Jamie Johnson

Jamie Johnson

@jamcjo.bsky.social

Lecturer in International Relations. Researches liberalism's wars, crises, and scandals.

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DHDexter
@dhdexter.bsky.social

le.ac.uk/news/2026/ju... Suspending UK study visas for students from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Sudan, and Cameroon was a disgraceful decision. I'm pleased to see my institution contributing to the Mosaik scholarship initiative. There should be more than 9 UK universities involved with this.

le.ac.ukLeicester joins universities acting to create opportunities for students shut out by visa brake | News | University of LeicesterUniversity of Leicester is one of nine UK universities providing postgraduate places as part of the Mosaik Scholarship initiative

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BISA - British International Studies Association
@mybisa.bsky.social

Did you miss our #BISA2026 keynote recording with Professor Kimberly Hutchings 🌟 The #BISA2026 conference keynote in Brighton was delivered was titled 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace’ 🌍 You can watch the full recording here 👉 https://ow.ly/TqMz50ZmOHz

ow.ly#BISA2026 keynote recording: Professor Kimberly HutchingsWatch the #BISA2026 keynote from Professor Kimberly Hutchings on 'Violence and the Meaning of Peace'.

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Stephen Bush
@stephenkb.bsky.social

Every crime in which an ethnic or cultural minority is the perpetrator used to justify repression or worse of minorities. Every crime in which a minority is the victim used to argue for the idea that ethnic diversity is inherently unstable and should be reduced or eradicated.

Owen Winter@owenwntr.bsky.social

In his white lives matter address, Nigel Farage calls George Floyd a career criminal and says "the rights and privileges of white people matter less than those of ethnic minorities" in Britain

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University of Sussex
@sussex.ac.uk

Following our successful judicial review against the Office for Students (OfS) in the High Court, hear more from our Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Sasha Roseneil.

Jamie Johnson
@jamcjo.bsky.social

We are advertising for a 5-year Teaching Fellowship in Politics and International Relations at the University of Leicester. Happy to have an informal chat about the position and the School to anyone interested. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/13...

jobs.le.ac.ukTeaching Fellow in Politics & International Relations in Leicester | University of Leicester Recruitment TeamView details and apply for this Teaching Fellow in Politics & International Relations vacancy in Leicester. We're looking for an enthusiastic and committed Teaching Fellow in Politics & Intern...

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Thomas Zimmer
@thomaszimmer.bsky.social

This is key: Focusing on Trump's "contradictions" tends to perpetuate the idea that he doesn't have any actual convictions. It's true he doesn't care about specific policy positions. But underneath that "flexibility" lies a very consistent worldview of grievance, domination, and hierarchies.

Larry Glickman@larryglickman.bsky.social

I think this piece makes too much of Trump’s supposed “contradictions.” For example, it is not a contradiction but the very essence of his politics that “law and order” applies to his opponents but not to him or his supporters. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/u...

nytimes.com‘You Can’t Pin Him Down’: Trump’s Contradictions Are His Ultimate CoverPresident Trump’s shifting positions and outright lies have presented the American public with dueling narratives at every turn.

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins
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Everyone knows you’ve got to do your war crimes with a soupçon of liberalism, a sprinkling of human rights promotion, and topped with a garni of white saviourism.

Jamie Johnson
@jamcjo.bsky.social

Have written about the politics of how we see the Grenfell Tower fire - including seeing the fire as a “tragedy” - and the flawed role the Inquiry played in producing an authoritative account. doi.org/10.1111/jols...

doi.orgPrefiguring truth: The limits of the Grenfell Tower InquiryPublic inquiries operate as privileged instruments of sense-making, defined by a series of epistemological and methodological commitments. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry was established to uncover the tr....
Spooky Snigdha@snig.bsky.social

"Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen." Reform's Housing spokesperson Simon Dudley on the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left 70+ injured. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

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The Guardian
@theguardian.com

Hillsborough campaigners accuse Starmer of ‘insult’ after failing to introduce promised law

theguardian.comHillsborough campaigners accuse Starmer of ‘insult’ after failing to introduce promised lawGovernment sources said new amendment to bill being worked on that would ensure duty of candour applies to individuals working for security services Families whose relatives were killed in disasters and who have suffered state injustice have written to Keir Starmer, accusing the government of an “insult” for failing to introduce the promised Hillsborough law in this session of parliament. Labour has promised for almost a decade to implement the law, which will impose a “duty of candour” on the police and public authorities, but the government pulled the bill in January during its passage through parliament. Continue reading...

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Victoria M Basham
@victoriambasham.bsky.social

New paper out now witten with my brilliant collaborators @jamcjo.bsky.social and @drowendthomas.bsky.social. Hard to write given the topic and ongoing injustice but hope it proves useful to others.

Jamie Johnson@jamcjo.bsky.social

I've got a new open access paper out in the Journal of Law and Society that interrogates the truth-seeking and truth-producing function of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. 🧵 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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As the Grenfell United survivors’ group have argued, ‘[t]here's a reading of the inquiry hiding in plain sight… the system isn't broken, it was built this way’. Our purpose in this article is to show how such an understanding is omitted and disparaged through the official workings of the Inquiry.

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Through a series of decisions, assumptions, and omissions, the Inquiry PRODUCES, rather than UNCOVERS, the truth of the fire We describe this as a process of PREFIGURATION, which refers to the ways in which the organisation of the Inquiry's investigation circumscribes and foreshadows its findings.

Jamie Johnson
@jamcjo.bsky.social

In the end, the Inquiry renders the fire legible through the logic of methodological individualism: as a consequence of individual (in)actions, intentions and knowledge A more systemic account of the fire is possible. Such an account would relocate the fire within a wider socio-economic context

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It is into this conflict that the Inquiry was introduced The Inquiry promised to 'leave no stone left unturned' in its pursuit of the truth Through the Inquiry, an official and authoritative account of events could be reached and responsible parties could be identified and held accountable...

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By contrast, we argue that the Inquiry is not a value-free instrument. We demonstrate how the Inquiry is repeatedly defined by a set of methodological and epistemological commitments that limit the scope of its investigation and predispose it towards particular findings

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In the immediate aftermath of the fire, public discourse was marked by conflict over its meaning For some, it was a national tragedy: an unforeseen accident For others, it was a scandal: a consequence of criminal wrongdoing For others still, it was a symptom of a wider crisis in UK society...

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Aaron Rupar
@atrupar.com

NATO Ambassador Mike Waltz threatens Iran's NATO ambassador: "Not my first firefight. He should be careful with his words sitting on American soil, and I'll just leave it at that."