Jonathan Luke Austin

Jonathan Luke Austin

Associate Professor

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Introductory remarks on publicationslist

Please find below a list of my latest publications, ranging from academic articles, through book chapters and monographs, towards policy papers and non-traditional outputs. If you have difficulty accessing any of these, please do not hesitate to contact me via email. You can also access most of these on my personal website.


  1. 2023
  2. E-pub ahead of print

    Visual (data) observation in International Relations: Attentiveness, close description, and the politics of seeing differently

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Bramsen, I., 12 Oct 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of International Studies. 22 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  3. Published

    'Dangerous' Fieldwork

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2023, Research Methods in Critical Security Studies. Salter, M. B., Mutlu, C. E. & Frowd, P. M. (eds.). Routledge

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  4. Published

    Escape, Erase, Entangle: Three Aesthetic Regimes Re-composing the Californian Ideology

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Leander, A., 2023, Sensing Collectives: Aesthetic and political practices intertwined. Voß, J-P., Rigamonti, N., Suárez, M. & Watson, J. (eds.). Transcript Verlag, p. 73-95

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  5. Published

    The Ecology of Violence

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2023, Routledge Handbook of the Future of Warfare. Gruszczak, A. & Kaempf, S. (eds.). London: Routledge, p. 63-73

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  6. Published

    The State of the Sublime: Aesthetic protocols and global security

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Leander, A., 2023, In: Millennium: Journal of International Studies. 50, 3, p. 730–759

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  7. Published

    Transversal Politics of Big Tech

    Monsees, L., Liebetrau, Tobias, Austin, Jonathan Luke, Leander, A. & Srivastava, S., 2023, In: International Political Sociology. 17, 1, p. 1-23 23 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  8. 2022
  9. Published

    Seeing All Evil: The Global Cruelty of Digital Visibility

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 4 Feb 2022, In: Global Studies Quarterly. 2, 2, 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  10. Published

    Affects, emotions and interaction: the methodological promise of video data analysis in peace research

    Bramsen, I. & Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, In: Conflict, Security and Development. 22, 5, p. 457-473

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  11. Submitted

    Cigarettes

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, (Submitted) Making Things International, Vol 3.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  12. In preparation

    The Future of Policy Expertise

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, (In preparation) Handbook of Knowledge and Expertise in International Politics.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  13. Published

    The plasma of violence: Towards a preventive medicine for political evil

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, In: Review of International Studies. p. 105–124

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  14. Published

    The public, its problems, and post-critique

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, In: International Politics Reviews. 10, 1-2, p. 92-101 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  15. Published

    Visibility: Practices of Seeing and Overlooking

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Leander, A., 2022, Conceptualizing International Practices: Directions for the Practice Turn in International Relations. Cambridge University Press, p. 213-233 21 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  16. Published

    Why perpetrators matter

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2022, Contesting Torture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Routledge, p. 19-37 19 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  17. 2021
  18. Published

    Designing-With/In World Politics: Manifestos for an International Political Design

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Leander, A., 13 Jul 2021, In: Political Anthropological Research on International Social Sciences. 2, 1, p. 83-154 72 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  19. Published

    Hot Tea with Sugar and the Translation(s) of Torture

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2021, Translations of Security: a framework for the study of unwanted futures. Berling, T. V., Gad, U. P., Petersen, K. L. & Wæver, O. (eds.). Routledge, p. 110-113 4 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearch

  20. 2020
  21. Published

    The departed militant: A portrait of joy, violence and political evil

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 6 Dec 2020, In: Security Dialogue.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  22. Published

    Accessing Lifeworlds: Getting people to say the unsayable

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2020, Secrecy and Methodology in Critical Security Research.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  23. Published

    The Poetry of Moans and Sighs: Designs for, and against, violence

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2020, In: Frame: Journal of Literary Studies.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  24. Published

    The torturer's confidant / Celui a qui les tortionnaires se confient

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2020, In: Horizons.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  25. 2019
  26. Published

    Towards an International Political Ergonomics

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Dec 2019, In: European Journal of International Relations.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  27. Published

    Security compositions

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Oct 2019, In: European Journal of International Security.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  28. Published

    Horizon Scan: Critical security studies for the next 50 years

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Aug 2019, In: Security Dialogue.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  29. Published

    A Parasitic Critique for International Relations

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 1 Jun 2019, In: International Political Sociology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  30. Published

    Doing and mediating critique: An invitation to practice companionship

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Feb 2019, In: Security Dialogue.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  31. Published

    Composing Global Security

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019, In: European Journal of International Security.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  32. Published

    Posthumanism and Perpetrators

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019, The Routledge Handbook of Perpetrator Studies.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  33. Published

    Sousveillance in detention

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019

    Research output: Book/ReportReportResearch

  34. Published

    The Practicing Violence Dataset (PRAVDA)

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019

    Research output: Other contributionResearch

  35. Published

    The Violence in Action Dataset (VIAD)

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019

    Research output: Other contributionResearch

  36. Published

    Understanding the grammar of the city Urban safety and peacebuilding practice through a semiotic lens

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2019, Urban Safety and Peacebuilding.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingBook chapterResearchpeer-review

  37. 2018
  38. (De)Securitization Dilemmas: Theorising the Simultaneous Enaction of Securitization and Desecuritization

    Austin, Jonathan Luke & Beaulieu-Brossard, P., 2018, In: Review of International Studies. 44, 2, p. 301 - 323

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  39. Published

    L'Entretien Jet d'Encre #14, Avec Jonathan Luke Austin

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2018, In: Jet d'Encre.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleCommunication

  40. 2017
  41. Published

    Business engagement in violence prevention and peace-building: the case of Kenya

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2 Nov 2017, In: Conflict, Security and Development.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  42. Published

    We have never been civilized: Torture and the materiality of world political binaries

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Mar 2017, In: European Journal of International Relations.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  43. Published

    The Germination of Abusive Violence and its Restraint

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2017

    Research output: Book/ReportReportResearch

  44. Published

    The Private Sector and Violence Prevention in Kenya, 2007-2013

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2017

    Research output: Book/ReportReportResearch

  45. Published

    Violence Prevention in Kenya

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2017

    Research output: Book/ReportReportResearch

  46. 2016
  47. Published

    Becoming a torturer: Towards a global ergonomics of care

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Dec 2016, In: International Review of the Red Cross.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  48. Published

    Torture and the Material-Semiotic Networks of Violence Across Borders

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, Mar 2016, In: International Political Sociology.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  49. Published
  50. 2012
  51. Published

    Facebook and Fanatics: Islam and the Arab Revolutions

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2012, In: Regulating Religion.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearchpeer-review

  52. 2011
  53. Published

    Hamas and the Peace Process Resistance, Rejectionism, Reconciliation

    Austin, Jonathan Luke, 2011, In: The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPCS) at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Great Britain.

    Research output: Contribution to journalJournal articleResearch

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