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Kanishka Jayasuriya

@fafner100.bsky.social
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Professor of Politics and International Studies at Murdoch University. Posts are my personal views.

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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The political and material roots of the ‘uneasy conversation’ between multiculturalism and Indigenous issues share.google/rLvGHcFV4xe1...
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The political and material roots of the ‘uneasy conversation’ between multiculturalism and Indigenous issues
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The Met live stream of Fidelio was excellent (esp Davidsen as Lenore. Peter Gelb intro focused on Ukraine, but the striking example is right in NY, is Mahmoud Khalil and his imprisonment for political speech. @metopera.bsky.social
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Pengfei 鹏飞 @pengfeiliusoc.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Excellent article that highlights the current state/elite adaptation to changing market/geopolitical context.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
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Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal
An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In this article we place the growth of tech in China and the reshaping of class forces and the state. We move away from a focus on tech policy or elites to place developments in the US and China in the broader context of capitalist crisis. madeinchinajournal.com/2025/03/20/e...
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Engineering China’s Militarised Neoliberalism: Class, State, and Technology | Made in China Journal
An industrial policy renaissance, trade controls, and geopolitical challenges are further complicating the permanent features of the current global (dis)order that is already facing a polycrisis: econ...
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
I would substitute 'totality' instead 😘
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AHA (Australia) @austhistassoc.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The AHA strongly opposes Minister Jason Clare's call for the ARC to investigate Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah's grant. Such political interference, which the Minister promised to end, undermines the integrity of the ARC and its independent, peer-review processes.
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Streetlight @streetlight.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is partly to do with the reclamation of the status of 'native', once doled out to colonized peoples all the better to govern them, but now repatriated back home under an altered and positive sign. This too is a kind of imperial boomerang.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Academic freedom is further curtailed in Singapore and at the National University of Singapore. On this US Ivy League universities and NUS seem to be converging www.academia.sg/editorials/o...
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Who is NUS trying to protect? Political leaders need to answer - Academia | SG
Only ministers can answer whether NUS is right or wrong in its judgment that there will be a political price to pay if university administrators do not properly screen “controversial” or “sensitive” e...
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Ryan Reads and Writes 📚✨ @ryanreadsandwrites.me · 21/01/2025
I have a big ask. My 9yo son is autistic and he’s been raising a betta fish he named Kevin. Yesterday He asked if he could “share a photo of Kevin with the whole world“. I don’t know if this will work, but a dad’s gotta try. Like and share if that’s your thing. Kevin says hi! 🐟👋
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David Litt @davidlitt.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The ADL steps in to explain that it’s not a Nazi Salute unless it comes from the Nazi Salute region of France.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Mark Beeson in good form here : johnmenadue.com/with-friends...
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With friends like these... - Pearls and Irritations
It's possible that our great and powerful friend may cease to be a democracy, in anything but name, and that’s just domestic problems.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A focus on the role of women in left-wing parties/movements would be good particulary in the global south but also broader transnational socialist and communist forums. For a flavour see academic.oup.com/past/article... With a Australian focus see here onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965*
Abstract. In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
FForget about Greenland or Canada—the defining feature of the Trump administration is the crisis of social reproduction—as the LA fires vividly demonstrate—alongside the ongoing political crisis.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
This is sharp on identity politics particularly on the politics of identity by the right. But we should be asking: why now ? how this shift relates to the hollowing out of mass politics and the intensification of crises of social reproduction. novaramedia.com/2024/12/30/i...
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Identity Politics Is Dead, and the Far Right Knows It | Novara Media
People are tired of identity politics - and the rainbow coalition lining up behind Donald Trump proves it, writes Richard Seymour.
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Jamie Doucette @jamiedoucette.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I don’t really feel like Han’s impeachment (appoint the CC judges, already) is the story of the day, but rather the details dripping out of the investigations into various figures that reveal the extent of martial law plotting over the last 8 months and the dangers it would imply if successful.
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"윤석열, 3월부터 '비상대권'"‥"8달 동안 비상계엄 구체화"
검찰수사에 따르면 윤 대통령이 비상계엄을 처음으로 입에 올리기 시작한 건 지난 3월부터였습니다. '비상대권', 즉 대통령이 비상조치를 취할 수 있는 권한을 반복적으로 ...
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
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A Microcosm of the World | C.L.R. James, Stuart Hall, Phoebe Braithwaite
In May 1976, the Jamaican-born cultural theorist Stuart Hall sat down in the BBC’s studios in West London to interview the Trinidadian-born intellectual
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
the Hitler meme posting white guy from South Africa who routinely boosts neo-Nazis and white supremacists on his twitter feed and worries about white population declines openly supports Germany's far right party? Quelle surprise
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Elke Schwarz @elkeschwarz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Two reading recommendations for today: first, @sophiagoodfriend.bsky.social with a book review which makes some very incisive points on the tech sector's recent incursion into security and military matters here: www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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The New Old Warfare - Boston Review
The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
This will be the story of the next decade: increased fiscal pressure alongside a growing crisis of social reproduction, including ecological disasters and militarised neoliberalism. And in both the global North and South. www.ft.com/content/1c67...
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Brazil currency sell-off piles fiscal reform pressure on Lula
Investors issue warning after central bank burns through billions of dollars and lifts rates in attempt to prop up real
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Crypto and its political imaginaries of the authoritarian neoliberalism of the far right. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpre...
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Donald Trump and the “crypto capital of the planet”
Bitter experience shows a “global” crisis can result from failures of domestic governance and regulatory oversight in the United States.
