Jonathan Preminger

BUIRA annual conference *** submission deadline extension to 27th March *** in response to requests. Details below. Please share: buira.net/2026/01/22/cal…

*** Deadline very close!! *** Don't forget to submit your abstracts by 8th March for BUIRA annual conference 2026. Details below 🎉🎉🎉

*** extended deadline: 8 March *** Don't forget to submit your abstracts! Looking forward to seeing many of you there 🎉🎉🎉

BUIRA Annual Conference 2026: Regulation in a Time of Disruption, 23-25 June, Essex University. Call for papers now open: Call for Papers: BUIRA Conference 2026 - Buira

@chrisrees1 With an open-access introduction: Sociology of work: conceptual legacies, contemporary issues in: Handbook on the Sociology of Work

Our Handbook on the Sociology of Work is out! With @chrisrees1 Ödül Bozkurt and Stephanie Limoncelli, and many truly wonderful chapter authors Handbook on the Sociology of Work | Elgar Online: The online content platform for Edward Elgar Publishing

“Protected profit” and value sharing to boost non-interfering investment, employee ownership and democratic businesses | Journal of Participation and Employee Ownership | Emerald Publishing

Now open access! How to invest in alternative organisations so both employees and investors are protected, without employees losing control. This will boost the number of organisations able to switch to employee ownership (and other alternative organisational forms) (see below)

BUIRA History of IR study group seminar: The Marriage Bar in the UK - Case Studies from the BBC and Teaching 2 Dec 17:30-19:15 with Kate Murphy and Harriet Samuels eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-marriage…

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

Denying Gaza's starvation is no less vile than denying the Holocaust haaretz.com/opinion/2025-0….

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? BUIRA 2025 Presidential Address - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s) - YouTube

One way to support @FranceskAlbs is to read, circulate, cite, quote, and teach the rigorous reports she has written on self-determination, carceral system, child rights, genocide, and corporate complicity. Here is a list:

There is no internet. No signal. No sound. No world beyond this cage. I walked thirty minutes through ruins and dust. Not in search of escape, but for a fragment of signal, just enough to whisper, “We are still alive.” Not because anyone is listening, but because to die unheard is the final death. Gaza is silent now. Not with peace, but with obliteration. Not a silence of stillness, but of smothering. They severed the last cable. No messages leave. No images enter. Even grief has been forbidden. I passed the corpses of buildings, of homes, of men, some breathing, some not. All of them erased by the same hand that erased our voices. This is not a siege of bombs alone. It is a siege of memory: a war against our ability to say, “We were here.” The bombing never stopped, especially in Jabalia. They shell the streets where children beg for food. They shell the lines where mothers wait for flour. They shell hunger itself. No food. No water. No exit. And those who try, those who reach for aid, are struck down. People die here, and no one knows. Not because the killing paused, but because the killing of connection succeeded. The internet was our final breath. It was not a luxury; it was the last evidence of our humanity. Now it is gone. And in the dark, they massacre without consequence. I found this faint eSIM signal as a dying man finds a flicker of flame. I stood beneath a broken sky, risking death, not for rescue, but to send this. A single message. A last resistance. If you are reading this, remember: we walked through fire to say it. We were not silent. We were silenced. And when the cables are restored, the truth will bleed through the wires, and the world will know what it chose not to see.

Spain’s MEP Irene Montero to the EU: “Israel is executing its extermination plan — its own ‘final solution’ for Palestine.” “Just like the Nazis.” “And you, ladies and gentlemen, instead of upholding international law, are complicit in genocide.” “That makes you criminals!”

THIS is the story. NOT the irrelevant feelings of Zionists, but the burned, charred bodies of Palestinians. NOT the confected claims that there is a "crisis" of antisemitism but the ACTUAL crisis of 641 days of live-streamed genocide.

Under Israel lobby pressure, the BBC pulled a documentary showing how Israel has systematically destroyed Gaza's heath care system. Not everyone is so cowardly. This Wednesday it will be broadcast by Channel 4 in the UK, and Zeteo elsewhere. Watch the trailer here:

ועדת הכנסת הצביעה עכשיו על הדחת חברי, ח״כ איימן עודה, בגלל עמדתו הברורה נגד המלחמה ובעד שלום צודק ועתיד טוב יותר לשני העמים. לא רק ממשלת הימין הפשיסטית החליטה שסתימת פיות ועליונות יהודית זה לגיטימי — גם מפלגות ״המרכז״ שיתפו פעולה עם הכהניזם והצביעו עם ההדחה. שלא יטענו שהם נגד ההפיכה המשטרתי בזמן שהם חוברים לה. נפעל בכל הכוח לבלום את המתקפה — על איימן, על הציבור הערבי, ועל כל מי שמעז להתנגד למלחמת ההשמדה.

@SwanseaUni @FAOSdanmark @PalStudies @PalestineLabour @POMEPS @truahrabbis @JewishCurrents @jvplive @jacobin @jacobinmag_de @LalehKhalili

With thanks to Assaf S Bondy, Maayan Niezna, Patrick JL Cockburn, Sam Hanks at @SwanseaUni @FAOSdanmark and Stockholm Business School

How do internal borders shape and control noncitizen workers? That's the question at the heart of my recent article: Internal Borders and the Shaping of Noncitizen Workers in the Context of Ethnonational and Territorial Conflict