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Maïa Pal

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historical sociology of imperialism, extraterritorial jurisdiction, early modern consuls and cosmologies, communications cables, Marxism. Senior Lecturer in International Relations Campaigns officer brookesUCU

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Global scholars declare support for Palestine prisoners and solidarity with Greta Thunberg Dozens of distinguished scholars and authors from around the world have made a declaration in solidarity with prisoners in the UK whose long detention on remand on charges relating to activism for …

it is a measure of the utter cruelty of the British state and this Labour government that Heba Muraisi is on day 71 of her hunger strike

12.01.2026 14:02 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Among the many failures and regrets of my life, I can at least be proud of having taught/bored for over a decade of students about extraterritoriality and empire - I feel, sadly, validated that the US is now so blatantly proving that asserting power domestically outwards is the key to understand IR

12.01.2026 13:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hello my IR history people, updating my first year history module, any recommendations for a good article on Monroe doctrine and early US imperialism? Thanks!

12.01.2026 13:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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11.11.2025 21:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Wendy Brown on why people are so eager or tolerant towards the new authoritarianism @histmat.bsky.social

08.11.2025 20:09 👍 20 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!

08.11.2025 19:02 👍 23 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KS8...

08.11.2025 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Saturday night plenary with @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social and Wendy Brown on new authoritarianisms - full house. @histmat.bsky.social

08.11.2025 19:26 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner Lecture: Matteo Pasquinelli YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

Now live, the Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.

07.11.2025 18:44 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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After some health setbacks, I’m at @histmat.bsky.social conference! Excellent panel part of imperialism stream

07.11.2025 11:59 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Newsletter - Historical Materialism For over 28 years Historical Materialism has been disseminating critical Marxist thinking through the Journal, the Book Series, the historicalmaterialism.org website, the international network of Hist...

The Historical Materialism newsletter (in a much better format) is out now!

The newsletter will from be our main tool for regular communication by email. We urge everyone to subscribe to stay in touch, as the Riseup email list, painful as it is, will be gradually suspended.

03.11.2025 16:38 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories This article advances a decolonial intervention in International Political Economy (IPE) by examining the centrality of racism in the formation of offshore zones under British and American colonial...

Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories, by Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones

29.10.2025 20:07 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

See you there! Will post specific panels soon but check out Imperialism stream curated with @psotiris.bsky.social to start with.

27.10.2025 20:59 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

New here and a bit lost! But glad to be away from the other site…

27.10.2025 20:53 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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In their new EJIR article, @maiapal.bsky.social
and Claire Vergerio introduce the idea of “woven and warring cosmologies” through the cases of Louis XIV and revolutionary Corsica.

You can read the full publication here: t1p.de/aeh1h

27.10.2025 14:02 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0