Jonathan Harris
Political-Historical Geographer researching diaspora diplomacy @dublincityuni.bsky.social | posts: education, geopolitics, decolonisation & francophonie
www.diplotraining.org
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisHello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
- Excellent short piece off the back of #Algeria’s AFCON match today focused on the net positive impact of Franco-Algerian migration on football: africasacountry.com/2025/12/thre...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisIsrael recognises Somaliland as independent state, Netanyahu says
- Detractors make every attempt to ignore them, but the Kabyle self-determination movement demonstrates its enduring appeal - particularly in and through diaspora. Markers of nationhood - the flag, the anthem, the president - are part of an effective #diaspora #diplomacy www.lemonde.fr/afrique/arti...
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris🚨 FIFA just awarded its newly created “Peace Prize” to U.S. President Donald Trump, without any criteria or transparency on the selection process – and against a backdrop of escalating attacks on human rights and civil freedoms in the U.S. Learn more: sportandrightsalliance.org/world-cup-20...
- An excellent way to frame a debate of this kind! I’ve got my hands on the book, to read as I take my almost daily cross-border train… 🤓
- ⏳ The countdown on! Join Fintan O’Toole & Sam McBride, Nov 30th @ 7 pm at the National Concert Hall for a live debate on what a united Ireland could really mean. Prep for the night: 🎧 Listen to the ARINS podcast: bit.ly/4qS7KEM 🎟️ Tickets: bit.ly/3LoU0Bs
- Happy Friday 😊 The new issue of Diplomatica (Brill) has been published - with a diverse forum of scholars responding to "Provincializing ‘New’ Diplomatic History: An Interdisciplinary Manifesto", published earlier this year. Chuffed to have been asked to participate! brill.com/view/journal...
- Now there's some product placement I can get behind
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisI’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4
- Yet another example of Brexit Britain forgetting Northern Ireland - and complex border arrangements www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisSolidarity activists with Timor-Leste (East Timor) during the period of Indonesian military occupation (1975-99) were involved in a form of diplomacy. It was messy and often loud. Yet the movement often proved influential in shaping both government and Timorese actions. New open access book 👇
- Late in the day, but Francesco Ventura and I are seeking participants in a paper session on #diaspora #diplomacy for next year's @geographers.bsky.social #AAG2026 in San Francisco. See call for papers here - deadline 28th October:
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisWho is most at risk from overcrowding in the UK? Rory Coulter (@uclgeography.bsky.social) explores the answers in a new Geography Directions blog post. Check it out here👇 https://blog.geographydirections.com/2025/10/09/understanding-social-and-spatial-patterns-of-overcrowding-in-england-and-wales/
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris#HouseofGuinness Who was the real Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness? More than a brewer, he was a major figure in 19th-century Dublin. His funeral, which opens House of Guinness on Netflix, was one of the city’s largest, with 500 employees and 239 private carriages.
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris📣We're pleased to launch this year's PolGRG Book Prize! The winning book will also be the subject of an Authors meets Critics session at the annual RGS-IBG meeting (2026). Deadline 19 December. Full details available here: polgrg.wordpress.com/2025/10/07/c... #bookprize #polgrg #award
- Historians (and geographers) of diplomacy: you might be interested in this article (with @drruthcraggs.bsky.social and Fiona McConnell) as part of an Itinerario special issue on 'Late Colonialism'. We explore tensions in training Ghana's first diplomats in 1957. www.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115325100144
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris📣 We’re thrilled to announce that Caleb Tan (UCL) is the winner of the 2025 UG Dissertation Prize for ‘Third space or territorial trap: citizenship and conscription in Singapore’! Congratulations!👏 #PolGRG #prize #education #HE Read about all the finalists on our website 👇
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisProf Claude Raffestin has died. RIP He taught me when I was an undergraduate in Geneva. A formidable force. More info on him here (happy to send pdf): Fall, J. J. (2012). Reading Claude Raffestin: Pathways for a Critical Biography. Env. & Plan. D, 30(1), 173-189. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1068/...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisThe defunct railway network - Belfast and County Railway. All but the line between Belfast and Bangor was closed in the 1950s, although some of it has been restored near Downpatrick by a heritage line, the Downpatrick and County Down Railway. #CountyDown #SpéirGhorm
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris"Egypt's geographical tradition: The post-independence moment and shifting regional imaginations " a short intervention, part of a set, out and open access in case of use. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- "Killing members of a group, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions calculated to destroy the group, and preventing births" This is the daily horror being inflicted on Palestinians through this war, and arguably long before it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisIdentity, patriotism, symbolism @domsball.bsky.social placing flags in context @theconversation.com theconversation.com/ive-research...
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisLough Neagh and its system of peripheral waterways on course to record worst year of algal blooms to date. While rescue plans for Ireland's largest inland waterbody stall, the fallout from this pollution crisis deepens. My story in today's @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Paris
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisA thoughtful and considered article; worth a read.
