Historic Strike for Gaza and Palestine!

Salute to all the dedicated organisers who made this possible.

We hope that this is just the beginning of worker strikes for Palestine across the world!

Solidarity!
Free Palestine!

Literally this. The very concept of The Black Neoliberal Aesthetic was developed upon that post-multiculturalist use of Smith as the avatar of a Neoliberal Black cultural value.

Our article 'Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality: Interrogating Reflexive Methodologies' is now out in International Studies Quarterly

Dr Rabea M. Khan and I explore the colonial epistemic roots of positionality statements and their racial functions👇 #OpenAccess
academic.oup.com/isq/article/68…

🚨BIG NEWS🚨: The Home Office's GPS tagging scheme is in violation of data protection law.

It’s time to throw the whole scheme out❌⁠ ⁠

📷 Add your voice to our campaign with

Privacy International
&
BID

Take action and write to your MP: bid.eaction.org.uk/StopGPStagging

Building Feminist Solidarity Against Genocide in Gaza

Join us Monday 26th February, 1.30pm-3.30pm UK time (3.30pm-5.30pm Palestine time)

All welcome. To register: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociol…

Going way under the radar - last night the Irish Govt allowed a motion to pass in Parliament calling for (among other things) sanctions on Israel, a ban on settlement trade, recognition of Palestinian statehood and to 'dismantle the system of apartheid.'
oireachtas.ie/en/debates/deb…

We were so proud to attend the launch of our guide with JUSTICE for lawyers and coroners on addressing racism at inquests. The first ever guide of its kind.

'Whilst the guide in and of itself is significant, the real power will be in its implementation.'

- Bereaved families

In remembrance of Stuart Hall, #Identities is providing free access to selected articles.

Read 'The sociology of Stuart Hall' w/ #FreeAccess until 31 March ⬇️
doi.org/10.1080/107028…

T&F Social Sciences and Humanities The Stuart Hall Foundation

Great to see this from another sociology collective - Sociologists for Palestine. Solidarity.

Also check out Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians which formed in November 2023 in response to a lack of statements and action from sociological associations in Britain and elsewhere.

SPRC Colloquium Series 2024, 5-7pm, in IAS Common Ground
16/01 Grafting Freedom...
06/02 Gender and race in histories of 'mixed' marriage...
22/02 The Digital Imperium
14/03 Postcolonial Racialisation...
ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-a… #colloquium #race #ethnicity #postcolonialstudies

Check out my new paper in Sociological Theory based on my 2023 The BSA plenary: showing how anticolonial groups (Zapatistas, BLM, Palestine Action, Cops Are Flops) produce soc theories that can orient professional sociology toward relational forms of analysis journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

Toni Morrison said: “The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being.”

Everyone likes 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house', but Audre Lorde also says:

Even when they are dangerous
examine the heart of those machines you hate
before you discard them
and never mourn the lack of their power
lest you be condemned
to relive them.

🎶Art Not Evidence (Art Not Evidence) is a new organisation & campaign fighting the criminalisation of rap music in UK courts.

We are a supporting organisation along with a number of lawyers, journalists, academics, youth workers, music industry professionals, artists & more ⬇️

So brilliant, so relevant, so true. Vallu on the politics of nation, racism and multi culture. A must watch. youtu.be/cqf5DsfZfJI?si…

2) We asked for ways of working that were accountable and transparent. This period of time stimulated change, but the power imbalance was never really addressed and the core issues remained. Who gets to decide when freedom of speech must be defended or shut down?

EVENT: Academic Freedom and Solidarity With Palestine.

Online Webinar Monday 23 Oct 6:30pm (UK) - featuring Mai Abu Moghli, Mahvish Ahmad, Hana Morgenstern and Jee Rubin.

Information and registration here: reecollective.co.uk/events