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! 🌳🌲🌳✊🏴
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 😁👩🎓
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
From the grève feministe mobilisation/march yesterday 💜✊️
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 AM
From the grève feministe mobilisation/march yesterday 💜✊️
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 9:20 AM
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....
the key messages from this piece were: claims of ignorance OR uncertainty are a delay tactic to make later policy choices seem inevitable or the only course of action. COUGH COUGH climate change.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
the key messages from this piece were: claims of ignorance OR uncertainty are a delay tactic to make later policy choices seem inevitable or the only course of action. COUGH COUGH climate change.
in the article, we argue that the UK government's approach to (non)management of Covid-19 provides a crucial example of how approaches to non-knowledge shape political governance in post-liberal societies.
November 21, 2025 at 8:43 AM
in the article, we argue that the UK government's approach to (non)management of Covid-19 provides a crucial example of how approaches to non-knowledge shape political governance in post-liberal societies.
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 🧵👇)
Merci, I suppose 🍂🍁
November 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Merci, I suppose 🍂🍁
Me: "C'mon, what are the odds it's going to be *that* explicit?"
The odds:
The odds:
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Me: "C'mon, what are the odds it's going to be *that* explicit?"
The odds:
The odds:
Just to say I was citing Mamdani (the father) before it was cool 👀
(as anyone whom I had bored to death between 21 and 23 with how 'Neither settler nor native' is one of the best works of contemporary political philosophy will likely remember 😂)
(as anyone whom I had bored to death between 21 and 23 with how 'Neither settler nor native' is one of the best works of contemporary political philosophy will likely remember 😂)
November 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Just to say I was citing Mamdani (the father) before it was cool 👀
(as anyone whom I had bored to death between 21 and 23 with how 'Neither settler nor native' is one of the best works of contemporary political philosophy will likely remember 😂)
(as anyone whom I had bored to death between 21 and 23 with how 'Neither settler nor native' is one of the best works of contemporary political philosophy will likely remember 😂)
Fun fact (not fun, really): Mauss (at least in 1920) was a fan of the idea of la Grande Serbie/Greater Serbia 😳 #wheninthearchives
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Fun fact (not fun, really): Mauss (at least in 1920) was a fan of the idea of la Grande Serbie/Greater Serbia 😳 #wheninthearchives
Good morning, here's Kropotkin from (well, technically, *on*) the Paris Commune:
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
November 16, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Good morning, here's Kropotkin from (well, technically, *on*) the Paris Commune:
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
"As is always the case with great ideas, it was not a product of the conceptions of an individual philosopher. It was born of the collective intelligence; it sprang from the heart of an entire people."
Right, every single headline I see from England makes me never want to cross the Channel again.
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Right, every single headline I see from England makes me never want to cross the Channel again.
I never thought of UK as 'anti-intellectual', but just being (again) in Paris is a stark reminder of how different it feels to be in a place that actually values thought. Randomly walked into a bookshop yesterday and had to physically tear myself away to not buy the entire feminism/anarchism shelf.
November 13, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I never thought of UK as 'anti-intellectual', but just being (again) in Paris is a stark reminder of how different it feels to be in a place that actually values thought. Randomly walked into a bookshop yesterday and had to physically tear myself away to not buy the entire feminism/anarchism shelf.
Fun fact: at the end of his career (and life), Malinowski was embarking on the study of the concept of 'Freedom'. He saw nationalism as the chief obstacle to human freedom. This is the tentative argument structure; pay attention to the paragraph at the bottom of the page.
November 10, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Fun fact: at the end of his career (and life), Malinowski was embarking on the study of the concept of 'Freedom'. He saw nationalism as the chief obstacle to human freedom. This is the tentative argument structure; pay attention to the paragraph at the bottom of the page.
In addition to the anniversary of the Novi Sad tragedy, today is the 115th anniversary of the founding of CNT-FAI, which is also a reminder that unions were not established so you could beg your boss for a slightly less horrific teaching schedule
November 1, 2025 at 11:57 AM
In addition to the anniversary of the Novi Sad tragedy, today is the 115th anniversary of the founding of CNT-FAI, which is also a reminder that unions were not established so you could beg your boss for a slightly less horrific teaching schedule
ALL EYES ON SERBIA 👇👇👇
The anniversary of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, which saw 16 people die and ushered in the longest wave of protests and self-organised movement in recent history, is tomorrow, 1/11. Thousands are gathering in Novi Sad. Will the regime finally cede ground?
The anniversary of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, which saw 16 people die and ushered in the longest wave of protests and self-organised movement in recent history, is tomorrow, 1/11. Thousands are gathering in Novi Sad. Will the regime finally cede ground?
October 31, 2025 at 8:49 PM
ALL EYES ON SERBIA 👇👇👇
The anniversary of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, which saw 16 people die and ushered in the longest wave of protests and self-organised movement in recent history, is tomorrow, 1/11. Thousands are gathering in Novi Sad. Will the regime finally cede ground?
The anniversary of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad, which saw 16 people die and ushered in the longest wave of protests and self-organised movement in recent history, is tomorrow, 1/11. Thousands are gathering in Novi Sad. Will the regime finally cede ground?
Conspicuously reading this in public spaces during "half-term" (= exacerbated forced privatization of reproductive care) 🤘
October 31, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Conspicuously reading this in public spaces during "half-term" (= exacerbated forced privatization of reproductive care) 🤘
This pararaph from Kropotkin's "The conquest of bread" never seemed more relevant - in fact, the whole fascinaton with Trump's, Farage's, Starmer's, Putin's, Órban's etc. antics is inversely proportionate to the attention to dying civilians in Gaza and elsewhere
October 26, 2025 at 1:23 PM
This pararaph from Kropotkin's "The conquest of bread" never seemed more relevant - in fact, the whole fascinaton with Trump's, Farage's, Starmer's, Putin's, Órban's etc. antics is inversely proportionate to the attention to dying civilians in Gaza and elsewhere
"....but the most important thing in it is not to kill the ablest and most competent young workers. I am so deeply convinced that it is a most serious mistake to overburden young people who are in the middle of their research with administrative work...." (Malinowski to Seligman re: Firth, 1932)
October 23, 2025 at 1:26 PM
"....but the most important thing in it is not to kill the ablest and most competent young workers. I am so deeply convinced that it is a most serious mistake to overburden young people who are in the middle of their research with administrative work...." (Malinowski to Seligman re: Firth, 1932)
"There is obvious need for some strong institution which would be a centre of research throughout the British Empire and also for the anthropological training of officers of colonial administration. I don't think either Oxford or Cambridge is really the right place" (Radcliffe-Brown to Malinowski)
October 23, 2025 at 10:00 AM
"There is obvious need for some strong institution which would be a centre of research throughout the British Empire and also for the anthropological training of officers of colonial administration. I don't think either Oxford or Cambridge is really the right place" (Radcliffe-Brown to Malinowski)