Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable A BSA Theory Study Group Event 26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT) Online

Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
A BSA Theory Study Group Event
26 March 2026 (5.00-6.30pm GMT)

Contributors to SAQ issue 125.1 will join the editors to share their research & to reflect on how racial capitalism functions as an analytic lens within contemporary social theory

Very much looking forward to this conversation at SOAS on 17 March around Resisting Erasure.

If you're in London, come join us and please share with friends and colleagues.

Register here:
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January 2026 special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Duke UP) edited by Sarah Bufkin & Ida Danewid theorises racial capitalism in (post)imperial Europe.

My contribution discusses the relationship between racialisation of Roma through workfare & debtfare, and high industrial employment in Czechia

This looks like a fantastic issue and a very rich introduction that couldn't come at a better time!

Thank you so much, Manuela! Your work was a massive source of inspiration the issue 🙏💫

Check it out--the issue contains some fantastic pieces:

✨New South Atlantic Quarterly special issue edited by me & Sarah Bufkin, "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe" read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant... The cover is by Sámi painter Per Enoksson

Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border Join Harsha Walia, Silky Shah, and Beatrice Adler-Bolton of Death Panel for an urgent discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond, and why resistance calls…

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Abolish ICE, Abolish the Border

Join @harshawalia.bsky.social, @silkys13.bsky.social, & @reallandsend.bsky.social of @deathpanel.bsky.social for a discussion on the brutal enforcement of immigration policing in Minneapolis and beyond.

Stream here:

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Loving this interview. Wow. Cuts deep into a lot of core concepts I’ve never had the opportunity to really study or deconstruct

Thanks @thedigradio.bsky.social

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once again joining the many people who have observed how much of a world-historical problem it is that Trump is so fucking funny

Congratulations, Barbora! I’m so excited to read this 😊

“A Place Where Freedom Means Something”: James Baldwin's Global Maroon Geographies Despite his vocal support for the Algerian revolution, Palestinian liberation, and the South African anti-apartheid struggle, James Baldwin has continued to be regarded as a thinker whose work predom...

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I have a new piece in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on James Baldwin, statelessness, and fugitive placemaking

Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!

He did a whole two minute ad highlighting the life of Sylvia Rivera! That was backed by a banger of a track from Sophie, noting the murder of Martha P Johnson. Never mind not running away he embraced NYC trans folks. AND WON! youtu.be/bEvVSpN0BXg?...

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Fiona and I will be at Sussex University to talk about & make zines! thanks to @idanewid.bsky.social for inviting us! 🪸 #beautyasamethod #zine #creativemethodologies #qualitativeresearch

Lots of time and effort has gone into the Independent Water Commission, which reports tomorrow. Unfortunately, it's a largely wasted exercise, because the government insisted that renationalisation of the water companies was outside its terms of reference: ie, it was not allowed to consider it.🧵

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

More than 100 arrested across UK at #protests related to Palestine Action. #Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the #Terrorism Act 2000 | www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I think this is such a major driver of AI use in university assessments. And also just a real… disconnection between why we think students are here (to learn about history!) and why students think they are here (to get good grades, to get a job)

Britain is still providing arms to Israel. So it's doing a lot more than "tolerating" this world historic evil. It's continuing to participate in it.

Lammy's retoric was strong, but the announced actions were feeble. If we want to support the people of Gaza then we need to be clear about that.

The AI Boom Is Draining Water From the Areas That Need It Most A Bloomberg News analysis finds that roughly two thirds of new data centers built or in development in the US since 2022 are in places with high levels of water stress.

Each time you ask an AI chatbot a question, it sends a request to a data center and strains an increasingly scarce resource: water.

A 🧵on our investigation into how the data centers that power AI are increasingly being built in highly water-stressed places:

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

For me, I will remember Francis as the Pope who called the Holy Family Church in Gaza every day as the city, and even the church itself, was bombed by Israel.

Pic from BBC -- white women celebrating outside the UK SC. We may deprivilege the colonial-racial frame, but the hate campaign led by white cis women speaks to a nation that criminalised same-sex relations in its empire, invented 'woman' in its colonies (cf. Oyewumi) & knows how to coerce white +

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

trans exclusionary feminism is fascist feminism

UK Supreme court rules legal definition of a woman excludes trans women The UK Supreme Court has ruled the legal definition of a woman excludes trans women.

UK SC's definition of 'woman' is a serious affront to decades of labour in queer studies to decouple sex & gender that even WHO recognises. It's a colonial-racial chokehold to safeguard power of TERFs & GCs. Moving forward, all women will have rights curtailed.
www.thepinknews.com/2025/04/16/s...

Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades Not content with sweeping up the far-right in their anti-trans campaign, For Women Scotland have got the Supreme Court to follow suit

Victory for the far-right as Supreme Court rolls back trans women's rights by two decades

The decision has all the hallmarks of TERF Island - and For Women Scotland seem to think that aligning themselves with famed misogynist Laurence Fox is a victory?
www.thecanary.co/editorial/20...

100 children killed or injured every day. That’s the equivalent of 2 buses per day, a whole school per week. How is this in anyone’s interests except those of the forces of fascism?