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Melayna Lamb

@melaynakay.bsky.social
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Author of A Philosophical History of Police Power (Bloomsbury) and Senior Lecturer

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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Ali Rıza Taşkale @alirizataskale.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Fascinating piece by Melinda Cooper connecting Silicon Valley pronatalism, the household economies of billionaire compounds, and the Epstein case to argue for an emerging “master-and-servant” political economy. www.equator.org/articles/eps...
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Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR
The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Looking forward to speaking at this book launch on Tuesday - if you’re in London come and say hi!
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FairLibraryJobs @fairlibraryjobs.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
British Library staff are out on strike from Monday 27 October until Sunday 9 November over pay: please do not undermine their action by attending this exhibition (or any other events at the BL) during that time. www.museumsassociation.org/museums-jour...
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Strikes loom at national institutions - Museums Association
British Library and Tate workers plan walkouts as industrial action continues at National Coal Mining Museum
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
If you would like a physical copy of this but are unable to buy one please DM me ✨
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Bloomsbury Philosophy @bloomsburyphilo.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Rethink the philosophy of police power with @melaynakay.bsky.social's 'A Philosophical History of Police Power'. "Goes a long way toward opening our eyes to what the police really are." (Crime Media Culture) ➡️ Now in paperback! Order: bit.ly/3W2OK8E Preview: bit.ly/4okTH8U #philsky
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Megan McElhone @meganmcelhone.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
My review of @melaynakay.bsky.social’s A Philosophical History of Police Power. This book makes important contributions to several bodies of literature, and communicates complex arguments very clearly. Well worth reading! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Book Review: A Philosophical History of Police Power by MELAYNA KAY LAMB - Megan McElhone, 2025
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Find the pdf here! www.academia.edu/129025888/La...
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Lamb 2025 care at as the end of the world
If, a we know, many trategie of care are teleological in nature, ca t a a way to en ure the continuation or adaptation of/to the world rather than it radical overthrowing, then how do we think care ot...
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Happy to see this special issue on care published! It includes a piece by me on ‘care at/as the end of the world’ check it ouuuttt 💫
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Care at/as the End of the World: TOPIA: Vol 49
If, as we know, many strategies of care are teleological in nature, cast as a way to ensure the continuation or adaptation of/to the world rather than its radical overthrowing, then how do we think care otherwise? This paper will return to the temporal registers of care as a way of trying to think this through. The tying of cure to care tends to position care as a thoroughly future-oriented practice, one where the telos is the cure of whatever pathology has been identified, a making right of what has been diagnosed as wrong. But if, to modify Adorno, a right life cannot be made in a wrong world, then how can care become detached from a goal or terminus that might motivate it, toward an openness that could point us toward the “end of the world” (Wilderson 2018, 93)? How, in other words, can care be thought of not as in service of a goal, but rather be outside of and beyond what Sexton calls “(the restoration of) sovereignty” (2016, 593)?
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
A new review of my book has just been published: academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-...
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A Philosophical History of Police Power. By Melayna Kay Lamb (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 230 pp. £85 hbk)
In A Philosophical History of Police Power, Melayna Lamb raises important issues about the police, their power, their use of violence—particularly against
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Thankfully not the same name, but theres been a big uptick in recent years of people of pronouncing my name like hers 🙅‍♀️
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Richard Dawkins is landed gentry and was born in Kenya to a colonial administrator who was in a regiment tasked with “colonial security” He also inherited an estate that was built with blood money from slavery in Jamaica. He was born to be an evil toff.
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Truthout @truthout.org · 01/01/2025
Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.
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Amazon Nears Ecological Tipping Point as Fires and Drought Ravage Rainforest
Dry conditions were fueled by deforestation and the El Niño weather pattern, and made worse by climate change.
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
My monograph was published in 2024 and will be out in paperback this year. Grateful for all the engagement so far, if you would like to read it and haven’t been able to get a copy do get in touch📝
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Honoured to have this incisive review published about my book in contemporary political theory link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Melayna Kay Lamb (Ed), A philosophical history of police power - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Registration link for this is now live! www.lse.ac.uk/social-polic...
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Mannheim Centre Seminar Series
Mannheim seminar series
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
I do not trust people who say ‘well A.I is here now so we need to learn to use it’.
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 05/09/2024
Excited to be speaking at LSE next month about my book, come and say hello if you’re in London ✨
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
This looks 🔥
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 25/08/2023
Lessons from finishing up a book manuscript: use referencing software do NOT do it manually 😩
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Melayna Lamb @melaynakay.bsky.social · 21/08/2023
Do I have any academic followers that would let me have a look at their CV and cover letter for an academic job in the UK? 🙏
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