Audrey Alejandro

🔥 New article "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" published with @ejir.bsky.social in #openaccess: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lsemethodology.bsky.social #Technique #malecircumcision #expertise #Weber #Foucault #Habermas #VMMC

How do our own ways of knowing, living and belonging come to seem normal—and become the standards against which we judge others? My new article reconceptualises ethnocentrism as a discursive phenomenon and shows how we can study it in textual data doi.org/10.21827/cad... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

#POLI1017 #POLI2049 On state-centrism and conflict. Especially relevant for later when we are looking at Civil Wars, 'messy conflicts', hybrid wars and whether engaging with these is limited by state-centrism in our datasets.

This new paper by @audreyalejandro.bsky.social puts forward an argument that we'll take seriously at the COW war data project. This is especially relevant we thinking about recoding the Non-State and Extra-state war data.

How state-centric is conflict studies? In this new article in International Studies Perspectives 🎉, I systematically examine how 12 major conflict event datasets embed state-centrism through their inclusion criteria, classifications, and documentation. academic.oup.com/isp/advance-...

Read the latest from Dr @audreyalejandro.bsky.social ⤵️

If you’re at @epssnet.bsky.social go check out @chrisguarnold.bsky.social presenting our work on computational vs AI-based secondary analysis of archived qualitative data! Thanks for organising the panel, @kenbenoit.bsky.social and @audreyalejandro.bsky.social. Would have loved to be there!

🌳 @audreyalejandro.bsky.social has been awarded the @gsos-lse.bsky.social Grant for her project: "Rewilding the City: Collaborative Governance and Local Action in Islington, London" Read more👉️ www.lse.ac.uk/methodology/...

Dr @audreyalejandro.bsky.social took a trip to Tallinn this week, to share her expertise on Discourse Analysis ⤵️

Very happy to visit Tallinn University this week where I teach #DiscourseAnalysis as part of the Estonian Doctoral Course. Thank you @birgitpoopuu.bsky.social for the invitation and looking forward to interacting more with Estonian PhD students tomorrow already ☺️ @lsemethodology.bsky.social

I had the pleasure of presenting my research at @eui-eu.bsky.social on technicization and the governance of male circumcision in global health policy, as part of a @civica.bsky.social initiative. The paper is available open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

🎓️ We're hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Applications close👉️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

New publication: Studying Knowledge: An Analytical Guide for International Politics. This chapter offers a practical toolkit for more rigorous research: clarify core concepts, structure your research design across 6 dimensions, and avoid common pitfalls. DM for access. @lsemethodology.bsky.social

New preprint ✨ Computational Discourse Analysis is taking off—but how it bridges discourse analysis & NLP/QTA is often confusing. Here, I clarify what it is (and isn’t) & outline two main approaches to make it more rigorous and accessible. Would love thoughts & feedback! osf.io/preprints/so...

Happy to announce the 1st ever @isanet.bsky.social conference in South Asia in August 2026. Hosted in Colombo, Sri Lanka, we welcome proposals from scholars based in and/or studying South Asian politics & international relations, but also broader global themes ofc www.isanet.org/Conferences/...

Day3️⃣ of the NRMP 5th Anniversary Highlights🧁 From @audreyalejandro.bsky.social at @lsemethodology.bsky.social comes a topic that everyone can reflect on, #reflexivity. Learn more about your bias and applying these realizations to your research 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Crucial resource here from the world expert on reflexivity in social science research

🔭 What’s the future of reflexivity & how do we put it into practice? New article in @natrevmethodsprimers.nature.com I argue for three priorities 1) evaluation criteria 2) studying reflexivity as a socio-cognitive phenomenon 3) adapting it across research traditions OA: rdcu.be/eX79L

Interested in how climate discourses shape social life and politics? Happy to present my new project about climatisation with @bchemouni.bsky.social this week at @uclouvain.bsky.social 🤓 @lsemethodology.bsky.social @granthamlse.bsky.social

"Are we measuring the right things in the social sciences?" At an LSE Open Research Panel this week @audreyalejandro.bsky.social said "so many of the tools we rely on to assess research quality are really just proxies, yet our methodological standards drop when we evaluate our own profession"

The workshop "Computational Social Sciences meets Qualitative Research" at #LSE last week was exceptional 🤩Now preparing the Special Issue that is going to be 🔥 so watch this space. Thank you to all the participants and chairs for your great insights and the amazing vibe.

