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Senel Wanniarachchi

@senelw.bsky.social
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ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford Anthropology. Interested in theory, resistance, anticolonialism, nationalism, the works. www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-senel…

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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Happy to have this out (open access) in @geogresearch.bsky.social! It’s part of a special issued edited by @ayanassar.bsky.social and Jessica Lehman on Nature in/and/on the Archive
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Some pictures from the Workshop and Study Day on Sri Lankan Artefacts in British Museums at the @oxford-anthro.bsky.social and @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social I am biased, of course, but it was a day of lots of learning, reflecting and a bit co-conspiring.
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Friends in the UK: Take a look at this workshop I am putting together at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social and @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social on 13 May and sign-up here if interested: lnkd.in/emSpE33a Please share with anyone who might be interested. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Congratulations from everyone at the department to @hsw.bsky.social for publishing Creative Interventions for Social Justice! Open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/creativ...
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Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice
Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice is an edited volume grounded in a commitment to politically engaged research that moves beyond traditional scholarly forms. It examines knowledge tha...
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Oxford School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography @oxford-anthro.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
📖 Reading List on ‘Masculinities’ @senelw.bsky.social (Postdoctoral Fellow at @oxford-anthro.bsky.social ) has curated a fascinating reading list on Masculinities for @everystorysl.bsky.social Take a look ⬇️
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
@everystorysl.bsky.social asked me to put together a reading list (broadly interpreted), on "Masculinities". It was an interesting little project to work on. It’s up now and you can access it here : shorturl.at/j20O2 @lsegender.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
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Reading List on ‘Masculinities’ — Everystory Sri Lanka
At the invitation of Everystory Sri Lanka, I put together this reading list on the broad theme of masculinity. As with any attempt to condense a vast and evolving field that spans decades and vast geo...
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Back in December, we asked our graduating cohort what their dissertations were about, and absolutely loved the answers! 🧑‍🎓 PART ONE: @senelw.bsky.social, Niamh and Young Woo
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Nurses, doctors & paramedics are reporting tens of thousands of violent & sexual assaults by patients every year, amid warnings that the abuse of NHS staff has become a national crisis. More than 295,000 incidents recorded between 2022 and 2025 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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NHS staff face ‘national emergency’ as patient violence hits 285 incidents a day
Nearly 300,000 violent and sexual assaults recorded by NHS trusts in England over three years, Guardian analysis shows
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Christmas is not a Western story – it is a Palestinian one Christmas is a story of empire, injustice and the vulnerability of ordinary people caught in its path. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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Dan Hicks @profdanhicks.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Sheffield's 1904 Queen Victoria statue in Endcliffe Park was dowsed in red paint, and the words FREE THE HUNGER STRIKERS written on the pedestal, overnight — in solidarity with and to raise awareness of the six people who remain on hunger strike in British prisons today
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"We have to learn to live with our contradictions, ambivalence, self-sabotage, wounds, and aggressive drives while not clinging to the myth of wholeness or goodness. We are not hygienic creatures, thank god" yalereview.org/analytic-lyr... @yalereview.bsky.social
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The Analytic Lyric: A Poetry Folio
Nine poets in conversation with psychoanalysis
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Graduated 🎓
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Research Seminar Series: Gender Works in Progress with @rkdasgupta.bsky.social and PhD alumni and Visting Fellows @senelw.bsky.social and @clairelwilmot.bsky.social this afternoon!
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
If anyone’s around Oxford next Friday, come by for this talk I’m doing! @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @oxford-anthro.bsky.social
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Prof Clare Hemmings interviewed for Affective Socities blog ⬇️ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social affective-societies.de/2025/sfb-117...
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After Affects, Future Feelings – Clare Hemmings in Conversation
A lot has happened since notions of affect first emerged as a theoretical concept and took hold across the humanities and social sciences. The contours of what was then still confidently called Theory...
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview. "when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again." www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
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British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
King’s College London accused of putting the life of a second-year student at risk by withdrawing his visa sponsorship after pressure from a pro-Israel lobby group. He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured. novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
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King’s College London Withdraws Pro-Palestine Student’s Visa, Risking His Torture, After Pressure From Israel Lobby Group | Novara Media
EXCLUSIVE: KCL suspended Usama Ghanem after pressure from the pro-Israel Campaign Against Antisemitism, despite knowing he would be sent back to Egypt where he was previously imprisoned and tortured. ...
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PolityLK @politylk.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan. polity.lk/f-zahrah-riz...
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F. Zahrah Rizwan | Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
F. Zahrah Rizwan is a doctoral student in the Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University, USA. Her research interests include exploring the intersections of colonialism, ra...
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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse. Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
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A mouse in a cage – a feeling for the rights of another species -
Is medical testing on animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues while there are no easy answers, humans can learn a great deal from the life of a laboratory mouse.
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Tomás Ojeda G. @tiojeda.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
How do we understand this moment where Europe’s largest LGBT+ rights organisation is endorsing Europe's largest Weapons Manufacturer in the midst of an ongoing colonial genocide? Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The great historian Joan Wallach Scott writing for the Boston Review (@bostonreview.bsky.social); h/t @jvmoltke.bsky.social; #skystorians: www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
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A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
14.09.2025, London.
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Larry & Paul @larryandpaul.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.
A BBC News article proclaiming that “thousands (are) talking part in ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally and counter protest.
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Hannah Wright @hannahwright.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
My chapter on white, middle-class masculinities in UK national security policymaking is now open access: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
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Gentleman-Bureaucrat Masculinities and UK National Security Policymaki
There has been a tendency for literature on masculinities, conflict, and security to focus on the masculinities of poor, racialised men in the Global South,
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Nepal’s prime minister resigns after ‘Gen Z’ protests over corruption & nepotism sparked by social media ban. At least 19 killedby police brutality. Thousands storm the federal parliament building ..and set it on fire. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Nepal’s prime minister resigns after social media ban sparks deadly protests
Thousands joined ‘Gen Z’ demonstrations, which protesters said reflected frustration with ban and anger over alleged corrupt officials
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025! 📩 Comment for details on how to attend! www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event... @rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
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Theo Kindynis @kindynis.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
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ESC General Assembly shows overwhelming support for motion; ESC Board denies vote
We, Criminologists for Palestine, are writing to express our profound shock at the decision of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Executive Board to openly subvert the democratic will of its…
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Some pictures of people confronting the police state at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social protest in Parliament Square
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Senel Wanniarachchi @senelw.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
love this by the quakers: Statement of Policy on Provision of Trans Inclusive Facilities.
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lsegender @lsegender.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We‘re delighted to welcome Dr. Zuzana Dančikova (back) to the department as our new LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🥳 Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...
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