Rob Sharp

Rob's fundraiser for The Sussex Beacon Help Rob Sharp raise money to support The Sussex Beacon

I’m running the Brighton Half marathon on March 1st for local HIV Charity the Sussex Beacon. Any donations welcome 🙏 🤗🏃 www.justgiving.com/page/rob-sha...

Rob's fundraiser for The Sussex Beacon Help Rob Sharp raise money to support The Sussex Beacon

I’m running the Brighton Half marathon on March 1st for local HIV Charity the Sussex Beacon. Any donations welcome 🙏 🤗🏃 www.justgiving.com/page/rob-sha...

Manifestations of (Mis)Recognition Amongst Germany-based Refugee Women from Ukraine - Journal of International Migration and Integration This research focuses on 10 case studies drawn from a corpus of 50 interviews with displaced Ukrainian women based in Berlin and Frankfurt/Oder and considers the extent to which Ukrainian refugee wome...

📣 "Manifestations of (Mis)Recognition Amongst Germany-based Refugee Women from #Ukraine" by Jonna Rock (DeZIM) & @robsharp.bsky.social.
The article focuses on 10 case studies drawn from 50 interviews with Ukrainian women based in Berlin & Frankfurt/Oder over the last 2 years.
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So sad to see this.

Discourses of solidarity fatigue as ambivalent recognition among German and Polish actors in relation to Ukrainian displacement. Rob Sharp (University of Sussex, UK)

This article discusses solidarity fatigue, a sense of psychological or physical exhaustion experienced by those expressing solidarity, encompassing emotional, legal, and sociocultural dimensions.

Read the full article here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
@robsharp.bsky.social

Justin Webb on Today on migration — airlifted from the 19th century?

It’s great, isn’t it. Matthew Goode is amusingly grumpy

Two people I know have had their phones snatched in Hackney in the past week. I had good advice to stand by a lamppost if you need to check. Better still just don’t get your phone out at all.

Thank you to the participants; happy to discuss this work.

*The regulation by social media companies of the ways in which non-citizen activists might organise protest or employ labour to moderate posts littered with disinformation;

*The performative social benefit of solidarity being rearticulated in ways that align with the nation-state’s bordering practices over time;

*The ontological insecurity of experiencing welcome (albeit on regulated terms) in a host society alongside unrelenting social media content from the front line;

*The interaction of overlapping political, funding and emotional abandonment (media framing, funding shifts, host relationships changing) as mutually contradictory or reinforcing;

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Have a new publication published — re.: solidarity long-term re.: Ukraine (open access)

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.

“‘Our vision is that, over time, A.I. would become part of the core infrastructure of higher education,’ Leah Belsky, OpenAI’s vice president of education, said in an interview.” 🫠

Care-stripping: Beyond the Pretence of Care Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our worl...

Authors of Care Manifesto on ‘Care Stripping’ www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

I think - I may have misunderstood the system! - that media studies qualifies as being in the lowest of the "price groups" which receive additional funding for being high cost. But at that level the additional funding is so small - not much over £100 per student - that any saving here is tiny.

On what planet is Media and Comms an expensive course

Funding for ‘high-cost’ university courses to be cut in England Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back in ‘challenging’ fiscal situation

Education secretary targeting expensive subjects including “journalism and media studies” www.ft.com/content/ec74...

Funding for ‘high cost’ university courses to be cut in England Education secretary says top-up support for subjects including media must be scaled back because of ‘extremely challenging’ fiscal environment

There’s always salami left in the salami stand:

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A question that I haven't heard a good answer to: if cutting migration by a third in a year hasn't changed the narrative on it at all - what would make you think cutting it by another third (or half] would?

Academic publishing rates sharing

Hey, academics! Have you signed a book contract lately?
You should report your royalty/advance rate anonymously on this spreadsheet.
Are you negotiating, or about to be negotiating, a book contract? You should take a look at the spreadsheet.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

The Mind Field

Came across Mind Field — a group of therapists, many with backgrounds as conflict journalists and aid workers. They offer therapy and support for people still working in war and crisis zones. Could be a useful resource for those working with conflict-affected communities themindfield.world/about-us

Feminism and the Far-Right A one-day symposium at Goldsmiths about bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right.

The inimitable @kat-hig.bsky.social is organising this extremely timely symposium on bodily autonomy, reproductive justice, gender, and the cultural politics of the global far-Right at @mediacomgold.bsky.social, 6th June. EPIC lineup of speakers!! 😍🔥💪

BOOK HERE: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminism-a...

📢 Call for Sessions is now open for the ETMU Conference 2025!
🗓️ Helsinki, 13–14 November
🌐 Theme: Breaking (Digital) Barriers
🔗 elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/134301/lomake.html
#ETMU2025 #BreakingDigitalBarriers @helsinki.fi

Quick note - the festival guide says free which is true, but it is also ticketed.. And places are limited…

Work for my Whose Streets project which will map memories of Antifacist and Antiracist protest in Brighton and Hove.