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Nicola J. Smith

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Associate Prof in Political Science @BhamPolsis (she/her)

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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
📣 Our #BISA2027 call and homepage is OPEN NOW 📣 'Fragmenting orders, shared futures: Global politics in turbulent times' 🌍 Have a look at our call down below - submissions for papers open on the 28th of September 🌟 Find out more here - we are so excited to see you there 👉 ow.ly/Irtg50ZMtXe
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Manchester, UK
Fragmenting orders, shared futures:
Global politics in turbulent times
Call for papers out now
Website: conference.bisa.ac.uk
Submissions open:
28 September
16-18 June
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨 IPEG call for papers 🚨 'Things fall apart? Towards an anticipatory international political economy in an age of global disorder' the annual IPEG-BISA workshop 💵 15-16 October this year at The The University of Manchester 🎉 Submit before 15 August (end of this week!) 👉 ow.ly/zftV50ZmQWx
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
🚨New First View Article🚨 "War should hurt: Advancing a feminist ethics of care within and beyond drone warfare" by Lindsay C. Clark is now available #OpenAccess on our website! 📄 ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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War should hurt: Advancing a feminist ethics of care within and beyond drone warfare | Review of International Studies | Cambridge Core
War should hurt: Advancing a feminist ethics of care within and beyond drone warfare
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Nicola J. Smith @drnickismith.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
So excited to see this incredible book by @columbaachilleos.bsky.social is out - absolutely essential reading! academic.oup.com/book/62997
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Advocating for the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
Abstract. On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 under the title of ‘women and peace and security’—the first forma
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Read below as Juanita Elias reflects on what growing demands for greater public accessibility to academic research mean for the future of international studies 🌟 'Open access and the future of the monograph in International Studies' 📚 Find the full blog here 👉 ow.ly/xoPL50Zmigh
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Open access and the future of the monograph in International Studies
Juanita Elias reflects on how greater public accessibility will affect long-form publications.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 04/07/2026
"We live in an imaginary lived relationship to our real conditions of existence". love this so much, and how passionately it's delivered. youtu.be/bHpht1nNtB0?...
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Studying the Conjuncture - STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE
YouTube video by Media Education Foundation
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Six years ago I published a book that engaged machine learning in terms of the politics of text, language & the impossibility of definitive authorship. Are any of the men writing now on LLMs, authorship, and text citing my 2020 work?…. No, reader, they are not.
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
🚨 One of the most prestigious awards in the field of IPE: nominations are open now for the International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize 2026! 🚨 To be eligible, the book must have been published in 2025 🌟 Submit today here! 👉 ow.ly/zu8e50Z5pZr Asma Abdi 🍉 Matt Barlow
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BJPIR @bjpir.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
📝 Don't miss this #openaccess article from #BJPIR - Volume 28, Issue 2 (May 2026) 'How Britain’s efforts to launder inequality in citizen rights contributed to a forgotten UNGA declaration' by Tendayi Bloom 🔗 buff.ly/eWjMasS @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ilan Pappe’s public lecture has been a fascinating insight into Gaza as an epicentre and the breakdown of the international order - a true highlight of #BISA2026 😊 We hope to see you all tomorrow for a jam packed day full of of wonderful panels, roundtables & concluding at our #BISA2026 reception 🌟
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Erin Torkelson, Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers - @dukepress.bsky.social, May 2026 www.dukeupress.edu/predatory-we...
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Predatory Welfare: Debt, Race, and Cash Transfers
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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Now is a great time to order my book! 40% off! dukeupress.edu/the-business...
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The Business of Racism: Labor and Environment in Brazil's Racial Capitalism
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Sophie Harman @profsophieharman.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Tonight! I'll be at the Cambridge Literary Festival discussing Sick of It: the Global Fight for Women's Health. Come along, the Festival line up is amazing. www.cambridgeliteraryfestival.com/events/sophi...
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Sophie Harman | Sick of It: the global fight for women’s health - Cambridge Literary Festival
Sophie Harman | Sick of It: the global fight for women’s health comes to Cambridge Literary Festival - make sure to get your tickets!
