Jana Bacevic
@unsocialtheory.bsky.social
Feral theorist. Anthropologist & sociologist by education, philosopher by practice, anti-disciplinary by choice. Associate professor, Durham University; migrant, equalities & environment rep, @ducu.bsky.social.
Under the pavement, the forest! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
Under the pavement, the forest! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
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The "coddling of the American mind" Jonathan Haidt? 😦
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The "coddling of the American mind" Jonathan Haidt? 😦
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
The "coddling of the American mind" Jonathan Haidt? 😦
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
November 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The "coddling of the American mind" Jonathan Haidt? 😦
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
(this is from Harvard and, I regret to inform you, not The Onion)
I regret to inform you that I do, in fact, have yet another degree 😁👩🎓
November 24, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I regret to inform you that I do, in fact, have yet another degree 😁👩🎓
One of the things that struck me about this mobilisation in France on Saturday was how well organised/coordinated multiple organisations were. I could see the Palestine, Kurdish, lgbtiq+, ecofem, socialist, CNT, and several other, fronts, all marching together; *very* different from the UK
From the grève feministe mobilisation/march yesterday 💜✊️
November 24, 2025 at 11:55 AM
One of the things that struck me about this mobilisation in France on Saturday was how well organised/coordinated multiple organisations were. I could see the Palestine, Kurdish, lgbtiq+, ecofem, socialist, CNT, and several other, fronts, all marching together; *very* different from the UK
So rare for capitalism to produce anything remotely suitable for me but the hotel I am staying in in London has these mini-Yeos for breakfast and for the first time I don't feel bad about having to leave half a pot to be thrown away
Now just do no packaging/refillable packaging, lads
Now just do no packaging/refillable packaging, lads
November 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM
So rare for capitalism to produce anything remotely suitable for me but the hotel I am staying in in London has these mini-Yeos for breakfast and for the first time I don't feel bad about having to leave half a pot to be thrown away
Now just do no packaging/refillable packaging, lads
Now just do no packaging/refillable packaging, lads
10/10 no notes
a key function of social media is a void to yawp into when you’re experiencing travel difficulties
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
10/10 no notes
psst! friends! friends! I think I am actually writing my book 😬
November 23, 2025 at 9:59 AM
psst! friends! friends! I think I am actually writing my book 😬
Travelling on the Eurostar is a good reminder that yes, it is actually possible for trains to be quiet. No listening/watching videos on spakerphones, interminable phone convos, braying drunken lads and/or lasses, and constant auditory harassment by announcements. 😌🌱
November 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Travelling on the Eurostar is a good reminder that yes, it is actually possible for trains to be quiet. No listening/watching videos on spakerphones, interminable phone convos, braying drunken lads and/or lasses, and constant auditory harassment by announcements. 😌🌱
From the grève feministe mobilisation/march yesterday 💜✊️
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
From the grève feministe mobilisation/march yesterday 💜✊️
Yes, Boris Johnson is a buffoon and a fool. But, as a reminder, that he did not act alone; just like in 2020, he serves as a convenient decoy to continue with business as usual. janabacevic.net/2020/04/
April 2020 – Jana Bacevic
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janabacevic.net
November 22, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yes, Boris Johnson is a buffoon and a fool. But, as a reminder, that he did not act alone; just like in 2020, he serves as a convenient decoy to continue with business as usual. janabacevic.net/2020/04/
I mean honestly I've looked at a few clips of the alleged Mamdani triumph over Trump meeting, and the only thing obvious is that Trump is really threatening & domineering in the conversation. He'll do away with Mamdani (sorry, train a 'lone madman' to do it) any day. Please don't be so stupid.
November 21, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I mean honestly I've looked at a few clips of the alleged Mamdani triumph over Trump meeting, and the only thing obvious is that Trump is really threatening & domineering in the conversation. He'll do away with Mamdani (sorry, train a 'lone madman' to do it) any day. Please don't be so stupid.
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And it's not just global leaders who speak this way: this is the consensus in economics and tech — and among the climate scientists and advocates who are perhaps most influential in the news media.
I explain it all in detail here, and show you how to fight back.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I explain it all in detail here, and show you how to fight back.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Language of Climate Politics: Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It
bookshop.org
November 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And it's not just global leaders who speak this way: this is the consensus in economics and tech — and among the climate scientists and advocates who are perhaps most influential in the news media.
