violence

New Medium Post on the January 6th Indictment of Donald Trump

I’ve recently taken up writing longer posts on Medium and Substack, mainly to think through some issues that are not ready or not suitable for an academic paper and to provide easy to understand explainers mostly of current events in US and German politics and foreign policy. I will post in German or English. My …

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“The Politics of Military Force” reviewed in Perspectives on Politics

“The Politics of Military Force” has been reviewed as part of a Critical Dialogue with Professor Wolfgang Wagner (VU Amsterdam), in which we discuss our respective books. Here’s (the positive part of) what he had to say: “Stengel argues convincingly that the changes in German security discourse and practice are not inevitable adjustments to any …

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Article ““Militarizing Antimilitarism” accepted for publication

My newest co-authored article (with David Shim, University of Groningen) “Militarizing Antimilitarism? Exploring the Gendered Representation of Military Service in German Recruitment Videos on Social Media” has been accepted for publication in the International Feminist Journal of Politics. Abstract: This article analyzes the gendered representation of military service in the German YouTube series Die Rekruten …

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“The political production of ethical war” published in Critical Studies on Security

My newest article “The political production of ethical war: rethinking the ethics/politics nexus with Laclau” has been published in Critical Studies on Security as part of a special issue of Maja Zehfuss’s War and the Politics of Ethics. Abstract: Taking Maja Zehfuss’s War & the Politics of Ethics as a starting point, this paper thinks …

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Special Issue on “Visualizing violence: aesthetics and ethics in international politics” online

Happy to say that the special issue of Global Discourse “Visualizing Violence aesthetics and ethics in international politics” with my coauthored article (with David Shim) on gender, war and social media is online. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/2wVq7g7 The Special Issue is an output of the DFG-funded network “Visuality and Global Politics”. Aside from ourselves, …

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