Full symposium here. Thanks @irsh-iisg.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Wow, did not know that he has a historian as adviser. Recently met a researcher working for Manu Chao. Good labour market options ahead :-)

This came out online already last year, now in print.
Part of Symposium on Ulbe Bosma's "The World of Sugar".

Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Let’s make a Bad Bunny theory 101 list!

Out Now: Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, edited by Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco Kanters

Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...

Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...

The Festival | Tolpuddle Martyrs The HeartUnions Sale runs 9-15 February inclusive – don’t miss out!

Breaking news! Do you want to come to this year's Tolpuddle for last year's prices?
We are opening a flash sale for HeartUnions week - 9-15 Feb!

Swing over to tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival to grab your early bird tickets 🔥

ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder - The American Prospect As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.

🚨NEW: Federal officers like ICE agents have been routinely prosecuted by states for violating state laws, up to and including murder, since the 1800s.
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...

McDonald's sexual abuse: Government offers to intervene in row with unions It follows a BBC investigation three years ago which exposed a toxic culture at the fast-food chain.

UK: Unions accuse McDonald's of 'repeated harassment' against 'mostly teenage' staff www.bbc.com/news/article...

Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)

@bournemouthucu.bsky.social

What #wearetheuniversity means for students YouTube video by Bournemouth University UCU

Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk

youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...

Well said - it’s time to fight back and demand better.

Vote YES! #WeAreTheUniversity

@patrickneveling.bsky.social @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.

Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.

Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good

In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇

A day in the dangerous life of Gaza’s truck drivers Aid convoy truckers witness first-hand how Israeli bombing and blockades have pushed the enclave into famine

Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
on.ft.com/3V7bWCa

Sign the Petition Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊

"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....

Die Türkei untergräbt die demokratische Option in Syrien Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, „Hayat Tahrir al-Sham“ (HTS) die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus, und bedroht...

"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"

If I had one, I'd join the housewives on LSD at the supermarket

So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -

This is my ministry

Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.

Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...

Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...

Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?

BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...

Water ombudsman to be created amid sweeping changes in England and Wales Environment secretary to make announcement on Monday as part of review that is expected to abolish Ofwat

Thrillingly promising: "Ofwat will be replaced by a regulator with supervisory powers, similar to oversight of banks after the financial crash."
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Special Economic Zones

Published a short human geography encyclopaedia entry on Special Economic Zones. With so many trade press publications on the zones in the past year, it will be important to return to a more rigorous, historical materialist critique of the zones. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

A visit to Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Good views of the city, impressive arts and architecture