As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

Review: The Othered Woman and how white feminism harms Muslim women Author Shahed Ezaydi's The Othered Woman explores the many guises of Islamophobia, particularly when turned upon Muslim women

“Sorely needed”

The Othered Woman by Shahed Ezaydi reviewed for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social:
www.thecanary.co/opinion/2026...

Shahed Ezaydi on The Othered Woman, white feminism and Islamophobia – The Skinny We chat with author and journalist Shahed Ezaydi on her debut book The Othered Woman and her years of research into the harms of white feminism.

“I’m hopeful that in 50 years’ time, many more doors will have opened for many more women, not just for white feminists.”

Shahed Ezaydi, author of The Othered Woman, interviewed in @theskinnymag.bsky.social:
www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

Along with @cmsbisa.bsky.social we are hosting a panel discussion of Julia Welland’s new book Pleasure and Depletion in Contemporary Militarism on the 22nd April, 2-3:30pm GMT 📚👩‍🏫

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#OpenAccess from @pspolisci.bsky.social -

Dominating the Narrative: How Scholars Outside of Africa Define African Politics in the Top Political Science Journals - https://cup.org/4c9Xtxk

- Zack Zimbalist & @elisaomodei.bsky.social

#FirstView

Unpaid Unpaid upends conventional wisdom about how we value work, exposing wage theft as one of capitalism’s enduring open secrets. From unpaid overtime and under-the-table jobs to algorithmic exploitation, ...

Preorders on Unpaid are included in our Theory Sale!

"Unpaid unflinchingly catalogues the reality of labour exploitation under capitalism, presenting Marx's most important ideas in a clear, succinct and compelling way."
- @graceblakeley.substack.com

Book talk - The psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empire- Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) | BISA - Emotions in Politics and International Relations (EPIR) Working Group

🚨NEXT EVENT🚨

📖 Book talk: ‘The psychic lives of statues: reckoning with the rubble of empire’

Discussion of Rahul Rao’s (@rahulraothariel.bsky.social) latest book

🗓️ Monday 20 April, 4pm BST (online)

🔗Register here: www.bisa.ac.uk/members/work...

New episode of @politicalworldview.bsky.social podcast out now!🎙️ This time I’m talking recognition with the excellent @georgekyris.bsky.social, who’s thought about it a lot — and looked into some interesting cases. Check it out!

👇Audio links in thread under original post👇

Delighted to be participating in this BSA roundtable on theorising from lived experience in feminist and queer theory (21 April). This event is free to attend, but don't forget to register! Details here: www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...

Common sense and the common people: a queer typology of radical right populist discourse in the UK - British Politics Populist discourses and politics, especially from the radical right, are becoming increasingly prominent in numerous national contexts across the world. This article examines the UK as a particularly ...

New paper out from @drnickismith.bsky.social and me! It offers a queer typology of radical right populism, focusing on the UK as an exemplar of broader trends. It focuses particularly on anti-migrant and anti-gender discourses in this context. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The BISA, RIS and ISA logo with the words MD23: RIS special issue "International Politics of Cultural Heritage" Monday 23 March 2026, 4.00pm - 23-C150, Greater Columbus Convention Centre, #ISA2026, #BISAISA26 and an image of Columbus Ohio

Come and join us at #ISA26 today for our Review of International Studies special issue “International Politics of Cultural Heritage” 🎉

📣 4pm today at 23 - C150, Greater Columbus Convention Center
With Elif Kalaycioglu, Jelena Subotic, Franziska Boehme, Annika Bergman Rosamond and more! 🌟

Security assistance, authoritarian neoliberalism and racial capitalism: entangled mechanisms of coercion and control in post-2011 Tunisia Security Assistance (SA) – training and equipping another state’s security forces has become the dominant form of external intervention in the Mediterranean. Scholars have reflected upon trends suc...

Great new article by @rosamaryon.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures" by Kathi Weeks, which examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work. buff.ly/WNQyfxY

We invite you to join this upcoming book launch of "Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia" by Ferdiansyah Thajib on March 18th.

Many thanks to the organizers, @nysean.bsky.social, co=sponsors@sunycunyseac.bsky.social and NYU MAIR Program!

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A group of young professionals collaborating on a project in a modern office space, working with books and a laptop.

BISA postgrad network call for papers deadline is this SUNDAY‼️

'Supporting research by emerging scholars' to promote the production and exchange of knowledge 🎉

Do not miss out today @irpnorthumbria.bsky.social 👉
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Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture: "History, Gaza, and the question of Genocide"

Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley

2 March 2026, @soasuni.bsky.social
Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

www.bisa.ac.uk/news/ilan-pa...

Elections in #Slovenia next month. For those looking for a primer on the development of the party system over the past few decades and insights into the last elections in 2022 check out our article in @europe-asia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis | Waterstones Buy How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney is an ambitious masterwork of political economy — now in a beautiful new edition!

Preorder from Waterstones with the discount code FEB26 for 25% off.

for the price of 2.5 admittedly overpriced flat whites, you can pre-order the paperback edition of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues', out with a NEW PREFACE in June 2026

use code FEB26 for a 25% discount at Waterstones THIS WEEK ONLY: www.waterstones.com/book/the-psy...

Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism CfA for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): The spaces of sovereignty and the territories of capital and power are being radically redefined. Where is Empire produced an...

3x postdoctoral fellowships:
"Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism"

irgac.org/calls/rethin...

How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure is finally available for pre-order at academic.oup.com/book/62306?s...

A couple of lecturer posts at @uomsociology.bsky.social:

On racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates about 'race': www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

On political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Having built my career on trying to get IR and global health to talk to each other, I am so up for joining @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics!

Read & share Call for Papers published in The BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology We met with migrants to reflect on how tech is reshaping movement, borders, and power. This is what they told us

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology

Global Takes on Trump | Podcast on RSS.com The advent of the second Trump presidency has already had seminal effects on global politics.In each episode, host Dr. Synne Dyvik will be joined by academics from across the University of Sussex Facu...

"Global takes on Trump" - my fabulous colleagues have been making a podcast: rss.com/podcasts/glo... Would definitely recommend #IR@Sussex #Global@Sussex

Defence and climate change: An introduction Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of security, including by states and by traditional providers of national security within states: Defence and the military. This article introd...

Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra

New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Interview - Shirin M. Rai Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.

www.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i...
Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR

In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!

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