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This evening i'll be in conversation with Mike Braddick about his new biography of the great Marxist historian of the English Revolution, Christopher Hill, at @housmansbookshop.bsky.social housmans.com/event/book-l...

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My column on the budget, journos asking how the govt will pay for things and Dutton and his properties www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

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Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...

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Wondering about the scare stories of wealthy tax flight based on non-dom tax changes or private school VAT? Our new research explains why the vast majority won’t migrate, and are snobbish about tax havens w/@andy-summers.bsky.social Emma Taylor,Victoria Gronwald academic.oup.com/ser/advance-...

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I've reviewed Brigitte Studer's masterful recent history of the Comintern and the "professional revolutionaries" who dedicated their lives to its service, 'Travellers Of The World Revolution' (@versobooks.bsky.social) for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2025/02/comi...

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TOMORROW! Join @lilygeismer.bsky.social @brentcebul.bsky.social @pastpunditry.bsky.social @danielle-wiggins.bsky.social & Dylan Gottlieb at 7pm via Zoom to discuss The Limits of Professional-Class Liberalism, moderated by contributing editor Simon Torracinta. Register here: tinyurl.com/4cxpm8fa

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This is really worth a read - provocative but spot on in many ways: blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

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Excited to hold my first book talk on 'The Time Inheritors' @bc-cihe.bsky.social on 18 March at 12:30. Folks in Boston, see you soon! @weirongguo.bsky.social @cliu.bsky.social @philipthai.bsky.social

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Thu 20 Feb, FREE Unimelb researchers - Unlock the potential of parliamentary transcripts for humanities, arts and social sciences. Learn to access, analyse, and interpret texts, and gain hands-on experience with text data – no coding experience needed. rduevents.unimelb.edu.au/event/hansar...

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🔴 "De l'argent public a manifestement entretenu et subventionné un établissement dans lequel les violences pédocriminelles étaient organisées de façon systémique." Retrouvez mon interview sur #Betharram dans Sud Ouest ⤵️

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Tuesday next week! Not sure the subtitle points to the most promising area to find disagreement among the panelists, but in any case, excited for this discussion with @brettchristophers.bsky.social, @danielagabor.bsky.social & @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social. In person (first come, first serve) & online

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"The same class of people stripping journalism and higher education for parts, then, are also fully in control of the apparatus used to produce narrative and visual art." www.publicbooks.org/money-for-no...

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Congratulations to the BJSE 2024 Best Early Career Article Finalists, Jing Yu, Anrang Li, Chong Zhang, Katherine Davey and Bonita S. Cabiles. Check out their outstanding papers. Stay tuned for our announcement of the winner soon! www.tandfonline.com/journals/cbs...

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François Bayrou : « J’affirme que je n’ai jamais été informé de quoi que ce soit de violences ou de violences a fortiori sexuelles. Jamais » @mediapart.fr publie un courrier avec son accusé de réception et une photo d’archive qui prouvent le contraire www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

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Viols à Bétharram : Bayrou a menti à l’Assemblée nationale, Mediapart publie de nouveaux documents. Par David Perrotin et Antton Rouget. www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

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Applications for our 2025-27 ECR Fellowships @ihr.bsky.social close on 31 Jan 2025 For full details and how to apply see below: www.history.ac.uk/fellowships/...

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📢New article: 'Paradoxical Parenting Practices and Australian Higher Education', in @sociologyjnl.bsky.social, with @drdanwoodman.bsky.social & @juliacook.bsky.social #parenting #HE #intensiveparenting journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.... 🧵

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My op-ed today as part of a special series on oral health. ‘Dental care in Australia is at a crossroad. There is an opportunity to take bold action to correct the mistakes of the past and create an equitable dental system that ensures all Australians … www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Jeunesses et transformations urbaines - dossier du nouveau numéro de la revue Espaces et Sociétés (n°193) : shs.cairn.info/revue-espace... Chez Editions #Érès

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📢 JE Voyage en grande sociologie. Héritages et prolongements des travaux de Michel Pinçon et Monique Pinçon-Charlot ⏰ 6 et 7 février 2025 📍 amphithéâtre Daniel Cohen, campus Jourdan, ENS-PSL, PARIS. ⬇️ Programme et inscriptions

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Academics warn policymakers may make stupid or risky decisions because of a lack of knowledge about China.

