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Malcolm MacLean
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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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aurelmondon.bsky.social
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
alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 2d
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
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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aurelmondon.bsky.social
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.
theconversation.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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schreyerforscht.bsky.social
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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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
malcomaxx.bsky.social
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
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
🌟 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!
November 27, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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truthout.org
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
November 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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thelondonjournal.bsky.social
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
November 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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workingclasshistory.com
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...
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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jonwestaway.bsky.social
'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
November 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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ewangibbs.bsky.social
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!
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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karimzidan.com
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
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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elierlick.bsky.social
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.
November 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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jamellebouie.net
reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."
joannehammond.bsky.social Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 14d
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
November 16, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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jich.bsky.social
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...
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November 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
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...
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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ideasonfirephd.bsky.social
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
November 11, 2025 at 5:05 PM
malcomaxx.bsky.social
"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
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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johnmunro.bsky.social
"...a past that can never quite be forgotten."

Indeed. Find time in your day to read this, and think about it.
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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eicathomefinn.bsky.social
'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
November 10, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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michaelplanknz.bsky.social
"Universities teach us to ask questions without tidy answers. They train us to look for truths we didn’t know existed and to challenge assumptions we didn’t realise we held. At their best, they remind us that intellect isn’t about having opinions, it’s about earning them."
November 10, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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orarunswild.bsky.social
I was wondering when phrenology would be back in. Everything old is new again... eventually.
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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markanthonyneal.bsky.social
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
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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orarunswild.bsky.social
Really, do.
November 8, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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julesboykoff.bsky.social
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
November 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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jacobinmag.bsky.social
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
November 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM