Kanishka Jayasuriya @fafner100.bsky.social

My review essay on the crisis of social reproduction and the development state in JCA with a focus on the excellent book by Jamie Doucette Postdevelopmental State: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A small village in Wales came to be known as Little Moscow because of how large the Communist Party was there. How can we understand the rise of the far right in this community today? youtu.be/68t7lCMa7h0?si…

@farwasial @DevEcoAfr @nssylla @DevEconNetwork That's excellent and very useful material.

@DevEcoAfr @nssylla A full set of Policy Briefs on the Debt situation in #Senegal, #Pakistan, #Srilanka, #Ghana, #Zambia, #Ethiopia and Problems with IMF's Debt Sustainability can be found here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/… Thx to the entire team of @DevEconNetwork @DevEcoAfr for this South-South Forum.

#Senegal is currently struggling with over $7 billion of #hiddendebt. Miriame Toure of @DevEcoAfr @DevEconNetwork raising questions on the invisiblity of debt and the role of IMF in discovering the debt. Watch live: youtube.com/live/dnSEwJS7b…

What an opening paragraph

@CihanTugal Congrats! There is no more important time than now for serious theoretical work.

I have been elected to chair the Theory section of the American Sociological Association (ASA)! I thank my colleagues for granting me this honor. I realize that this comes at a hard time for the ASA. Sociology is under attack from the far right. We are also deeply and seriously divided. Some could say that chairing such a key ASA section will be a curse rather than a blessing under the current circumstances. I will instead treat it as a challenge and a test. I have been public about my positions regarding the disciplinary conflicts I alluded to above. However, sociologists on the other side of these issues have taught and mentored me, and I have worked with, or admired the research of, others. I see theory as one of our tools to establish a common denominator in a world where sociology and society face fatal threats. Theoretical debates will allow us to talk about why and how destructive forces have been gaining the upper hand throughout the world. As I promised in my election statement, I will use this opportunity to promote debate on the escalation of wars, ecological devastation, masculinist racism, the exclusion of labor, authoritarianism, and austerity in the contemporary era. We may not end up agreeing on the main dynamics behind this apocalyptic upsurge. We will certainly disagree with each other on sociology’s role in addressing it. But theoretical debates can remind us of our common disciplinary grounding and help us imagine people- and nature-friendly alternatives to a world dominated by capital, empires, and states, even while acknowledging the limits of scholarship in addressing these overwhelming problems.

One of the sleazier media tropes is when the US menaces a much smaller country that’s done nothing to the US and it’s framed as “heightened tensions” between the two countries. Cuba is being unilaterally starved and threatened by the US. That’s not “tensions,” it’s US aggression.

Cuba assiégée, martyrisée et maintenant directement menacée d'intervention militaire USA. Aucune aide française. La peur de Trump. Les pièces de rechange de la centrale électrique française sur place sont dans les conteneurs que CMA CGM de Saadé ne veut plus livrer. Pourtant, la France avait promis.

Book announcement, after 6 years of research & writing (and interruptions!) our book (Wijesekera and Lo Bianco) is now published. Sri Lankan Lessons: Reimagining Ethnic Habitus through Language Policy & Education | Springer Thanks to all who helped. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Germany is conducting a nationwide experiment on whether austerity and neoliberal reforms really fuel the rise of the extreme right. So far it’s confirming the state of the literature. A new poll now has the AfD at 28 percent, a comfortable 6 percent ahead of the Conservatives.

Loooooool

NBC confirms the San Diego mosque gunmen were inspired by Australian far-right terrorist Brenton Tarrant, who mass murdered 52 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019.

@DanielJHemel @PennLRev Look forward to reading this. But this is the model in Australia. External boards have assumed greater control alongside managerial discretion.

~All US universities share the same governance structure: an external board & its chosen managers wield essentially absolute power. In a new draft, “In Search of University Democracy” (forthcoming in @PennLRev), David Pozen & I ask why US higher ed has adopted this model ... 1/

feminism is when women like @GitaGopinath get to manage the IMF and enforce austerity across the world and privatise drinking water for working women in the global south🥰

An excellent article by @jacobroom on Australia's housing fund. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Makes the key point 'The normalisation of crowding in private capital and using market funds to solve problems also normalises the distributive consequences of such measures..'

The idea that APAN and Loud Jew Collective's views on the causes and gravity of antisemitism are irrelevant to the Royal Commission beggars belief. You would have thought that the Commission had an interest in at least the appearance of objectivity and non-partisanship.

Per Israeli diplomatic cables reported by Haaretz, Israelis are well aware that their Indian support is based mainly on the bigotry of Hindu nationalists ("extremists driven by hatred of Muslims"), because they have courted them for that very reason since the 1960s.

What happens when the state quietly disappears? A new paper finds that support for populism in Italy (2008–18) rose where hospitals closed, especially in remote municipalities. Greater distance to public services reinforced feelings of abandonment and boosted populist voting.

Have you heard of the Afghan cameleers: men of Pashtun, Baloch, Kashmiri, Punjabi, Sindhi heritage who helped connect Australia’s outback communities in the 1800’s with camels imported from their lands? This is their story. #Australia #AfghanCameleers #Colonialism #SouthAsia

Rather than producing peace, the Abraham Accords helped establish Israel as a regional hegemon whose reckless warmaking now poses a threat to its neighbors, to the broader interests of its U.S. patron, and to global prosperity. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/07/tru…

Yes, IP is important, but it alarmingly ignores the labour question (hence conditions for poverty), that it was supposed to endogenously resolve. Dispossession, that creates labour surplus, is endogenous to industrialisation projects but IP relegates it to social policy ques.

@HeerJeet And I draw on some of that relationship here on the notion of authoritarian liberalism. It needs an update. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111….

Hayek repeatedly references Schmitt's work not just in Road to Serfdom but also Constitution of Liberty, Law, Legislation & Liberty, & Mirage of Social Justice. Despite disagreements, Hayek thought Schmitt was a very important thinker -- in Constitution of Liberty writing that Schmitt was "among the most learned and perceptive" modern German writers on the law. This of course undermines Magness claim that Schmitt's stature is a recent invention of post-liberals.