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historical sociology extraterritorial jurisdiction, EM consuls, Marxism, anticapitalism SL International Relations Editor @histmat Campaigns officer @brookesucu
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It's finally more affordable! My book is out in paperback and with a 20% voucher. Thanks to
@CUP_Law
@CUPAcademic
and to those who’ve already supported the book (busier with baby books these days but look forward to reworking ideas soon)
@ResearchHSS
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Today Oxford Brookes announced the closure of its Maths & Music departments, & that many colleagues in others are at risk of redundancies in a ridiculously short timeframe & insulting VS scheme: in English, History, Film, Anthropology, and more to come. All doing great research.
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This is so insulting. I'm 7 mo pregnant and STILL working overtime and weekends to do this job. Students have been fed this idea that lecturers aren't doing enough, when COVID meant we had to work twice as hard to adapt and provide blended learning, at the expense of research.
Today, at a meeting of the education select committee, a Conservative MP shamelessly accused higher education staff of not "pulling together” during the pandemic.
Here was
@DrJoGrady
’s response.
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
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We’re sad, enraged, disgusted and incredibly anxious for our colleagues. The union is gathering information and will be responding soon.
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Finally made it to the picket with little 8 weeks old Rosa! I told her about the reasons for the strike and she was not happy!
@BrookesUCU
@ucu
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#UCUstrike
#FourFights
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Interested in how & why European empires expanded and moved their authority and how this shaped IL? My book 'Jurisdictional Accumulation: an early modern history of law, empires, and capital' is out. Discount code PAL2020
@CUP_Law
@CUPAcademic
@CambridgeUP
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So I know everyone is concerned with something important today, but this happened and I just want to share my joy. Hope to tweet more meaningful summaries of the book soon, but just want to enjoy holding it for a bit in a pub before the world ends. Cheers!
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The beast has been reluctantly released from the grip of my hand and confirmed as in production. It nearly got the best of me many times & I promised myself to never work this hard again. Hopefully the 12 years it took to come to life were worth it.
#jurisdictionalaccumulation
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I’ve been shortlisted for the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher prize! Can’t quite believe it. So chuffed, and proud to be in this line-up!
🚨 The Deutscher Prize Committee is thrilled to announce the shortlisted books for the 2021 prize: a 🧵
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1/ The amount I’ve lost from wages this month from
#MAB
deductions is HIGHER than my nursery costs! For 3-4 days of marking, I lost £1400. This fight isn’t about money otherwise we would never have gone this far. As an academic couple we’re surviving thx to colleagues’ solidarity
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Finally got my hands on our book. Thanks to
@Umut_Ozsu
@ntinatzouvala
& Daniel Margolies for being great co-editors & to all participants
@johndhaskell
@DrPeterSzigeti
@SaraSeck
Kate Miles Richard Horowitz Mai Taha
@AustenParrish
@EllenGutterman
@AlicePanepinto
@ezgiyyildiz
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In the midst of universal uncertainty and fear, the reality of my book cover provides some strange comfort. Glad to share it with everyone and I deeply thank my father Vincent Pal for providing the painting as well as
@CUPAcademic
@CUP_Law
for the design. Getting very real!
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More proofs! I’ve been working on a symposium for
@histmat
on new debates in
#PoliticalMarxism
for 2 years. 7 scholars were commissioned to react to an article by Sam Knafo & Benno Teschke. They’ve delivered detailed & wide-ranging responses for issue 29.2
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So much we couldn’t get into but a good start for thinking of other collaborations to showcase the potential and richness of Marxist approaches to IL. Thank you
@TarikKochi
@ntinatzouvala
@pashukanist
@rose_parfitt_
and
@GrietjeBa
! The recording is here:
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@BryanTo40408423
Not sure what’s your point but Brookes does not have a gender studies department
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The book is nearly out! Here is the final cover and some snippets of the endorsements. Very grateful and humbled. Thanks to Benno Teschke, Hamish Scott, Heide Gerstenberger, and Jörg Ulbert.
