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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 16h
TEU whānau....we need to keep our 'UniSaver divest from genocide' bargaining demand vivid in the consciousness of our colleagues at the different universities @islates.bsky.social @mohanjdutt.bsky.social @amandathomas.bsky.social @rosieoverell.bsky.social @ojutel.bsky.social
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unCivil @uncivilcollective.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We tracked the right-wing funding networks behind the civility-industrial complex. At @theguardian.com, @alicesperi.bsky.social uses our research to explore the explosive growth of "civility" and "dialogue" programs on campuses across the U.S.: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Dialogue is all the rage’: why is the right pouring millions into ‘civil discourse’ initiatives on US campuses?
Universities looking for a fix to relentless controversy are flocking to ‘civility’ initiatives. Critics say these efforts mask a darker project
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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Professor Mohan Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social on civility and speaking out. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/09/fk-c...
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F*#%K Civility!
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Written in solidarity with colleagues in the UT system.
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The Dashboard Turns Around: Evaluating the managerial university, part one
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Murdoch Stephens' new book...the book on Pākehā Metaphysics that we have all been waiting for @islates.bsky.social @mohanjdutt.bsky.social lawrenceandgibson.bigcartel.com/product/pake...
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Pākehā Metaphysics by Murdoch Stephens (presale)
PRESALES WILL BE SENT OUT MID-SEPTEMBER Perhaps best known for his work on refugee protection, Murdoch Stephens turns his mind inwards with a new book Pākehā Metaphysics. In this new book, he employs ...
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Ko Ess Ahau ☀️😷 @occasio.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
We are going to make 40,000 by 11:59pm tonight when petition for govt to stop removing the Treaty of Waitangi from NZ legislation closes. Spread it around and sign please. #kikorangi
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Petitions are addressed to the House of Representatives and ask that the House do something about a policy or law, or put right a local or private concern.
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
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Nobody Has Ever Watched Them Teach
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
an exemplar for a left affective politics everywhere @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.massivemagazine.org.nz/articles/mas...
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Tertiary Education Union Criticise Massey's New Leadership Structure | Massive Magazine
Members of the Tertiary Education Union (TEU) have criticised Massey University's decision to introduce a new executive leadership team model after finding that academic freedom is abse...
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
maybe the Dunedin police think Henry has the protected status of some fucked-up "national treasure"....this is real authoritarian shit. Solidarity with @chewienz.bsky.social and the Big Hairy News crew...#nzpol @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
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Pat Walshe - Privacy Matters 🇮🇪🇬🇧🇪🇺 @privacymatters.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
OMG 😂😂😂😂😂 In the thick of it at the Reform UK conference 😂 Fair play to Chris.
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Paula Penfold @paulapenfold.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I asked Elizabeth Mundt for an interview. She did not respond. Instead, she put a video on Facebook describing me as the "lady" who did the Fire and Fury documentary and that I am "probably not the person" she wanted interviewing her about abortion.
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A political candidate says a topic has ‘haunted’ her for years. We fact check her claims
Senior journalist Paula Penfold examines an NZ First candidate’s abortion claims against the law, official data and medical practice.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is why most faculty cannot make sense of the 'woke' University trope. Our lived experiences bear little resemblance to it. This is far closer to the norm.
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The suit walks the corridor: the managerial takeover of the university. Full essay here: culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/09/the-...
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Benjamin Detenber @detenber.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Blessed be the student journalists. www.statepress.com/article/2026...
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ASU hires professor who violated former university's consensual relationship policy - The Arizona State Press
Three female University of Wisconsin-Madison students filed complaints against professor Dietram Scheufele, who is now employed by ASU. 
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Narrative Structure of All Such Articles: P1: This is not great, but... P2-10: Increasing urgl but also his defense P11: BTW, Chair of the dept for 12 years is also his ex-lover who he groomed when she was a grad student. Conclusion: Abusive prof gets new job/retires; student victims leave program.
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John Timmer @jtimmer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The professor in question is Dietram Scheufele, who was a major figure in the science of science communications a decade or so ago.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Here's a story from his new university www.statepress.com/article/2026...
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ASU hires professor who violated former university's consensual relationship policy - The Arizona State Press
Three female University of Wisconsin-Madison students filed complaints against professor Dietram Scheufele, who is now employed by ASU. 
