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1. 📢Thread 📢A special issue of Contemporary Social Science on ‘Knowing Terrorism’ is almost ready for publication. Ed by @Narzanin @ta_mills and @Tracking_power, it addresses ‘the ethical and methodological issues raised by researching "terrorism"' bit.ly/2lATJjf

@Narzanin @ta_mills 2. We are still writing the introductory paper, but in the meantime here is a video we did on the ‘Politics of Research’. With thanks to @naimabouteldja and @Ed_Augustin bit.ly/2nao34J

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin 3. The volume will include a variety of papers including: 'Questioning our agency inside agencies: rethinking the possibility of scholars’ critical contributions to security agencies' by @WeaponizingAnth bit.ly/2m6RKnb

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth 4. A paper on rendition and torture: 'Conducting effective research into state complicity in human rights abuses' – Open Access - by @ruthblakeley and @sam_raph bit.ly/2ndAFbm

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph 5. The conflict in Ireland features in two papers: First: 'Interviewing combatants: lessons from the Boston College Case - paper on the risks of state intervention in research with non state armed actors', by @MBreenSmyth1 bit.ly/2lEezyc

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 6. The second paper on the Irish question is 'The ESRC university project on ‘dissident’ Irish republicanism: some reflections on the relationship between research, academia, and the security state' by Mark Hayes of @solentuni bit.ly/2naAldn

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 @solentuni 7. The NZ based anthropologist @jeffsluka also deals with risks to researchers in 'Too dangerous for fieldwork? The challenge of institutional risk-management in primary research on conflict, violence and "Terrorism"' bit.ly/2nee7Ha

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 @solentuni @jeffsluka 8. Roberto Gonzalez from San Jose (@SJSU bit.ly/2nGAwNA) examines 'the Human Terrain System: a brief critical history (and a look ahead)' bit.ly/2n8LYBy

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 @solentuni @jeffsluka @SJSU 9. @RBrulin shows how, in the case of Guatemala, US sponsorship of ‘terrorism’ was admitted in secret government documents, but not in public : 'Terrorism discourses, public and secret' bit.ly/2lBe5c1

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 @solentuni @jeffsluka @SJSU @RBrulin 10. 'Secrecy, coercion and deception in research on ‘terrorism’ and ‘extremism’ - Open access paper by the special issue editors: @Narzanin, @Ta_mills and @Tracking_Power bit.ly/2lF8ku2

@Narzanin @ta_mills @NaimaBouteldja @Ed_Augustin @WeaponizingAnth @ruthblakeley @sam_raph @MBreenSmyth1 @solentuni @jeffsluka @SJSU @RBrulin 11. Finally, another paper written by @Narzanin and @Ta_mills and @Tracking_Power on 'The ethics of researching ‘terrorism’ and political violence: a sociological approach' - open access. Get a copy here: bit.ly/2lDJryQ