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📢 New article, with @johannawaters.bsky.social: Global Britain and Cosmopolitan Nationalism We explore the use of the term ‘Global Britain’ with respect to education policy www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Un aperçu de la rentrée littéraire de janvier aux éditions La Découverte 🔥

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⚽️ Joie de vous annoncer la sortie le 22 janvier de "Une Histoire populaire du football" en BD. Des résistances ouvrières au football queer, en passant par les luttes décoloniales et antiracistes, l'album montre comment le ballon rond est aussi synonyme d'émancipation💥.

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As you can tell, Mochi is very excited about my new books from @haymarketbooks.org #booksandcats

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The CfP for Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26–28 June 2025) 'Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe' is now online. Please send in your abstracts by 15 February. Further details, in both French and English, below.

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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo... The Introduction and Afterword are open access now. (1/2)

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It is not too late to submit an abstract to either of these special issues!

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Israeli forces have bombed another UN-run school in southern Gaza, killing at least 20 displaced Palestinians sheltering in the building, witnesses told Al Jazeera. 🔗: aje.io/otnvl2

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Plus important que le nom du PM.

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🚩🚩 #sociology check this out 🚩🚩 An ESR special issue devoted to honoring Richard Breen's fantastic contributions to sociology! Editors include @fabriberna.bsky.social, Berkay Ozcan, Janne Jonsson, and me! We look forward to receiving many high quality submissions! More 👇

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This Special Issue Call focuses on 'Bourdieu and intersectionality'-- see the details, share the call, and send your abstracts!

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Great piece: “To return to Perry Anderson’s criterion, where or what is American Marxism? Short answer: lost in the academy.” Also this from Mike Davis. 👌 jacobin.com/2024/12/amer...

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🚨 My dept @lsesociology.bsky.social is hiring an asst prof in urban sociology! Apply/spread the word! 🚨 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

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Call for abstracts for a special issue of @bjse.bsky.social on #Bourdieu & #intersectionality Deadline: 31 January think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Reminder that we’re hiring an Associate Professor in Sociology at UCL Social Research. Position is open to any applied field, deadline 20 December. (Reposting as the link was broken) www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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Calling all social scientists whose work touches on offshore finance! Please submit your work to the special issue of the journal Socio-Economic Review that I'll be guest editing with my fellow sociologist Kimberly Kay Hoang & historian Vanessa Ogle. Due date:15 May. academic.oup.com/ser/pages/cf...

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I was lucky to collaborate with @rachelbrooks.bsky.social and Eric Fu on this piece! Check it out:

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Heads up that my book is currently 40% off at the publisher in the @haymarketbooks.org sale, for only US $18. Even with postage to Australia that should be a pretty ok price.

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So I have something to announce. My next book, The Forgotten Empire: Australia and the era of Decolonisation, will be published by @MUPublishing in 2026! It will explore how the end of formal empire impacted Australia's own colonies & national identity. Now I have to write it..

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Don't miss the abstract deadline!

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Un excellent travail (encore) du Cereq www.cereq.fr/premiers-pas...

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Delighted that our special issue on 'International student mobility within Europe: responding to contemporary challenges' has just been published! Pleasure to guest-edit this w/ @sazanajayadeva.bsky.social Daniel Faas, Aline Courtois & Suzanne Beech Our editorial: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Important paper given the strong and entrenched focus on competition in research policy, including here in Australia:

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Great review by Komang Ariyanto of Henri Lefebvre On the Rural: Economy, Sociology, Geography co-edited with @stuartelden.bsky.social "It provides a critical analysis of the rural question and offers valuable insights for both academic and policy discussions" @uminnpress.bsky.social

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New article out: On status disparities as a fundamental but under-theorized dimension of social stratification. Open access here: tinyurl.com/jh2t2zym

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Thanks for sharing, @sharonaris.bsky.social. An overview piece to think about schooling inequality beyond its most prominent framing in Australia

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"The Murmur of Engines" A fascinating essay about narrating the origins of WWI - Chris Clarke on Perry Anderson on Chris Clarke www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Capitalist Colonial by Matan Kaminer is out! "Ethnographically vivid, analytically sharp, and resonant with global historical echoes, Capitalist Colonial exposes the racialized cruelty of postcolonial neoliberalism." —Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University www.sup.org/books/anthro...

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