Aleks Lewicki
@aleksandralewicki.bsky.social
Political sociologist @sussex.ac.uk, writing on #racialisation, political economy of race-making, east-west inequalities in Europe, #migration, political resistance: Reader in #Sociology & Director @sei-sussex.bsky.social
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Join us tonight for the online lecture series: „Border Regimes on the Move" - I will share a panel with Hans Kundnani (Eurowhiteness) & discuss how thinking racialisation from its ambiguities helps us to dismantle key myths about race. Details and registration here: uni-goettingen.de/en/694576.html
If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
October 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you’re around Cambridge this Friday, join @manuelaboatca.bsky.social and I on our panel on „Rethinking Europe”: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/48642/
A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles
October 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
A lotta stuff seems to have happened „just like that” in the #LifeintheUK test handbook. Classes „appeared” and suddenly owned lots of land, Britain „grew” & „became” the „largest empire ever seen” and working conditions „gradually improved” - a history full of miracles, no violence, no struggles
This is how I am spending my weekends in autumn term 😅. You might hear more about my frustrations with this „syllabus“, but let’s start on the good news. „Migrants” from the South East of Europe were the first to farm the land in early Britain. That’s quite a long history of providing food, hm?
October 12, 2025 at 9:13 AM
This is how I am spending my weekends in autumn term 😅. You might hear more about my frustrations with this „syllabus“, but let’s start on the good news. „Migrants” from the South East of Europe were the first to farm the land in early Britain. That’s quite a long history of providing food, hm?
Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!
September 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Its been great to share a panel on ‘East-West Inequalities & Gendered Labour Mobilities in Europe’ with Roxana Barbulescu (Leeds), Peter Birke (Göttingen), Anda Nicolae-Vladu (Bochum) & @probursula.bsky.social (Berlin) @britsoci.bsky.social #wesconf25 Thanks for the stimulating conversation!
OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
August 22, 2025 at 8:49 AM
OUT NOW: 'Vigilant Whiteness: Racism, Transphobia and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Politics in Britain' - by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & Maddy Clark @identitiesjournal.bsky.social - a brief summary🧵(2-11) below: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
So good to see everyone and many thanks for the discussion #ICCEES2025
July 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
So good to see everyone and many thanks for the discussion #ICCEES2025
If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:
July 21, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If you're at #ICCEES2025 @uclssees.bsky.social @basees.bsky.social in London, pop into the roundtable on 'Hostile & Hospitable Environments in Eastern Europe' on Wednesday at 4.30 pm - with Karolina Follis, @kamilafialkowska.bsky.social Kasia Narkowicz, Roch Dunin-Wasowicz and yours truly:
How do histories of the German 'Third Reich' play out in care of older people today? In the piece below (with @probursula.bsky.social), I look at, among other things, how Nationalsocialist discourse still frames client-carer relationships in care (1-5): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 25, 2025 at 12:04 PM
How do histories of the German 'Third Reich' play out in care of older people today? In the piece below (with @probursula.bsky.social), I look at, among other things, how Nationalsocialist discourse still frames client-carer relationships in care (1-5): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
March 27, 2025 at 2:39 PM
OUT NOW – ‘Sex, care and the working body: ambiguities of the gendered racialisation as “Eastern European”’ by @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social & @probursula.bsky.social: A short summary 🧵 (1-11): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Yesterday, @probursula.bsky.social & I presented our paper „Sex, Care & the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Gendered Racialisation as ‚Eastern European’” - many thanks for the two great responses from Rosie Cox and @karinschersch.bsky.social - and to @scmrjems.bsky.social for hosting us!
March 6, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Yesterday, @probursula.bsky.social & I presented our paper „Sex, Care & the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Gendered Racialisation as ‚Eastern European’” - many thanks for the two great responses from Rosie Cox and @karinschersch.bsky.social - and to @scmrjems.bsky.social for hosting us!
There’s a new paper in the pipeline- excited to present „Sex, Care and the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Racialisation as Eastern European” together with @probursula.bsky.social today @scmrjems.bsky.social at Sussex Uni - with responses from Rosie Cox & @karinschersch.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
There’s a new paper in the pipeline- excited to present „Sex, Care and the Working Body: Ambiguities of the Racialisation as Eastern European” together with @probursula.bsky.social today @scmrjems.bsky.social at Sussex Uni - with responses from Rosie Cox & @karinschersch.bsky.social
Xmas might be your thing or not (like for me ;-) - in any case, join me in supporting the fundraiser by @vitsche.bsky.social for a school shelter in the Kharkiv Region - so the kids in the area get a chance to learn together offline. Here’s the link: cause.lundadonate.org/vitscheev/sc...
December 15, 2024 at 9:20 AM
Xmas might be your thing or not (like for me ;-) - in any case, join me in supporting the fundraiser by @vitsche.bsky.social for a school shelter in the Kharkiv Region - so the kids in the area get a chance to learn together offline. Here’s the link: cause.lundadonate.org/vitscheev/sc...
Join us on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024 for a workshop on ‘The Politics of Bordering’ @ the University of Brighton - in person or online. I’ll be talking about ‘Coloniality, Europeanness and Race: Britain’s Borders after Brexit’: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2024/1...