@CUP_Law
@CambridgeCore
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Did 1st launch of my 1st book publication yest at
@GPES_Brookes
for The Extraterritoriality of Law edited w/
@Umut_Ozsu
@ntinatzouvala
& Dan Margolies. Just 5 min summary alongside 6 other books but great to show why
#extraterritoriality
should b more discussed in
#politics
&
#IR
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Today my book is out and all I could do was get pissed with Brookes Marxist colleagues
@Hesketh1981
and Neil Harris and that’s all I wanted - the privilege of having Marxist colleagues to share this moment with and plot the revolution
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Another week with no news from
@ucu
and
@UCEA1
while I lose 5 days pay for refusing to mark 3 resit scripts. When are they going to sort it out?
#settlethedispute
#ucurising
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The massive set of 3 volumes of the SAGE Marxism handbook is now out! Well done to editors Sara Farris Alberto Toscano Bev Skeggs & Svenja Bromberg. Here is my chapter on International Relations
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@nikadubrovsky
@davidgraeber
deepest condolences to you and your families. I’m very sad to hear this. David was a great scholar but he also listened and was helpful to younger scholars and activists. I only met him once but will always remember it and thank him for his comments and support for many campaigns
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Just found out our
@BrookesUCU
branch has agreed to donate £5000 to support colleagues in the 60 universities that ended their 8 day strike yesterday. Many of those losing pay are on very precarious contracts working many more hours than paid.
#UCUstrikes
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If you’re concerned with what’s happening at Brookes please follow the
@BrookesUCU
account as we will be posting more information from there. And if you’re at Brookes but not part of the union, it might be a good time to join to help this campaign. Thanks!
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'Jurisdictional Accumulation: an Early Modern History of Law, Empires and Capital' and me have said yes to a book contract with Cambridge University Press. Let the fun finally begin.
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Feels good to finally work on proofs 2 years after writing the chapter - would write it differently probably today but stand by focus on methodology and pedagogy to further debates in HSIR, as well as defending internalism. Also, HS is astrophysics of IR!
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#WorldBookDay
#BrookesAuthors
Still in the honeymoon period so proudly posing with my book Jurisdictional accumulation and thinking of all those I still need to thank for making it happen!
@brookes_socsci
@ResearchHSS
@brookes_oa
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The
@BISA_HSIR
working group is hosting
@HarveyMurenow
for a book launch of his forthcoming ‘Residential Capitalism’ on 29 Nov. With Brett Christophers
@CSchwobelPatel
&
@Callumny
. Please share and join us!
@MYBISA
@bisa_ipeg
@BisaCpd
@HistoricalInte1
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Want to know why we’re all obsessed with histories of law and capitalism and what this means for today’s mad world?
Check out our panel for
#HM2020
@pashukanist
@rose_parfitt_
@ntinatzouvala
@TarikKochi
@GrietjeBa
will be joining me on 15 Nov to discuss their recent masterpieces
Coming soon, to a livestream near you:
As an alternative to the annual London Conference, the HMEB has curated a small number of panels to maintain conversations and give comrades intellectual nourishment between the 5th and the 15th November.
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Don't miss
@histmat
panel on 'Historicizing Law and Capitalism: New Directions'. I'll have the honour to bring
@ntinatzouvala
@pashukanist
@rose_parfitt_
@GrietjeBa
@TarikKochi
together to discuss their amazing work. Full Programme
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The first review of the book. Delighted that my efforts are acknowledged by such an esteemed legal historian. Looking forward to responding on issues of method in Marxist legal history & to continue exploring empirically how to develop historical sociology of early modern empires
Christopher Tomlins reviews
@maia_pal
's new book on jurisdiction, extraterritoriality, and early modern empires, situating it in debates about legal history, 'political Marxism', and commodity-form theories of law.
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Proofs! Chapter on International Relations for the SAGE Handbook of Marxism edited by
@bevskeggs
, Sara Farris, Alberto Toscano &
@sven_ja_b
. A beast of 87 chapters (!) and very chuffed to be part of it.
