@dranindyar
Senior Lecturer @staenglish, TU Rep @ucustandrews, EDI Lead @sgsah, @ahrcpress/@BBCRadio3 New Gen Thinker, Author @OUPAcademic + @RowmanInternat Critical Theory, Marxism, empire, medical humanities.
Pssst! Pass it on… Myself, @drrobertchapman.bsky.social and @emilywebz.bsky.social are looking to set up a radical bookshop in Newcastle! Follow us over at Instagram www.instagram.com/p/DVve2wlDXh...
Excellent review in @medindonews.bsky.social of A Cultural History of Vertigo: Unbalanced by @dranindyar.bsky.social
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Aww - thanks for sharing this, had no idea.
One day these lines will no longer be relevant.
Not that it says anything about my state of mind at the moment or anything, but that's the second time today I've typed "food" instead of "good". Luckily spotted it both times before pressing send...
An abhorrent policy which inevitably leads to people seeking asylum being denied necessary medical support.
People seeking asylum don't receive enough financial support to pay for taxis, or often public transport, themselves, but still need to travel to appointments 1/
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it's not great when the consultation landing page continues the labour habit of just making things up where immigration rules are concerned. SETTLEMENT IS NOT GRANTED AUTOMATICALLY. absolute joke of a government
A screenshot from an email from the British Library, with the subject: "How is your research going?"
Why must you ask such difficult questions, British Library?
“Until recently, I thought it was a term best avoided. But now white people are getting shot.”
Say what you will about the uselessness of my work - at last no one will ever use it to terrorise poor and vulnerable people.
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Here’s a thing that too many people seem to forget. One doesn’t need to be innocent to have the right to live. There are very few crimes that justify execution without trial.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same
Not to make it all about me, but if more people took my postcolonial theory class…
Once again, for those in the back:
Industrial action works. It is the only thing that has ever worked.
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We have to be better than this - if we want to learn from our foremothers, we cannot forget them.
We do no one any favours if we allow understandable anger to result in uncritical anti-Americanism. The Right does a fabulous job of erasing very strong American traditions of radical organising and activism.
An extract from a Linkedin news item stating: "Lecturer is one of the fastest-growing jobs in the UK. See the ranking"
Oh you sweet summer Linkedin child
Thank you! Hope all is well with you.
The first interdisciplinary history of vertigo, 'A Cultural History of Vertigo' covers medical accounts from antiquity to the present, testimonies of lived experience, and literary and cultural representations of vertigo.
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Thank you so much for your kind words and your support for the project - quite literally could not have happened without you.
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
Being Director of Teaching, and sleeping with Test Match Special commentary on means you end up having dreams about the England cricket team asking you for extensions.
Congratulations - this looks great!
This volume, a long time in the works, now lives on the Bloomsbury website. Thanks to my co-editor Katie, associate editors Lauren Faro and Petar Penda, and to @bendoyle.bsky.social and the Bloomsbury team. Look out for the excellent cover, coming very soon...
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This entire thread is incredible.
Thank you so very much 🙏🏾
Thank you! It’s an honour to be able to include your experience!
Just published today from @bloomsburylit.bsky.social - the latest addition to our medical humanities series: 'A Cultural History of Vertigo': www.bloomsbury.com/cultural-his... with a lovely blurb from @travisclau.bsky.social