Jonathan Luke Austin

A draft paper, co-authored with Professor Anna Leander, is now available here. The paper explores how the concept of ‘visibility’ as expanded on in social theory can work alongside the emergent field of International Practice Theory (IPT) to ‘sensitize’ us to the regimes or fields of visibility that affect our understanding of the world and…

Today I had the pleasure to present my work at the Swedish Red Cross offices in Malmö. Specifically, I spoke with practitioners based at the Swedish Red Cross Treatment Center for Persons affected by War and Torture. My presentation sketched a ‘portrait of the Syrian torturer’ based on field research conducted in Beirut, Lebanon and numerous other…

Today, I have the pleasure of releasing publicly a call for papers for the leading journal Security Dialogue entitled Doing and Mediating Critique. With my colleagues, Rocco Bellanova (Peace Research Institute Oslo) and Mareile Kaufmann (University of Oslo), we envisage editing a double special issue of the journal exploring the future of how critique is being ‘done’ in…

My latest publication with the peer-reviewed journal European Journal of International Relations is now available via the journals advanced access publication system. The article can be accessed here, and is expected to be finally published in volume 22 issue 4 of the journal. Abstract: This article demonstrates how world political binaries (democratic–autocratic, civilized–barbarian, etc.) are materially, as…