loved having this wide-ranging conversation with Timothy Stacey and Annick van Rinsum on living in a more-than-human world
a short commentary from me responding to Andrew Smith's ‘What post-colonial sociology forgets: Recovering the materialist tradition of anti-colonial critique’ in Dialogues in Sociology
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'the task facing a mature society is to adapt its methods of financing universities to sustaining the purposes for which such institutions exist'
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Also some excellent reflections on this in @rahulraothariel.bsky.social 's the psychic lives of statues.
enjoyed talking to Lalita du Perron on SASSpod about ‘The Psychic Lives of Statues’, the world it was written in, and the state we’re in now
glad to see OfS ‘free speech’ crusaders with egg on their face
made a list of my favourite books about the politics of statues, all of which informed the writing of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues'
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1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/
Academic departments deserve to be saved, supported, resourced, allowed to grow even if they're not "best in the country," "first in the REF," "top-ranked," "at a Russell Group uni," or whatever other austerity-brained nonsense senior managers have been using to flimflam you out of solidarity