- "I have to play it by ear as I have no money. God has always come through, so I'll see what God sets up next" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- I did this a couple of years ago and really benefitted from it! Great to get feedback but even better to read exciting new work from other ECRs before it’s published… 🤓🥰
- Hey @geographers.bsky.social and #geographers please pass this great opportunity on in your networks!
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisAh here. Half of Belfast has signs up supporting various proscribed organisations. I can walk out my door and go find some proscribed organisation flags quite handy. This is about suppressing the right to protest. BBC News - Woman released after Belfast protest arrest www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris80 years ago today WW2 reached its cataclysmic conclusion in the bombing of Hiroshima. But as I write here, the extraordinary but virtually-unknown story of the Aka island truce is a sliver of hope. Other outcomes are possible. @spaceforpeace.bsky.social theconversation.com/when-us-and-...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisAbu Dhabi owned provider of special schools and children's homes sees profits rise by 28% to £44 million due to strong demand. That's all taxpayer money that could be spent on improving state provision. schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-ow...
- Je suis tout fier de pouvoir partager mon premier article à sortir en francais! Avec Rodrigue Tassé, nous examinons la formation des diplomates à l’Institut des Relations Internationales du Cameroun depuis 1971. Ce lien donne accès à l'article gratuitement pour un mois shs.cairn.info/tap-xue6pwfw...
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris'A woman who refused to be silenced in fight for republican independence' Thanks to the @irish_examiner for this wonderful exposure of our new biography on Mary MacSwiney in last Saturday's paper. Mary MacSwiney will have it's Cork launch at City Hall this Friday All welcome RSVP ucdpress@ucd.ie
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisIrish-Scottish Cultural Diplomacy and Relations event in Dublin (and online) this September @ria.ie Programme and registration information can be found here: www.tickettailor.com/events/royal...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisGeopolitical football: The cold war match that never happened www.theguardian.com/football/202...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisWarm congratulations to our colleagues @benandersongeog.bsky.social and @ajsecor.bsky.social on the publication of their new book 'The Politics of Feeling: Populism, Progressivism, Liberalism'. www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...
- Listening on my lunch break… Great to hear the work of my colleague @lloislanel.bsky.social on Mary MacSwiney name-checked during a @theresthistory.bsky.social episode on 'The Irish War of Independence (Part 2)'. 🙌 👇 www.connollybooks.org/product/mary...
- My research over the next four years at @dublincityuni.bsky.social is generously funded by @researchireland.ie! 🥳🙏😇 ‘Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus’ will work with #Indian, #Brazilian and #Algerian communities across the island of #Ireland. 👇 www.dcu.ie/research/new...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisThe decimation of life in Gaza is a reproductive genocide. It was a privilege to work with Hala Shoman on our commentary 'No justice in a genocide: sexual and reproductive health and rights in Gaza' in Sexual and Reproductive Health Matters www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisVol. 88 is out! It is our 50th anniversary issue, and includes a special issue on ‘Archives as Worldmaking’ edited by @jakehodder.bsky.social and @snehakrishnan.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-historical-geography/vol/88/suppl/C Take a look at the contents below 🧵 1/31
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisNext Wednesday, June 25th! Join us at the Royal Irish Academy for “The 2024 Northern Ireland General Election Survey” with Professors Peter Shirlow & @jontonge.bsky.social The event is free, but registration is required🎟️ Still some tickets left: www.ria.ie/events/arins...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisCFP: Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958 10–11 Nov. 2025 Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo Organizers: Erica Moretti, Jacopo Pili, Simon Unger Deadline: June 10, 2025 For details: newdiplomatichistory.org/calls-for-pa...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisOnce again, @nsousanis.bsky.social demonstrates how to make a clear, multi-layered argument using the language and power of comics. Share widely!
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris25 grad students will have accommodation provided (deadline June 9) for this fee-free Summer School, University of Bologna, Italy, Sept 8-12, "Dissonant memories: geographies of migration, colonialism and trauma". centri.unibo.it/memorylab/it... #unibo
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisThere is so much... but this snapshot especially sobering as that (fired) advisory committee was such a terrific group of experts--as are the state dept. historians.
- Great job opportunity here to do some fascinating research with the wonderful @emorier.bsky.social 👇
- ** JOB ALERT ** Research position (3 years) at Queen's University Belfast to conduct research on project “Governing Jihad in Africa”. This position is to do comparative fieldwork on the ideology of at least two jihadi groups in Africa. Details here: hr.apps.qub.ac.uk/jobs/job_des...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisYes, it took a genocide for our government to finally act & yes, it is disappointingly watered down. Yet this is still historic. Thanks to relentless campaign pressure, Ireland is now poised to be the first Western country to ban trade with illegal Israeli settlements www.rte.ie/news/2025/05...
