@aleksandralewicki
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
'the last thing Labour should do if it wants to be electable is to ‘lurch to the left’ to appease the Greens'
Happy to lurch to the right to appease Reform though. If so, it means they learned nothing from Gorton and Denton.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/labou...
Although they clearly still don’t see it
Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim voters
By taking a far-right approach to immigration policy, cracking down on rights and placing it high on the agenda, Labour has not just turned its own voters away
It has mainstreamed far-right politics and strengthened Reform, both politically and electorally
Them doubling down should be unforgivable
Reform are always going to be better at being the racist far-right option. The Tories learnt this the hard way and it’s Labour’s turn now
Labour learning precisely the wrong lessons from their by-election decimation in 3... 2... 1... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I saw a talk version of this paper and came away having learned so much about how distortions in medical data are produced from the top down through the categories we use. So glad it’s out now!
The are academic analyses of her anti-Muslim racism too 😉: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Check out this special feature that I co-edited with brilliant @nahir.bsky.social: Introduction to “Race, Racialization, and Whiteness before and after The Invention of Race” | PMLA | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4anHgVM .
'In Munich, in Germany of all places, Rubio delivered an encomium to five centuries of the west’s “missionaries, its pilgrims, its soldiers, its explorers, pouring out from its shores to cross oceans, settle new continents, build vast empires extending out across the globe”.' 1/3
South Atlantic Quarterly cover with colorful abstract painting Theorizing Racial Capitalism in Post Imperial Europe January 2026
We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx
Dr David Davies holds his book „The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising“ which he discussed at the SEI book launch
Dr David Davies of the University of Sussex with members of the audience at his book launch
Yesterday, SEI hosted David Davies for the launch of his new monograph ‚The Regulation of Gender Stereotypes in Advertising‘: www.routledge.com/The-Regulati...
Screenshot of list of speakers on www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/
Join us for our in-person and online seminar series in spring 2026 - with two book launches and exciting guests! All details: www.sussex.ac.uk/sei/
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People around the world ask me “where is the resistance in the US?” We are here and growing!
This is something the rest of the world can do. Please: we need your solidarity!
Join us 23. January of course
First slide of the presentation - Diskriminierung von Menschen aus dem Östlichen Europa - Die Jobcenter als Schnittstelle zwischen Arbeitsmarkt und Wohlfahrtsstaat, Jure Leko, Aleksandra Lewicki, Jannis Panagiotidis und Hans-Christian Petersen, Forschungserkenntnisse. Online Präsentation 23. Januar 2026, Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes.
Join us 13.01., 1-2.30pm (CET): @japvie81.bsky.social, @hcpetersen.bsky.social, Jure Leko & I will present our research findings on the discrimination of people from the east of Europe in Germany - with @beauftragte.bsky.social (in German, free & online!)register: social.bscw.bund.de/pub/bscw.cgi...
'Vigilant Whiteness: #racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain'
New from #Identities, by Aleks Lewicki & Maddy Clark
#OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
#farright @nasarmeer.bsky.social Aaron Winter Taylor & Francis Research
In this panel, we want to critically interrogate constructions of racialised Whiteness - send us your abstracts!
Aw thanks Silke, this means a lot 🤍
(3) Many thanks to everyone who read it, commented on it, used it in their work – and a special thanks to those who wrote to me out of the blue – you are brill and I am so grateful for all the inspiring exchanges!
(2) It is not always easy to be part of a group of scholars who establish a new research agenda, and the process can involve harsh questions or discouraging reviews – that’s why it took me three years to write it, I really wanted to get it right.
The celebrate emoji, a photo of Aleks Lewicki and a screenshot of the JEMS website that indicates the most cited article of the last three years.
My piece on ‘East-West Inequalities and the Ambiguous Racialisation as Eastern European’ has been out for three years now - a good moment to celebrate its been the most cited piece in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies of the last three years! (1 of 3): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Slow and Sudden Violence is a good starting place for general readers who are interested in demystifying their assumptions about the uprisings in the US cities of Ferguson and Baltimore.”
Vladimir Rizov reviews Derek Hyra’s @ucpress.bsky.social study of uprisings and their causes.
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1/ New chapter out (with Franz Knappik): “G.W.F. Hegel, Frantz Fanon, and Angela Davis on Recognition, Slavery, and Liberation” – in Matt Congdon and Thomas Khurana’s Recognition: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives.
⬇️ Short thread below:
A short explainer of our key findings on the discrimination of people displaced from Ukraine in jobcentres (in German): www.instagram.com/reel/DSXGvil...
This is part of a symposium coordinated by the great @bobi24.bsky.social and with really stimulating contributions by Kasia Kubin, Mariya Ivancheva and Ercüment Çelik. Drop me an email if the paywall is an issue, I am happy to share my review.
It's been inspiring to engage with Anca Parvulescu's & @manuelaboatca.bsky.social's book 'Creolising the Modern': rather than doing a traditional review, I decided to extract the lessons the book offers to (still quite West-centric) scholarship on race & racism: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Unsere Studie weist auch darauf hin, dass die geplante Bürgergeldreform in die falsche Richtung geht - sie verringert eher die Chancen, Ukrainer*innen nachhaltig in Arbeit zu bringen
Now confirmed
Menschen aus Osteuropa werden besonders oft in prekäre Beschäftigung gedrängt – nicht aus mangelnder Motivation oder Qualifikation, sondern weil rechtliche und politische Rahmenbedingungen ihnen kaum Alternativen lassen. Das zeigt eine neue von uns geförderte Studie.
OUT NOW! Unsere Studie zu Diskriminierung von Menschen aus dem östlichen Europa in Jobcentern, zusammen mit @hcpetersen.bsky.social, @japvie81.bsky.social & Jure Leko, gefördert von @beauftragte.bsky.social: www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/a...