It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Why do institutions keep giving white men who fail upwards a platform? Responsible for the ill management of the 2012 Olympics security contract with G4S, the junior doctors strike, supporter of weapon sales to Saudi Arabia and their attacks on Yemen - Jeremy Hunt himself is a danger to the world

"The UN says at least 865 people have now been killed near these sites in the last 6 weeks" Murdered by the IDF while they try to find food.

Chanting death death to a death machine is an affirmation of life

All this discussion about what language is ok to use in opposition to a genocide and IDF is out here shooting people for wanting to eat IDF soldiers are telling the press they feel like the Nazis targeting the Jews And you're worried about a phrase? A PHRASE? fuck you guys

“The sky was full of buzzing drones. I saw a young man fall to the ground near me. Blood was gushing from his neck." Read Rasha Abou Jalal's harrowing account of her husband's attempt to get aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation: ⬇️

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

Maybe ask your former boss to let your trucks in. Nate Mook, former CEO of WCK now sits on the board of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aka the militarised and privatised and already failed “humanitarian” initiative by the US and Israel which is really a surveillance mechanism.

It doesn’t just happen “over there”. Een gezellige Hollandse man die je gewoon “eventjes hé” laat weten dat hij precies weet waar je woont en bent geweest. Geen “rotte appel” zoals de politie je graag laat denken, maar een trend

Excited to announce the first Graduate Symposium on Doing International Political Sociology at Uni Groningen this summer. Join us to collaborate, workshop, share your work and engage with the Doing IPS network. Deadline 1 April. Questions? Federico Petris and I are here to help. CfP below.

The irony of calling for dialogue while not acknowledging the silent protest that is happening sums up the violent erasure very well. And then the bizarre analogy to the elephant. Was she referring to the elephant in the room?? Please make it make sense

Call for papers! Myself & @daliasaris.bsky.social are planning to run a panel on knowledge and expertise in humanitarian practice at #EISAPEC25 in Bologna 25-29 August, details below. We will be welcoming paper contributions until 7 March, DM for questions! @europeanisa.bsky.social #EISAPEC2025

I am recruiting survey participants!! *Have you (or do you know anyone who has) completed a doctoral degree in languages (Arabic, BSL, French, German etc.) and then moved into a different field of research or employment?* 🧑‍🎓➡️👨‍🎨🧑‍🏫👩‍🚀

Not surprised in the slightest!

Started the year with some glorious sunsets and good company (my own and the dog). Have done a lot of thinking about all the papers that I am planning to write this year. Now I “only” need to write them.

Book talk in London next week.

Looking forward to presenting ‘The concealing and ordening function of background knowledge in the engagements between NGO and Private Security’ @doingips.bsky.social PhD seminar tomorrow. Prof. Vincent Pouliot will be the discussant and everyone is welcome to join. Get in touch if you’re interested