#IR
gets a beating I’m afraid.
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Honking, dancing and bubbles - what every picket needs
@BrookesUCU
@UCU
#ucuRISING
#EnoughIsEnough
Day 6!
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celebrating my anti-capitalism and reading David McNally’s recent Blood and Money, a brilliant take on the history of money and war. Just got to the juicy part (no pun intended!). To remind ourselves re school guidance news of how bloody and immoral capitalism is
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Really good turnout at
@OxfordUCU
for a rally in town and excellent speeches - solidarity to those on strike, hold tight!
#UCUstrikes
#ucu
@ucu
@OxfordAntiCas
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1/ I also admit to naivety. I thought they’d be too scared of damaging students’ success and would weigh that against the small price of any peanut they could have offered, which considering situation, we would have accepted. Instead they’ve gone for symbolic victory at all costs
I don’t expect much from these people, but I did naively expect that much. Clearly part of the problem is that university managers are thoroughly insulated from the consequences of their own actions and have come to have union bashing identified as maybe their core job.
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Excellent teach-in after the rally at Up in Arms with Stuart Whigham and Jill Millar speaking first on some current provocations - the links between protest and sport, and the ethics of striking
@ucu
@BrookesUCU
#UCUstrike
#OneOfUsAllOfUs
#FourFights
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4 days & months of prep for
@histmat
conf with 850+ participants, the widest range of topics we’ve seen yet, a very vibrant book culture, people involved in current uprisings & everyday political work. New comrades and old friends. Exhausted but happy. Thanks to all!
#HMLDN2019
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Uploaded the introduction to my book for those interested.
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This will be my first book launch so looking forward to it!
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Last class tomorrow morning before my long maternity leave, so emotional. Teaching Rajagopal's 2003 'International Law and Social Movements: Challenges of Theorizing Resistance' with Linebaugh's 2010 'Enclosures from the Bottom Up' about Oxford - law, protests & capitalism, done!
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Extremely sad about Neil’s death. So much from him still to learn and so much I wanted to ask him. Sending deepest condolences to Neil’s family. We’ve lost a great comrade and a first class historian. Will be posting more on his work in coming days
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Joyfully greeted in this morning's batch of marking by best typo of the academic year: '(Marx and Angels, 1848)'
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STRIKE! After working 4 weeks without a break & struggling through endless requests to do this job in ways I was never meant to do, it's about time we put pressure on the university system. Brookes can't strike but we'll support others as best we can! ?
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Check out the chapter on Marxism for my attempt to make Marxist IR as accessible as possible
A lively, readable and relevant foundational introduction to IR theory that will help students to see not only what theories are, but why they matter – free download
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We bought Books, from a real shop! Great to see the
@histmat
section still strong at
@blackwelloxford
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Classic academic strike activity - finished my first chapter on Marx for a new book!
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Robert Gildea speaks out the motion that was supposed to be voted on but which was cancelled - Oxford staff are pissed off
@OxfordUCU
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This is brave and bold. Thanks for showing such an example of solidarity in the fight against neoliberal academia.
Last week I resigned my post at QMUL. Although the sector as a whole is becoming inhospitable & I loved my students & colleagues, QMUL managerial decisions made staying untenable. For me the last straw was the cruel, craven call by management for students to snitch on us.
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Back at work & lucky to share this symposium on my book w/ contributions by four brilliant Brazilian scholars. Thanks
@IntHeritageLaw
for organising &
@gabrielmantelli
@jhroriz
@FabiaFCarvalho
Bruno Biazatti for close reading & suggestions
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Preparing for this excellent panel on Decolonising Marx’s Capital Reading Group with
@KeremBrulee
@saramsalem
@Tilley101
@MeeraSabaratnam
& Nivi Manchanda Thursday 14 June 16:45 for
@MYBISA
Convention in Bath Can't wait!
