Sam Ritholtz
@sritholtz.bsky.social
Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. Researching LGBT experiences of conflict, crisis, and displacement.
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The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
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Congratulations to Sam Ritholtz and Rebecca Buxton on the publication of their book 'The Way Out - Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge'. 🥳
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Congratulations to Sam Ritholtz and Rebecca Buxton on the publication of their book 'The Way Out - Justice in the Queer Search for Refuge'. 🥳
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
January 13, 2026 at 8:33 PM
It's officially publication day for our book, The Way Out. It's been a long road. Rebecca and I started working together in 2019, and it's fair to say that the context shifted under our feet as we wrote and thought. Get the text 30% off with code UCPSAVE30 at www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
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PhD supervisors, theses examiners and Heads of Departments & Schools get nominating today for the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize! 🎉
Awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International Studies 🌟
Nominate today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/AWo250XW69X
Sam Ritholtz
Awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International Studies 🌟
Nominate today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/AWo250XW69X
Sam Ritholtz
January 13, 2026 at 2:02 PM
PhD supervisors, theses examiners and Heads of Departments & Schools get nominating today for the Michael Nicholson Thesis Prize! 🎉
Awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International Studies 🌟
Nominate today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/AWo250XW69X
Sam Ritholtz
Awarded annually for the best doctoral thesis in International Studies 🌟
Nominate today before 3 Feb 👉 https://ow.ly/AWo250XW69X
Sam Ritholtz
To wrap up the year, I am happy to share a new article, written with Anna Corrigan, in Security Dialogue.
Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence.
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Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Transformative aesthetics after war: Grief, repair, and feminist resistance to political violence in the works of Lucila Quieto and Doris Salcedo - Anna Corrigan, Samuel Ritholtz, 2025
Art can transform narratives of trauma by centring the experiences of victims and survivors in public consciousness. It is with this reparative potential that a...
journals.sagepub.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:51 PM
To wrap up the year, I am happy to share a new article, written with Anna Corrigan, in Security Dialogue.
Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Using political theory and cultural studies, we present a theory of transformative aesthetics to show how art reshapes political life after violence.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Some months ago at the La Terturalia Museum in Cali, I felt the responsibility to get a paper published that contributes to our understanding of what happens when women activists get killed.
September 4, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Some months ago at the La Terturalia Museum in Cali, I felt the responsibility to get a paper published that contributes to our understanding of what happens when women activists get killed.
It was a real privilege for me to be in Geneva for the launch of the @iesogi.bsky.social report on LGBTIQ people in situations of displacement at the UN HRC.
I was thrilled to contribute to the report and support the work of the mandate.
See the presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnl...
I was thrilled to contribute to the report and support the work of the mandate.
See the presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnl...
LGBT people who have been forcibly displaced face discrimination twice over | HRC59
YouTube video by UN Human Rights Council
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June 30, 2025 at 11:03 AM
It was a real privilege for me to be in Geneva for the launch of the @iesogi.bsky.social report on LGBTIQ people in situations of displacement at the UN HRC.
I was thrilled to contribute to the report and support the work of the mandate.
See the presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnl...
I was thrilled to contribute to the report and support the work of the mandate.
See the presentation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDnl...
My new book, The Way Out, is available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, we ask what justice requires for LGBTIQ refugees by centering the lives of queer & trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, we ask what justice requires for LGBTIQ refugees by centering the lives of queer & trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
The Way Out by Rebecca Buxton, Samuel Ritholtz - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
ucpress.edu
May 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
My new book, The Way Out, is available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, we ask what justice requires for LGBTIQ refugees by centering the lives of queer & trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author @rebeccabuxton.bsky.social, we ask what justice requires for LGBTIQ refugees by centering the lives of queer & trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Reposted by Sam Ritholtz
My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
May 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
My new book, The Way Out, is now available for pre-order!
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...
Written with my co-author Samuel Ritholtz, we ask what justice requires for LGBTQ refugees by centring the lives of queer and trans people experiencing displacement in the political theory of refuge.
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-wa...