Malcolm MacLean

@malcomaxx.bsky.social

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UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 9h

This is why I bang on about the necessity to look beyond Farage's past if we are to turn the tide around

Far-right politics and moral panics are mainstream

Anything short of seriously looking at the role of the mainstream in mainstreaming is just pretending to care to make one feel better

Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 21h

So the Home Office, which is responsible for the welfare of asylum seekers & for determining their claims, has decided to call them “illegal migrants” & tell everyone it’s “furious” about them being here, but I’m sure this is fine and not a symptom of a culture of disbelief & gratuitous cruelty

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · 1d

Focusing on extreme events such as the reports of Farage’s teenage past can exceptionalise the nature of far-right politics and make it harder to call out

Some thoughts @theconversation.com on the mainstreaming of far-right politics

theconversation.com/nigel-farage...

Nigel Farage’s alleged teenage comments are a distraction from the damage of his politics

Reports of such appalling behaviour – and Farage’s reaction – give us an insight into the leader of the UK’s rising far-right party.

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Dominik Schreyer @schreyerforscht.bsky.social · 1d

We’re hiring PhD students interested in shaping the future of sports. If you don’t apply, please help us spread the word...

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𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝟮𝟬+ 𝗖𝗦𝗠 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 – 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀? 🎓 Every year, in late November, early December, Sascha, Kerstin… | Dominik Schreyer | 20 comments

𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗱, 𝟮𝟬+ 𝗖𝗦𝗠 𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 – 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗣𝗵𝗗 𝗷𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘀? 🎓 Every year, in late November, early December, Sascha, Kerstin, Maria, and I craft one picture, a so-called Wimmelbild, depict...

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 1d

For an international festival of ideas on anti-colonial and anti-imperial currents in southeast asia and oceania.
www.southsouthmovement.org/anticolonial...

south/south festival of ideas: anti-colonial & anti-imperial currents in s.e.a. & oceania – South/South Movement

www.southsouthmovement.org

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The London Journal @thelondonjournal.bsky.social · 2d

We are running a free workshop at @tandfresearch.bsky.social's office in South London on 30 January 2026 to support early career scholars in developing their work into a publishable journal article. Expressions of interest due by 16 January. See here for more details (and please share widely!)

thelondonjournal.org

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Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

The struggle over history, from Wounded Knee to Thanksgiving to ICE detentions, is not a debate about the past. It is a struggle over who defines America and whose humanity matters. buff.ly/rZBKFDj

The Right Wants to Write Indigenous People Out of US History. We Won’t Let Them.

The Trump administration is reviving the visual language of manifest destiny and weaponizing the US’s founding myths.

truthout.org

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HistoryLab @ihrhistorylab.bsky.social · 2d

🌟 Exciting news! The deadline for the Olivette Otele Prize has been extended to Friday 12th December! Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity for a fast-tracked publication, apply now! 📝

Olivette Otele Prize 2025/26
Open for Submissions!

DEADLINE EXTENSION!

We have extended the call for abstracts to Friday 12th December 2025 for our annual Olivette Otele Prize!

The prize offers the chance for fast-tracked publication of an article and a cash prize of £250 and is open to Black UK-based PhD students working in history or related disciplines, exploring any place or period.

We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 400 words for a 40 minute paper by Friday 12th December 2025 to ihrhistorylab@gmail.com.

Timeline:
Abstract deadline of no more than 400 words due by Friday 12th DECEMBER 2025
Shortlisted scholars will be notified by Friday 19th December 2025 and asked to submit a full paper of no more than 8000 words by Friday 27th February
The winner will be announced by the end of March 2026

Prize and Recognition

The winner will receive a £250 cash prize, will be invited to speak at History Lab’s annual conference in summer 2026, and to submit their paper to Historical Research, the leading generalist historical journal and flagship publication of the Institute of Historical Research.

Shortlisted scholars will receive a £30 book voucher and the opportunity to present their research at a History Lab seminar.

About the Prize

The Olivette Otele Prize was created in 2020 in response to the Royal Historical Society’s ‘Race, Ethnicity and Equality Report’ which highlighted racial inequality in the field of history.

The prize was named after the UK’s first Black woman history professor and was designed to both raise participants’ profiles as well as financially reward labour involved in academic research.

We look forward to reading your applications!

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d

It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 6d

'Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#KalaallitNunaat #Greenland #IndigenousRights #Colonialism

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned

The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 6d

Resistance by Steve McQueen is an impressive and extensive exhibition exploring a century of British popular protest from suffragettes and hunger marchers to the demonstrations against the Iraq War.

It’s on at the National Gallery’s Modern Two in Edinburgh til after Christmas!

Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 8d

There is some evidence in early boxing and prizefighting writing of awareness of 'punch drunk' but no matter the era sport records of injury are patchy and uneven by sport and country: Allyson Pollock unpacks this in her 2014 book about youth rugby in the UK www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Tackling Rugby

Every week young children are hospitalized on the playing fields of Britain. Yet this data is never collected, nor is there any concerted attempt to work out how to make sport safer. Using meticulous,...

www.versobooks.com

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Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 8d

Proud to feature @shireenahmed.bsky.social's latest on how World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest against Israel’s participation, whose team boasts active IDF soldiers.

www.sportspolitika.news/p/ultimate-f...

Ultimate Resistance

World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest, warning that Israel’s participation—bolstered by IDF soldiers on the roster—could fracture the sport’s global community.

www.sportspolitika.news

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 12d

For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 12d

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice

CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact

www.theguardian.com

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The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 15d

Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law

Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...

doi.org

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 18d

Congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social on the publication of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! 🎉

dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

#IoFAuthors

Cover of Indigenomicon, with a person in a shallow boat next to a river bank with plants, trees, and birds

Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 18d

"To truly defeat Shein, we must radically re-evaluate and reorient our relationship to clothing."

France is at war with Shein. We should copy its tactics to defeat fast fashion | Nicole Lipman

The dirt-cheap clothing company has opened its first permanent store in Paris – and politicians and workers have united against it, says writer Nicole Lipman

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 19d

'The global scientific community has been urged to adopt and support non-profit scholarly publishing models to help solve the problems caused by today’s predominant systems—described as “arguably the largest science crisis of all time”.' 1/3

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 19d

‘Embrace non-profit publishing to tackle largest science crisis’.

Stockholm Declaration promotes shift to models encouraging high quality and restoration of trust.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-worl...

‘Embrace non-profit publishing to tackle largest science crisis’ - Research Professional News

Stockholm Declaration promotes shift to models encouraging high quality and restoration of trust

www.researchprofessionalnews.com

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Malcolm MacLean, Halil D. Kaya

Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 19d

I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential

antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...

Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online

Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 19d

We’ve forgotten what universities are for

With New Zealand universities facing not only a funding crisis but a philosophical challenge to their role, the soul of tertiary education is at stake....

thespinoff.co.nz

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 20d

A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...

A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans

Faith Ringgold is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of scenes around Harlem and beyond.

www.thisiscolossal.com

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 21d

This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani

It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 21d

My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff

New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next

www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22d

22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal:

Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US."

journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

The Economist @economist.com · 23d

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality

econ.st

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 25d

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum

An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.

jacobin.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 25d

alari.fas.harvard.edu/2025/11/01/h...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26d

'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3