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Jonathan Jarry @jonathanjarry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This should be a bombshell in the world of science communication. Dietram Scheufele and Dominique Brossard are big names, and the allegations here are nauseating and revolting. 🧵 captimes.com/news/educati...
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UW-Madison students, records detail investigation of professor
Dietram Scheufele resigned after investigators determined he had sexual relationships with two students and engaged in unwelcome sexual conduct with one.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I think I can speak for the entire political communication section of APSA when I say “fuck you Dietram Scheufele. None of us will collaborate with you or cite your research ever again.”
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Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 04/09/2026
Dietram Scheufele is a sex pest and currently teaches at ASU
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Magpie Said 🇵🇸🇺🇦 @magpiesaid.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
My son did complete his MSc thanks. But it was a whole year wasted. It was like lightning striking 2x! His life was essentially on hold. And who do you complain to? The lack of care/interest was an eye opener. The system of choosing a masters topic from those on offer + supervisor is flawed.
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Written with a profound sense of sadness about the sector I call home. A managerial class that has hollowed out universities. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...
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The Refuge: A career guide for the academic who has run out of ideas
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Status @status.news · 16/08/2026
A debunked clip compilation was used to accuse Hasan Piker of calling for lynchings. He told @status.news that litigation against Scott Jennings, Salem Media, and Fox News now “seems unavoidable.” The full story in Status: www.status.news/p/hasan-pike...
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Hasan Piker Lawyers Up
A debunked clip compilation was used to accuse Hasan Piker of calling for lynchings. He told Status that litigation against Scott Jennings, Salem Media, and Fox News now “seems unavoidable.”
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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The Free Speech Union NZ: Champions of Liberty, Selectively Applied
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Turns out the Prime Minister who dissed Communication jobs needed a Communication Advisor. Essay in the link below. 👇
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In which the Prime Minister Who Fired the Messengers Discovers He Still Needs Someone to Tell Him What the Message Is
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Allan Alach @allanalach.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Read this!
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Good piece by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social | We must name racism when it happens e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-... #nzpol
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@mohanjdutt.bsky.social "Name racism here, & you will be told you are divisive, that you are importing someone else’s culture war.. that this is not who we are...It is not impolite to name racism... What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home" e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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We must name racism when it happens | E-Tangata
"It is not impolite to name racism, to document it, or to organise against it. What is impolite is telling a New Zealander of 30 years to go home. What is indecent is a cabinet that shelters him." — M...
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D Jukic She/her @dejanajuk.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
“Racism is putting "We Prefer Customers Who Look Like Us" in the shop window. It is terrible marketing. It narrows the talent pool. It makes the country look smaller & meaner than it is, & in a small open economy that depends on the rest of the world not laughing at us, looking mean is expensive.”
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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An Open Letter to the Honourable Christopher Luxon, CEO... apologies, Prime Minister of Corporation New Zealand
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Shane Jones has said racist things about migrants. On the Kia Ora Modi rally, he is the one telling the truth
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
India's anti-terror law jailed an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, who died in custody. NZ is now talking intelligence cooperation with that system. Whose terrorists would we be hunting? culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
India's anti-terror law jailed an 84-year-old Jesuit priest, who died in custody. NZ is now talking intelligence cooperation with that system. Whose terrorists would we be hunting? culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/whos...
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Whose Terrorists? The Question Beneath New Zealand's Security Talk with India
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
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Beautiful Chaos as Alibi: What The Spinoff's Modi Coverage Performs
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
A new scholarly article I co-authored is out at the Quarterly Journal of Speech. If you like reading communication theory and thinking about how to apply it to confront groups like Patriot Front, this article is for you.
Parasitism reconsidered: far-right relationality and the rhetoric of Patriot Front

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Taking an alternative theoretical route to the study of far-right and white nationalist rhetoric, this essay extends extant literature by attending the forms of relationality fashioned in the rhetoric of Patriot Front in order to make a more robust claim regarding white nationalist relationality more broadly. Such a focus on relationality, we contend, offers important lessons for scholars of far-right rhetoric, as well as for rhetorical theorists of the public. Specifically, we hope to extend Larson and McHendry's notion of parasitic publics using Michel Serres’ work on the semantic possibilities of parasitism as a way of theorizing human relationality and of assembling the public world. Doing so nuances our understanding of parasitism and relationality, suggesting that what should be of primary concern are the ethical frameworks of our relationality. While the relationality of Patriot Front and white nationalism more generally is hostile towards difference and premised upon a logic of linearity and identity, a radically democratic relationality might instead be based upon a logic of becoming and be thankful for and hospitable to difference. The theoretical ambit of the parasite holds room for both possibilities, demanding ethical choice on behalf of the public itself.
