Crystal A. Ennis

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Looking forward to speaking about my book #MillennialDreams this evening with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social in her Exeter CGS seminar series. Join us at 18:00 CET universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...

Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions.
www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

The article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).

Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira...

Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

Join us to celebrate and discuss @libertychee.bsky.social 's important new book this Friday! I'm very much looking forward to the event. #migration #polisky

So real.

So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award

It was brilliant speaking with my colleagues about our ten year journey, and debating what we consider the most critical political economy questions of today.

(Will write more on this soon!)

Many thanks Arang! Means a lot coming from you. Many congratulations also to you for this acknowledgement and especially the Roger Owen Book Award! So well deserved!

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social for the well earned award for her brilliant book. I am thrilled that Making Space for the Gulf was also recognized by AGAPS

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social - I indexed this book, and the reward is richly deserved!

I am so honoured to receive this award from such a distinguished review committee, and to see my book in such great company next to @keshavarziana.bsky.social .

2025 book award winners

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/centres/gulf/events/

I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

Familiaaaaarrr 🤣

Racism motivated the securitisation of our campus.

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The Myth of Israeli Innovation Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.

Allies and critics alike have bought into the narrative of Israel as a hub of high-tech military "innovation." But, as the scholar Rhys Machold explains in his new piece, this story obscures the true motor powering Israel's violence: Western backing.

jewishcurrents.org/the-myth-of-...

At least you're at a conference. I'm on my way to invigilate an exam 😫

Investigating charities getting tax breaks for funding Palestinian displacement | Full episode YouTube video by the fifth estate

CBC Fifth Estate investigates millions of dollars of Canadian tax deductible charitable donations funding the military occupation and illegal settlements.

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Two years of genocide and the AP still starts its articles with “Israel said”

Israel continues to be given the right to narrate the genocide it is doing

Pls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026

Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma

Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026

Israel is still not allowing International Media back into Gaza, despite the Ceasefire By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University (The Conversation) – The world’s media are currently busy recording the tales of released Israeli hostages, freed Palestinian prisoners and their families after a ceasefire came into effect for the war in Gaza. But they are doing so while still being held at a distance from the centre of […]

Israel is still not allowing International Media back into Gaza, despite the Ceasefire

Palestine at Canadian Universities: How institutional complicity in colonial genocide is maintained

This is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

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Thanks to @stellamorgana.bsky.social & @jmchickson.bsky.social for including us in their collection.

Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social!

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Crystal A. Ennis, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman (New Texts Out Now) The idea of this book is to retell the story of Oman’s modern economic development from the perspective of labor instead of oil—bringing in people from the margins of (global) political economy analys...

Haven't read my book yet & want to know more? Check out my #NewTextsOutNow interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social !
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#millennialdreams #oman
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