Save 30% on #NewBook "Promises Beyond Memory" by Vikki Bell, which examines how archives of contemporary political violence in South America create new possibilities for circulating stories of violence to defend against future attempts to rewrite the past. buff.ly/qZp8Um0

This is a great read on the manipulation of the collegial open.substack.com/pub/jophoeni...

Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals 'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'

New #podcast 📻 Researcher+organizer Omar Jabary recounts how #infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism, as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Roads, electricity, water systems+ as sites of struggle.

Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it. secure.declassifieduk.org/page/180663/...

Come along tomorrow (weds) for a sociological convo about the past year with @aaronwinter.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me, chaired by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?

OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal. Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey. buff.ly/lubHIf8

A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d...

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Do respond to the government's consultation on these nasty proposals. Making settlement harder & longer undermines its own rhetoric on integration & use time to discipline & increase vulnerability Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Safe Haven Fellowship For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war 5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project Subsidised housing Stipend Reimbursement both outward and return travel nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...

📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:

Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

'The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers' www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...

"the offer of a fine equivalent to a parking ticket or a warning is both revealing and revolting...Revolting because it offers a fine like a sweetie – accept this sweetie, the offer states, and then stop asking us to get a moral compass”

Forget the nostalgia for 2016, were back in 2013 & the Go Home vans 'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers. It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

She says it's worth it and her mental health has been boosted by the regular sunlight and 15,000 steps she walks each day' www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.

The European Sociological Association (ESA) Call for Papers for the 17th ESA Conference, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 25 to 28 August 2026 europeansociology.org/event/72289c...

New issue of Kohl - queer (non)futures kohljournal.press/issue-11-3

Historical Materialism conference 2026 CFP, deadline 15th Jan historicalmaterialismbcn.net/historical-m...

'Across the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we see a particular kind of real estate development thriving in the absence of territorial integrity and sovereign political authority'

On Luddites & AI in the classroom kappanonline.org/teach-like-a...

Samaher & her 6 children in Gaza are struggling to survive the harsh winter amidst severe shortages. Please donate whatever you can, it takes less than a minute using the link below www.paypal.com/pools/c/9kZT...

"A new culture of stifling dissent and self-imposed restraint is spreading across the academy, reinforcing and perpetuating silence" allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-si...

"Hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have been enlisted to fight with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)" www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Check to see if your MP has signed to express their concern about the six hunger strikers and 'call upon the Secretary of State for Justice to intervene urgently to ensure their treatment is humane and their human rights are upheld' edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo...

'Those on hunger strike are victims of the UK’s excessively broad terrorism laws which have been misused to escalate ordinary criminal prosecutions of direct-action protesters into terrorism cases' www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releas...

The Faculty of Humanities is pleased to offer up to 15 Bicentenary Research Fellowships (3 years duration) for outstanding postdoctoral researchers within 3 years of their PhD www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

A very clear & useful post on academic writing, even if you're not using zine making

Four PhD studentships & three fee waivers across the Departments of Sociology and Criminology, International Politics and, Economics www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-...

Excellent piece on safe routes, the relationships between foreign policy and forced displacement in Sudan & the UK's increasingly draconian asylum policies @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/opinion/suda...

Friends of Palestinian Universities is recruiting a Senior Programme Officer to support our advocacy, awareness, and UK–Palestine higher education links programmes. www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/friends...

New! 'We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qualitative approaches, such as reflexive thematic analysis, or various phenomenological approaches' papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

The best book title of 2026 goes to www.thenerdreich.com/pre-order-th...

fellowships to build leadership, strengthen research capacity, and advance knowledge at the intersection of violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC). www.svri.org/svri-early-c...

'minority recruits are not symbols of inclusion, but instruments of absolution; human shields behind which racist policy proceeds unchallenged' A peculiarly British postracial turn, felt like a decisive shift with Sewell report where identity became evidence www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/non-...

The embattled university, special issue Arjun Appadurai and Arien Mack, Issue Coeditors www.socres.org/post/922-sum...

Ooh -Special Issue of the Journal of Gender Studies about the values & normativities encoded into algorithmic cultures & the intersections of gender, race, sexuality & disability www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

‘In one course video uploaded to the website, a voiceover presenting the material suddenly morphs into a Spanish accent for about 30 seconds, before switching back to a British accent’

Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/ www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...

‘“I grew up my entire life in authoritarian regimes,” he said. “It makes me very sad that the institution I’ve invested tens of thousands of pounds with, the institution I’ve learned for years in, is acting like a Trumpian authoritarian regime.” novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...

Mechanisms and mechanics of racial hierarchy: focusing on the “How” of racism Eduardo Bonilla-Silva & Amanda E. Lewis www.tandfonline.com/doi/ref/10.1...

If you’re a postgraduate researcher you can join @ucu with full or free student membership my.ucu.org.uk/app/membersh...

Podcast with Hannah Ishmael on antiracist education & Len Garrison, activist, archivist & a founder of the Brixton Cultural Archives thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/sid...

Film as social theory (but also method) blogs.lse.ac.uk/researchings...

Feminists against genocide - end academic complicity docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Universities in the UK reassured arms companies that they would monitor students’ chat groups and social media accounts after firms raised concerns about campus protests libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uni...