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Voted to REJECT 4 fights 'offer' on pay, casualisation, workloads & gender pay gap (can even now remember all these w/o doublechecking). The sector is structurally in need of change, we've never been in a stronger position to do so, and I'm tired of striking every year
@ucu
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I voted NO in
#UCU
#UCURising
ballot because I am concerned it sends the wrong message to employers; it doesn’t pause but cancels strike action, taking away leverage; it was a comms fiasco and increased pressure on most vulnerable members. So I really hope it was worth it!
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Oxford, 16 May, massive turnout from the whole community to free Palestine.
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Our co-edited volume with
@routledgebooks
is online
More details (intro and TOC) are available here: with
@ntinatzouvala
@Umut_Ozsu
and Daniel Margolies. Out in print in March 2019!
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Exhausted by endless admin BUT saved for 2h tomorrow to teach fav class reading
@SundhyaPahuja
’s Laws of encounter & Mark Neocleous’s international law as primitive accumulation. Perfect mix to introduce students to IL, colonialism & capitalism through concept of jurisdiction
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Registration link for panel on Tuesday 9th November for HM Online 2021
@histmat
on my book Jurisdictional Accumulation
@CUP_Law
. I’m very lucky to have 3 amazing discussants: Heide Gerstenberger, FG Dufour &
@pashukanist
.
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Spent my lunch time at picket
@OxfordUCU
meeting STEM colleagues fighting for the rest of us to get better conditions, pay and pensions! Thanks for holding the picket since 8.30am in the biting cold!
@BrookesUCU
members, go help out a picket if you can, even if just for 20min
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2/ the fight is about casualisation, decent conditions & ownership of production and labour conditions - ie about who gets to decide about the future of universities and about how we produce and share knowledge. Might be a losing battle too, but it’s worth fighting for.
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'The book is to be welcomed as an able and convincing elaboration of the thesis [of jurisdictional accumulation]... Pal’s goal is just as much the exposition of method as it is the presentation of original research.'
@CUP_Law
@form_legal
@histmat
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Finally done with 3 weeks of marking and can get back to urgent research questions - and final copy edits to the book. Definitely not going to solve the Netherlands debate but trying to add jurisdictional angle to question of merchant class reproduction
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Was asked to say a few words about my favourite Marx and picked the Debates on the Thefts of Wood Happy birthday mate
#Marx200
@VersoBooks
@histmat
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Reading about the transformation problem in value theory on a Friday afternoon late in the semester without the carrot of a pub on the horizon is pushing the limits of the possible
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Feeling very far away from sisters and comrades today in various cities fighting for recognition so finding solace in reading this great collection by Brenna Bhandar and
@RafeefZiadah
- time to focus on abolition! Solidarity and love to you all out there
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Doerthe Rosenow and I wrote this about our attempts to change how we teach IR and in reaction to establishment attacks on 'decolonising' curricula
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This is a major event in Marxist analysis and praxis. This special issue will be discussed for a long time and is a major achievement by the authors and special issue editors
@broseph_stalin
and
@pashukanist
.
Historical Materialism is making draft versions of our double special Issue on Race and Capital (32(2&3)) available online.
Please read - and share widely!
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After 3 years, the
@histmat
symposium on Alex Anievas and
@KeremBrulee
How the West Came to Rule is out online (& in print v. soon). Contributions by Davidson, Banaji, Post, Medved, and myself
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Speech from Oxford Brookes UCU rep Ben Kenward
@OxfordUCU
@BrookesUCU
#ussstrike
@UCU
Full solidarity to our colleagues from everyone in the branch! In context of broader austerity, students are a force because managers are forced to listens their customers
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so most of my day has been spent responding to student emails saying they have Covid or are shielding because their housemate has Covid. What a national disaster. Shame on this government and on university managements.
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Keeping warm with IR and politics colleagues Lucy Ford and Andrea Bardin, waiting to be ‘loaned’ by the public at first
@ThinkHumanFest
event, this morning in Westgate shopping centre ‘the human Library’.
