Soundings Journal

Out now: Issue 87 Palestinian geographies | Authoritarian Starmerism |queer Ukraine | Chinese capitalism | neoliberal mutations | feminist schooling | institutionalised forgetting | historicising Southall | bitter homecomings | the effluent society journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

The geography of Israeli settler colonialism; queer perspectives on the war in Ukraine; the experiences of Afghan ‘returnees’; and the familiar pattern of UK Labourism, Review of @SoundingsJourn 87 (2024) eurozine.com/layers-of-disp…

Fully funded PhD project working with the Doreen Massey archives (!) at the Open University in partnership with the @RGS_IBG 😍 w/ @ColinLorne @Carry_vLieshout @BenNew92 Applications due before Jan 7, 2025: oocdtp.ac.uk/making-geograp…

Great to read these generous and thoughtful repsonses by Kathi Weeks, Francesca Sobande, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper to 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal + the Political' in @FeministTheory - #OpenAccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Essential reading from the latest issue of @SoundingsJourn: Hashem Abushama outlines multiple geographies of Palestine, from the infrastructure of settler colonialism to practices of resistance, starting from Al 'Arub camp where he grew up. Download here: bit.ly/4dMRs8s

Change under an authoritarian sign Starmer looks set to entrench the Tories’ erosion of civil liberties, but the lack of ideas could allow the left to shape the agenda. Labour Hub publishes the latest editorial from @SoundingsJourn by  Dave Featherstone. labourhub.org.uk/2024/09/24/cha…

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I reviewed John Clarke’s book ‘The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture’. (The review is open access here) TL:DR : it’s not a long book & you should read it

Read Hannah Curran-Troop's review of This is Not a Feminism Textbook in @SoundingsJourn journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Ahead of #LabourConference24 - my thoughts from a year ago on what a Labour government could mean for higher education. From @SoundingsJourn and open access journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

#SouthallResists40 @Southall40

@debsgrayson @UEL_News In 'Resisting racial police warfare through radical histories', Jasbinder Nijjar @Bruneluni focuses on the work of Southall Resists 40 (SR40), a community-led project in West London that highlights long histories of problem policing: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Out now: Issue 87 Palestinian geographies | Authoritarian Starmerism |queer Ukraine | Chinese capitalism | neoliberal mutations | feminist schooling | institutionalised forgetting | historicising Southall | bitter homecomings | the effluent society journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

@debsgrayson @UEL_News @Bruneluni @acumbers John Clarke @OpenUniversity asks: how can we situate Starmer in the current conjuncture? By considering its 'fiscal realism'; a ‘value-led’ project; Starmer’s version of managerialism; the celebration of ‘working people’; and its reworking of ‘race’ journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

'A map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies' by Hashem Abushama is the @StuartHallFdn 's prize-winning essay, reprinted in full #OpenAccess here: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

In the (open access) Editorial, 'Change under an authoritarian sign', Dave Featherstone dissects Starmer's authoritarian statism: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

@debsgrayson @UEL_News @Bruneluni @acumbers @OpenUniversity Finally, our book reviews: @processnorth on Satnam Virdee & @BrendanMcGeever's Britain in Fragments; Hannah Curran-Troop on Catherine Rottenberg's This is Not a Feminism Textbook; @littler_jo on John Clarke's The Battle for Britain. Read them #OA here: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…