- 📢📢 I'm recruiting for my project “Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus” here in DCU. Both positions are four years, from September. Postdoc (Brazilian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 9th June www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... PhD (Indian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 12th June www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...
- So pleased to be back in Aix-en-Provence for the 6th @ndh-network.bsky.social hosted by Sciences-Po - sharing outcomes from www.diplotraining.org research over the past few years in our session on Saturday. So many fascinating papers to hear myself before then!
- Great time last week attending @ndh-network.bsky.social in the Provence sunshine with the www.diplotraining.org #dreamteam @drruthcraggs.bsky.social & Fiona McConnell 😇
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisRemember to register for next week's online-only seminar: a panel discussion of 'Adorno and the Antifascist Geographical Imagination,' by Chris Philo. Featuring @milesogborn.bsky.social, @stuartelden.bsky.social, and @feli-k.bsky.social. Details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/a-pan...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisA reminder that this funded PhD closes this week (21st May)!
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisWe sent @hooks.bsky.social to Greenland and he came back with a story about imperial folly, the return of the 19th century, and just what Donald Trump and his cronies are really up to there. It's the best thing I've read about Trump's second term newrepublic.com/article/1947...
- Great to see - political geographers continuing to advance our thinking on what 'popular geopolitics' looks like in the digital, social, AI-generated media age...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisWhen we discuss the genocide in Gaza, we must choose our words carefully. My letter in today's edition of the @irishtimes.com
- Joy to spend the afternoon at @tcddublin.bsky.social to hear @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social deliver the final public lecture on French Studies, focused on her forthcoming book… on the écrivain médiatique in contemporary French literature
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisAttention ECR/HDR Political Geographers: our 2025 paper award deadline is fast approaching (23 May). Please see the guidelines in the link below and let us know if you have any questions: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i... @acbsnetwork.bsky.social
- Award alert! For the best paper on a political geography topic published by an ECR/HDR candidate that is an active member of the IAG Political Geography Group. The winner will be awarded AUD500 Deadline: 23rd May 2025 (COB AEDT) All details: politicalgeographyaus.wordpress.com/2025/03/03/i...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisNot since the final years of the Cold War has the Kremlin wielded the concept of colonialism as a tool of its foreign policy as aggressively as it does today. @opolianichev.bsky.social challenges this growing political mythology, for @newlinesmag.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisGreat article by @peadarheaney.bsky.social on the impact of climate change on GBV belfastmedia.com/climate-chan...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisAfter an amazing three days the Conference of Irish Geographers draws to a close. Thanks to all who participated in an incredible programme of presentations, roundtables, posters and two fantastic keynotes. #CIG2025
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisNow out in issue 30(3): The Many Semantic Lives of Geopolitics: Evidence from the New York Times Archive 1900-2023 by Gerard Toal & Derya Ipek Eroglu @critgeopolitics.bsky.social Read more here:
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris🎉Finally published OA: My article on the white appropriation of decolonization
- Reposted by Jonathan Harris📢March Issue of Area📢 The latest Issue of Area brings together a 'Thinking with Methods' Special Section - 'Inside the Notebook' - alongside 6 standard papers. 11 of the 15 papers are #OpenAccess and available to read here ⬇️ rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14754762... #geosky
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisJust one week to go! www.conferenceofirishgeographers.ie/programme.ht...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisMy colleagues are all frantically trying to write their ‘justification’ document for compulsory redundancies at the same time as finish up teaching semesters & do fantastic research, as well as parent, live lives, and carry on regardless. This is an unnecessary cruelty. Brutal.
- Now out: 'Drawing China: Negotiating Geopolitics in Online Communities', @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social prize winner at last summer's #Belfast IGU pre-conference. Congratulations to Simon Wellisch and Songmin Liang! Thanks @reecejones.bsky.social for sponsoring. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisToday, the ESRI has published 'Comparative Analysis of Economies of Ireland and Northern Ireland', commissioned as part of the Institute’s research programme with the Shared Island Unit, Department of the Taoiseach. 💡 Read the key findings: www.esri.ie/news/compara...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisThe ERC have given me 5 years to figure out what Europeans really think about democracy. If you would like to come and join me in the endeavour, then I am currently hiring a postdoc @sotonpolitics.bsky.social. Deadline: 30 April | Details here: jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... #polisky
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisCall for Expressions of Interest, Editorial Committee, UCD Press Looking for Board Members in History; Literature; Social Sciences; Music; Science, Technology & Society; Environmental Humanities Statement of interest & CV to ucdpress@ucd.ie by 15 May '25 Read more here mailchi.mp/82e866560efc...
- Reposted by Jonathan HarrisThe cost of inaction on tackling pollution would be much greater than that of a Commissioner to ensure we take necessary action. I am pleased the Regulations to create the post, required under the Climate Change Act brought by a DUP Minister, passed today www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/norther...