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The sun came out with decision to adjourn the eviction decision of
@IffleyOpenHouse
a small but important victory for those needing shelter
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Another extremely badly worded question which is too confusing. You’re asking us to strike for 2 days for no reason. More importantly, why is the negotiating team taking this pro-offer stance? Is there no more leverage in our favour? If so, why show your hand by backing the offer
🚨HIGHER EDUCATION NEGOTIATIONS CONCLUDE
We have concrete proposals to share in our disputes 👇
Check your email. Vote NOW in the e-ballot🗳️
Your union. Your dispute. Your vote
#ucuRISING
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HM Online
@histmat
2021 annual conference programme is up Some great panels so check it out and register, and help the HM project continue. Looking forward to a discussion of my book on 9 Nov w/ Heide Gerstenberger
@pashukanist
& Frederick Guillaume Dufour
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I am happy to announce I am joining
@clemhoffmann
as co-convenor of the Historical Sociology in International Relations Working Group at
@MYBISA
@BISA_HSIR
. We're cooking up something exciting for you so please try and hold it together until we have further details!
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Here is good ex why bringing students back to campus was wrong. Student just emails me she can’t attend class because for the 2d time this semester (it’s only week 3) she has to get tested because a friend is positive. She is gutted to miss class. WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS?
@ucu
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Brilliant podcast of
@JeanneMorefiel1
book Empires without Imperialism. Important to think about the role of liberalism, imperial apologies & strategies of deflection today in influencing the current paranoia & witch-hunt against universities
@thedigradio
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been doing some research on sheep farming and the transition to capitalism according to Marx and political marxism (Brenner, Zmolek, Sorensen) since yesterday for a podcast and it's really fun!
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It’s been a really rough few weeks on the exec, especially for the negotiators and obviously those at risk. Please support and follow us any way you can! We will be back in January stronger.
#stoptheSHAMcuts
Thanks to everyone who attended our last branch meeting of the year! What a mad 6 weeks. A very big THANK YOU to our negotiators. The campaign is escalating, with threats of industrial action and new information to share in the new year on the reasons for these cuts. 1/5
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Entering last 8 week stretch before my bonkers book submission - had to delocalise & select THE essential books, which was obvs torture but prob helpful. Terrified & excited about tying everything up. Trying to keep a sane routine & avoid social media, but any other tips welcome!
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The Political Marxism crew based at
@IRSussex
have a revamped website check out for news of the active working group, publication updates, reading lists and major debates
#Marxism
#historicalmaterialism
#historicalsociology
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Trip cancelled to France and joys of xmas marking BUT I've achieved something this year: my first year intro to IR students are choosing *by themselves* to apply Marxist theory to comment on a speech by Greta Thunberg. 2020 goals
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Can’t wait to go support
@BrookesUCU
colleagues on strike today at the teach-out at 12.30 in Up in Arms! Incredible line-up
@DoertheRosenow
@Hesketh1981
@APowellLaw
Francesco Sticchi Rosa can’t quite believe it! Even her daddy Neal Harris is speaking!
#UCUstrike
#FourFights
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Last day of strikes and pickets, ended with a pub teach out with amazing colleagues, talking about the hypocrisies of our HE system. Thanks
@BrookesUCU
the fight is still on, whatever comes our way.
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My take on
#employability
as
#counterconduct
from a Marxist critical pedagogy following a summary of UK
#HE
policy since the 90s on the empl. agenda & key aspects of emerging critical lit. in vol by Neal Harris & Onur Acaroğlu Thinking Beyond Neoliberalism
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Of all the problems and headaches of using Zoom, at least it got one thing right. Thank you for transcribing my name to 'Maya Power'. WINNING.
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´The traditional middle-class is complicit in its own decline, it enabled the state to undermine the material and cultural foundations of its class...its death is a clear indicator that the wheel of history has turned again, and once the wheel has turned, it cannot be turned back
In 'A Dying Class',
@Alex_PT_Maguire
discusses downward social mobility and the disintegration of the traditional middle class:
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