 👇
Exactly a year ago, I flew from CDMX to Strasbourg to take part in a @CoEDemocracy panel on the impact of impunity on journalism and democracy by invitation of @CPJAmericas.
The trip was as imagined, with CDMX’s airport (AICM) chaotic, but functional as usual. It felt familiar
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Join us tomorrow for our first session! See more info 👇
💥The #VIPWorkshop is kicking off the semester with a stellar group next week (9/21)!💥
Join us (virtually) to discuss work by @SuleYaylac (joint w Chris Price) and @nihad_aboud
To access the papers (we hope you read in advance!) visit: vip-workshop.github.io/
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Necesitamos más académicos colombianos / latinos en Bluesky! Tengo algunas invitaciones disponibles si quisieran encontrarnos por allá. Favor de darme un DM.
I don’t have proper swag to make this really official, but…
Couldn’t wait any longer for this extremely off-season announcement…
I’m moving up in the world and also a long way south. Starting January, I’ll be a permanent lecturer in government at Flinders Uni in Adelaide.
ALT A guy in an office holding up a notepad. On the paper is scrawled: “Flinders University (in Australia).”
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“But while Veracruz mocks the archive, Melchor takes it upon herself to compile a vernacular archive of her city.” Philip Luke Johnson (@phillegitimate) reads Fernanda Melchor’s “This is Not Miami.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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"Kloppe-Santamaría se convierte en dos escritoras: una valiente cazadora de hechos y una estudiosa de extraordinario rigor."
Gracias @PubWeekEs por esta reseña y por estas lindas palabras acerca de mi trabajo 🙏❤️
“He aquí un análisis original e interdisciplinario sobre las razones históricas, culturales y políticas detrás de la violencia y, a la vez, un retrato de un universo dominado por el miedo y el rumor.
Lee la reseña de 'En la vorágine de la violencia', de @GemaKloppe
📱@PubWeekEs
While we’re talking Melchor, I reviewed Paradais for @PublicBooks. It’s a novel about femicide and the bleak world created by impunity and gender-based violence.
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I reviewed Melchor’s “This is Not Miami,” translated by Sophie Hughes. This is Melchor’s first book, but her third translated in English. 👇
"Power is so stratified that ordinary people experience these schemes as incomprehensible mysteries: ghosts and impossibilities and sudden bursts of violence.” Philip Luke Johnson (@phillegitimate) reviews Fernanda Melchor’s “This is Not Miami.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/…
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Honored to be selected by @hfg as an Emerging Scholar.
The generous support will help me make significant progress on my dissertation and 📚 project, which explores…
We are pleased to announce the 2023 HFG Emerging Scholars.
These nine doctoral candidates are working to advance knowledge of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence around the world.
➡️ ow.ly/cPpr50PaumB
#EmergingScholarsHFG
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oh, I did not realize this would be on the cover!
for @lrb I wrote an essay on Argentine and Guatemalan forensic anthropologists, who have worked to exhume mass graves all over the world
reviewing @AlexaHagerty STILL LIFE WITH BONES
& @VDLSanford TEXTURES OF TERROR
Our new issue is now online, featuring
@TriciaLockwood on David Foster Wallace
William Davies on the inflation crisis
@rachelbnolan on forensic archaeology in Guatemala
@josephinequinn on Cyrus the Great
and a cover by Naomi Frears.
Read now at lrb.co.uk/
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🚨 Just out!
Very excited to share a new publication (coauthored with @fernandolv) about the "war on deforestation", a novel example of the #GreenMilitarization in the #AmazonRainforest.
What explains that states decide to adopt military responses to #ClimateChange problems?
🧵
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I wrote for @Harpers about who might actually be behind the more than 100,000 killings and disappearances in Mexico since 2006 via a review of two books:
@Oswaldo__Zavala "Drug Cartels Do Not Exist"
& @benjamintsmith7 "The Dope"
harpers.org/archive/2023/07/…
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Tyson es la única empresa grande que genera empleos en poblados chicos, como Green Forest, Arkansas.
Los habitantes dependen de esos trabajos para sobrevivir.
Sin embargo, en Tyson los empleados se lesionan gravemente.
Un texto de @reporterdriver: gatopardo.com/reportajes/tys…
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Delighted to see my work reviewed in this powerful essay on state-making, society, and violence in 20th century Mexico by Wil G. Pansters 🇲🇽
Featuring recent works by @CamiloVicenteOv, Tanalís Padilla, Paul Gillingham, & Elizabeth Henson✨
Free access 👇
erlacs.org/articles/10.32992…
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👋 Scholars working on violence & organized crime:
🗓️ Are you going to @LASACONGRESS 2023?
Consider attending these two panels!
➡️Ideologies of Illicit Actors- 05/25, 10:15 am (PT)
➡️Gender and Organized Crime- 05/27, 8:30am (PT)
Looking forward to these conversations! ✨
Criminal actors aren't political and don't have ideology, right? They're just... criminal.
That's the assumption, but we're not so sure. Come to our paired #LASA2023 panels on Thurs to learn more!
Featuring @AriasDesmond @gdenyerwillis @GemaKloppe @ShaunaGillooly + other stars
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The 2022 novel “Paradais” is a dystopian buddy story. A nightmare vision of the world made by femicide. A future that is already here.
Misogyny and violence emerge spontaneously, almost casually, from male camaraderie, ennui, dipshit youth.
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