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New article accepted at CPS. @denis-cohen.bsky.social @thmskrr.bsky.social and I analyze how rental market risk affects radical right support. Combining data on local rent increases with the SOEP, we find that individuals facing increasing local rents become more likely to support the AfD. 🧵
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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 15/12/2024
💯 My current thinking is that the portion of the field that I inhabit has been so shaped by the 30+ years of post-Cold War liberal democratic politics that we have lost the vocabulary to describe its alternatives
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
A lot of the problem is that these accounts valorise institutional failure without addressing the social forces that shape these failures. This might seem obvious, but the failure has to do with the marginalisation of structural theories and debates ( Weber and Marx ) in comparative politics.
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Søren Mau @sorenmau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
In Capital vol. 3, Marx writes that he wants to examine capitalism in its "idealen Durchschnitt." This is usually translated as "ideal average," but I believe a more accurate translation would be "ideal cross-section." I think this is a geological metaphor rather than a mathematical one. 1/5
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2024
NEW: The Biden administration has separated around 300 children from their parents or legal guardians — most at the southwestern border — in the past year, according to government sources. propub.li/3ZPTwsT By @micarosenberg.bsky.social
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She Was Separated From Her 1-Year-Old at the Border. The Government Wouldn’t Tell Her Why.
U.S. officials can withhold their rationale in family separation cases that relate to national security. There have been about 80 children separated for these reasons this year, with an estimated 50 of them Russian.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
It is emblematic of deeper issue: the way liberal professional and academic institutions seem to articulate an explicit set of different standards for such issues as scholasticide or the media in Gaza.
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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I’ve reported on homelessness for years and met many, many people who have found themselves in awful situations Every single one of them had more decency and integrity than this privileged plutocrat
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
What's with all the spy shows on streaming servics?
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
This is an interesting article on the rise of HR department. Still, it has broader relevance to Universities where HR has been at the centre of neoliberalisation of the University and increasing crucial site of power within the University. www.newstatesman.com/business/202...
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HR Britain: how human resources captured the nation
Is HR the force holding back our economy?
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It is good to see this in the Guardian - showing the complexities of class, caste and minority status within the Indian Diaspora and the surveillance of the diaspora. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Beyond Bollywood and butter chicken’: rethinking Australia’s deeply misunderstood Indian diaspora
While vibrant and successful, the Indian diaspora in Australia is also fractured and fearful. Is the country paying attention?
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matt vidal @chukker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
The conservative attack on social science is in full swing Florida Board of Governors eliminates Principles of Sociology from the core requirements The education commissioner said sociology had “been hijacked by left-wing activists” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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Republicans Target Social Sciences to Curb Ideas They Don’t Like
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing subjects like sociology from core requirements.
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Make no mistake, colleagues: the exclusion of humanities & social science research from national competitive funding could easily happen here in Australia. The signs & actors are already clear. We let it happen at our collective peril.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Jamie Doucette’s book on Korea is very useful contextualising the current crisis in Korea. here is my review essay on the book and pointing to the broader crisis of social reproduction in Korea. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Crisis of Crisis Management: Social Reproduction and the Politics of the Developmental State
Jamie Doucette’s The Postdevelopmental State: Dilemmas of Economic Democratization in Contemporary South Korea is an outstanding account of democratic politics and the “post-development state” in S...
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
With Bluesky user numbers rocketing, more official news accounts are arriving. Here is a starter pack of major media outlets. Feel free to repost, I’ll keep this updated as more arrive.
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Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
For colleagues curious about what is happening at the Australian National University www.afr.com/work-and-car...
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ANU staff rebel against boss Genevieve Bell’s Silicon Valley restructure
University staff say they feel demoralised by Genevieve Bell’s leadership, calling her proposed overhaul “a corporate-style raid of a national institution”.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My new word to be added to my list of 'weasel words' ( cf Don Watson ) is 'thought leader' - everyone seems to be a 'thought leader these days.
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Florida State University had to cancel 432 courses because the state won't allow teaching about gender theory or post-colonialism, and the University of Texas system is restricting teaching about critical race theory and queer theory, and yet we're still doing this sort of story?
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Useful to consider the experience of Syriza that operated within the austerity politics of the EU but also key elements of the state - the central bank- were incorporated within the auserity reigme of the EU.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Excellent on the demise of the old political parties but also the complex political and social terrain on which the NPP has to operate.The key is the politics of austerity that has been imposed on Sri Lanka and the social forces and state agencies that underpin it. 1 jacobin.com/2024/11/sri-...
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Sri Lanka’s People Have Kicked Out the Old Political Class
The progressive alliance that backs Sri Lanka’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, won a landslide victory in last week’s parliamentary election. The government has a clear mandate for change bu...
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Great day for a trip to Wadjemup. Enjoy the conference.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
On the COP29 outcome, I'm comparing the rosy, technocratic press releases of corporate Western NGOs ("ripe opportunity"; "a hard-won victory for multilateralism") with the absolutely furious statements from the Global South and oh boy does it feel like we're being gaslit.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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The Rape Gang
Trump’s team of rival predators is the cartoon-villain personification of Biden’s backing of dehumanization in Gaza
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
You should post something.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Great piece.
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Monika Barthwal-Datta @monikabd.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Sharing 3 of my most recent works as a way of saying hello on this platform! First, an article on 'Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya' co-authored with the brilliant Shweta Singh (SouthAsianUniversity) in International Affairs: academic.oup.com/ia/article-a...
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Populism and foreign policy: India's refugee policy towards the Rohingya
How has India's refugee policy been shaped by the populist project of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party? Drawing on the Laclauian idea of populism as a pol
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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
To those prepping 2026 Discovery Projects EOIs while still waiting on 2025 outcomes: I don't know when they'll be released. I'm sorry. Remember, ARC *planned* this. Planned outcomes for 20–29Nov & 13Dec EOI deadline. They knew ~500 teams would now be wasting time prepping EOIs.
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Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Please add me
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