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Nicola J. Smith

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Associate Prof in Political Science @BhamPolsis (she/her)

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Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.

Cover of Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures by Kathi Weeks. The cover features rectangles and other geometric shapes overlapping each other in red, pink, and black. The title is written in all caps in a bold sans serif white font. The title is written diagonally. The author’s name appears below in the same font and direction but in hot pink. Where the author’s name overlaps with the red rectangle in the background, the text appears black.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures" by Kathi Weeks, which examines the works of Angela Davis, Shulamith Firestone, and Donna Haraway to build a case for the abolition of prison and family and the refusal of work. buff.ly/WNQyfxY

03.03.2026 17:03 👍 17 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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We invite you to join this upcoming book launch of "Enduring Otherwise: Muslim Queer and Trans Worldmaking in Indonesia" by Ferdiansyah Thajib on March 18th.

Many thanks to the organizers, @nysean.bsky.social, co=sponsors@sunycunyseac.bsky.social and NYU MAIR Program!

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19.02.2026 17:05 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A group of young professionals collaborating on a project in a modern office space, working with books and a laptop.

A group of young professionals collaborating on a project in a modern office space, working with books and a laptop.

BISA postgrad network call for papers deadline is this SUNDAY‼️

'Supporting research by emerging scholars' to promote the production and exchange of knowledge 🎉

Do not miss out today @irpnorthumbria.bsky.social 👉
https://ow.ly/Njbh50YglhK

27.02.2026 17:01 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
CPS Annual Lecture: history, Gaza, and the question of genocide Ussama Makdisi asks why, across so many parts of the liberal West that so solemnly proclaims the universality of law and human rights, is Palestinian life consistently devalued?

Centre for Palestine Studies Annual Lecture: "History, Gaza, and the question of Genocide"

Dr. Ussama Makdisi, Professor of History and Chancellor’s Chair at the University of California Berkeley

2 March 2026, @soasuni.bsky.social
Register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

27.02.2026 18:01 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

www.bisa.ac.uk/news/ilan-pa...

18.02.2026 15:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Elections in #Slovenia next month. For those looking for a primer on the development of the party system over the past few decades and insights into the last elections in 2022 check out our article in @europe-asia.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

18.02.2026 10:33 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis | Waterstones Buy How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney, Angela Davis from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney is an ambitious masterwork of political economy — now in a beautiful new edition!

Preorder from Waterstones with the discount code FEB26 for 25% off.

18.02.2026 13:02 👍 34 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 3
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for the price of 2.5 admittedly overpriced flat whites, you can pre-order the paperback edition of 'The Psychic Lives of Statues', out with a NEW PREFACE in June 2026

use code FEB26 for a 25% discount at Waterstones THIS WEEK ONLY: www.waterstones.com/book/the-psy...

17.02.2026 09:52 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
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Postdoc Fellowships: Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism CfA for 3 postdoctoral fellowships, May 2026 to December 2027 (20 months): The spaces of sovereignty and the territories of capital and power are being radically redefined. Where is Empire produced an...

3x postdoctoral fellowships:
"Rethinking Empire. War, Coloniality, and New Internationalism"

irgac.org/calls/rethin...

11.02.2026 19:43 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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How to Prevent Civil War Recurrence: Learning from Failure is finally available for pre-order at academic.oup.com/book/62306?s...

10.02.2026 20:55 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Lecturer in Sociology:Oxford Road As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

A couple of lecturer posts at @uomsociology.bsky.social:

On racial inequalities, anti-racism and theoretical debates about 'race': www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

On political sociology of class and economy or cultural interpretations of class: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

11.02.2026 12:40 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Having built my career on trying to get IR and global health to talk to each other, I am so up for joining @jocalynclark.bsky.social and the team @bmj.com as a guest editor of a new series on Global Health Geopolitics!

Read & share Call for Papers published in The BMJ: www.bmj.com/content/392/...

09.02.2026 16:23 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology We met with migrants to reflect on how tech is reshaping movement, borders, and power. This is what they told us

Nothing about us, without us: Reclaiming power in an age of border technology

06.02.2026 17:54 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Global Takes on Trump | Podcast on RSS.com The advent of the second Trump presidency has already had seminal effects on global politics.In each episode, host Dr. Synne Dyvik will be joined by academics from across the University of Sussex Facu...

"Global takes on Trump" - my fabulous colleagues have been making a podcast: rss.com/podcasts/glo... Would definitely recommend #IR@Sussex #Global@Sussex

06.02.2026 10:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Defence and climate change: An introduction Climate change is increasingly recognized as an issue of security, including by states and by traditional providers of national security within states: Defence and the military. This article introd...

