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Chris Rossdale

@crossdale.bsky.social
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Rebellion and liberation and direct action and anarchism and queer stuff and militarism and policing and empire and cricket and cats and tired grumpy academia

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
New article! The global criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest – a repertoire of repression by @crossdale.bsky.social @berglundoscar.bsky.social Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social & Tie Franco Brotto. doi.org/10.1080/0964...
This paper sets out a repertoire of repression operating to criminalise and repress recent climate and environmental protest globally. Deploying a novel mixed methods approach, involving a comparative quantitative and qualitative analysis of a sample of 14 countries, we identify that repression and criminalisation are global phenomena – spanning the Global South and North. The repertoire of repression includes: i) enactments of new anti-protest laws; ii) creative and strategic use of existing legislation and legal processes; iii) police action, such as arrests, surveillance, harassment and other forms of police violence; iv) disappearances and killings; and v) vilification. We argue that this repression is a complex eco-system involving state and non-state actors, laws and legal processes, social and media discourses which operate to deplete, deter and delegitimise protest, and distract attention from violent or harmful political structures.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Call for contributions: Special section of Interventions, Critical Studies on Security "We Are All Genocide Scholars Now: Palestine, Gaza, and the Failures of Security Studies" Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16th January Deadline for drafts: Friday 20th March docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Interventions – Critical Studies on Security
Interventions – Critical Studies on Security We Are All Genocide Scholars Now: Palestine, Gaza, and the Failures of Security Studies Call for Contributions Over the past two years, the State of Israel...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 15/12/2025
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to show the world they are not alone. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
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Palestine activists conducting a historic hunger strike in Britain need our international solidarity
Eight people detained for allegedly protesting in support of Palestine are currently undertaking the largest hunger strike in UK prisons in over 40 years. The strikers need international solidarity to...
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Congratulations Mirko, fantastic news! Looking forward to reading it
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
We (@crossdale.bsky.social, Christina Pantazis, @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social, Tiê Franco Brotto and I) present the first academic peer-reviewed article, studying the criminalisation and repression of climate and environmental protest as a global phenomenon. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Netpol @netpol.org · 05/07/2025
We have had a report saying two women walking up to a protest today at BAe Samlesbury were stopped by Lancashire Police and advised to remove their t-shirts that say 'Free Palestine', as it may "breach the proscription order". And so it begins.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
2/2 @palaction.bsky.social follow in a proud tradition of anti-militarist direct action, while setting new standards for a relentless assault on the war machine. Whatever happens today and over the next weeks, that legacy will live on.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
1/2 It's worth reflecting on the fact that the proscription of @palaction.bsky.social comes not because the state is strong, but because it is weak. The established methods of repression and criminalisation have not stood up to the bravery and commitment of activists.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Sounds good - I guess it shifts depending on what we mean by war, but a few others that jump to mind are dehumanisation, orientalism, protection myth, patriarchy, continuum of violence, and of course, for @furtadoht.bsky.social ontological militarism
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Depends how broad you want to go, but policing, pacification, counter-insurgency, racialisation, securitization?
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the current geopolitical and higher ed context, the publication of this special forum on "technologies of armed violence" is very dear to my heart: academic.oup.com/isagsq/issue... /1
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Volume 5 Issue 2 | Global Studies Quarterly | Oxford Academic
Global Studies Quarterly is a fully open access journal that publishes original and innovative scholarship within the broad spectrum of topics, subfields, approaches, and metho...
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The piece is part of a brilliant special issue on Technologies of Armed Violence, edited by @annastavrianakis.bsky.social
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Brand new article, in which I examine how arms companies - Thales in particular - try to legitimate themselves through policing discourses, and think about what it means to situate the arms trade as an integral component of global policing. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...
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Racial Capitalism Must Be Defended: Reading the Arms Trade through Critiques of Policing
Abstract. As the beating heart of global circuits of violence, arms companies face a constant crisis of legitimation. Tracing how these companies seek legi
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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Here's a beautiful edit of one of our actions at ISA! #EndScholasticide #EndGenocide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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BDS in International Studies @bdsatisa.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
No conferencing as usual during genocide! #EndScholasticide #FreePalestine #DemocracyAtISA #MembersVote #BDSatISA #TheElephantInTheBallroom #PresidentsAddress
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Netpol @netpol.org · 21/01/2025
It's remarkable how little interest there has been in the legacy media about the police moving from the crack down on Palestine direct action and student encampments that it ignored, now to negotiated, usually very cooperative, A-B demonstrations. This is how state repression spreads.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My friend Linka is housebound, and is trying to raise £ for a wheelchair that would change her life. It's obviously extremely messed up that she has to fundraise for this herself, but such is the UK in 2025. Please give something if you're able x www.gofundme.com/f/help-linka...
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Donate to Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair, organized by Eleanor Brown
Hi, I’m Linka and I need your help to leave the house again. For the last … Eleanor Brown needs your support for Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
My friend Linka is housebound, and is trying to raise £ for a wheelchair that would change her life. It's obviously extremely messed up that she has to fundraise for this herself, but such is the UK in 2025. Please give something if you're able x www.gofundme.com/f/help-linka...
