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I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides. International law is a discipline in crisis. voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...

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“In terms of annexation, in the long term, what is really being placed on the agenda — specifically through Trump — is this notion of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians and driving them from the land of Palestine.” Abdaljawad Omar www.juancole.com/2025/02/isra...

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Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...

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By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.

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Looks like an interesting addition to conversations some of us have been having over the past couple of years as part of the @isrfoundation.bsky.social study group on political affect with @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social and others

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Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."

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My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review. Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad. 1/

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There is no hurry guys, we are only boiling alive

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To clarify: describing the present (American) moment as neoliberalism is unhelpful in the same way it is unhelpful to describe a frog as a tadpole.

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Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people. This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up: #Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory, #internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,

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📣The Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) is now on Bluesky. Please give it a follow here for all things #IR Theory @sussexcait.bsky.social and repost. Thank you! For more information on the Centre: www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...

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A carefully nuanced essay. Do read & share widely. The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology. - Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social) bit.ly/3CVWdQM

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I'm not going to be striking over pay - totally misguided venture, and even the ballot serves to sew confusion and discord

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It will be crucial to se where this goes...

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Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

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At the @isrfoundation.bsky.social conference in Warsaw in October we watched Agnieszka Holland's incredible film, Green Border, and learnt about the extent of the horrors ongoing at the Poland-Belarus border. Here is journalist Joanna Klimowitz's important report for the ISRF:

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Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty. Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy. www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...

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Looks like a really interesting event with my colleague @davidbrenner.bsky.social

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A report chaired by an epidemiologist with no scholarly background on settler colonialism is advising the university to tell students that it’s toxic to learn from its foremost historian of Israel and Palestine. jewishcurrents.org/the-perils-o...

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Exactly - and it's a myth that this helpful for accessibility. A colleague and I were trying to explain at our away day on AI that, if we had had access to this as students with dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD, we would have been helped short term but probably never made it to become academics.

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Re universities' AI policies and student work: allowing essays to be "structured" with Chat GPT help and also writing "edits" is abdicating the very value of university-level education itself. these two elements are the hardest parts honing critical thinking and the difficult work of writing

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I find it hard to believe that she doesn't know about, e.g., the campaign of collective punishment and systematic torture imposed by the British in Kenya in the 1950s. Takes a truly fanatical degree of pro-British nationalism to reconcile those atrocities with an image of "democracy and pluralism"

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The courts won’t save us but as Israeli settler violence against Palestinians surge I explore how a US federal statue that has been used to marginalize and demonize Palestinians could become a tool for holding their oppressors accountable lpeproject.org/blog/how-ter...

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Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social

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I work with these gorgeous humans! This is a hugely important project!! Respect and admiration - join us for the launch at Sussex Law this coming week💖🌈💜

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"...the share-price-motivated and buyback-driven public corporation, the extractive private-equity model, and the more exploitative closely held firm that dies with its founder all aim to take out as much money as possible, without much consideration for the future." jacobin.com/2021/04/take...

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Teaching a machine racism like some plot from Star Trek

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This is a fascinating moment to be reading anarchist responses to Louis Napoleon's 1852 coup d'état. Some of Proudhon's observations could have been written in the US in the last few days. www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/proudhon-lib...

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So yes, we all know that EDI (DEI) is hollow liberal trash. Indeed it's specifically a set of liberal measures designed to contain more radical demands, and rearticulate them as demands totally compatible with the status quo. It's why these measures naturalise and de-materialise racism.

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