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Critical political economist, University of Manchester.
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Rowman & Littlefield was recently taken over by Bloomsbury. I am very pleased to see that the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series, of which I was Managing Editor from 2014-23, now has a webpage again:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/tr...
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https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/transforming-capitalism/
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Martijn Konings
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Sven Beckert in the NYT missing the point about neoliberalism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Dean Baker
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We need to combat the Big Lie about neoliberalism. It was not about the free market, it's about redistributing income upward
cepr.net/publications...
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New York Times Pushes Blatant Lies About Neoliberalism
The notion that economic policy over recent decades was about leaving things to the market is a sick lie that obscures the real drivers of inequality.
https://cepr.net/publications/new-york-times-pushes-blatant-lies-about-neoliberalism/
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Joost Vervoort - Infrastructures of Mystery
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Reading about how one motivation for younger people to get involved in the Mamdani campaign was loneliness and a desire to find community brought me back to thinking about alchemizing the loneliness pandemic into social action. Wrote about that a few years ago:
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Heart constellations: killing the capitalist god of loneliness
How can loneliness be the starting point of social change? And how can games help?
https://anticiplay.medium.com/heart-constellations-killing-the-capitalist-god-of-loneliness-97984b9fa27a
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Seeing Kerbdog live this evening >>>>>>>>> Celebrity Traitors
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Another essential paper by Carla. I scribbled lots of sweary notes when going through Becker's stuff on suicide, so it's good to see someone has properly held this nonsense to account
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Adam Standring
2 days ago
Unsurprised to hear any politics that looks to address inequalities, looks to centre the poorest in our societies, anything that challenges the unsustainable status quo, dismissed as 'radical socialism'. Political analysis/commentary is pretty poor globally but in the UK it is in the sewer.
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Brett Christophers
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Enjoying the irony of Norway's oil investment fund having "ethics rules". An oil fund! It's like a serial killer having ethics rules about where he can and can't bury the bodies.
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Norway suspends $2.1tn oil fund’s ethics rules to avoid selling Big Tech stakes
Jens Stoltenberg says move will avoid forced sale of shares in Amazon, Microsoft and Alphabet over their work for Israel
https://www.ft.com/content/12a5ce89-25d7-4de4-82cf-abb86ffa06a2
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Gemma Gasseau
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Happy to have been part of this collective endeavour to understand what's happening in the EU's political economy - check out our chapter: "A lasting legacy? A critical political economy perspective on Berlusconism and its afterlives"
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CPERN
5 days ago
New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule With author
@stefanzylinski.bsky.social
and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok Register on zoom:
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - November 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Stefan Zyinski will present his article 'Coloniality dressed in Green' available: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gpe/3/2/article-p315.xml Discussants are Johannes Jaeger and...
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/dOESzyXkTPWZGE9_jKVNuA
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Jeremy Morris
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postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/e...
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Ethnography (about Russia) is not anecdotes
one of the main problems of the monocrop ‘Russia expertise field’ is its frequent distance, disdain or condescension towards its subject matter. Externally-imposed theories and even domestically co…
https://postsocialism.org/2025/11/01/ethnography-about-russia-is-not-anecdotes/
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Adam David Morton
5 days ago
Brilliant piece by
@alfnilsen.bsky.social
on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South
@dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
https://www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-and-us-in-the-global-south/
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Ulrich Brand
5 days ago
I am pleased to announce the book Capitalism at the Limit. A Political Ecology of a World in Crisis by Markus Wissen and myself has been published with
@politybooks.bsky.social
. 🙏🏾 order copies for libraries, review the book, use it in teaching, and disseminate.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...
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Jana Bacevic
8 days ago
A good article on what is going on in Serbia, feat. your favourite sociology and philosophy professor explaining why there has, historically, been only one way for a true system change ;)
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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After a year of street protests, Serbia’s students split on what should come next
As a radicalised generation presses its calls for political change, a debate has opened up over whether to join battle by the ballot box
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/31/serbia-street-protests-students-split-elections
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Looks like an excellent and important collection!
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Ulrich Brand
8 days ago
Our gratitude & appreciation for the work the editors from Rowman & Littlefield did to create the serie 'Transforming Capitalism' and to
@bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social
for publishing 'The Limits to Capitalist Nature'. Thank you. You can order the book here:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/limits-to...
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Looking forward to reading this! Very timely
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Oliver Nachtwey
9 days ago
Was vom „Linkskonservatismus“ Wagenknechts übrig bleibt.
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Alexander Gallas
9 days ago
Ich habe kürzlich in der Jour Fixe-Reihe der AkG mein Buch "Exiting the Factory: Strikes and Class Formation beyond the Industrial Sector" vorgestellt, das 2024 bei
@brisunipress.bsky.social
erschienen ist. Der
@mosaikblog.bsky.social
hat einen Mitschnitt der Veranstaltung veröffentlicht.
