Mini-publics continue demonstrate their potential to get people of different and/or opposing views to acquire greater appreciation and comfort in working out their differences. But more crucially, we should also embrace this via informal small groups.
www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/s...
"This Esquire interview is just the latest manifestation in the mainstreaming of AI slop in Singapore, a country that has long been an early adopter of very questionable uses of the technology."
Public life is not a stage on which individuals should be handled gently so they are not driven away. It is a domain of power, justification, answerability, and trust... Palantir seeks only the first of these. bsky.app/profile/elio...
This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org
There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.
Honouring Martin Bulmer (d. March 2026), former editor of Ethnic and Racial Studies. He led ERS from 1989–2020, diversified our board, & built our editorial office. We will miss him. This collection celebrates his legacy. Edited by John Solomos (Editor-In-Chief)
www.tandfonline.com/journals/rer...
An eulogy by Martin Jay, highlighting a perhaps often-underappreciated aspect of Habermas's capacity as an engaged intellectual - his art of listening and "keep[ing] the conversation going":
www.theideasletter.org/essay/martin...
📖 New publication
Congratulations to Julian Go (@juliango.bsky.social) and Anaheed Al-Hardan for the ed vol., Anticolonialism and Social Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2025). It covers dissident traditions from Palestine, India, South Africa, and beyond.
www.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
1/ New paper (Open Access) which asks a simple but often overlooked question: what do we actually mean when we move between institutional, structural and systemic racism? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @ersjournal.com
Eddie Kuo Chen Yu, Founding Dean of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU, passed away this morning. A well-respected intellectual who contributed to sociology, communication studies, and local Chinese cultures and identities in Singapore.
www.zaobao.com.sg/news/singapo...
Considering Jürgen Habermas's active engagement with public affairs and intellectual discourse for so long, across the many decades, I sometimes forget about his age and mortality...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Mills recognized that as the power elite becomes increasingly degenerate, it is increasingly difficult for their intellectual acolytes to formulate reasonable ideological justifications for their corrupt and irresponsible actions. In these circumstances, the power elite resorts to intellectual repression against those who call attention to their declining political capacities; that is, the intelligentsia who work in universities, museums, the arts, scientific institutes, entertainment, and the mass media.
Sociologist C. Wright Mills saw this coming—and tried to warn us—60+ years ago.
jacobin.com/2026/02/wrig...
An interesting piece by Lam Ying Xuen on the history of school uniforms in Singapore:
medium.com/the-national...
If you want to understand the background to the current conflict in Iran, check out our @EmpirePodUK
series on the history of Iran.
share.google/Slao77k6JKSf...
OMG!! The crowning achievement of All British Intellectuals 😊 - my letter has actually been published in the @lrb.co.uk (*and* features references to nonmonogamy and collective childcare). Friends, Revolution is near! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
NEW Publication featuring a great lineup of citizenship scholars!! :)
“The Archipelago Capitalism of Citizenship-By-Investment”, Comparative Political Studies, lnkd.in/dQPG4Q7J
@maartenpvink.bsky.social @globalcit.bsky.social
@eui-ggp.bsky.social
Latest Essay: This is the Hong Kong story that the Hong Kong Government doesn't want you to read
konggirlsocialist.ghost.io/untitled/
The indefatigable James Francis Warren, at the Asian Civilisation Museum, sharing about his life's work on Southeast Asia. His historical methodological emphasis on understanding the "little" people is a reminder for historians to go beyond archives and to engage people through social history.
The trees at NIE, NTU look and feel different in the evening. Can almost hear their singing... urging me to send my drafts to my supervisor as soon as possible... oh wait, that is my Meadian Me talking my Meadian I back to work...
And here is my other recently published encyclopedia entry, also in the Encyclopedia of Diversity, on interculturalism:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
One of my recently published encyclopedia entries, in the Encyclopedia of Diversity, on transcultural identity:
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
What's effectively happening here (in the British media at large, too) is the construction of "anti-racism" as somehow a "political alternative" to racism, rather than as a minimal civilisational standard, which in turn (further) vindicates racism as *also* an acceptable political position.
Some unexpected but exciting news: after eight years away from the field, I am returning to nationalism studies. The first stop in what will be a three-book marathon is the fourth edition of Theories of Nationalism, forthcoming with
@bloomsburyacad.bsky.social
1️⃣
A poster that reads: Understanding Global Racisms: Beyond Euro-Americancentricity Speaker: Prof Tariq Modood Discussant: Dr Morgane Reina Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol and the co-founder of the international journal, Ethnicities. He has held over 40 grants and consultancies, has over 35 (co-)authored and (co-)edited books and reports and over 350 articles and chapters. He was awarded an MBE for services to social sciences and ethnic relations in 2001, was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK) in 2004, elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2017 and was awarded the Senior Scholar Award by Rice University, Houston in 2025. In 2022 he was ranked in the top 20 UK cited scholars in Politics, Law, Sociology and Social Policy. He served on the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, the National Equality Panel, and the Commission on Religion and Belief in British Public Life. His latest books include Essays on Secularism and Multiculturalism (2019), Multiculturalism: A Civic Idea (2nd ed; 2013); and as Special Issues co-editor, with T. Sealy, Beyond Euro-Americancentric Forms of Racism and Anti-racism (Political Quarterly, 2022) and Global comparative analysis of the governance of religious diversity (Religion, State and Society, 2022). His latest book, with Thomas Sealy, is The New Governance of Religious Diversity (2024) He has a You Tube Channel and his website is tariqmodood.com. Morgane Reina has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Brasília (2021). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po – 2013) and a Master’s degree in Political Sociology from the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris. Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81748930237?pwd=rtO2V5XNyndlFnfCe63v1wBHJWMZ1o.1 Access code: 546157
We are delighted to announce our upcoming seminar with @tariqmodood.bsky.social on global racisms and euro-americentricity.
You can join the seminar with this link: us06web.zoom.us/j/8174893023...
, passcode: 546157.
Indeed. And we would need to also continue to question and interpret documented narratives, revisit them with reasonable framing, either to refresh them in sustaining our sense of belonging and identity or sometimes in light of new conversations. After all, identity is a process.
