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Louise Kenward @louisekenward.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

A huge thank you @edbookfest.bsky.social @rkrystalli.bsky.social @atarbuck.bsky.social Rowan Jaines & @portyliterary.bsky.social - everyone who came along & asked wonderful qus & @pollyrowena.bsky.social for photos on stage. Fantastic to meet people I've long been in touch with & to make new friends

Flat lay of Moving Mountains at Edinburgh - book laid out with badge to festival, jar of rhubarb jam from Caro Clarke, a bright green FPN2 face mask and box of migraine tablets.

Four women standing smiling at the camera.

blue ribbon with ID tag that reads: Edinburgh International Book Festival, LOUISE KENWARD, Author.

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hannah @hannahkateboast.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

So pleased to see this letter from MPs in support of students in Gaza with offers at UK universities. It's been signed by over 100 MPs and is a real cross-party effort. I hope now that Starmer will respond to our requests.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A total pleasure! Thank you for having me 💙

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The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

What a lovely time we had last night, celebrating the paperback publication of Anima: A Wild Pastoral! 🌱 Thank you so much to everyone for coming along, to Kapka for an amazing event, and @rkrystalli.bsky.social for her wonderful chairing, as always! 💚

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The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

We’re delighted that Kapka Kassabova will join us in the bookshop this coming Wednesday (25/06) for an event to discuss Anima: A Wild Pastoral with @rkrystalli.bsky.social. Sign up to join us in person or online: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/kapka... @vintagebooks.bsky.social

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Andy Arthur💃🏰⚓🦌 Threadinburgh 🧵 @threadinburgh.scot · 20/06/2025

It's the hottest day of the year so pause for a moment to offer thoughts and prayers for all the Scottish pensioners cooking their Friday mince'n'tatties regardless, because Friday has *always* been mince'n'tatties night these past 50 years and they're not about to change the habit of a lifetime now

Jack and Victor from still game suffering in a heatwave

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

@annabookwriter.bsky.social a few things for now: for amazing Italian food in Glasgow, try Celentano’s. Ranjit’s kitchen for Indian. Bar Brett for wine and snacks, Ka Pao for Thai, Sylvan for vegetarian and vegan. If you have questions about life in Scotland, get in touch! @alyssaharad.bsky.social

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Hanif Abdurraqib on “the responsibilities of the heart” — one of the most gorgeous essays I’ve read in years. www.newyorker.com/culture/essa...

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In Defense of Despair

The feeling is most commonly framed as an end point, a level of despondency that cannot be overcome. But it doesn’t have to be so.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

It’s so lovely to e-meet you @annabookwriter.bsky.social - Glasgow is a great food city! Happy to send more specific tips and help you settle in as best I can. @alyssaharad.bsky.social - it makes me so happy to be reconnected. I’m rarely here, but I miss you!

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Josie Giles @hjosephinegiles.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

The Supreme Court is wishing a problem away and so gifting more problems to trans lives. Those lives can, must and will continue being lived in their fullness and their joy. My sisters, please give all your love to each other and none of it to the state. hjosephinegiles.substack.com/p/while-the-...

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While the Supreme Court ruled, I tore up a fence

On being trans and living a life

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The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We’re excited that Madeleine Thien is coming to discuss The Book of Records with @rkrystalli.bsky.social on Wed 28th May! Join us to hear about Thien’s first novel since the Booker & Women’s Prize-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Sign up here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/events/madel...

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Fraser MacDonald @frasermacdonald.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I got to write a short piece – On Compost – for the LRB. (If you know me irl, you’ll understand that this is a happy thing)

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Fraser MacDonald · On Compost

I sometimes wonder whether my love of compost is a response to the dispiriting cleanness of modern life – the spray’...

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Telegram from my garden, an occasional series: The impossible tenderness of daffodils leaning towards the light.

Three daffodils catching the light. Two have peach-hued trumpets, fanning out like a crinoline. The other is a white and yellow daffodil that looks like a scrambled egg. A yellow glazed bowl sits beside the vase. Improbable blue skies all around.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

I always love Helen, and doubly so when she’s talking about gardens. Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I am not here a lot, so I miss these things. Love to you both and gratitude for these wise words!

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Laura J. Shepherd @drljshepherd.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today's blog post is from my dear friend, colleague, and marvellous co-conspirator @hmberents.bsky.social. Helen writes on "Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace" (@rkrystalli.bsky.social I think you will like this one!): thedisorderofthings.com/2025/04/07/e...

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Ecotones And Borderlands Of The Feminist Peace

The next contribution to our symposium on Governing the Feminist Peace comes from Helen Berents. Helen is Senior Lecturer in International Relations in the School of Government and International Re…

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

A new essay from me on how radio tethers us to time, place, and each other. It’s really a love letter to BBC Radio 3. I’ll miss @petroc.bsky.social’s “good morning!” so much! roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/alone-toge...

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Alone together

A love letter to radio

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School of International Relations @standrewsir.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

📢 Exciting news! Good Victims by Roxani Krystalli (OUP, 2024) has been shortlisted for the L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize 2025! 👏🎉 🔗 Read more: www.bisa.ac.uk/news/lhm-lin... #evertoexcel @rkrystalli.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social @mybisa.bsky.social

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Charlotte Moore-Lambert @charlottereads.com · 22/03/2025

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I am still rarely on this app, but popped in to thank BISA for including Good Victims on its L.H.M Ling prize shortlist. Looking forward to reading the rest of the books on it! 🌻💛

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The Portobello Bookshop @portybooks.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Last night we had the pleasure of celebrating @danzep.bsky.social’s new book, Overnight, with the wonderful @rkrystalli.bsky.social! 🌌🌙 It was an incredible event & it was wonderful to see so many of you there! Get a signed book here: www.theportobellobookshop.com/978183885750...

