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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Issue 95 is out! Get your copy and check out my spring/summer reading recommendations 📚

Cover of the Spring 2025 issue of Labour/Le Travail, Journal of Canadian Labour Studies. The historical black-and-white photograph shows six logging workers posing in front of a tree with their working tools.

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Ale Mezzadri aka FeministOnMarx. @feministonmarx.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Everyone! The International Conference on Reproductive Labour, Paris on 21-22 May idhes.parisnanterre.fr/manifestations…

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IIESL @iiesl.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

On May 14, we’re thrilled to welcome Matt Thompson (@mattthompson.bsky.social) to the IIESL and to Toronto for a discussion of his research on conjunctural municipalism. He’ll be joined by Kanishka Goonewardena, Stefan Kipfer (@skipfer.bsky.social), and Rachel Bok as discussants.

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IIESL @iiesl.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hello Bluesky! We've just arrived. We are a new research center devoted to the exploration, imagining and planning of alternative economic futures from inclusive and place-based perspectives. We're based at the University of Toronto, Scarborough (@utsc.bsky.social), led by @sergemont.bsky.social.

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"Price calls for the university to move away from individualized models of accommodation and toward a new system of collective accountability and care." Online Seminar - April 3 2:30 - 4:00 pm (EST) Info and registration: shorturl.at/l3yYe

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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you are in Toronto, join us on March 18 for a talk by Manuel Pastor (@profmpastor.bsky.social) on the rise of lithium extraction in California's Imperial Valley and the implications of electric vehicles on economic and environmental justice. 📍 Registration: shorturl.at/TEoB1

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Sergio Montero @sergemont.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Last year, the City of Toronto adopted some guiding principles for building an inclusive economic development framework. Join us to explore this framework, understand the grassroots efforts that shaped it & discuss broader questions of Canadian economic sovereignty. Registration: shorturl.at/Vx4cQ

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Geographers for Justice in Palestine @geogboycott.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

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Global Development Institute @globaldevinst.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group. The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester. Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn

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Palestine and Global Development - Global Development Institute Blog

At The University of Manchester, GDI Students for Palestine is a collective of voices united by shared values of justice, equality, and solidarity.

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Stefan Kipfer @skipfer.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Tomorrow, Tuesday @ York University. Readings by Indigenous Authors (10:30) followed by a rally against the announced programme admission suspensions (1:30 in Vari Hall).

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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Mental health crisis? The world is literally on fire - of course you’re anxious Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is deeply traumatic. Yet we keep being told we're in the midst of a 'mental health crisis'. Are we, wonders @wordsbyhg.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

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Mental health crisis? The world is literally on fire - of course you’re anxious

Being alive & paying attention to the world around us is now a deeply traumatic experience. Yet we're in the midst of a mental health crisis?

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Critical Sociology compiled Michael Burawoy's articles and allowed free access. I hope other journals will do the same. journals.sagepub.com/page/crs/vir...

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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

This is the first of a series of events that the IIESL is organizing this semester. Join us! Today, at #UofT #Geography & #Planning 4.30 pm

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American Sociological Association @asanews.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

ASA mourns the sudden loss of former President Michael Burawoy, who died tragically in Oakland, CA, on February 3. Burawoy received the ASA Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award and W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award. His will be greatly missed.

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

"analyzing the life stories of three garment workers in India, centering their own perspectives about their labor and motivations for entering and exiting particular labor regimes" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Tanner Mirrlees @tanner-mirrlees.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Thank you @grohmannrafael.bsky.social and DigiLabor for organizing this online event! I had a wonderful time chatting about the "labor turn" in communication, media and cultural studies. I appreciated the thoughtful questions from all the participants. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XVL...

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Work in the Digital Media and Entertainment Industries - Book Talk with Tanner Mirrlees

YouTube video by DigiLabour

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Too bad I am not teaching the gender&work class this year because these moments👇 are offering so much new material AND #outfit inspo

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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence - Autumn and i sit down together to offer prayers and presence in response to the fires in LA County. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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The Solidarity of Unconditional Presence

Podcast Episode · How to Survive the End of the World · 01/13/2025 · 18m

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RC21-ISA @rc21.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The RACE.ED SHF Fellowship invites applications from postdoctoral scholars working in any area of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in '25-'26 - especially contributions to the @IASH_Edinburgh '25-'26 theme 'Making A Nation'. www.stuarthallfoundation.org/opportunitie...

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Applications open for RACE.ED / SHF Fellowship (2025-2026) - Stuart Hall Foundation

The Stuart Hall Foundation is delighted to continue its collaboration with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) and RACE.ED, announcing a 2025-2026 Fellowship at the University ...

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

New paper published @ajpseditor.bsky.social Showing that reduced access to public services fuelled far right support in 🇮🇹 Existing work on far right highlights globalization & migration grievances, what about people’s experiences with the state? We use 🇮🇹 reform to find out shorturl.at/zQ8bJ

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Catherine E. de Vries @catherinedevries.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our lack understanding of how people’s experiences with state matter for far right support is surprising because a) research suggests that people think that access to public services is crucial to their lives b) far right parties mobilize anti-establishment sentiment: elites are out of touch 2/n

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

making it easy for us out there: “You should provide 3 academic referees; they should not include your PhD supervisor(s). The majority should be from a university other than your own”

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Vale Castellini @ntinavale.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

at least, the "let's move to LinkedIn" option is off the table

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