Join us Thursday, December 11, 2 PM ET online for: “Politics in an Accidental Crucible:” A discussion of Sean Yom’s new book, “Jordan”

With @seanyom.bsky.social, @mattlac.bsky.social, Ben Schutze, Jamal al Tahat, Yara Bataineh and @sarahleah1.bsky.social

Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Quiet Demise of Jordan’s Political Space | Journal of Democracy In the shadow of Gaza’s destruction, the Jordanian regime has quietly repressed one of the main sources of the country’s political activism.

I wrote a piece for @jodemocracy.bsky.social on a little-noticed court decision last week to effectively permanently outlaw Jordan’s teacher’s union
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Spatio-temporal dimensions of hegemony and resistance in neoliberal Jordan This essay argues that the uneven breakdown of hegemony in Jordan across economic, institutional, and ideological dimensions was the terrain upon which social resistance – first from within the pub...

New publication: The product of a fantastic conference on Gramsci in the MENA at LSE (4 years ago!) and part of a forthcoming special issue w/ eds. John Chalcraft and @saramsalem! Spatio-temporal dimensions of hegemony and resistance in neoliberal Jordan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New Article from our latest issue (Issue 7, 2025): "Claiming a 'Right' to State Space: Building Social Movements Under Authoritarian Rule" by Matthew T. Lacouture

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#polisky #socialscience #ComparativePolitics #academicsky

Excited to see this piece now up with page numbers and everything journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

I guess I'm actually proud to be so bad at social media that I did this whole thread to promote my article but forgot to post a link. Anyway, the article is open access, and you can find it here:

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screenshot of first page of article

To what extent can tech workers mobilize as part of the broader working class?

This is the question I take up in my new paper "Solidarity across the platform: mobilizing high-wage and low-wage workers in the tech sector" -- just out in Work in the Global Economy

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Jordan really doesn't want to host a Trump wave of Palestinian refugees Neither does Egypt, but for Jordan it's existential.

“Yesterday, though he likely doesn’t realize it (or care), Donald Trump just put [the Jordan-Israel peace] treaty at serious risk by suggesting that Jordan accept the single most important thing the treaty was meant to prevent.”

abuaardvark.substack.com/p/jordan-rea...

Hope and Fear in Syria | Journal of Democracy The brutal regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad fell in a week. Syrians have been preparing for this moment for years.

I wrote a short essay for @JoDemocracy on the remarkable fall of Bashar Al Assad
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A Horizon of Violence - The Ideas Letter In Jordan and other Arab countries, America’s support for Israel’s war in Gaza, despite international condemnation and calls for a ceasefire, is seen as complicity; the U.S. is perceived as…

“The war in Gaza doesn’t come up in conversation these days as often as it used to: What more is there to say? It’s now the air we breathe.” - Ursula Lindsey

An important read: A Horizon of Violence www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-hori...

Comparative Labor Politics Workshop 2024 The 2024 Comparative Labor Politics Workshop hopes to bring scholars studying labor across diverse cases and with varied methodological orientations into conversation. We encourage work by scholars in any stage of their careers, and across subfields of political science, sociology, or labor studies. We are particularly interested in the following themes: · Labor, democracy, and authoritarianism · Causes and effects of labor activism and mobilization · Inequality in workplaces and labor markets · Political responses to labor activism and inequality Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words and optional paper draft by December 8, 2023 to this link: https://forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N8hj48. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by mid-December. The workshop will take place virtually via Zoom on Thursday March 8th and 9th, 2024.

Excited to be co-organizing the 2024 Comparative Labor Workshop with Bluesky-less Danny Daneri!

We aim to bring scholars working on labor issues across subfields and methods orientations into conversation

Please apply with an abstract by Dec. 8 for March 8-9, 2024: forms.gle/8LDewfTw4a1N...

Syria Divided & Perspectives on Politics (S. 13, Ep. 4) - Project on Middle East Political Science On this week’s episode of the podcast, Ora Szekely of Clark University joins Marc Lynch to discuss her new book, Syria Divided: Patterns of Violence in a Complex Civil War. Szekely draws on sources ...

New ep of the Middle East Political Science podcast has dropped! Listen to @oraszekely.bsky.social talk about her new book SYRIA DIVIDED and my conversation with the great Wendy Pearlman about her work with Syrian refugee oral histories. Listen here!

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The Project on Middle East Political Science is thrilled to announce POMEPS Studies 49: Urban Politics in the Middle East! Download the full PDF here!
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