Rowan Lubbock
@bolshierowbot.bsky.social
Academic (IR, Marxism, Agriculture) Queen Mary University; Muso (turning things up to 11); Recently joined Twitter, has instant buyer's remorse.
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I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱
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December 1, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱
Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades.
Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇
Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇
All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself
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Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
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November 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades.
Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇
Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇
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On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
November 6, 2025 at 10:54 AM
On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....
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My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
November 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements
Our final post in the Cultivating Socialism symposium comes from Aiko Ikemura Amaral. A very thoughtful reflection on food sovereignty that goes beyond upstream productivism, prompting us to consider the quotidian practices of food, consumption and everyday life.
www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...
www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...
Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviari...
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November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Our final post in the Cultivating Socialism symposium comes from Aiko Ikemura Amaral. A very thoughtful reflection on food sovereignty that goes beyond upstream productivism, prompting us to consider the quotidian practices of food, consumption and everyday life.
www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...
www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...
Another stunning addition to the Cultivating Socialism symposium at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site.
Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender.
www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...
Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender.
www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...
Regionalism, the State and Class in Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Whilst much ink has been spilt trying to grapple with where it all went wrong, Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty offers a novel reading of th...
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October 23, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Another stunning addition to the Cultivating Socialism symposium at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site.
Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender.
www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...
Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender.
www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...
The third installment of the Cultivating Socialism symposium at @ppesydney.bsky.social is here!
Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation.
www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...
Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation.
www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...
The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...
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October 17, 2025 at 7:20 AM
The third installment of the Cultivating Socialism symposium at @ppesydney.bsky.social is here!
Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation.
www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...
Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation.
www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...
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Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.
October 13, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.
So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday!
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
www.ppesydney.net
September 30, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday!
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...
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A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees.
www.ft.com/content/3f49...
www.ft.com/content/3f49...
September 23, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees.
www.ft.com/content/3f49...
www.ft.com/content/3f49...
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Thanks so much Naomi! (and here's the link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... )
July 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Thanks so much Naomi! (and here's the link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... )
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June 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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A food system hooked on fossil fuels is especially vulnerable to disruption. In the Mid East, output's halted, and urea prices are up. Expect speculators and food price spikes to follow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
June 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
A food system hooked on fossil fuels is especially vulnerable to disruption. In the Mid East, output's halted, and urea prices are up. Expect speculators and food price spikes to follow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
So happy to finally see my review of "Now We Are In Power", by Angus McNelly, out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. A truly exhilarating read, prompting new insights and many questions over one of Latin America's most enigmatic examples of popular power and its contradictory path.
New book review by @bolshierowbot.bsky.social -- Angus McNelly's "Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia" @upittpress.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo...
June 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So happy to finally see my review of "Now We Are In Power", by Angus McNelly, out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. A truly exhilarating read, prompting new insights and many questions over one of Latin America's most enigmatic examples of popular power and its contradictory path.
I'll be speaking along side some great discussants on the intersections between food, identity and sustainability at the Social Science Festival at Birkbeck College this Thursday, 5th June, 6-7pm. Come down for a nourishing conversation! 🌱🌾🍄
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Food Politics: Belonging, Identity, and Sustainability
Social Sciences Festival 2025
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June 3, 2025 at 10:03 AM
I'll be speaking along side some great discussants on the intersections between food, identity and sustainability at the Social Science Festival at Birkbeck College this Thursday, 5th June, 6-7pm. Come down for a nourishing conversation! 🌱🌾🍄
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Great to see my article out in the new issue of @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!
How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!
Now out in issue 30(3): Fields, Frontiers, and the Making of the Food and Agriculture Organization by Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social
Download and read for free:
Download and read for free:
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May 9, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Great to see my article out in the new issue of @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social
How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!
How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!
Come join us this saturday, to fight for a more just and sustainable food system 🍏🥬🌿
Food In Our Hands, April 26th 2025 - Landworkers Alliance
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April 24, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Come join us this saturday, to fight for a more just and sustainable food system 🍏🥬🌿
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The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story:
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you
March 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story:
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you
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"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection."
www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...
www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...
Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza
An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy tell CBS News they have personal experience of the IDF forcing civilians to check buildings for explosives.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection."
www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...
www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...
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I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
Empire Unmasked: Struggles for Gender and Sexual Freedom in an Era of US Imperial Crisis - Historical Materialism
US power has organised the expanded reproduction of global capitalism over the past 70 years and continues to do so. Much ink is currently being spilled over its decline. Commentators are debating whe...
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March 25, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...
Another energising march against Israel's genocide/apartheid regime. 🍉🕊️
March 17, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Another energising march against Israel's genocide/apartheid regime. 🍉🕊️
Cannot wait to get stuck into this!!
March 6, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Cannot wait to get stuck into this!!