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Alf Gunvald Nilsen

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“Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes.”

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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Some thoughts on Stuart Hall and/in the global South after CASA’s third annual symposium last week. www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥 Check it out below!
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THIS ACCOUNT IS MOVING @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2025
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. www.them.us/story/london-trans-prid…
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London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book. Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️ Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
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Beyond Slavery @beyondslavery.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social Read the story 💰⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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Global inequality is the World Bank’s elephant in the room
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political
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Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ) @divdececon.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
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D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1
It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
It's publication day for this beast today! A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South. Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Somdeep Sen @somdeepsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
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Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social - on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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PhD on Diasporas and Right-Wing Nationalism
The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a PhD fellowship in International Studies from September 1st, 2025
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Somdeep Sen @somdeepsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?" That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences. Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Getting ready …
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited! Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...
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a man is screaming with his mouth wide open
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading. Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum. It’s Open Access - dig in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Emerging Powers and the Political Economy of the Southern Interregnum
How do we best conceptualize the global South and its role in the rapidly changing world system of the early twenty-first century? This article approaches this question through a critical engagemen...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Not really.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
You can’t beat the Right by being a slightly softer Right, exhibit 76436907 …
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ngl, the conjuncture is very hectic right now.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
This time next week, I'll be at Yale-NUS College to do some "interregnum talk" -- friends in Singapore, please come through!
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Michael Burawoy's death is just so utterly heartbreaking and hard to fathom. His brilliance, energy, jovial kindness, curiosity, and principled and brave stances are all examples to follow for scholars everywhere. Michael will rest in power.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Author queries ☠️
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
So, these two great scholar-activists actually shared a birthday (3 February). Theirs was a complicated relationship - "... Thompson made it clear that he hated Cultural Studies" (Hall/FS) - but I'm in awe of how consistently their thinking enabled insurgent epistemic gain.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm SO excited about CASA's second joint symposium with the Innovation Foundation for Democracy - "Making Democracy as a Community of Life: Transregional Dialogues across Asia and Africa" (26-28 February). Check out our programme below, and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yc2anc6c
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Horizons of liberation: materialism, ecology, and the colonial question (This came out towards the end of 2024 after being stuck in the academic production system for a few years - I hope it's of interest to somebody 🙏) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Horizons of liberation: materialism, ecology, and the colonial question
The question of materialism – what it is, how it is studied and practised, and who takes it seriously enough – has long animated debates among Marxists and scholars of race and the colonial questio...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Since Chibber’s MAGA-Marxism is in the airwaves, I thought I’d give my critique of his book on why postcolonialism is very bad a bit of a whirl. DM if you can’t hack the paywall. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“Hey Siri, what is MAGA-Marxism?”
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
God bless
Witness said a bus driver told an ICE agent to "gargle [his] balls" when the latter requested to enter the bus.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
In about six months from now, this very coauthored book will hit the shelves. It's a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects across emerging powers in the global South in a moment of geoeconomic and geopolitical transition. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
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Manchester University Press - Southern interregnum
Southern interregnum - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Southern interregnum by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Friends, CASA is organizing a very cool doctoral course in May this year: INSURGENT DEMOCRACIES IN ASIA AND AFRICA (19-21 May). Full details below. Please share with PhD students that might be interested 🙏
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Revised and appearing soon in Forum for Development Studies.
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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
After everything we have seen the university sector do and not do in the context of the genocide in Gaza, I think it’s safe to conclude that there is no institution more susceptible more spineless than precisely the university.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Worsening Livelihood Conditions, High Share of Low-Productivity Work Concerning: Experts
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William C. @williamcson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I wrote about the importance of not getting caught up in useless conflicts. Some fights are so big and decisive that they demand our focus and participation. So, choosing what's worth our time and what isn't will make all the difference in these moments. prismreports.org/2025/01/23/f...
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Another way out: In fighting fascism, we must choose wisely
If we plan to defy the order of the day, we must decide between what’s worth fighting about and what’s not the best use of our time
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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Louisiana is already adapting
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Are there any kind people out there with NLR access who might be able to get me PDFs of two recent and paywalled articles? Thankyouplease :)
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
It’s quite odd to see that some folks are genuinely surprised to see that capital favors fascism.
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Benjamin H. Bradlow @bhbradlow.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Looking forward to visiting Boston College tomorrow to talk about my book, URBAN POWER. 12p, McElroy Commons 237, if you’re nearby.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Of course Trump doesn’t understand what tariffs really are or really work. That’s not the point. The point is that “tariffs” are a metaphor - a metaphor for “the wall” that will keep alien Others out of the America that is being made great/white again. It’s about public and psychological wages.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
"The second coming of Maga may also be the rise to power of some of the people least committed to any given patch of territory, and the most willing to flee when a more opportune partner presents itself." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The tech bros have front-row seats at Trump’s inauguration, but what they want goes way beyond that | Quinn Slobodian
The convergence of money and politics isn’t new. What’s different is the Silicon Valley right’s hostility to the nation state, says author Quinn Slobodian
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Take my word (or blurb) for it -- this is a great book on gig work and gig workers' political subjectivities and struggles under neoliberalism in Indonesia. Diatyka Yasih/Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Indonesia link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy
This book focuses on gig work among gig workers in the Indonesian online transport service, situated within the context of widespread precaritisation.
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen @alfnilsen.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Inequality is out of control.” www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
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Oxfam report finds billionaires' wealth soared in 2024 as global elite prepare for Davos
Oxfam International reported that billionaires' wealth increased three times faster in 2024, outpacing the previous year's growth. Ahead of the World Economic Forum in Davos, the group also forecasts…
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