Delighted to announce publication of a special issue on Defence and Cliamte Change in @cspjournal.bsky.social, featuring outstanding scholars & papers! The Introduction is available open access here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

05.02.2026 08:13 👍 11 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1
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Rethinking Transitional Justice: The Eliminationist News Cycle in Liberal Democracies Abstract∞. How can an ostensibly free and open media actively facilitate systematic violence against minoritized groups? Studying anti-trans and anti-migra

New paper! 🚨 It studies anti-trans and anti-migrant media discourses in the UK as symptomatic of an ‘eliminationist news cycle’ in liberal democracies. Doing so, it challenges received wisdom on the role of the media in TJ and maps possibilities for new coalitions. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

29.01.2026 15:40 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Interview - Shirin M. Rai Shirin Rai reflects on feminist political economy, social reproduction, and climate change, tracing how capitalism and gendered labour shape inequality and everyday life.

www.e-ir.info/2026/02/01/i...
Interview - Shirin M. Rai at E-IR

04.02.2026 07:57 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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In our latest issue, Annika Bergman Rosamond contends that the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflict is militarized, and informed by "notions of protection that are broadly western-centred and masculinised." This article is #OpenAccess now!

📘 ➡️ buff.ly/g9S1f2C

27.01.2026 09:04 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 2
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Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture on Gaza as an epicentre The #BISA2026 conference in Brighton will commence with a lecture given by Professor Ilan Pappe.

Ilan Pappe to give #BISA2026 public lecture! 🎉

‘Gaza as an epicentre - the breakdown of the international order’ trying to provide an explanation why the events in the Gaza Strip since October 2023 unsettled the international order 🌍

Space is limited so register now! 👉 https://ow.ly/qhIf50Y4lfY

27.01.2026 15:36 👍 10 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 0
Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

Cover of Sex Isn't Real: The Invention of an Incoherent Binary by Beans Velocci. The cover features a mesh grid pattern in an off white against a black background. The title is written large in a serif font in the center of the cover. Each word is a different color— ‘sex’ is a light orange; ‘isn’t’ is a grey blue; ‘real’ is a teal. The subtitle is directly below in white. The author’s name is above the title also in white.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Sex Isn't Real" by Beans Velocci, which traces the history of current high stakes attempts to define sex and to create a world devoid of #trans life.
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26.01.2026 17:15 👍 16 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
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Past & Present Reading Group - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...

26.01.2026 20:20 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

You know you want to 👀

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/beyond-pro-l...

23.01.2026 18:04 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide | The Verso Book Club Reading Group Eman Basher and Ahmed Masoud will join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance.

We believe that a revolutionary pedagogy is vital to building a liberatory future.

Join the Verso Book Club to take part in our monthly online reading groups, a place to dig into the critical work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.

23.01.2026 18:31 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Laleh Khalili & David Wearing: Extractive Capitalism | London Review Bookshop Laleh Khalili, Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter, looks behind the glossy surface promises of frictionless trade and limitless growth to uncover the…

Me in conversation with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social at the London Review Bookshop on her new book "Extractive Capitalism". Here or wherever you get your podcasts www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid...

23.01.2026 11:23 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 2 📌 0
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Gaza: The Story of a Genocide | The Verso Book Club Reading Group Eman Basher and Ahmed Masoud will join the Verso Book Club Reading Group to discuss Palestinian poetry, education, and resistance.

Join the Verso Book Club to be a part of our monthly online reading group!

These sessions will dig into the critical, though often messy, work of discussing, arguing, reflecting, and expanding upon the text.

21.01.2026 15:03 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 1
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Global Politics of Abortion A conversation with leading experts on abortion and politics across the globe, followed by a reception.

I am so excited to be part of this event on the Global Politics of Abortion with the fabulous Dr Nayla Luz Vacarezza, Sarah of Ad’iyah Collective, Prof Sophie Harman & Dr Sydney Calkin

28th January. Be there! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/global-pol...

@qmulsse.bsky.social @profsophieharman.bsky.social

12.01.2026 13:10 👍 4 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
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Feminist Theory | Verso Reading Guide Featuring books by Shulamith Firestone, Nancy Fraser, Vivian Gornick, Andreas Long Chu, and more!

From Friedrich Engels to Shulamith Firestone to NAncy Fraser, these books offer the foundations of Marxist Feminist theory.

16.01.2026 18:31 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization by Nikita Dhawan. The cover is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them. The side of their desk reads “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.” The title is written in the upper left in white, with the word ‘Enlightenment’ in yellow. The subtitle is lower and to the right. The author’s name is in the bottom right.

Cover of Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization by Nikita Dhawan. The cover is brown featuring a print of a person huddled at a desk with their arms covering their face. Owls, bats, and other creatures surround them. The side of their desk reads “El sueño de la razón produce monstruos.” The title is written in the upper left in white, with the word ‘Enlightenment’ in yellow. The subtitle is lower and to the right. The author’s name is in the bottom right.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans," by Nikita Dhawan, which makes the case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical project of decolonization. #PostcolonialStudies buff.ly/2ToxO2i

16.01.2026 18:40 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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"How does settler colonialism shape world politics?"

Federica Caso's latest article explores this question through a critical examination of Australia as a case study. It's #OpenAccess on our website ⤵️

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16.01.2026 09:34 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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From Frontiers to Borders | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Kerry Goettlich, From Frontiers to Borders: How Colonial Technicians Created Modern Territoriality - @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org, August 2025
www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social discussion with Morteza Hajizadeh newbooksnetwork.com/from-frontie...

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