📭 Just published: The Case for Asking “What Is This a Case Of?” My students pushed me to write this — maybe yours will find it useful too. Curious what you think! #caseselection #methodology #researchdesign #researchmethods www.audreyalejandro.com/the-methodol... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Day Two of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop has begun and we’re in the iconic Shaw Library 📚⚡️ @lsedatascience.bsky.social

It’s Day One of our Computational Social Science Meets Qualitative Research workshop ✍️ We kicked things off with the first paper from @audreyalejandro.bsky.social @dandekadt.bsky.social 💡

@audreyalejandro.bsky.social will be presenting her work on "Reflexivity in Practice" tomorrow, by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Group of the American Political Science Association💡 ➡️ www.interpretivemethods.com/upcoming-eve...

www.theguardian.com/environment/... What on earth are we doing to our planet?

Very nice location for our 4th DiMES workshop today with @audreyalejandro.bsky.social. Thanks to @jojukao.bsky.social for organizing and @dennmis.bsky.social for setting us up in Villa Engler @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/en/soziologi...

Summer is there with a new issue of the European Journal of International Relations- Vol. 31, issue 2! 🧵In this thread you can find all the articles included: 📚Read the full issue here: t1p.de/0grt2

🧵4/10 “Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision” by @audreyalejandro.bsky.social t1p.de/7u0eo

I develop three conceptualisation of technicization: 1. Technicization as depoliticization (Weberian) 2. Technicization as disciplinarization (Foucauldian) 3. Technicization as desociologization (Habermassian) It is my first paper that is really a #socialtheory / #politicaltheory paper 😍🤓

I illustrate the interest of theorising and disentangling these conceptualisation of #technicisation based on the case study of the history of the medicalisation of male circumcision.

We're also hiring an LSE Fellow in Qualitative Methods👏 We are seeking to appoint an individual with established research interests and teaching experience in qualitative methods 🌎 For more info and to apply➡️ jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

Based on the history of methods & methodological debates in IR, I argue that the current promotion of methods in IR challenges the ‘critical vs non-critical’ divide & argue that pro-methods critical scholarship is currently engaged in a process of de-technicisation of methods.

Just to reiterate, these are really good post-docs: Relatively low teaching load (and the teaching is usually interesting and helpful from a career-perspective), friendly and supportive community, and a focus on helping you produce research and launch a career. Many very successful alumni!

📣 Beate Jahn & Sebastian Schindler's new Encyclopedia of #InternationalRelations is OUT! Very proud to have contributed to the entry "#Methods" that I wrote as an introduction to methods for IR students. DM if you want the manuscript. www.elgaronline.com/display/book...

Happy to have become an affiliate of LSE Data Science Institute & pursue there my interest in building the bridge between Computational Social Science and Qualitative Research 🎉 Have a 👀 at this wonderful team of scholars: www.lse.ac.uk/DSI @lsedatascience.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Happy to have become an affiliate of LSE Data Science Institute & pursue there my interest in building the bridge between Computational Social Science and Qualitative Research 🎉 Have a 👀 at this wonderful team of scholars: www.lse.ac.uk/DSI @lsedatascience.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Censorship and anti-democratic governance at the International Studies Association medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

📣Call for papers! 1️⃣ week left to send your 250-word abstract for @audreyalejandro.bsky.social and ‪@dandekadt.bsky.social‬'s two-day workshop on "Computational Social Science meets Qualitative Research" Learn more➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/Methodology/... @lsedatascience.bsky.social

💡 New article @audreyalejandro.bsky.social‬ latest article focuses on "Conceptualizing technicization: the history of the medicalization of male circumcision" Read more here ➡️

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Really looking forward to host this event. Please do not hesitate to reach out in DM if you have an idea that you would like to brainstorm with us! @dandekadt.bsky.social @lsemethodology.bsky.social #methodology #CSS #AI #machinelearning #mixedmethods #qualitativeresearch #researchmethods #LSE