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There is no fresh air: A problem with the concept of echo chambers (2025)
Journal Article
Carey, B., & Ventham, E. (online). There is no fresh air: A problem with the concept of echo chambers. Episteme, https://doi.org/10.1017/epi.2024.43

Standardly, echo chambers are thought to be structures that we should avoid. Agents should keep away from them, to be able to assess a fuller range of evidence and avoid having their confidence in that information manipulated. This paper argues again... Read More about There is no fresh air: A problem with the concept of echo chambers.

Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared (2025)
Journal Article
Grossman, J., Böcü, G., & Baser, B. (online). Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, https://doi.org/10.1177/03043754251324679

This article examines how home states define and redefine membership within ‘their’ diaspora and how certain groups and individuals are excluded from this conception through discourse, policy and practice. We argue that ontological security, or the s... Read More about Diaspora Exclusion in Divided Home States: Israel and Turkey Compared.

Colonial Law and Normal Violence: The Racialised, Gendered and Classed Development of Counter Terrorism (2025)
Book Chapter
Finden, A. E. (2025). Colonial Law and Normal Violence: The Racialised, Gendered and Classed Development of Counter Terrorism. In Global Counterterrorism: A Decolonial Approach. Manchester University Press

In this chapter Finden explores the colonial characteristics of counter terrorism in Britain and Egypt. This chapter argues that counter terrorism laws and policies in both Global North and Global South states should be understood as fragmented autho... Read More about Colonial Law and Normal Violence: The Racialised, Gendered and Classed Development of Counter Terrorism.

Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of Urban Modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland (2025)
Journal Article
Bakonyi, J., & Darwich, M. (2025). Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of Urban Modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland. Cities, 159, Article 105781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2025.105781

As infrastructures mushroom across Africa, this article investigates narratives accompanying infrastructural investments in East African cities, Djibouti-city (Djibouti) and Berbera (Somaliland). While cities in the Global North move towards a post-i... Read More about Port Infrastructures and the Making of Historical Time in the Horn of Africa: Narratives of Urban Modernity in Djibouti and Somaliland.

After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences (2025)
Journal Article
Firchow, P., Funk, J., & Mac Ginty, R. (2025). After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences. World Development, 189, Article 106916. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2024.106916

This article is interested in aid preferences, or what people desire in terms of aid, in a post-conflict and post peace accord context. When examining post-conflict preferences around peace thirty years after the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we obs... Read More about After war ends: Aid paradigms and post-conflict preferences.

Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives (2025)
Journal Article
Kappler, S., Gunter, A., & Truter, L. (in press). Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives. Memory Studies,

This article is drawn from findings of the research project “Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa”. It analyses a collaborative sound art project in Johannesburg, investigating how sound art can act as conduit for the transmission of community... Read More about Resounding Resistance: Decolonising Memory Through Johannesburg's Sound Art Narratives.

Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action) (2025)
Journal Article
Porter, G., Murphy, E., Adamu, F., Dayil, P. B., Dungey, C., Maskiti, B., de Lannoy, A., Clark, S., Ahmad, H., & Yahaya, M. J. (2025). Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action). Journal of Transport Geography, 123, Article 104109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2024.104109

The relationship between women's everyday lived travel experiences as daily commuters and their employment history and potential has not been adequately researched and documented in African contexts. This multidisciplinary study, utilising an innovat... Read More about Young women’s travel safety and the journey to work: reflecting on lived experiences of precarious mobility in three African cities (and the potential for transformative action).

Evidencing terrorism: juridical truth-making in terrorism trials (2025)
Journal Article
Chukwuma, K. (online). Evidencing terrorism: juridical truth-making in terrorism trials. European Journal of International Security, https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2024.60

This article explores the construction of terrorism through evidentiary practices, through the examination of terrorism trials in Nigeria. By conceptualising legal evidence – or evidencing – as a juridical practice of truth-making, the article contri... Read More about Evidencing terrorism: juridical truth-making in terrorism trials.

