1/ The assassination by Israel of the three sons and three grandsons of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh delivers a lesson in the disastrous mechanics of dehumanization. More than everything, it demonstrates how dehumanization functions as a double-edged sword. --->

New online-first article!

'Where is the past? Time in historical geography', by Ivan Marković Ivan Marković.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.…

The best piece in the media on the present university crisis, good because it manages to combine a defence of the value of the humanities/social sciences with a strong sense of the range of factors in play (culture wars, static home UG fees, xenophobia etc)

This is an astute thread analysing the politics of US universities (also applicable to the U.K.). It helps understand how universities can be the target of two seemingly contradictory critiques simultaneously - from the right (‘too progressive!’) and left (‘too neoliberal!’)

Excellent piece from Amin Samman on clickbait capitalism and using 'desire' to think through contemporary capitalist modes. criticallegalthinking.com/2024/04/10/cli…

Borderland Manchester University Press written 3-4 years ago, came out 2022 but I am afraid all the issues it raises about exclusionary nationalism still apply. Discussion of the bordering that maintains the Garden of England as sacrosanct landscape, 20 May 1800 Urban Salon InvisibleCities

Very happy that National Affects is out in paperback and open access from today 🎉 Do pass it on 🤗

“Our message to the world is that the people are exhausted by bombing, famine, lack of resources…” - Dr. Khaled Al-Madhoon, Anesthesia doctor for the Gaza European Hospital

We asked doctors and aid workers in Gaza what they wanted the world to know about the crisis. Here are…

This is a really interesting piece - as someone who aged 18 couldn’t wait to leave a small, rural-ish town (outskirts of Retford, Nottinghamshire) for Manchester (which, at that time, for me, meant excitement and possibility and openness) and never remotely considered going back

Just read the preface, it’s fantastic:

‘If this book tracks the making of an ambiguous environment, then, it also asks how people plant their feet from within the haze kicked up by an ageing industrial order: how they cobble together futures after progress loses its solidity’

We are one month out from pub day and the preview is up! Check out the preface of 'Futures after Progress' – set amid the haze kicked up by an aging industrial order – and keep an eye out for the whole book soon with UChicagoPress. 🤓📖✨ #anthrotwitter

google.com/books/edition/…

If anyone is interested in working on anything affect/emotion related, and/or ways of governing in, by, through emergency, particularly in relation to climate, then do get in touch - or if you’d just like sone advice on who else at Durham might fit your work

There’s something tragic about this - the meagre, ridiculous better future (a fish and chip shop) and nonsensical claims about investment, the illusion of action in the form of petition with no recipient, and it all actually being a data gathering exercise. He should be ashamed.

Very good thread acknowledging the ordinary background work - involving forms of care as Tilly shows in her work on wildfires - of responding to emergencies

Never get tired of this view - walking to Newcastle across the high level bridge

Amid my enjoyment of being in Liverpool on the fieldtrip, it was very noticeable how much worse street homelessness seemed, and the levels of destitution and harm. Here’s an important thread/piece looking at some of the reasons why

Fieidtrip quiz night, including ‘name your lecturer’, with some special guest appearances Gavin Bridge Marcus Power Helen F Wilson

I think it’s the 16th, maybe, year I’ve taught the Liverpool second year field trip. It is still such a joy to see the students commitment and attachment to projects they’ve designed themselves! A really lovely part of the job! Here’s some of them on ‘poster night’:

Take a bit of time to read this ….

Next week at the University of Edinburgh - reflections on making a film (Machines in Flames Film), and writing a book, based on archives of refusal. Thanks for the invitation Pip Thornton 🔥