Last week, I had the great pleasure and privilege of being part of a fantastic panel chaired by @granttharward.bsky.social, with @manuelaboatca.bsky.social as our discussant, at the @as Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies ( @aseees.bsky.social ) 2025 Virtual Convention.

If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/

This is such a great idea and a fantastic resource! Check out the lesson plans complete with activities, prompts, questions, indicating which level & topic they cover! The worksheet for my episode on "Europeans" - A-level teaching on Culture & Identity and Globalisation is here tinyurl.com/5ast4z5d

What’s behind the pursuit of “paradise” in travel to the Caribbean? How does tourism continue and compound the legacy of colonialism? How can we resist? Angelique Nixon joins #UncommonSense on #desire #tourism and #decolonising – Plus: celebrating Sylvia Wynter. buff.ly/UFrCeYd

In der sonnigsten Stadt Deutschlands ist auch Ende Oktober eine Sonnenbrille nötig! Im WiSe 25/26 & SoSe 2026 ist Prof. Dr. Sujata Patel als @humboldt-foundation.de-Forschungspreisträgerin am Institut für Soziologie der @uni-freiburg.de und Fellow @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/m7ft3vs

Fantastische Neuigkeiten!!

🥁 Join us next Thursday, October 23, for the first lecture on on "Anti-colonial Social Theory and the Peripheral Gaze" by Sujata Patel, recipient of the @humboldt-foundation.de Research Award, hosted at the @friasunifreiburg.bsky.social of the @uni-freiburg.de for the duration of her stay 2025-2026!

🔔 Save the dates! Our GRK lecture series “Temporality of Imperial Violence” starts next week! 🗓️ Every Thursday, leading scholars will examine how imperial violence unfolds, persists & is remembered across time and space and will explore the temporal logics of empire in diverse historical contexts.

Join us for the launch of the latest issue of Migration and Society, an international peer-reviewed journal exploring global research on migration, solidarity, and refugee experiences. 📆 October 21st ⏰ 16:30 - 18:30 (GMT +1) 📍 Online (register to receive the link) www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...

This discussion is part of the Global Teach In/out events organised by Migration_Scholars_Global_Network 📍Birkbeck Cinema 43 Gordon Square London 📆11 November 1pm Join us! and join the network www.instagram.com/migration_sc... www.facebook.com/profile.php?... @migrationscholars.bsky.social

🔊Thinking of applying to the Global Studies M.A. in Social Sciences at @uni-freiburg.de? 🎓🌍 Our next info session this year is on October 15th, 2-3pm CEST! 🗓️ Dates and zoom link here: gsp.uni-freiburg.de/application Come along and get to know some current staff & students!

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict

Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Ausgerechnet heute dazu erschienen unrast-verlag.de/produkt/der-...

So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'. Call it by its name.

Nicht als Metapher für die Migrationspolitik missverstehen! 😎 www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Deut...

Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome! liu.se/en/event/man...

That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store. P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

Cool recap of little-known facts that the brilliant team of the Uncommon Sense podcast unveils in dialogue with sociologists. Listen to the ones discussed here, but even better to all of them! Find mine, on Europe and its Caribbean borders, here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

Many thanks for the warm reception and the exceptionally rich discussion!

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇 lnu.se/.../events/2...

External colonialism converging with four centuries of internal colonialism.

A great, bone-chilling (pardon the pun!) report on the treatment of Romanian workers in Dutch meat plants by Dia Radu, Anna Milovanovic, Job Doornhof. So many implications for #unequalEuropes, migrant racialization in West & East, and the divide & rule of fragmenting labor struggles!!

Call For Papers!: "Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", a conference at University of British Columbia from July 21-23, 2026. Please share with faculty and grad students! Details here: www.climateandsocietylab.com/call-for-pap...