The data myth: interrogating the evidence base for evidence-based peacebuilding (2024)
Journal Article
Mac Ginty, R., & Firchow, P. (2024). The data myth: interrogating the evidence base for evidence-based peacebuilding. Data & Policy, 6, Article e80. https://doi.org/10.1017/dap.2024.80

This article interrogates three claims made in relation to the use of data in relation to peace. That more data, faster data, and impartial data will lead to better policy and practice outcomes. Taken together, this data myth relies on a lack of curi... Read More about The data myth: interrogating the evidence base for evidence-based peacebuilding.

The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm (2024)
Journal Article
Walsh, T. (2025). The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm. Digest of Middle East Studies, 34(1), Article e12345. https://doi.org/10.1111/dome.12345

This paper argues that despite the success of Saudi Arabia's use of discourse to legitimize Operation Decisive Storm, their initial bombing and blockade of Yemen, to the United States, ultimately these discourses were problematic. Via analyzing speec... Read More about The Saudi Savior—Justifying Operation Decisive Storm.

Legal Paradigms and the Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access (2024)
Book Chapter
Kavanagh, M. M., & Singh, R. (2024). Legal Paradigms and the Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access. In H. Sun, & M. Sunder (Eds.), Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and the Next Pandemic: Diagnosing Problems, Developing Cures (106-132). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009282406.006

Authors in this volume make a wide range of important proposals on intellectual property, innovation, and access. The question this chapter asks is: which of these might work in an actual pandemic? By tracing the first year of COVID-19 vaccine distri... Read More about Legal Paradigms and the Politics of Global COVID-19 Vaccine Access.

The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis (2024)
Book
Plowright, W. (in press). The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis. Cornell University Press

The European Migration Crisis motivated people around the world to offer assistance to needy refugees and migrants across Europe, the Mediterranean, and North Africa. Both large and small organizations rushed to bring food, medical care, and rescue t... Read More about The War on Rescue: The Obstruction of Humanitarian Assistance in the European Migration Crisis.

Beyond Social Media: The Influence of News Consumption, Populism, and Expert Trust on Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation (2024)
Journal Article
Štětka, V., Brandao, F., Tóth, F., Mihelj, S., Rothberg, D., Hallin, D., Klimkiewicz, B., & Ferracioli, P. (online). Beyond Social Media: The Influence of News Consumption, Populism, and Expert Trust on Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation. International Journal of Press/Politics, https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241302755

The COVID-19 pandemic was accompanied by an unprecedented influx of misinformation often with adverse impact on the effectiveness of institutional responses to the health crisis. However, relatively little is still known about the factors that may ha... Read More about Beyond Social Media: The Influence of News Consumption, Populism, and Expert Trust on Belief in COVID-19 Misinformation.

Diasporic Memory (2024)
Book Chapter
Baser, B. (2025). Diasporic Memory. In L. M. Bietti, & M. Pogacar (Eds.), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Memory Studies. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93789-8

In a globalized world, also memory and processes of remembrance have become transnational. Individuals and groups nurture and preserve memories of the past and of places they have left; they generate new memories and experiences in virtual spaces; an... Read More about Diasporic Memory.

Hostages to Fortunes: Britain, The Gulf Monarchies and the Incarceration of UK Nationals (2024)
Journal Article
Jones, C., & Petersen, T. T. (online). Hostages to Fortunes: Britain, The Gulf Monarchies and the Incarceration of UK Nationals. The International History Review, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2024.2427141

Hostage-taking has become a distressing feature of international politics over the last two decades, associated either with terrorist groups or hostile state actors, such as Iran, willing to engage in hostage diplomacy for political and security adva... Read More about Hostages to Fortunes: Britain, The Gulf Monarchies and the Incarceration of UK Nationals.

Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict (2024)
Journal Article
Mac Ginty, R. (online). Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict. Cooperation and Conflict, https://doi.org/10.1177/00108367241293639

This article seeks to show the value of a phenomenological lens in understanding conflict-affected societies. In particular, it uses a phenomenological lens to unpack how individuals and communities simultaneously inhabit a number of lifeworlds as pa... Read More about Simultaneously inhabited lifeworlds: A phenomenological approach to understanding peace and conflict.

Positive Freedom during and after the Cold War (2024)
Book Chapter
Dimova-Cookson, M. (in press). Positive Freedom during and after the Cold War. In M. Beech, & K. Hickson (Eds.), The Idea of the Good Society: Essays in Honour of Raymond Plant. Oxford University Press