How genocide is being ‘normalised’ Mike Phipps reviews The New Age of Genocide, by Martin Shaw, published by Agenda. This book addresses not only the concept of genocide but its return to a central place in world politics. It explores both the West’s failure to prevent genocide, and, in the case…

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Last gig of 2025: giving evidence at London Assembly inquiry on social housing allocations London is the epicentre of debt-based disqualifications. In 1 month of FOI data, 79% of disqualified HHs in England living in Temporary Accommodation were in London (3,000+ HHs). Nearly 1/2 incl. children.

*new Contesting AI talk* - The AI Matrix: Profits, Politics, and the Struggle Over Our Tech Future 21 Jan, 3pm GMT Register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Introducing new book by Regine Paul, @dmugge.bsky.social, and Vali Stan: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... Hosted by: contestingai.uk

Spotted! Debt Trap Nation in Manchester Waterstones. Particularly pleasing with the majority of families in the book living in Greater Manchester. And featured in the British History section. What a damning history it will tell about how children and their families have been treated.

Jason Blakely on political science’s failure to grasp Trumpism. harpers.org/archive/2026...

Great summary of the arguments in 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo in this YouTube recording. Thank you to @nestcentre.bsky.social for hosting. 'The Disorderly Society' is out now in the UK. Coming soon in the USA & Canada (January) via @columbiaup.bsky.social👇 cup.columbia.edu/book/the-dis...

Watch author Topher McDougal introduce readers to his new book GAIA WAKES.

📢Just arrived 📚 (publishes January 2026): The Hobbled State: Fractured Politics in Contemporary Germany by Mark Vail May be of interest to the German Politics Specialist Group (GPSG) of @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #GermanPolitics #EuropeanStudies

Delighted to discuss my new book "Unfinished Empire" before a large audience at Ireland’s PermRep to the EU 🇮🇪🇪🇺 - a timely conversation on Russia’s imperial project Grateful for warm opening remarks from 🇺🇦 Ambassador to the EU and PSC Amb Luke Feeney + expert moderation by @shonamurray.bsky.social

I had a delightful conversation about #GaiaWakes with Scott Jones on his Give and Take podcast. I get the impression he could make even mundane topics shimmer with some combination of mystery and revelation and curiosity and joy. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...

Regine Paul, Vali Stan and I have analysed how deeply #AI is entangled in global politics and corporate profit-hunting. “The AI Matrix” is the result – and the digital book-version is open access: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... (Link doesn't work? Try this one: www.regulaite.eu/images/pdf/M...)

📢#BookSale📢 Today only - if you are in the USA / Canada - you can buy any Agenda book at half price via the Columbia University Press website👇 cup.columbia.edu/books/?publi... No code needed - discounts will be applied automatically on checkout. #CyberMonday

📢Next Monday 1st December - order any of our books at HALF PRICE via the Columbia University Press website 📚 👀List of Agenda books to choose from👇 cup.columbia.edu/search-list/... *Only readers in USA, CANADA & LATIN AMERICA may buy Agenda books via @columbiaup.bsky.social #booksale

As Garnett says: "The 2016 referendum, and its consequences, accounted directly for Cameron and May; and while Johnson and Truss found means of self-sabotage, arguably neither would have earned the chance to showcase their ineptitude for leadership without Brexit." My review from the new Liberator

Andrew Trigg's 'Heterodox Economics' out this week from @agendapub.bsky.social @rethinkecon.bsky.social @economicsinten.bsky.social @unlearnecon.bsky.social www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Looks like a must read: our “The AI Matrix: Profits, Power, Politics" by @dmugge.bsky.social, Regine Paul, Vali Stan Open access @agendapub.bsky.social: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Start your morning with these though-provoking reads at booth 48 from our distributed presses: @agendapub.bsky.social, @columbiagsapp.bsky.social, @fernpub.bsky.social, Jagiellonian University Press, and @transcript-verlag.bsky.social . buff.ly/V5fihtc #MESA2025 @mesa1966.bsky.social

We are proud to distribute books for several international and domestic presses, including @agendapub.bsky.social, ibidem Press, Jagiellonian University Press, and transcript publishing. Check out these books are more at booth 821 or online at: buff.ly/UBnFXR5 #AARSBL #SBLAAR @aarweb.bsky.social

“Outstanding... an accessible, but informative overview for students and an original academic contribution on the development and main currents in heterodox economics.” Engelbert Stockhammer on Andrew Trigg's new history of #HeterodoxEconomics - out this week 👇 blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

Next step for Debt Trap Nation? Parliament! Thanks to APPG for Households in Temporary Accommodation for organising this parliamentary book launch. Please spread the word about the book – all royalties are being donated to @seacharity.bsky.social www.debt-trap-nation.org/book

This was such an important and devastating read and a really interesting conversation; @evemworth.bsky.social @drdaveobrien.bsky.social lots to think about for downward social mobility too

“Compelling... challenges the idea that women are simply 'poor men' in pension systems... shows why pensions must be reimagined to reflect the realities of diverse lives.” @gerontologyuk.bsky.social on 'Pension Saving in a Gendered Lifecourse' by Hayley James 👇 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

What a thoughtful and intellectually provocative review of my book, "Decolonizing African Agriculture," by fellow West African scholar Jessie Luna www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @agendapub.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social @macalestercollege.bsky.social