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Yup @sean-phelan.bsky.social the vacuousness of Labor and Spinoff, while performing centrist liberalism, and selling all the culturalist nonsense.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The discipline of distinguishing Hinduism, which filled that arena with legitimate joy, from Hindutva, the political production that harvested it. A multiculturalism worthy of the name, 1 that engages minority communities as internally plural & politically alive, with their own struggles over power.
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Totally justified takedown of the overrated and self-regarding Spinoff by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social For a notionally "liberal" media outlet, its coverage of the Modi visit mirrors the lack of thought we see in the gushing social media posts of the Labour party MPs #nzpol
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“India's Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, the country's principal anti-terror law, has been deployed against journalists, students, academics & human rights defenders, people whose offence was reporting, organising or dissenting.” Read more about the authoritarians NZ’s govt is cosying up to:
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I have often said this. I find liberals performing “let’s sing kumbaya” whiteness to be some of the greatest enablers in the rise of fascism. Here’s my analysis of The Spinoff’s coverage of Kia Ora Modi. culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/beau...
culture-centered.blogspot.com
Beautiful Chaos as Alibi: What The Spinoff's Modi Coverage Performs
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Mohan J Dutta @mohanjdutt.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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Whose Terrorists? The Question Beneath New Zealand's Security Talk with India
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
@mohanjdutt.bsky.social helping #nzpol make sense of Modi's visit: "A saffron flag with a war cry flew over Auckland this week, & the political leadership of this country stood inside the arena it pointed toward. NZ should say plainly what it saw" culture-centered.blogspot.com/2026/07/jai-...
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Jai Shree Ram in Auckland: Two mainstream NZ parties, the Kia Ora Modi Event and Mainstreamed Hindutva
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
as people rightfully lament some of the press releases being sent out by RNZ on Modi's visit this morning, I was glad to belatedly see that @thepost-nz.bsky.social published this op-ed by my Massey colleague @mohanjdutt.bsky.social last week www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/3610...
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What is Hindutva and why should New Zealand care?
OPINION: Narendra Modi is coming to Auckland, and with him comes a word most New Zealanders have had no reason to learn: Hindutva, writes Mohan Dutta.
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Andrew @openpolicy.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
You'll have seen me banging on about media and politicians' silence about Modi's instigation of Islamophobic violence during his visit. Read Prof Mohan Dutta's piece below for why it matters. #nzpol
Screenshot of two paragraphs from the article linked in the quoted post:
"This is the same country whose own Security Intelligence Service, in the years after the Christchurch terror attack taught it what Islamophobic extremism can do, identified Hindutva as a form of extremism in the Aotearoa context, and it now has a Prime Minister who says he is not worried about Hindutva in New Zealand even as he parades into a Hindutva rally and wakes the next morning on the front pages of the Hindutva-linked media in India.

Labour offered no counterweight: Jenny Salesa filmed the twelve thousand inside the arena and pronounced the vibe amazing, while Chris Hipkins went to meet Modi with Vanushi Walters, who wrote warmly of the growing partnership between our two democracies. The warmth was bipartisan and so was the silence."
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rimu bhū’ī (they/them) @rimubhooi.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Every second of it will now be clipped, subtitled and pushed through the Hindutva ecosystem as recruitment material, burnishing the image the movement has spent two decades manufacturing..." Ngl I give it 24 hrs before it hits the WhatsApp family group chats in the usual forwarding-chain format
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Aotearoa Alliance Of Progressive Indians @prgrsvindiansnz.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Thank you @mohanjdutt.bsky.social
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How National and Labour Mainstreamed Hindutva in Aotearoa
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Pōneke @archivesrock.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
*Hopefully now* NZers will start waking up to what @mohanjdutt.bsky.social has been telling us for SO LONG.... 🤦‍♂️
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Sean Phelan @sean-phelan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The right have turned the rhetoric of "safe" spaces into a monstrous left caricature. But this bang-on piece by @mohanjdutt.bsky.social captures how "progressive'' institutional elites can deploy safety rhetoric in gamey ways - as part of a respectability politics that is no politics at all
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