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This has just arrived! With this collection we want to open up within the field of visual politics spaces of academic dialogue and publication where scholars from the North and the South can engage in truly productive intellectual exchanges.
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The Carnations Revolution in Portugal was 50 years ago. It changed my life and that of all Portuguese. It gave the playground for my childhood and it shaped me into who I am today. Viva o 25 de Abril, Viva a Liberdade, fascismo nunca mais!
Well said @a_musiyiwa! Important thread on how theatre can help dismantle structural and systemic racism.
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Video recording of the June event co-organised with the Sociology of the Arts Study Group, 'Theorising with Art and Music': youtube.com/watch?v=tRRqXyCa…
Speakers:
Fiona Greenland, Laura Harris, Lisa McCormick, Alexander C. Sutton and Dominik Zelinsky
#Sociology #BSATheory @britsoc
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Folk at UK universities may want to sign this petition:
University communities stand against the Illegal Migration Bil
Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/…
@STARnational @SolidariTeeUK @UniofSanctuary @VOICESNetworkUK
Such a powerful defence of the value of the humanities in this thread by @cupofassam
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Literature isn’t lovely stuff. It’s unsettling, painful, shapes your morals, shows you the sublime and the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. And it can console and inspire those who get to a certain age and wonder if it was worth spending so much time in the office. – at Lewisham, London
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We aren't on track to meet net zero or meet the 1.5 degree Paris agreement. France is outstripping UK tenfold on heat pump installation. Home insulation has stalled. Maybe focus on that instead of ridiculously trying to make ED MILIBAND of all people look like a dangerous radical
🚨You’re going to want to hear this
@Ed_Miliband explains why Labour supports the criminal eco mob
🥀 Why they back actions to ruin British life
🥀 Why they let them write Labour policy
🥀 Why they vote against laws to stop them
🥀 Why they’ve given them everything they want
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Link to today's government announcement on visa taxes and fees: hansard.parliament.uk/common…
- Immigration health surcharge to rise 66%, from £624 a year to £1,035
- Work and visit visa fees up 15%
- Other visas, extensions, settlement and citizenship up 20%
No timeframe given.
‘The beams of The Unbearable Lightness of Being are: weight, lightness, the soul, the body, the Grand March, shit, kitsch, compassion, vertigo, strength, and weakness. (…) these words cannot be replaced by synonyms’ theparisreview.org/interview…
Thank you for all the novels, especially ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being’. theguardian.com/books/2023/j…
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Something has shifted in the public mood regarding refugees. I've been tweeting about refugees for many years but never before received such an upswell of sympathy, and near universal condemnation of the government's callous approach. Thank U to everyone for your positive tweets!
“One of the most vile, cowardly, egregious political acts I’ve ever witnessed.”
@maitlis on immigration minister Robert Jenrick’s defence of ordering a Mickey Mouse mural to be covered up in a children’s asylum reception centre.
Listen on @GlobalPlayer
global-player.onelink.me/Br0…
Britain is the Dorian Gray economy, hiding its ugly truths from the world. Now they are exposed theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Thks to all delegates who came + offered such engaging ideas at the Climate Hackathon @LeedsMusicDrama last 2 days. Artists, scientists, social scientists + citizen activists working on climate change, biodiversity loss + social inequity. Co-developed w @mariarovisco
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I don’t usually share identifiable photos. But this is so powerful by Victoras Antonopoulos
Two Syrian brothers reunited after the tragedy in Greece. He came to find his brother who’s just 18, fearing he had drowned. Remember this photo when they lie to you about safe routes.
With my lovely SSP colleagues at the picket lines. We are striking over the threat of 100% deductions for participation in the marking boycott. So many students at risk of not graduating because senior leadership refuses to come to the negotiating table #SettletheDispute