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Donate to Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair, organized by Eleanor Brown
Hi, I’m Linka and I need your help to leave the house again. For the last … Eleanor Brown needs your support for Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair
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Linka 🌈👩🏻‍🦼 @emilylinka.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Today is my birthday and I’m finally launching my crowdfunder for a wheelchair. I’ve spent 5 years housebound and it’s time for that to change. Anything you can give is appreciated, even if that’s just sharing this tweet with your followers ♿️ #NEISvoid #MutualAid #DisabledSky gofund.me/f7901daa
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Donate to Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair, organized by Eleanor Brown
Hi, I’m Linka and I need your help to leave the house again. For the last … Eleanor Brown needs your support for Help Linka get a life-changing wheelchair
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Kevin Smith @kevinjgsmith.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
"I damaged the petrol pump screens as an act of care, because in times of great peril, a caring person has to stand up for what is right. My actions have already cost me greatly. But I regret nothing." - @ritaissa.bsky.social for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/opinion/doct...
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Why doctors are willing to go to prison to protest the climate crisis
Serving GP Dr Patrick Hart was jailed after a peaceful protest against the climate crisis. Here's why professionals are taking action.
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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
From the intro of my forthcoming book (May 2025): *Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea*: "Maritime escape was a long, slow-moving, and unstoppable oceanic wave of resistance, bigger and more powerful than we have ever known." www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/566407...
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Oscar Berglund @berglundoscar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
A Conversation piece about our recent report @crossdale.bsky.social @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social @uob-policystudies.bsky.social theconversation.com/repression-o...
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Repression of climate and environmental protest is intensifying across the world
Our new research identifies four ways these protests are being criminalised and repressed.
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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The man known for “The soul of soul” which he said about his murdered granddaughter got killed today. The soul of the soul was killed. And the soul is now killed too.
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jay @jaycgallagher.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Sanctimonious lectures about violence from a class of people who have spent the last year excusing, justifying and outright supporting some of the most heinous political violence the world has ever seen.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Happy to have worked on this with @berglundoscar.bsky.social @roxana-pessoa.bsky.social Tie Franco Britto and Christina Pantazis. UK leads on arrests, but bigger story is the global elite consensus on repressing activism to avoid real action on climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds
Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
It is shocking that Turkey’s attacks on the Kurds and the autonomous area of North East Syria are treated as kind of footnote to the Syria story. Be clear: a region of Syria is under major assault; the war is NOT over.
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Foreign Secretary in Parliament castigating Assad as a dictator; PM in Saudi Arabia stepping up military relations. Both reported on the same live feeds without a shred of awkwardness or irony.
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Carne Ross @carneross.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A lot of ignorance being displayed by the commentariat about North East #Syria (known by the Kurds as 'Rojava'). It is a self-governing, multi-ethnic (not just 'the Kurds'), woman-led democracy. It is extraordinary and must be protected.
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Paul Kirby @paulcinnamon.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
How long is too long to wait for the International Studies Association to make a statement on the almost certain return of a travel ban affecting colleagues for our 'global' gathering in Chicago in Feb-March 2025? The deadline to withdraw without penalty is less than a week away. Not a peep AFAICT.
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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Israeli airstrikes have now killed 3,500 people in Lebanon. It was 3,000 barely two weeks ago. That's 500 killed during this recent period where reports of ceasefire talks making progress have made the rounds. Via @aljazeera.com.
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Israeli strike hits Beirut as Lebanon’s death toll surpasses 3,500
The city’s southern suburbs have been hit repeatedly in recent months
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Today would have been the 90th birthday of my father Nicolas Walter. His anarchist philosophy seems more relevant than ever in a world where neoliberal capitalism is so spectacularly failing us. I write for @freedompress.bsky.social about his legacy freedomnews.org.uk 🧵
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Edward Said wrote about the racist function of the label "terrorist" back in 1986 in this book review: www.thenation.com/article/arch... The book he was critiquing was "Terrorism: How the West Can Win", by Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Essential Terrorist
With the "war on terror" now official nomenclature, the problematic conflating of ethnic, religious and "terrorist" identities is now a matter of policy as well as media distortion. In a 1986 book rev...
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Lisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Another merciless day adding to 13 months & 76 years of colonial genocide in Palestine. We cannot let this become ambient violence as the backdrop to 'normal' life. Our taxes make these massacres possible. #StopTheGenocideMachine
"At least 50 people, a third of them children, have been killed in an Israeli strike in northern Gaza's Beit Lahiya city..."
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I'm getting what seems like an improbable number of new followers. Did I find myself on a list somewhere, or is bluesky also full of bots?
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
This is fantastic, thank you for doing this Jasmine
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Comradely reminder that your likes are visible again, just in case you'd forgotten 😉
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Netpol @netpol.org · 14/11/2024
Oh, by the way, today is Netpol's 15th birthday! If you'd like to support our work, you can at netpol.org/donate
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 28/10/2023
Despite NYPD attempt to disperse, crowd of Jewish protesters still in place. Chants of: "No more weapons! No more war! Ceasefire's what we're fighting for!" via Jewish Voice For Peace
a large crowd of protesters gathered in grand central station
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Chris Rossdale @crossdale.bsky.social · 28/10/2023
Strong turnout in Nottingham for a #FreePalestine
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