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩
12 days ago
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left
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ana valdivia
17 days ago
After submitting a FOIA request UKRI, I obtained success rates by three grant call scheme and I can only say that I am disheartened by the results: - AHRC Responsive Mode 2025: 2% - ESRC New Investigator Grant 2025: 1% - ESRC Research Grant Round 2025: 1%
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mosaik
16 days ago
In der neuen Podcast-Folge hört ihr einen Beitrag von und mit Alexander Gallas. Im Rahmen der Reihe „Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung“ hat er sein zweiteiliges Buch „Jenseits der Fabrik. Streiks und Klassenbildung über den industrielles Sektor hinaus“ vorgestellt.
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Jenseits der Fabrik
Ein Mitschnitt der Jour Fixe-Reihe „Kritische Gesellschaftsforschung“ vom 8. Oktober 2025. Herzlich Willkommen zu einer neuen Folge des mosaik Podcast. Diesmal hört ihr einen Beitrag von und mit Alexa...
https://mosaik-blog.at/jenseits-der-fabrik-streiks-und-klassenbildung-ueber-den-industriellen-sektor-hinaus/
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Adam Standring
17 days ago
It's quite clear that Lisa Nandy sought to misrepresent police intelligence if not outright mislead the House of Commons on this issue. Will she correct the record?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Intelligence on ‘extreme’ Maccabi fans with history of violence led to Villa Park ban
Exclusive: West Midlands police were told supporters randomly attacked Muslims in Amsterdam last year
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/21/police-intelligence-on-extreme-maccabi-fans-with-history-of-violence-led-to-villa-park-ban
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Grace Blakeley
18 days ago
Nvidia invests in OpenAI, OpenAI rents compute from Oracle, Oracle buys Nvidia’s hardware, and Nvidia records huge sales. Everyone in the circle reports rising revenue, rising valuations, and surging share prices, but the cash is largely moving in circles.
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The AI Circular Economy
Big tech companies and wealthy investors are driving an AI bubble - but they won't be the ones feeling the pain when it bursts.
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-ai-circular-economy
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Rowman & Littlefield was recently taken over by Bloomsbury. I am very pleased to see that the 'Transforming Capitalism' book series, of which I was Managing Editor from 2014-23, now has a webpage again:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/series/tr...
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Sam Freedman
20 days ago
New post just out: "On the edge" On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS. (Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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On the edge
My week in the NHS
https://open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/on-the-edge-5b1?r=72szy&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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Independent Social Research Foundation
23 days ago
Latest blog post Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised by
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, Lars Cornelissen argues that the neoliberal tradition of thought is constitutively racialised.
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Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised
https://isrf.org/blog/neoliberalism-is-constitutively-racialised
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Lars Cornelissen
25 days ago
It's publication day for Neoliberalism and Race!
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CPERN
25 days ago
We have a new online workshop coming! Join us on 30 October to discuss the book 'Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis' With author
@filippomenga.bsky.social
and discussants
@gemmagasseau.bsky.social
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bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - October 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Filippo Menga, Thirst: the global quest to solve the water crisis Speaker: Filippo Menga is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Bergamo in Italy. Discussants: Gemma Gasseau is Re...
https://bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/A4HnoEudSHOdxey6Bv8tQw
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Mat Paterson
25 days ago
PhD scholarship opportunity, to work with
@sherilynmacgregor.bsky.social
and myself on the 'local politics of climate backlash' at
@uompols.bsky.social
and
@justcentre.bsky.social
. Please circulate to anyone who might be interested!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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'Self' was fantastic, 'In One of These...' raised the bar even higher, but this is T.H.E. M.A.S.T.E.R.P.I.E.C.E. Which means that the next TdH album will be even better 😄
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Nick Srnicek
25 days ago
Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup
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Sabina Lawreniuk
26 days ago
Special economic zones aren’t just trade infrastructure - they’re tools of imperial power & authoritarian control. 🚨New paper from
@invisibleworkers.bsky.social
Read on to learn how global production sustains empire & violence. 🔗https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635
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Governing through extra-territoriality: Jordan's clothing production zones as tools of imperial power and authoritarian rule
Jordan's Export Processing Zones (EPZs) for clothing production form part of political geographies of US imperialism in the Middle East, and have serv…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0962629825001635
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Jeremy Gilbert
26 days ago
The Starmer Disaster - The recording of our seminar with
@yasminalibhaibrown.bsky.social
, Mark Perryman ,
@profafinlayson.bsky.social
and me is now online and in every podcast app:
culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/t...
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The Starmer Disaster
A recording of our online seminar with Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mark Perryman, Alan Finlayson and Jeremy Gilbert, recorded October 8th 2025 We ask: How has it all gone so wrong for a government electe…
https://culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/10/13/the-starmer-disaster/
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George Monbiot
25 days ago
To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies.