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Ben Bowsher @benbowsher.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
“Sorely needed” The Othered Woman by Shahed Ezaydi reviewed for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social: www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...
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Review: The Othered Woman and how white feminism harms Muslim women
Author Shahed Ezaydi's The Othered Woman explores the many guises of Islamophobia, particularly when turned upon Muslim women
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
“I’m hopeful that in 50 years’ time, many more doors will have opened for many more women, not just for white feminists.” Shahed Ezaydi, author of The Othered Woman, interviewed in @theskinnymag.bsky.social: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...
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Shahed Ezaydi on The Othered Woman, white feminism and Islamophobia – The Skinny
We chat with author and journalist Shahed Ezaydi on her debut book The Othered Woman and her years of research into the harms of white feminism.
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BISA Gendering IR Working Group @girwgbisa.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Along with @cmsbisa.bsky.social we are hosting a panel discussion of Julia Welland’s new book Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism on the 22nd April, 2-3:30pm GMT 📚👩‍🏫
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/04/2026
#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social - Dominating the Narrative: How Scholars Outside of Africa Define African Politics in the Top Political Science Journals - cup.org/4c9Xtxk - Zack Zimbalist & @elisaomodei.bsky.social #FirstView
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Preorders on Unpaid are included in our Theory Sale! "Unpaid unflinchingly catalogues the reality of labour exploitation under capitalism, presenting Marx's most important ideas in a clear, succinct and compelling way." - @graceblakeley.substack.com
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Unpaid
Unpaid upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets. From unpaid overtime and under-the-table jobs to algorithmic exploitation, ...
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Emotions in Politics and IR (EPIR) BISA Working Group @epir-bisa.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
🚨NEXT EVENT🚨 📖 Book talk: ‘The psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empire’ Discussion of Rahul Rao’s (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) latest book 🗓️ Monday 20 April, 4pm BST (online) 🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...
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Book talk - The psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empire- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA
- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group
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Adam Quinn @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
New episode of @politicalworldview.bsky.social podcast out now!🎙️ This time I’m talking recognition with the excellent @georgekyris.bsky.social, who’s thought about it a lot — and looked into some interesting cases. Check it out! 👇Audio links in thread under original post👇
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Nicola J. Smith @drnickismith.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Delighted to be participating in this BSA roundtable on theorising from lived experience in feminist and queer theory (21 April). This event is free to attend, but don't forget to register! Details here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
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Theorizing from Lived Experience: A Roundtable on Feminist and Queer Theory
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Patrick J. Vernon @patrickvernon.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New paper out from @drnickismith.bsky.social and me! It offers a queer typology of radical right populism, focusing on the UK as an exemplar of broader trends. It focuses particularly on anti-migrant and anti-gender discourses in this context. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Common sense and the common people: a queer typology of radical right populist discourse in the UK - British Politics
Populist discourses and politics, especially from the radical right, are becoming increasingly prominent in numerous national contexts across the world. This article examines the UK as a particularly ...
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Come and join us at #ISA26 today for our Review of International Studies special issue “International Politics of Cultural Heritage” 🎉 📣 4pm today at 23 - C150, Greater Columbus Convention Center With Elif Kalaycioglu, Jelena Subotic, Franziska Boehme, Annika Bergman Rosamond and more! 🌟
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MD23: RIS special issue "International Politics of Cultural Heritage" Monday 23 March 2026, 4.00pm - 23-C150, Greater Columbus Convention Centre, #ISA2026, #BISAISA26 and an image of Columbus Ohio
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Ian Bruff @ianbruff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Great new article by @rosamaryon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Security assistance, authoritarian neoliberalism and racial capitalism: entangled mechanisms of coercion and control in post-2011 Tunisia
Security Assistance (SA) – training and equipping another state’s security forces has become the dominant form of external intervention in the Mediterranean. Scholars have reflected upon trends suc...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures" by Kathi Weeks, which examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work. buff.ly/WNQyfxY
Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.