“A sophisticated analysis of the current geopolitical crises and the prospects for a new twenty-first-century global order... essential reading for policymakers focused on revitalizing internationalism.” Fiona Hill on 'The Disorderly Society' by Bobo Lo - out now 👇 bit.ly/4r2NIYA #geopolitics

This is happening today in Oxford! An important and urgent book www.torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

New episode (1173), with Dr. David Cooper. We talk about his great new book, Pessimism, Quietism and Nature as Refuge. #Philosophy YouTube: youtu.be/eSOYoYVmWLM Podcast: bit.ly/3WMlTWt

Tomorrow my new book 'Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State' will land in the dreaming spires of Oxford. A city home to 269 homeless children+ 18 households with children in hotels + B&Bs above 6 week limit. Here's the Rent Cultures Network event: torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

I had a really fun, dorky, SciFi-inflected conversation with Matthew Ying Yeung Metz about #GaiaWakes on the Kroc School at the University of San Diego's #KrocPod podcast. Please check it out!! open.spotify.com/episode/3McT...

“Offers crucial insights into the practices that shape financial centres... an important book for prompting us to think about what kind of finance we want.” @karenpylai.bsky.social on 'Future Finance' by @curiousfinance.bsky.social - out now! #OpenAccess eBook available👇 bit.ly/3Lw7BHa #FinGeo

“In a time of deep divisiveness, Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan offers an elegant and compelling meditation on an idea more essential than ever, the very notion of a collective we.” @anandian.bsky.social on 'What is We?' by Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan - out now! www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Join the Rent Cultures Network at TORCH on 13 Nov, 5 pm for a book presentation of Debt Trap Nation with @kbrickell.bsky.social & Mel Nowicki. They show how debt and housing insecurity shape everyday life in England and call for urgent structural change. torch.ox.ac.uk/event/debt-t...

Just arrived (out 20th Nov): Downing Street Downfalls The Misadventures of Britain’s Prime Ministers Since Thatcher by Mark Garnett “Few people know more about postwar British politics than Mark Garnett.” - @iaindale.bsky.social Now available for pre-order👇 www.politicos.co.uk/products/dow...

Just arrived (out 27th November): Heterodox Economics by Andrew Twigg “This is for all readers unconvinced by standard economics, who are seeking alternative and new ways to think about, practice, and represent economics.” - Danielle Guizzo www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #heterodoxeconomics

Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived! Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j. Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).

“Martin Shaw was one of the first to recognise genocide in Gaza... His book charts new pathways for understanding genocide – an endeavour urgent now more than ever.” Francesca Albanese on 'The New Age of Genocide' by @martinshaw.bsky.social - out this week. www.agendapub.com/page/detail/...

Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State: @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes) as part of the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas 2025 Seminar Series on the 22nd October, 16:00-17:30 in the Small Lecture Theatre. All welcome!

“Debt trap nation is a chilling and eye-opening expose on how the British state keeps some of the most vulnerable women in society trapped in a cycle of debt, homelessness, and domestic violence." My endorsement for this brilliant book, which you can order here: www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr...

New @bigissue.com op-ed just landed. We owe it to mothers + children to shift national conversation around family homelessness + debt. Want to learn more? Read our book ‘Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State’ www.waterstones.com/book/debt-tr... www.bigissue.com/opinion/debt...

Mark your calendars for the Infrastructural Geographies Michaelmas Term 2025 Seminar Series! @infrastructuralgeo.bsky.social Four exciting talks, starting with @kbrickell.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and Mel Nowicki (Oxford Brookes University).

"Want to reduce the costs of temporary accommodation? Then get to grips with male violence". Check out our OpEd in Inside Housing: www.insidehousing.co.uk/comment/want...

Gaza and the New Age of Genocide Martin Shaw introduces his new book, published this month. As readers of Labour Hub will be aware, Labour Party Conference passed a resolution recognising that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza. As a genocide scholar, I have been arguing this since October…

Debt Trap Nation -- a very powerful book. Come and see @kbrickell.bsky.social and Mel Nowicki discuss the book on the 22nd of October (4-6pm) Dept of Geography, Cambridge

Published today on #WorldHomelessDay: my book Debt Trap Nation – a deep dive into how government policy is driving families into homelessness & debt. All royalties to @seacharity.bsky.social 💜 Families aren't failing. They're being failed. 📖 www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... #DebtTrapNation

Join us for the BEARR Trust Annual Lecture 2025 on “Is it all over for the rules-based international order?” with Bobo Lo and @kadriliik.bsky.social moderated by Sir Roderic Lyne. 📅 Tue 14 Oct, 6pm (arrival from 5.30pm) 📍 EBRD HQ, Canary Wharf, London Register and donate👉 bearr.org/2025/08/21/t...

Important read!

“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... #housing #debt

What an honour to see Diane Elson launch her book at the WiSE Centre for Economic Justice @glasgowcaledonian.bsky.social tonight. Her seminal work highlights the need to recognise unpaid work as part of the economy, including care, household labour and volunteering.

Publishing this week in the @ces-europe.bsky.social series The New Politics of Nationalism in Contemporary Europe Edited by Gregory C. Baldi Chapters on Ukraine, Poland, Serbia, Hungary, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, UK www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... @alfmast.bsky.social @natsty.bsky.social

🚀 Our September Newsletter is out! We’ve got fresh updates from European Studies: - Key opportunities (conferences, workshops & fellowships) - New happenings in CES & publishing - Exciting calls for proposals 📥 Don’t miss out! Read it here 👉 icont.ac/517zA