The institutional panic that comes with any mention of Palestine. This is bad
...currently working through my inbox to see if I can find anything "political" said by the higher-ups. Will keep you all posted. This is serious shit #nzpol
the dodgy go-betweens of an academic imprint quoting me £56 plus vat (i.e my royalty cheque) to use a 16 word epigraph in a book chapter, with the online customer service guy kindly reassuring me that if I used the quote in the body of the chapter, there would be no charge 🙂
Great thread from @lauramca.bsky.social on some of the misconceptions amplifying the transnational radical right discourse on Belfast
the conference scene and the meaning of the "international" #academicsky
Sean Phelan
Sean Phelan
Some of the most exciting thinking about political economy in Britain has come out of PERC. Its closure is a huge loss and an indictment of the state of UK academia www.goldperc.uk/project_post...
Sean Phelan
Sean Phelan
Sean Phelan
Here, for channel 4, my colleague @robtoes.bsky.social gives the clearest most direct explication I’ve seen on ‘mainstream’ media: the link between social media, elite political projects (forged over time), money making and white nationalism.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=nq-Y...
"A breakup letter with media studies" by Nabil Echchaibi
academic.oup.com/ccc/article-...
"It has become impossible to identify with a field and academic institutions that refuse to answer a basic call of human decency: to denounce an ongoing genocide." #ICA26
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: our.actionstation.org.nz/petitions/re...
The interesting yet disturbing dynamic i keep seeing on social media is the racist riots and pogroms in the North are fundamentally occurring - and being coordinating - in Loyalist areas and they are being cheered on by racists from the Republic of Ireland, not nationalists from the North.
The Political Economy Research Centre is to close formally this summer. Here, founding Director, Will Davies, reflects on its twelve years of activity. It took two or three years before the causes, ef...