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Here’s what you need to know about Starmer’s illiberal protest curbs: they would have killed the Labour party at birth | George Monbiot
The rights we enjoy in the UK, and the movement the PM purports to lead, were built on protest. Those rights are in dire peril, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/oct/13/keir-starmer-protest-labour-rights-uk
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Jordan T. Camp
about 1 month ago
"The environment is woven into the rise of the right-wing movement," Alex Loftus tells me in our interview to launch Season 5 of the Conjuncture podcast. Episode produced w/ support of Trinity Social Justice Institute &
@antipodeonline.bsky.social
:
trinitysocialjustice.com/alex-loftus-...
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Alex Loftus on Ecology, Right-wing Populism, and Gramscian Geography
Jordan T. Camp speaks with critical geographer Alex Loftus about the climate crisis, right-wing populism, and “translating” Gramsci’s geographical insights in the present. Watch the episode on YouTube...
https://trinitysocialjustice.com/alex-loftus-on-ecology-right-wing-populism-and-gramscian-geography/
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Benjamin Braun
about 1 month ago
If profits shape the energy transition we need to understand the biggest profit event this century: the 2022 oil and gas price spike. Very happy our paper is now out in Energy Research & Social Science. Thread by lead-author
@gregorsemieniuk.bsky.social
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Excellent stuff, as always from Joost. Makes me think of a recent article by
@cibled.bsky.social
as well:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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David Bailey
about 1 month ago
against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests
theconversation.com/labour-wants...
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Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful
Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.
https://theconversation.com/labour-wants-to-restrict-repeat-protests-but-thats-what-makes-campaigns-successful-266825
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Sabina Lawreniuk
about 1 month ago
🧵Once the beating heart of
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manufacturing,
#Leicester's
garment industry is now on the brink of collapse ❓What went wrong? 👟On the ground, our new Invisible Workers colleague, Dr Evie Gilbert, uncovers a story of systemic neglect 🔗 Read on:
www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leic...
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Leicester clothes the world? — Invisible workers
Traces of the UK’s clothing and textile manufacturing heritage remain today in places like Leicester, where a shrinking number of suppliers still vie for orders in the competitive global market. Our ...
https://www.invisibleworkers.org.uk/journal/leicester-clothes-the-world
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Sarah Marie Hall
about 1 month ago
Join us for 'Imagining our Working Lives: A Creative Exploration' 💭🖍🪛🧤🥄🖱 1st Nov, Central Manchester. Part of ESRC Festival of Social Science 2025. Free to attend, places limited. Register:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/imagining-...
P.s. There'll be cake!🍰 With
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Liberalism has betrayed the working class, but illiberali...
If we fail to uphold equality and democracy, where will our society be?
https://observer.co.uk/news/columnists/article/liberalism-has-betrayed-the-working-class-but-illiberalism-will-do-much-worse
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George Monbiot
about 1 month ago
After clashing with Maurice Glasman recently, I've come to realise just how pernicious he and his Blue Labour movement are. We could discuss his chumminess with Steve Bannon and JD Vance, endless pandering to the far right and evident hatred of the Labour left. But there's something even worse. 🧵
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Agenda Publishing
about 1 month ago
“A chilling and eye-opening exposé... gives voice to those living at the sharpest edge of austerity and makes an irrefutable case for change.”
@graceblakeley.substack.com
on 'Debt Trap Nation' by
@kbrickell.bsky.social
& Mel Nowicki (out next week).
uk.bookshop.org/p/books/debt...
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Mat Paterson
about 1 month ago
Please join us to discuss our book on Stability and Politicization in Climate Governance (thread below). One launch on the 8th Oct, 10am EST, one on the 16th Oct, 4pm EST. See flyer for details and to register. The book is open access so you can quiz us. See you there!
@stacydvandeveer.bsky.social
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The Geographical Journal
about 1 month ago
Special Section in The GJ: 'Legacies of Austerity', edited by
@smhall.bsky.social
&
@sanvanlan.bsky.social
This
#OpenAccess
collection explores how the lens of legacies can be applied to understand austerity's effects in Europe. Available here⬇️
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Prof Katherine Brickell
about 2 months ago
👀 Check out our new events page for our book "Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State"
www.debt-trap-nation.org/events
🌹 First up is a Labour Party Conference fringe event on Tuesday – Mel Nowicki will be in conversation with MP Siobhain McDonagh and Francesca Albanese from Crisis
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
12 months ago
My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/
#OpenAccess
. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in
#Rwanda
, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
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Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
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Olga Nesterova
about 2 months ago
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Common Wealth
about 2 months ago
In Britain, every time you... — turn on a tap — flip a light switch — board a train or bus — post a letter — drop your child at nursery ... you take part in a system designed to extract wealth & concentrate power. 🧵 From cradle to grave, this is how a failed experiment has shaped your life.
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