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Q Manivannan MSP @qmanivannan.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Published! In my first peer-reviewed article, I contend with narrating grief as political action, conversing with the words of Rohith Vemula, Natasha Narwal & GN Saibaba. Big thanks to @wrawproject with @marieeberry @MilliLake & many others! Open access! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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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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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

We have these little bird shapes in the windows to keep birds safe, and at night the moon lights them up. They make me feel like a kid again each time I see them.

A picture window at night covered in pale outlines shaped like the ghosts of birds. A bit of moonlight falls through them and across the bed, where a rainbow colored blanket is spread.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

A new essay from me on the pleasure of using every fork and chair in the house in times of joy and sorrow. roxanikrystalli.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

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In praise of gathering

The gift of a crowded table

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Friends and colleagues around Oxford, I’ll be in town @politicsoxford.bsky.social on February 4th to talk about Good Victims. 🌻 It would be lovely to see you there! www.lac.ox.ac.uk/event/histor...

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Joint LAC-DPIR Seminar: FROM VICTIMHOOD TO LOVE: The political as a feminist question In Colombia

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Mmm yes, I know the river anthropology a lot better (and river political ecology too, though I wouldn't say that overlaps with political science necessarily). River historiography sounds special!

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

I'm in the queue for Martyr! through the library - can't wait to compare notes.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It very well might exist, but I'm not familiar with it - I tend to read the books and articles and follow the footnotes from there. Good luck - I'm excited to learn from what you find.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hi both! I'm not often here, but the answer is yes! There's loads on riverine ecology in anthropology/sociology and increasingly in politics/IR too. This is one of my favourite books on the subject (open access PDF at the link too). ceupress.com/book/riverin...

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Riverine Citizenship

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Wonderful choices. All about love by bell hooks has fundamentally shaped the work my colleagues and I are doing on love and care in the wake of loss.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The above is a very partial list from a very satisfying year of words. I read less poetry than I ordinarily do (!), was online much less than the previous year (!!), and I'd love to hear about books you read and loved!

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Like so many others, I was immensely moved by Samantha Harvey's Orbital. It is a novel that invites a slow reading, requiring the reader to move at the pace of wonder and to think about what it means to love a vanishing world.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

My favourite fiction in translation was The Details by the Swedish writer Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson. I met Kira briefly in Italy early in the year and relished chatting about what language feels like to the ear and the mouth.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks to Clare Carlisle, I spent the early spring obsessed with Celia Paul's visual art and words. Both Self-Portrait and Letters to Gwen John made me want to sit still and make things. They're also both saturated with yearning. Carlisle's own biography of George Eliot was also outstanding.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Isabella Hammad's writing is saturated with ghosts. I loved both Recognising the Stranger and Enter Ghost. Hammad is a writer who models engaging with theoretical ideas about politics, power, violence, and occupation without the distance and abstraction that can come with theory.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

I read Marianne Brooker's Intervals during my first journey on the Eurostar and found myself especially moved by it. Reflecting on end-of-life care, agency over death, and grief, Brooker is a powerful storyteller who manages to stay close to her own experience while also speaking beyond it.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hisham Matar's My Friends was a novel of friendship, time, and the (im)possibility of returning home. I also loved that it was a political novel that did not make its other themes subordinate to politics, showing instead how the grand plots of politics inflect daily life.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Ayşegül Savaş is a writer turn to when I think about what it means to make a life. Her new novel, The Anthropologists, reflects the joy of cramming loved ones onto a sofa and waking to feed them. There’s a sweet ache through it: the ache of being foreign, and of confronting what homes demand of us.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

@garthgreenwell.bsky.social's Small Rain is one of the most tender novels of illness and recovery, and I want to press it into everyone's hands. Greenwell writes touch so well. He is thoughtful on the nostalgia and illusion of nobility / desire for transformation that sudden illness brings to life.

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Hello friends! What did you love reading this year? Here is a very incomplete list of favourite books of 2024 (if I can figure out how to create a thread On Here ...). Because it's impossible to pick among beloveds, the list excludes books by authors whose events I've hosted.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This is excellent 👇 If you haven't had the chance to watch this lecture or read the article version yet, it is well worth your time.

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Institute of Intercultural & International Studies (InIIS) @iniis.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The exhibition draws a lot on Philipp Schulz and Roxani Krystalli's (@rkrystalli.bsky.social) research project "Centering #Love and #Care in #Peace and #Conflict Studies" (www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...)

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A Different Kind of War Story: Centering Love and Care in Peace and Conflict Studies - Universität Bremen

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

A new essay from me about the opening of the Thessaloniki metro after a century (!) of plans. I’ve been thinking about how time moves in different places and about how many clocks one human can keep. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The promise of modernity

On places (un)frozen in time

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Researching how practices of love and care help people imagine worlds in the wake of loss has filled my life with joy and meaning this year. Philipp Schulz and I loved chatting to @pollypw.bsky.social of @europeanisa.bsky.social about this work. open.spotify.com/episode/4IEC...

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What is...Love and Care in International Relations?

Voices: The EISA Podcast · Episode

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Roxani Krystalli @rkrystalli.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I am barely ever here, but it matters to show up for the joys. It was a gift to supervise DR @sarahgharib.bsky.social along with @jasminekgani.bsky.social. I have learned so much from her feminist, decolonial praxis, and the world will too.

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Maria Martin de Almagro @drmmartind.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Saturday’s are for reading friends’ @rkrystalli.bsky.social and Shirin Rai fantastic work

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