SPIN Winter Newsletter

In this latest newsletter, we’re pleased to welcome new SPIN members, announce new opportunities and celebrate new publications.

Announcements

• The recording of the talk by Jeff Whyte (Lancaster), ‘The Birth of Psychological War’, is now available on YouTube.
• The recording of the talk by Vera Zurbrügg (UAL), ‘Articulated Absences Archive’, is now available on YouTube.
• Both the SPIN Routledge Handbook of Gender and Secrecy and the SPIN Routledge Handbook of Secrecy Studies are moving forward. There is still an opportunity to contribute a chapter to either volume. Do please get in touch if interested. Further updates and details for all existing contributors to follow.
• A new working group of the British International Studies Association (BISA), the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group (CAWP) has been launched, co-chaired by Natalie Jester. It is an experimental, creative, and non-mainstream research space for IR that may appeal to those in our community. Please follow the link for further information.

Events

If you would like to share your research through a working paper session or public talk next year (Autumn 2026/Winter 2027), please do get in touch.

New Publications and Press

• Ana Flamind has a new paper in Security Dialogue: “The making of a racial scandal: security and the location of critique”. This is part of a larger forthcoming special issue on scandal that also includes an article by Owen.

• Clare Birchall, with Daniël de Zeeuw and Peter Knight have a new paper in Cultural Politics: ‘On Pysop Realism’

• Two new contribution to the SPIN A-Z series are now live, both by Theo Kindynis: ‘D is for Deep Politics’ and ‘P is for Parapolitics’

• Tintin Wulia and Wiliam Walters contribution to the LSE Blog: ‘Exhibiting Secrecy’

• Clare Birchall and the project team of the EU-funded REDACT project (“Researching Europe, Digitalisation and Conspiracy Theories”) has published a series of reports on conspiracism across Europe.

As always, do let us know of any news we can share by emailing us at secrecyresearch@gmail.com