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Miranda Iossifidis

@mirandaioss.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University. Co-convenor of the Reactionary Politics Research Network. Lover of cats and music.

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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Jesus fucking Christ
The cover (yellow coloured) of a policy paper published by the Higher Education Policy Institute. The title is 'Preparing for Populism.'
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Sociology faculty in Florida are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught 'Barrett put it: “It is difficult to fully grasp how profoundly our workplaces could change if those protections disappear.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Florida professors quietly defy restrictions on race and gender: ‘This is how authoritarianism works’
Sociology faculty are refusing to alter syllabi, even as state targets how race, gender and inequality are taught
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 16/03/2026
Today is a good day to reread this @jerusalem.bsky.social piece on Paul Ehrlich, Zero Population Growth, the Green Revolution, ecofascist immigration politics, and NIMBYism.
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The People Who Hate People
Of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is that their community is already too crowded.
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Carly Goodman @carlygoodman.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This obituary makes it sound like he was criticized by polluters and jealous peers, not those who pointed out the links between the movement he sparked (ZPG) and eugenics, the very politics that have delivered us “mass deportations now” and untold border violence www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...
Paul R. Ehrlich, Who
Alarmed the World With
'The Population Bomb,
Dies at 93
His best-selling 1968 book, which forecast global famines, made him a leader of the environmental movement.
But he faced criticism when his predictions proved premature.

