Maša Mrovlje
@mmrovlje.bsky.social
Maša Mrovlje is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leeds. She is exploring the political value of disappointment within resistance.
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The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
hmistanbul.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
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Our 2025 highlights, including books on the Global South, Palestine, Marxist theory, and more.
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on these and all titles site-wide.
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on these and all titles site-wide.
2025: End of Year Highlights
Highlights from Verso’s publishing, including books on the Global South, Palestine, Marxist theory, and more!
www.versobooks.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our 2025 highlights, including books on the Global South, Palestine, Marxist theory, and more.
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on these and all titles site-wide.
Through the rest of the year, save up to 50% on these and all titles site-wide.
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ICYMI: David Mwambari and Eric Sibomana 'Bodily Scars as Lived Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda' - argues that bodily scars are potent ‘carriers’ of memories of mass atrocities committed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Bodily Scars as Lived Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda - David Mwambari, Eric Sibomana, 2023
Scholarship about politics and the body in conflicts has gained prominence in academic debates. This article advances these conversations by arguing that bodily...
journals.sagepub.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
ICYMI: David Mwambari and Eric Sibomana 'Bodily Scars as Lived Memory in Post-Genocide Rwanda' - argues that bodily scars are potent ‘carriers’ of memories of mass atrocities committed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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From riots and fires to ICE crackdowns and political assassinations, we've selected ten books to speak on the year we're finally leaving behind.
These books help contextualize 2025 - during the Verso End of Year Sale, they're available at half the price.
These books help contextualize 2025 - during the Verso End of Year Sale, they're available at half the price.
2025: The Year in Ten Books
It would be impossible to recap the year in a few sentences. It was an almost unrelenting barrage of regression, violence, and fear with only a few glittery moments of optimism peppered throughout. Th...
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December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
From riots and fires to ICE crackdowns and political assassinations, we've selected ten books to speak on the year we're finally leaving behind.
These books help contextualize 2025 - during the Verso End of Year Sale, they're available at half the price.
These books help contextualize 2025 - during the Verso End of Year Sale, they're available at half the price.
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Amia Srinivasan's LRB Winter Lecture, ‘The Impossible Patient’ has sold out in person – but livestream tickets are still available.
Wednesday 12 December, 7 p.m.
£10 to watch online, both live and afterwards
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lrb-winter...
Wednesday 12 December, 7 p.m.
£10 to watch online, both live and afterwards
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lrb-winter...
LRB Winter Lectures | Amia Srinivasan: The Impossible Patient
The London Review of Books Winter Lectures for 2026
www.eventbrite.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Amia Srinivasan's LRB Winter Lecture, ‘The Impossible Patient’ has sold out in person – but livestream tickets are still available.
Wednesday 12 December, 7 p.m.
£10 to watch online, both live and afterwards
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lrb-winter...
Wednesday 12 December, 7 p.m.
£10 to watch online, both live and afterwards
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lrb-winter...
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The voices of division in our country are growing louder, we can change things TOGETHER
#TOGETHER we reject narratives of division and racism.
#TOGETHER we will build solidarity across communities.
#TOGETHER we will unite against the far right.
UCU is proud to support: togetheralliance.org.uk
#TOGETHER we reject narratives of division and racism.
#TOGETHER we will build solidarity across communities.
#TOGETHER we will unite against the far right.
UCU is proud to support: togetheralliance.org.uk
Together Alliance
Together is an alliance of over 50 civil society organisations united against the far right.
togetheralliance.org.uk
December 2, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The voices of division in our country are growing louder, we can change things TOGETHER
#TOGETHER we reject narratives of division and racism.
#TOGETHER we will build solidarity across communities.
#TOGETHER we will unite against the far right.
UCU is proud to support: togetheralliance.org.uk
#TOGETHER we reject narratives of division and racism.
#TOGETHER we will build solidarity across communities.
#TOGETHER we will unite against the far right.
UCU is proud to support: togetheralliance.org.uk
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‘When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October, I wanted to believe it was over. I don’t think I was alone, but I do know that I was entirely wrong.
That period, it has transpired, was merely a transition to another phase of land grabbing.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
That period, it has transpired, was merely a transition to another phase of land grabbing.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
Selma Dabbagh | Rebranding Genocide
The killing of Palestinians has continued, sometimes surpassing pre-ceasefire levels and accelerating viciously in the...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 3:55 PM
‘When the ceasefire was announced on 9 October, I wanted to believe it was over. I don’t think I was alone, but I do know that I was entirely wrong.
That period, it has transpired, was merely a transition to another phase of land grabbing.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
That period, it has transpired, was merely a transition to another phase of land grabbing.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social:
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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ICYMI: Annabel Herzog, 'Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory, - a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political wrong. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory - Annabel Herzog, 2021
This essay is a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political w...
journals.sagepub.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
ICYMI: Annabel Herzog, 'Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory, - a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political wrong. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Today the ballot closes. Thank you to everyone who voted and spoke to a colleague.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Today the ballot closes. Thank you to everyone who voted and spoke to a colleague.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
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📢We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with our Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📢We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with our Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
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REVIEW FOR US: our Book Reviews editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social has 16 new titles up for review in The Sociological Review magazine – on subjects including AI, ageing, the care economy, water, internet culture, ambivalent activism and the feminist art of walking.
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
REVIEW FOR US: our Book Reviews editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social has 16 new titles up for review in The Sociological Review magazine – on subjects including AI, ageing, the care economy, water, internet culture, ambivalent activism and the feminist art of walking.
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
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How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
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LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
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You have until 5pm to vote safely.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You have until 5pm to vote safely.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
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We often hear about the stories of Egypt's political prisoners, but what about the loved ones who visit them behind bars?
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
NEW: In Egypt, the impact of imprisonment extends to the entire family. Presenting a deep dive into prison visits, TIMEP nonresident fellow Dina Kamel examines the financial and psychological strain on those visiting their loved ones behind bars.
Read more: timep.org/2025/11/24/e...
Read more: timep.org/2025/11/24/e...
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We often hear about the stories of Egypt's political prisoners, but what about the loved ones who visit them behind bars?
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
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New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel - Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado, Annelies Van Assche, 2025
This article examines digital dance, not in opposition to physical bodies but in material continuity with them. By offering an expansive notion of ‘presence’ in...
journals.sagepub.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change.
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change.
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
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I meant to post this a few weeks ago. Thanks for the great conversation @matthew.flux.community!
Deva Woodly on how political change is made--and how it isn't
YouTube video by Theory of Change
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I meant to post this a few weeks ago. Thanks for the great conversation @matthew.flux.community!
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Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
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Absolutely insane news from Egypt, where award-winning human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer has had his terrorism designation renewed for another five years.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Absolutely insane news from Egypt, where award-winning human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer has had his terrorism designation renewed for another five years.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
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"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
www.versobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...