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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 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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