Image of Paul ehrlich, an older white man with blue eyes
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BISA - British International Studies Association @mybisa.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South: The Womandla! 🌟 A Third World Quarterly and @globalsouthshub.bsky.social special issue of their journal: free to access for Women's History month edited by @drkatelaw.bsky.social Kundai Manamere & Ana Stevenson 🎉 Read here! 👉
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Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South: The Womandla! A TWQ Special Issue - GLOBAL SOUTHS HUB
Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South, a new Special Issue in Third World Quarterly (TWQ) originates from the Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South online…
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Looking forward to participating in this special event on Climate Affects and Liveable Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis at the @britsoci.bsky.social BSA conference! Organised by @angelaofthenorth.bsky.social
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Robert Chapman @drrobertchapman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely! www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
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Books from Below: A Radical Bookshop for Newcastle
Opening new radical bookshop, coffee shop, and community space in Newcastle UK!
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Excited to be joining the Editorial Board of The Sociological Review!
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/03/2026
Revolutionary Abolitionism: Against Cops & Capitalism Join brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward revolution. Monday, March 9, 2:00 pm ET RSVP to attend:
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Revolutionary Abolitionism Against Cops & Capitalism
Join authors and organizers brian bean and Shanice Octavia McBean for a discussion on the integral role of policing and state violence in upholding capitalism, and how abolition paves the road toward ...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The RPRN's two new publications are open for submissions! Red Lines is a space for political interventions on resisting reaction. The Reactionary Politics Working Paper series aims to publish cutting-edge scholarship on reactionary politics. Submit your work below! reacpol.net/publications/
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Publications - Reactionary Politics Research Network
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Sara Hill @sara-hill.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Great to talk to the wonderful @mirandaioss.bsky.social about this article - ecofascism and the banal NGO aesthetic legitimising populist narratives - appears in more places than you think... #AcademicSky #PhDSky
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Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D. @hannamorris.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
The Special Issue on Backlash, Borders, and Bunkers: Antidemocratic Politics and Climate Change Communication that I edited is now available. A huge thanks to @phaedra.bsky.social for the opportunity to edit this project and to all of the contributing authors! www.tandfonline.com/toc/renc20/2...
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
I have an open access article out today! In a special issue of Environmental Communication edited by @hannamorris.bsky.social - The Populationist Climate Futures Industry: NGO SF Capital, Eco-emotions and Speculative Ecofascism www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
palestinecampaign.eaction.org.uk/urgentaction...
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Email your MP: Take urgent action for the hunger strikers
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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New Special Issue! New Special Issue on Eco-emotions from guest editors Mihaela Mihai and Danielle Celermajer. environmentalpoliticsjournal.net/editorial-an...
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Special Issue on Eco-emotions, Vol 35, Issue 1 out now – Environmental Politics Journal
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We co-wrote a book and it’s out in the world now! Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics. It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 14/09/2025
Silence is complicity We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance
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Hanna E. Morris, Ph.D. @hannamorris.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
It's a real honor to be featured in the latest podcast episode by @drilledmedia.bsky.social -- a climate news media platform I greatly admire. You can checkout my interview where I discuss Apocalyptic Authoritarianism here: drilled.media/news/hanna-m...
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A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’
In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?
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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · 25/04/2025
🚨new book alert! 🚨 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' by our very own alumni affiliate, @hannamorris.bsky.social 📚 Read the e-book here: academic.oup.com/book/59887
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Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power
Abstract. In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power, media scholar Hanna E. Morris reveals how national anxieties following the 201
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C. B. Tansel @cbtansel.net · 23/05/2025
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University. Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks. chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
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Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Tomorrow: Palestine, a sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation
Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Read this article by Cable Collective on ecobordering narratives and the British far right undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...
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“Sink the boats – Save the world”: Ecobordering narratives on the British far right - Undisciplined Environments
Many far-right groups claim that migration drives environmental destruction, from river pollution to climate breakdown. These ‘ecobordering’ narratives greenwash racism and cover up the political...
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Goldsmiths UCU @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
​HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B
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How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma
A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. Supported by: Queen…
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Food and Solidarity @foodandsolidarity.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
📢 What changed, Chi? 50% of kids in Newcastle live in poverty! In 2023, @chionwurah.bsky.social asked why the government was making life so hard for kids. But in 2025, with a new government in power, the policies keeping children in poverty are still in place!
A digital graphic with a red and blue colour scheme comparing MP Chi Onwurah’s stance in 2023 and 2025. On the left, a red-tinted photo of Chi Onwurah from 2023 is paired with a speech bubble that reads: “Why is this Government making it so hard for our kids?” On the right, a blue-tinted 2025 photo of Chi Onwurah appears with a red speech bubble containing a zipper-mouth emoji (🤐), implying silence. A large blue arrow points from the 2023 quote to the 2025 image, with bold text reading: “What changed?” The background features faded images of protest banners, and the years "2023" and "2025" are prominently displayed next to Chi Onwurah’s name.
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Disabled People Against Cuts - DPAC @dis-ppl-protest.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
#WelfareNotWarfare The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links
Image is of a pink, yellow, green background 
In black text at the top it says DIsabled People Against Cuts planned actions including DPAC Colour logo 
There are black arrows that shows where planned protests are across the country 
Cardiff 
Actions planned in Derry Northern Ireland 
Darlington North East 
Exeter Devon 
Edinburgh Scotland 
Leeds 
London 
Manchester 
Margate 
Newcastle 
Norwich 
Swansea 
York
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Traversing Harlem, New Cross, the Cairngorm mountains, histories backwards & forwards. The persistent injustices in our cities. With & through sound, music, art, books, words & friendship. Precious stories about Les & Paul Gilroy’s early Goldsmiths days! Picket lines & thinking devices. Thanks, Les
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Les Back @academicdiary.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
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Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It’s the final day we can send in our ballot @newcastleucu.bsky.social to be in a position to collectively decide how what action we take in the face of proposed redundancies and changes that would transform the university for staff and students. Don’t stick your head in the sand!
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Miranda Iossifidis @mirandaioss.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Zines printed and ready to go! “Care, Temporality, Justice” a collective zine made from the speculative climate futures zine workshops. Beautiful cover by Mack Sproates & participants. Also inside, radical imagination & envisioning exercises by Bethan & making activities by Mack.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 15/11/2024
📣 Critical Research on Reactionary Politics starter pack 📣 Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc) Work in progress (see below) 👇 go.bsky.app/AmREGSz 1/
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI on positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies is coming up this Thursday. Check out all the details and registration info below.
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The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right @ethexnetwork.bsky.social · 21/02/2024
Section 1, “What’s in a Name?”, engages with key terminological debates which have been core to the discipline for decades, but seeks to push traditional discussions further by weighing the impact of our choice of words @kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social
1. What the far right is(n't) - Omran Shroufi
2. Race, racism, and the far right: Critical reflections for the field - Kurt Sengul
3. When racism seems to be the hardest word: Critical reflections from studying the Lega (Nord) - George Newth
4. Violence and the far right: Our ethical duty to the othered - Ryan Switzer
5. Ecofascism, far-right ecologism and neo-Malthusianism - Miranda Iossifidis
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