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The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

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Our new piece, collectively authored by the Editorial Board of @econsocjournal.bsky.social, reflecting on the state today.

@campolis.bsky.social

Link to the full piece below:

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The History of Political Thought as Window on the World Everyone understands politics through their own life. The range of experiences that led me to spend mine thinking about politics preceded my experience of the challenges and opportunities of studyi...

"The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" - an interesting new autobiographical essay by John Dunn

@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
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On Being and Suffering Imperialism at once: Nkrumah on the Europe Community As I noted last year (recall), Kwame Nkrumah’s (1965) Neo-Colonialism, the Last Stage of Imperialism is highly indebted to Lenin’s Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916). They both ground...

On Being and Suffering Imperialism at once: Nkrumah on the Europe Community
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The History of Political Thought as Window on the World Everyone understands politics through their own life. The range of experiences that led me to spend mine thinking about politics preceded my experience of the challenges and opportunities of studyi...

"The History of Political Thought as Window on the World" - an interesting new autobiographical essay by John Dunn

@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Delighted to have your chapter!

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So honored to be in this collection. Amazing editors and incredible contributors!

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Coming soon!

Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells

The Table of Contents can be seen here:
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Utopianists! New book by Duncan Bell and Douglas Mao is out with OUP - check it out 👇

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Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer

Pete Hegseth Replaces Top General With Horse That Drinks Beer

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Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

Michael Collins, the chap who took this photograph, remains the only person on earth to have taken a photo that had everyone in shot aside himself.

If Artemis is going up then it gives me an excuse to once again post this photo, the only one to contain every human being in the universe but one.

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Yup! It’s discussed in a few of the chapters, including mine

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Thanks!

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I'm afraid not - we could have filled another half dozen handbooks with everything interesting to say about him and his worlds!

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Delighted to be a part of this book, and in such amazing company!

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Coming soon!

Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells

The Table of Contents can be seen here:
global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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Chris Rokos on why he set up the new School of Government at the University of Cambridge
Chris Rokos on why he set up the new School of Government at the University of Cambridge YouTube video by Cambridge University

We are delighted to announce that the University of Cambridge has received a commitment of £190 million – the biggest individual donation to a British university in modern times – to establish the Rokos School of Government.
https://youtu.be/oruSfls6jRE?si=sXGlMPuzcXBybQBQ

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Utopia Abstract. Ideal societies, better worlds, more just and peaceful ways of living: these have long been the stuff of human beings’ social dreaming. In this c

NEW BOOK!

I'm very happy to say that my new book, Utopia, co-written with Douglas Mao, has been published on-line

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Adrian Tchaikovsky: 'I try and do interesting aliens' As the science fiction author publishes the latest novel in his Children of Time series, Children of Strife, he talks to Alison Flood about mantis shrimp, the pleasures of sci-fi and why empathy is so...

Loved this article featuring @aptshadow.bsky.social. An incisive and illuminating read.

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Research Associate in Political Theory at Loughborough University Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Associate in Political Theory. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

Job alert! Loughborough University is advertising a three-year Research Associate position in Political Theory as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project, ‘The Right to Liveability: An Ethical Assessment’ (managed by Dr. Guy Aitchison).
Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQW886/r...

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Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism - Volume 112 Issue 2

Duncan Bell, "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism," American Political Science Review (2018)

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Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism - Volume 112 Issue 2

Duncan Bell, "Pragmatism and Prophecy: H. G. Wells and the Metaphysics of Socialism," American Political Science Review (2018)

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Research Associate (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Research Associate (Fixed Term) in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

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Performance Philosophy Performance Philosophy is an emerging interdisciplinary field of thought, creative practice and scholarship. The international, peer-reviewed, open access journal publishes articles that interrogate w...

👇👇👇 cool new paper

Sarah Fine, "Philosophy with all the Feels," Performance Philosophy

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An epic book

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Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant The latest novel in this entirely original science-fiction series features a human-size mantis shrimp as an "uplifted" species. It's ambitious and fantastic, says sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson

The latest novel in this entirely original science-fiction series features a human-size mantis shrimp as an "uplifted" species. It's ambitious and fantastic, says sci-fi columnist Emily H. Wilson

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University Assistant Professor in Political Theory Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (Grade 9) in political theory, to be based in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge. The post will be

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Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

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Congratulations!

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‘The law changed around me’: top Sudanese students blocked from UK universities by visa ban High-achieving applicants’ educational plans derailed by ‘emergency visa brake’

Bold action by the government to prevent the “incalculable damage” wrought by people from Sudan studying computational biology at Cambridge.

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