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NYU Press @nyupress.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
We invite you to join this upcoming book launch of "Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia" by Ferdiansyah Thajib on March 18th. Many thanks to the organizers, @nysean.bsky.social, co=sponsors@sunycunyseac.bsky.social and NYU MAIR Program! buff.ly/Cz28R6z
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
BISA postgrad network call for papers deadline is this SUNDAY‼️ 'Supporting research by emerging scholars' to promote the production and exchange of knowledge 🎉 Do not miss out today @irpnorthumbria.bsky.social 👉 ow.ly/Njbh50YglhK
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Nimer Sultany @nimersultany.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture: "History, Gaza, and the question of Genocide" Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley 2 March 2026, @soasuni.bsky.social Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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CPS Annual Lecture: history, Gaza, and the question of genocide
Ussama Makdisi asks why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Palestinian life consistently devalued?
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Nicola J. Smith @drnickismith.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre
The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.
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Tim Haughton @timhaughton.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Elections in #Slovenia next month. For those looking for a primer on the development of the party system over the past few decades and insights into the last elections in 2022 check out our article in @europe-asia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney is an ambitious masterwork of political economy — now in a beautiful new edition! Preorder from Waterstones with the discount code FEB26 for 25% off.
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis | Waterstones
Buy How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.
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Rahul Rao @rahulraothariel.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
for the price of 2.5 admittedly overpriced flat whites, you can pre-order the paperback edition of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues', out with a NEW PREFACE in June 2026 use code FEB26 for a 25% discount at Waterstones THIS WEEK ONLY: www.waterstones.com/book/the-psy...
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Melanie Richter-Montpetit @mellimo.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
3x postdoctoral fellowships: "Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism" irgac.org/calls/rethin...
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Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism
CfA for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): The spaces of sovereignty and the territories of capital and power are being radically redefined. Where is Empire produced an...
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Giuditta Fontana @giudifontana.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure is finally available for pre-order at academic.oup.com/book/62306?s...
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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
A couple of lecturer posts at @uomsociology.bsky.social: On racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates about 'race': www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... On political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
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Sophie Harman @profsophieharman.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Having built my career on trying to get IR and global health to talk to each other, I am so up for joining @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics! Read & share Call for Papers published in The BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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opendemocracy.net @opendemocracy.net · 06/02/2026
Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology
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Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology
We met with migrants to reflect on how tech is reshaping movement, borders, and power. This is what they told us
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Dr Lindsay Clark @lindsaycclark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
"Global takes on Trump" - my fabulous colleagues have been making a podcast: rss.com/podcasts/glo... Would definitely recommend #IR@Sussex #Global@Sussex
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Global Takes on Trump | Podcast on RSS.com
The advent of the second Trump presidency has already had seminal effects on global politics.In each episode, host Dr. Synne Dyvik will be joined by academics from across the University of Sussex Facu...
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Matt McDonald @mattuq.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Defence and climate change: An introduction
Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of security, including by states and by traditional providers of national security within states: Defence and the military. This article introd...
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Patrick J. Vernon @patrickvernon.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...
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Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies
Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra
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Stuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
www.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i... Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR
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Interview - Shirin M. Rai
Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.
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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now! 📘 ➡️ buff.ly/g9S1f2C
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉 ‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍 Space is limited so register now! 👉 ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre
The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Save 30% on #NewBook "Sex Isn't Real" by Beans Velocci, which traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of #trans life. buff.ly/Yn8UO0i
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...
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Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...
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Fran Amery @franamery.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
You know you want to 👀 bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-pro-l...
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Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice
Beyond Pro-life and Pro-choice - The Changing Politics of Abortion in Britain; Tracing the evolution of political discourse on abortion from the 1960s to today, this interdisciplinary book argues that...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
We believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future. Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Eman Basher and Ahmed Masoud will join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance.
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Me in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social at the London Review Bookshop on her new book "Extractive Capitalism". Here or wherever you get your podcasts www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...
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Laleh Khalili & David Wearing: Extractive Capitalism | London Review Bookshop
Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, looks behind the glossy surface promises of frictionless trade and limitless growth to uncover the…
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Join the Verso Book Club to be a part of our monthly online reading group! These sessions will dig into the critical, though often messy, work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide | The Verso Book Club Reading Group
Eman Basher and Ahmed Masoud will join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance.
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