At last I also got a hard copy of the @berlinerjournal.bsky.social article that @fabios.bsky.social & I co-authored! Happy to see that our maps & illustrations make sense in black-and-white, too, but you can check out the color original. Open Access here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

We’re looking for nonfiction—of any length or form—that dives into the many meanings and manifestations of embodiment in and of the Balkans. Send us your pitches (50–100 words) by October 1 and join us for our first-ever Virtual Open House on September 24: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/specials

Since we're apparently re-litigating the Mercator Projection again, I can't resist reposting this: foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/14/t...

And case no. 4, conflict studies via @richardstupart.com this time. Peer review managed to catch 2 out of 4 so far.

Update: A kind soul ran the whole chapter through a citation checker and came up with many non-existing references...

„Die Mehrheit der soziologischen Gemeinschaft in Deutschland schweigt zum Völkermord in Gaza – mit einigen Ausnahmen etwa von studentischen Initiativen. Wir sehen dieses Versagen als symptomatisch für das repressive Debattenklima in Deutschland und der deutschen Wissenschaft im Besonderen.“

„Als Sozialwissenschaftler:innen, die sich mit sozialen Verhältnissen, Ungleichheit und gesellschaftlichem Wandel beschäftigen, haben wir eine besondere Verantwortung, uns gegen diese Gewalt zu positionieren – auch da sie sich gezielt gegen Bildungseinrichtungen in Gaza richtet.“

Sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany support the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) from the International Sociological Association (ISA). This is contrary to the position of the German Sociological Association (🇩🇪 ⬇️) drive.google.com/file/d/1RrXh...

Same thing here. A recent chapter references an article that I allegedly published in Sociological Review 68 (3) in 2020 - except I didn't. The title sounds like I could have written it, and also in part like another publication of mine, which is however on a different topic and not from 2020. 🤯

Statement by sociologists and social scientists in and from Germany on the suspension of the Israeli Sociological Society (ISS) by the International Sociological Association and the position of the German Sociological Association👇 t.co/DwuSnkv9Uo

Schön.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

(10) We flag the entangled histories & political economic dimensions of racism & transphobia - drawing on the work of @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, Brett StLouis, Alyosxa Tudor, @anaivas.bsky.social, @aaronwinter.bsky.social, @aurelmondon.bsky.social @franamery.bsky.social, Darcy Leigh and others.

OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Was ein elendiges hin und her wegen ein paar reaktionären Hansels. Jetzt ist klar: Morgen wird umbenannt. Berlin bekommt die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße. Herzlichen Glückwunsch! www.rbb24.de/panorama/bei...

“Die Rechtslage ist komplex” - Regierungssprech für “Wir sind keine Rassisten, aber…”?

Announcing a PhD scholarship for a history project on imperialism and great power projection in the Pacific. Supervised by Prudence Flowers and I here at Flinders, Adelaide. It includes an international fee waiver and stipend. Start Jan 2026. www.flinders.edu.au/scholarships...

Web dossier on uneasy postcolonial spaces, with contributions on Latin America, Ireland, Goa, Palestine & the European East, initially published in 2013 in honor of Fernando Coronil, is now available for free download tinyurl.com/3bp6wky6. Thanks to Louise Link for invaluable work on the new layout!

📣 CFP: Rethinking Gender in Inter- & Transimperial Contexts 🗓 Jan 16–17, 2026 | Freiburg Explores how gender shaped power, identity & interaction between empires—beyond the metropole–periphery lens. 🔗 www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve... #GenderHistory #Empire #Transimperial #GlobalHistory #CFP

"Staatsräson und Geschichtsbewusstsein" Da nun die Kampagne gegen Merz losgeht, da er Waffenlieferungen nach Israel einschränkte, sollte man die Hintergründe der Staatsräson kennen. Ich hab's hier aufgeschrieben. Das Bild ist aus einem Kommentar von Reichelt open.substack.com/pub/juergenz...

300+ academics at German universities have signed a declaration of conscientious objection refusing collaboration with complicit Israeli institutions and universities. Their action is inspired by the Swedish Uppsala Declaration. loom.ly/Rb9KlT8