New publication: Yafa El Marsi reconceptualises Palestinian infiltration as a contemporary mode of research refusal, a situated decolonial practice that emerges where restitution remains structurally closed yet Indigenous ties to land & heritage are actively defended https://bit.ly/488xy7Z
What does US-China infrastructure competition mean for the Global South? Imogen Liu & Nicholas Jepson argue that the term 'nested dependency' can be used to examine southern agency within the current system of infrastructure led #development
Register for our book launch tomorrow @greshamcollege.bsky.social! Focusing on @peternewell.bsky.social latest book 'States of Transition', Newell, @paulinesophieh.bsky.social & @hannahhughes.bsky.social will discuss the role of the state in the green transition
@pauldobraszczyk.bsky.social upcoming book 'The Matter of Architecture' asks whether critical architecture can recover a more equitable relationship to the mineral world. Join us on 3rd June for a conversation with Dobraszczyk, Nishat Awan and Adam Walls to learn more https://bit.ly/47soV88
‘More-than-human loss: Exploring the intersections of Indigeneity, conflict transitions and memory in Cambodia’
Peter Manning & Duong Keo draw on interviews from Indigenous communities in Cambodia to examine memory as a central site for articulating Indigeneity
'Confronting the dilemmas of humanitarian borderwork: NGO engagements with Australian offshore detention'
This report examines Australian offshore detention to explores the ethical and strategic challenges that humanitarian organisations face while trying to reduce harm https://bit.ly/47ELerc
'Neighbourhoods and the far right: What is to be done?'
Ana Santamarina & Anthony Ince argue for a broader antifascist praxis as a transversal political culture embedded in struggles over housing, belonging, care and everyday coexistence
Book Prize Shortlist
Congratulations to ISRF Fellow Sandra Araújo for being shortlisted for the Polly Corrigan Book Prize (@kcsi.uk)! Araújo's book, 'Spying on Muslims in Colonial Mozambique, 1964-74', focuses on responses from Muslim communities during the colonial war.
Register for our book launch event on 3 June with Paul Dobraszczyk! Joined by Nishat Awan and Adam Walls, Dobraszczyk will discuss his new book 'The Matter of Architecture', an exploration of geology to find a more sympathetic way of building.
🚨Upcoming ISRF Book Launch
Join us next Friday in London for the launch of 'States of Transition' by Peter Newell. In conversation with Pauline Heinrichs and Hannah Hughes, discussions will focus on the role of the state in the #greentransition
You Can Get There From Here
How do we radically change the global financial system to support the green transition? In this month's Director's Note, Christopher Newfield outlines strategies from the REDFIC workshop that reimagine climate finance.
ISRF Newsletter – April 2026
Spring is here, along with this month's ISRF newsletter! Featured is a Director's Note on reimagining climate finance. Also in this newsletter: upcoming ISRF book launches and news from our Fellows.
Check out the latest publication from David Kaposi & David Sumeghy examine Stanley Milgram's Obedience to authority experiments. Their work explores whether participants in the Milgram's lab engaged in legitimate acts of violence
Join Academic Advisory Board member, Joy White, Elijah & Janine Francois at @thebartlettucl.bsky.social for a sonic-visual exchange on how Black music builds worlds and shapes collective futures in East London 👇
Join the ISRF @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 10th April for the launch of 'States of Transition' by @peternewell.bsky.social . Peter will be in conversation with @paulinesophieh.bsky.social & @hannahhughes.bsky.social on the role of the state in the #greentransition
In Kenya, grantees Dr Melita Lazell & Dr Ivica Petrikova with Dr Mel Bassett co-organised a workshop with the Uni. of Nairobi. Together, Kenyan and UK-based scholars, explored the #financialisation of development and its social implications. More on the project https://bit.ly/4lrKSJX
Banks in Europe continue to finance fossil fuels and other high greenhouse gas emitting activities while being hesitant to increase green lending. What is causing this 'green banking gap'? Bankability, business models and regulation
ISRF Early Career Fellow Arash Beidollahkhani latest paper explores #AI - not as a neutral technological tool but rather a political-economic project used to secure regime durability in China, Saudi Arabia and Kazakhstan.
@martinoneill.bsky.social unpacks the story of Labour Together and Josh Simmons to explore a toxic political culture that relies on smears and disinformation to serve the interests of wealthy donors. What does this mean for the future of the UK's Labour party?
🚨 CFA: 'Re-imagining Legacies, Transitions and Meanders in Southern African Histories'. The Southern African Historical Society conference invites contributions for papers on a range of themes - from legal histories to protest culture. Learn more
Through the concept of 'humanitarian frontiering', this article examines how these market-driven interventions continually connect humanitarian and other economic regimes and encourage the accumulation of expertise and resources.
How did #protein become a nutritional star? @proteinthebook.bsky.social outlines how political, social and ecological forces which influence how we understand food, health and our diets.
Multilateralism continues to be challenged as leading states take unilateral actions. This article traces the shift away from multilateralism to explore the emergence of a non-hegemonic world. @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jacktaggart.bsky.social@tomchodor.bsky.social
Seeking funding to support the work of a small research group? ISRF Flexible Grants for Small Groups cover teaching relief, travel, and more for up to a year.
🚨 Deadline: 5pm GMT, 13 March 2026.
#ResearchFunding #ResearchGrants #FundingOpportunities
Coercing Climate Finance
Western governments have left the green transition to finance and industry. In this Director's Note, @cnewf.bsky.social explores how countries such as China have employed the public discipline of private capital to expand their green energy capacities
ISRF Newsletter – March 2026
Check out the latest edition of the ISRF newsletter featuring a Director's Note on the politics of climate financing. Also included is details on our Flexible Grant competition, news from our Fellows & blog posts.
Businesses looking to start sustainability initiatives face a range of challenges. Lucas Amaral, Juliane Reinecke and Michael Etter argue that such issues reveal how #sustainable practices take shape, are deployed, and transform on a daily basis:
From ISRF fellow @ceggart.bsky.social: a CFA for a special issue that approaches markets as infrastructures in order to examine how abstraction and materiality are not opposites but rather mutually sustained through social, technical, and political labour. More details below 👇
