This, from Lorna Finlayson, expresses my view on universities better than I ever have myself. The process is farther along in Britain than elsewhere, but something of this trend is visible in too many places. newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Who are "The People"? Event in Brighton on 3rd June, co-organised by my Sussex colleague @hannahrichter.bsky.social
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Very excited to see my article "When Resistance Turns Right: Counter-Conduct and The Rise of Authoritarian Populism" out in EJST! It interrogates the conceptual space that allows authoritarian populists to successfully mobilise resistance narratives.
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We are thrilled to host an online launch event for the fantastic special issue on 'The neoliberal-fascist nexus' coming out in April edited by Henry Maher. The event will take place on 22nd April at 9am BST/6pm Sydney time. Details and tickets here: url.uk.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/lgx0Cj8Oxu...
I wrote a short, open-access account of how the High Court ended up accepting the UK govt's argument that protecting "international peace and security" means arming genocide in Palestine: please read and share - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
New issue of Distinktion is out! This one is all about theorising the political present - with papers on the fascist uses of conspiracy theories, identity, hegemony and cities as anti-utopian blueprints www.tandfonline.com/toc/rdis20/2...
TICKETS £5 (plus booking fee) Across the globe, right-wing populist are leading opinion polls and winning elections with the promise to fight for the interests and concerns of the people, which t...
Fantastic last day also for our 2nd workshop International Political Sociologies of Planetary Crises organized by @nfgaeckle.bsky.social & @kawezel.bsky.social
Big thank you to our discussants @hannahrichter.bsky.social, @dagmarvorlicek.bsky.social & @gloknos.bsky.social for an engaging roundtable!
Please join us for the launch of our special issue ‘The Neoliberal-Fascist Nexus’ in Distinktion: A Journal of Social Theory
On 30 June 2025, the High Court refused a judicial review of UK arms export policy towards Israel. This article examines the government's claims in the case and the judges’ ruling, arguing that the l...
Luca Mavelli argues that Foucault's 'impure' critique of neoliberalism tells us something about the symbiotic entanglements particular to the neoliberal regime of truth www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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This article brings together two distinct research trajectories – the growing characterization of neoliberalism as a monster and the recent debate on whether Foucault was a neoliberal – to investig...
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Very excited to see the first paper of our forthcoming special isdue on the intersections of neoliberalism and fascism out! Lloyd Cox and Brendon O'Connor argue that Trumpism is a 'proto-fascism' in whose emergence neoliberalism has been heavily implicated. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The recent US presidential election has re-energised a debate about Trumpism and fascism that has been percolating since 2015. This debate has unfolded in stark binary terms of presence or absence....
And @mflohr.bsky.social recovers Marx's highly original theory of democracy and constituent power www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
This article recovers and develops Marx’s highly original materialist theorization of democracy and constituent power in Critique of Hegel’s Doctrine of State. Through close textual analysis and th...
