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Ben Pitcher

@benpitcher.bsky.social
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Director of the Centre for Social Justice Research UofW. I work on the cultural politics of race. Latest book: Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture www.benpitcher.com

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Ben Whitham @drbenwhitham.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Worth reading this to understand that the UK's recent press regulator has views identical to openly white supremacist perspectives on "racial self-interest". www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
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GB News critics want to limit free speech to ‘liberal, Islington consensus’, Grade says
Former Ofcom chair says he welcomed arrival of rightwing news channel five years ago in name of ‘plurality’
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
An important project scrutinising deep time justifications of environmental policy. Really glad to be involved.
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Richard Smyth @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Terrific piece on "liberal indigeneity".
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.
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Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2026
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.
doi.org
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2026
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
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Theory, Culture & Society @theoryculturesociety.org · 17/04/2026
The latest issue of Theory, Culture & Society is now available with articles on liberal indigeneity and the repudiation of colonialism in postimperial Britain, Agamben’s temporal thought and the coming community, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/curr...
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Rebecca Bramall @rfbramall.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK
A neon green square with the words: Redistributive Imaginaries: How do didigtla platforms shape meanings and practices of redistribution in Europe's mixed economies of welfare?
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Minnesota House DFL @mnhousedfl.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
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Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
theoryculturesociety.org
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
doi.org
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 17/02/2025
#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide. Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread. buff.ly/3VlVH3S
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UCU Westminster @ucuwestminster.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November. Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/ or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
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Mark Williams @mrfw17thc.bsky.social · 07/09/2024
The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE: Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars. Every. Single. One. What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3. 'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape' Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...
Black text on a yellow page - article 'Thinking with Prehistory'
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Ben Pitcher @benpitcher.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...
Still from Mary Poppins featuring Mary, the children and Bert the chimneysweep on a rooftop
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