November 25, 2024 at 6:51 AM
Join us on Tuesday, 3rd December 2024 for a workshop on ‘The Politics of Bordering’ @ the University of Brighton - in person or online. I’ll be talking about ‘Coloniality, Europeanness and Race: Britain’s Borders after Brexit’: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/cappe/2024/1...
So the vote was clear, albeit close - meet Klops, my yogic tiger
November 22, 2024 at 9:05 AM
So the vote was clear, albeit close - meet Klops, my yogic tiger
Bye bye indeed. It took years to build up 4k followers, and it was so much fun - until it wasn’t. Although I’d stopped engaging a while ago, I found it hard to press the button on it
November 17, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Bye bye indeed. It took years to build up 4k followers, and it was so much fun - until it wasn’t. Although I’d stopped engaging a while ago, I found it hard to press the button on it
The Sussex European Institute (SEI) is now where the skies are blue! Give it a follow - it is a research hub that engages with the political economy of the EU & its colonial and imperial legacies. We've also always looked to the east of Europe:
@sei-sussex.bsky.social
@sei-sussex.bsky.social
November 15, 2024 at 4:59 PM
The Sussex European Institute (SEI) is now where the skies are blue! Give it a follow - it is a research hub that engages with the political economy of the EU & its colonial and imperial legacies. We've also always looked to the east of Europe:
@sei-sussex.bsky.social
@sei-sussex.bsky.social
I had a first go at setting up a starter pack of scholars working on Coloniality and/ or Critical Race Theory- please hit me up with further suggestions: go.bsky.app/VhaXTD6
November 13, 2024 at 8:53 PM
I had a first go at setting up a starter pack of scholars working on Coloniality and/ or Critical Race Theory- please hit me up with further suggestions: go.bsky.app/VhaXTD6
Here for a future in which communities matter, but not the arbitrary labels imposed on us (such as ‘nation’, ‘race’ ‘Orient’, ‘Eastern Europe’) as part of extractive political projects. Meanwhile, I write about how these categorisations produce inequalities and how people resist & subvert them
November 11, 2024 at 8:03 AM
Here for a future in which communities matter, but not the arbitrary labels imposed on us (such as ‘nation’, ‘race’ ‘Orient’, ‘Eastern Europe’) as part of extractive political projects. Meanwhile, I write about how these categorisations produce inequalities and how people resist & subvert them
In her talk “Thinking Europe from its Eastern Border” at SEI Sussex, Karolina Follis examined the contours of the politics of race at the border between Poland and Belarus - and linked these developments to previous enlargements of the EU to the east. Thanks so much for coming to Sussex!
November 8, 2024 at 9:20 AM
In her talk “Thinking Europe from its Eastern Border” at SEI Sussex, Karolina Follis examined the contours of the politics of race at the border between Poland and Belarus - and linked these developments to previous enlargements of the EU to the east. Thanks so much for coming to Sussex!
Two days of debating & contesting East-West inequalities & institutional dynamics of racialisation - co-hosted by Federal Antidiscrimination Agency, BKGE, RECET Vienna & SEI Sussex. With amazing guests, incl. @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, Ivan Kalmar, Angela Kocze, X3, Roma Center eV, Maria Borysenko
September 29, 2024 at 6:31 PM
Two days of debating & contesting East-West inequalities & institutional dynamics of racialisation - co-hosted by Federal Antidiscrimination Agency, BKGE, RECET Vienna & SEI Sussex. With amazing guests, incl. @manuelaboatca.bsky.social, Ivan Kalmar, Angela Kocze, X3, Roma Center eV, Maria Borysenko
OUT NOW – in my new article in 'International Political sociology', I that Britain’s post-Brexit border regime reinvigorates the racial order of coloniality with a stratified notion of (non)Europeanness at its core: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
June 19, 2024 at 10:08 AM
OUT NOW – in my new article in 'International Political sociology', I that Britain’s post-Brexit border regime reinvigorates the racial order of coloniality with a stratified notion of (non)Europeanness at its core: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...
Wie verhalten sich verschiedene Rassismen zueinander? Wie können wir sie am besten verstehen und dagegen vorgehen? Mein Interview mit Ostklick: www.ost-klick.de/mehr-als-nur...
February 27, 2024 at 4:59 PM
Wie verhalten sich verschiedene Rassismen zueinander? Wie können wir sie am besten verstehen und dagegen vorgehen? Mein Interview mit Ostklick: www.ost-klick.de/mehr-als-nur...
This Friday: 'Grammars of Resistance' workshop at the Sussex European Institute, with Polina Manolova, Kristian Shaw, Vedrana Velickovic, Spela Drnovsek Zorko, Diana Damian Martin, Piotr Goldstein, Kuba Jablonowski, Magda Muszel, Grzegorz Piotrowski & Michal Garapich: grammarsofresistance.com/about
November 8, 2023 at 3:16 PM
This Friday: 'Grammars of Resistance' workshop at the Sussex European Institute, with Polina Manolova, Kristian Shaw, Vedrana Velickovic, Spela Drnovsek Zorko, Diana Damian Martin, Piotr Goldstein, Kuba Jablonowski, Magda Muszel, Grzegorz Piotrowski & Michal Garapich: grammarsofresistance.com/about