I explain it all in detail here, and show you how to fight back.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
I explain it all in detail here, and show you how to fight back.
bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
Saw someone with a laptop sticker "tout brûler sauf les livres" and very much here for this
November 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Saw someone with a laptop sticker "tout brûler sauf les livres" and very much here for this
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for those of you with short memories or subject to progressive erasure by AI (I asked my students into 2022 if they knew any sociological interventions in Covid-19 and they jointly responded "no"), I wrote the gist of this critique in April 2020: @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There's no such thing as just 'following the science' – advice is political | Jana Bacevic
As we’re seeing in this pandemic, politicians tend to favour the evidence that supports their argument , says the sociologist Jana Bacevic
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:51 AM
for those of you with short memories or subject to progressive erasure by AI (I asked my students into 2022 if they knew any sociological interventions in Covid-19 and they jointly responded "no"), I wrote the gist of this critique in April 2020: @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
Why this massive thread? Because👇 questions remain important, and some of us have been working on these topics for years. Which gets conveniently omitted when academic trend-chasers land on a topic. I am currently developing another big project on non-prediction; I hope I'll get a chance to do it.
and, for fans of political economy and those inclined to think universities are innocent/ignorant in these matters, I wrote a contribution to the special issue of Globalisations in 2020, drawing the lessons from Covid-19 for the future of climate governance:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Why this massive thread? Because👇 questions remain important, and some of us have been working on these topics for years. Which gets conveniently omitted when academic trend-chasers land on a topic. I am currently developing another big project on non-prediction; I hope I'll get a chance to do it.
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This part from the #Covid19 inquiry speaks directly to something myself and Linsey McGoey wrote about in 2020 (published as journal article in 2024 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....): the construction of *impossibility to act* as the key feature of post-liberalism (a thread 🧵👇)
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📄 One of the most insightful analyses about the first year of the pandemic is this paper by Dr @unsocialtheory.bsky.social & Linsey McGoey: www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...
Citations: Liberal fatalism, COVID 19 and the politics of impossibility
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www.tandfonline.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
📄 One of the most insightful analyses about the first year of the pandemic is this paper by Dr @unsocialtheory.bsky.social & Linsey McGoey: www.tandfonline.com/doi/citedby/...
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Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
‘A Pretty Ugly History’: How Exxon Exported Climate Denial to the Global South
With Brazil about to host COP30, DeSmog has obtained copies of checks Exxon mailed to the right-wing Atlas Network in the 1990s to turn Latin America against climate treaties.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Starting in earnest around 1997, during the early years of UN-led efforts to forge a global climate pact, Atlas Network and its partners created and executed a playbook to sabotage support for international treaties across the Global South, according to hundreds of documents obtained by @desmog.com
Merci, I suppose 🍂🍁
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Merci, I suppose 🍂🍁
This sounds ominously close to a metaphor
Deer grazing on side of mountain near Cape Disappointment Lighthouse.
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This sounds ominously close to a metaphor
Glad to report that I've just uttered "il faut qu'on fasse" completely unprovoked and out of my own will & accord, which suggests that I have successfully survived reintegration into my first foreign language, which I otherwise speak with all the consistency of a baby who has read too much Bourdieu
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Glad to report that I've just uttered "il faut qu'on fasse" completely unprovoked and out of my own will & accord, which suggests that I have successfully survived reintegration into my first foreign language, which I otherwise speak with all the consistency of a baby who has read too much Bourdieu
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Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d'Hélène, Julliard, September 2025
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
Les Fragments d'Hélène de Johanna Luyssen -
" J'ai mis des années avant d'oser écrire sur Hélène. Elle n'était pas que l'étranglée de la rue d'Ulm. Elle était un mystère, une femme aux multiples
www.lisez.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Johanna Luyssen, Les Fragments d'Hélène, Julliard, September 2025
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
www.lisez.com/livres/les-f...
Thanks to @unsocialtheory.bsky.social for the news of this book, telling the other side of a story...
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New review out now!
In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.
Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...
In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.
Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...
The promise of free movement - CEU Review of Books
In Europe without Borders (Princeton University Press, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages describes the...
ceureviewofbooks.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
New review out now!
In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.
Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...
In Europe without Borders (@princetonupress.bsky.social, 2025), Isaac Stanley-Becker explores the contested creation of free movement for goods and people in the Schengen area. Eike Klages reviews the book.
Read the review here: ceureviewofbooks.com/review/the-p...
Given that "parasocial" is the Cambridge Dictionary word of the year, a tired nudge to say we do, in fact, have a whole discipline that deals with this sort of thing
(psst - it's not social psychology)
(no shade on social psychologists, but)
(psst - it's not social psychology)
(no shade on social psychologists, but)
November 19, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Given that "parasocial" is the Cambridge Dictionary word of the year, a tired nudge to say we do, in fact, have a whole discipline that deals with this sort of thing
(psst - it's not social psychology)
(no shade on social psychologists, but)
(psst - it's not social psychology)
(no shade on social psychologists, but)