Some thoughts on Stuart Hall and/in the global South after CASA’s third annual symposium last week. www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...

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 @ingridhk.bsky.social

The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥 Check it out below!

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)

Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book. Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️ Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓

The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social Read the story 💰⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...

Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring ‪@drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...

It's publication day for this beast today! A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South. Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social

Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!

Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social

The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social - on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?" That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.

Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences. Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...

Getting ready …

Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited! Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥

Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?

Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...

I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading. Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.

May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...

Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum. It’s Open Access - dig in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Not really.

You can’t beat the Right by being a slightly softer Right, exhibit 76436907 …

Ngl, the conjuncture is very hectic right now.

This time next week, I'll be at Yale-NUS College to do some "interregnum talk" -- friends in Singapore, please come through!

Michael Burawoy's death is just so utterly heartbreaking and hard to fathom. His brilliance, energy, jovial kindness, curiosity, and principled and brave stances are all examples to follow for scholars everywhere. Michael will rest in power.

Author queries ☠️

So, these two great scholar-activists actually shared a birthday (3 February). Theirs was a complicated relationship - "... Thompson made it clear that he hated Cultural Studies" (Hall/FS) - but I'm in awe of how consistently their thinking enabled insurgent epistemic gain.

I'm SO excited about CASA's second joint symposium with the Innovation Foundation for Democracy - "Making Democracy as a Community of Life: Transregional Dialogues across Asia and Africa" (26-28 February). Check out our programme below, and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yc2anc6c

Horizons of liberation: materialism, ecology, and the colonial question (This came out towards the end of 2024 after being stuck in the academic production system for a few years - I hope it's of interest to somebody 🙏) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Since Chibber’s MAGA-Marxism is in the airwaves, I thought I’d give my critique of his book on why postcolonialism is very bad a bit of a whirl. DM if you can’t hack the paywall. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

“Hey Siri, what is MAGA-Marxism?”

God bless

In about six months from now, this very coauthored book will hit the shelves. It's a comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects across emerging powers in the global South in a moment of geoeconomic and geopolitical transition. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/

Friends, CASA is organizing a very cool doctoral course in May this year: INSURGENT DEMOCRACIES IN ASIA AND AFRICA (19-21 May). Full details below. Please share with PhD students that might be interested 🙏

Revised and appearing soon in Forum for Development Studies.

My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread

After everything we have seen the university sector do and not do in the context of the genocide in Gaza, I think it’s safe to conclude that there is no institution more susceptible more spineless than precisely the university.

Worsening Livelihood Conditions, High Share of Low-Productivity Work Concerning: Experts

I wrote about the importance of not getting caught up in useless conflicts. Some fights are so big and decisive that they demand our focus and participation. So, choosing what's worth our time and what isn't will make all the difference in these moments. prismreports.org/2025/01/23/f...

Louisiana is already adapting

Are there any kind people out there with NLR access who might be able to get me PDFs of two recent and paywalled articles? Thankyouplease :)

It’s quite odd to see that some folks are genuinely surprised to see that capital favors fascism.

Looking forward to visiting Boston College tomorrow to talk about my book, URBAN POWER. 12p, McElroy Commons 237, if you’re nearby.

Of course Trump doesn’t understand what tariffs really are or really work. That’s not the point. The point is that “tariffs” are a metaphor - a metaphor for “the wall” that will keep alien Others out of the America that is being made great/white again. It’s about public and psychological wages.

"The second coming of Maga may also be the rise to power of some of the people least committed to any given patch of territory, and the most willing to flee when a more opportune partner presents itself." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Take my word (or blurb) for it -- this is a great book on gig work and gig workers' political subjectivities and struggles under neoliberalism in Indonesia. Diatyka Yasih/Precarious Workers in the Gig Economy: Neoliberalism and its Discontents in Indonesia link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

“Billionaire wealth has risen three times faster in 2024 than in 2023. At least five trillionaires are now expected within a decade. Meanwhile, the number of people living in poverty has barely changed since 1990. Inequality is out of control.” www.france24.com/en/europe/20...