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Cannot wait to read and teach this by @michael_romyn global.oup.com/academic/prod…
Per the inanity of 'gentrifying nicely', here's my review of Alan Wieder's recent meditation on a community's resistance to urban displacement: ohs.org.uk/reviews/we-will-n…
I recommend Camberwell as a place to move to in London, especially if you're planning on having kids. It's gentrifying nicely but it's still pretty cheap. It's pretty well connected transport-wise and it has some excellent shops, restaurants, pubs and parks - two of the best pubs in London, in fact, and one of the best parks. I see loads of young families around, and I gather the primary schools are good.
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Shout out to all those grassroots organising at home, at work, in their communities, in colleges, at the Job Centre, for Palestine, in food banks, on estates, in the streets.
These things are everyday and consequential. Party politics is where all that energy goes to die
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Today marks 91 months since 72 loved ones were taken from us at Grenfell.
We still have no clear road to Justice, and no adequate health monitoring to ensure all bereaved and survivors get to see it if it comes.
Will we see any improvements before the 8 year anniversary?
New article on race and space in the work of documentarian Steve James (Hoop Dreams): tandfonline.com/eprint/UPCSW…
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When I worked in homelessness people understood that if you called the police on your clients, your clients had a high chance of being hurt in some way. So we often handled incidents ourselves - often more successfully than calling the cops. That is aboltion.
How did the left end up with a bunch of positions that are completely alien to the people we aspire to represent?
I loved this conversation with @ayocaesar
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Chris Jones (@56aInfoshop) pens an acerbic, poetic, and emphatic rebuke of the gentrification of Elephant and Castle, casting the London neighbourhood’s “regeneration” as reflective of the sterile desires of the ruling class and their contempt for the poor.
My short review of Peter Barham's excellent, important new book.
'Outrageous Reason... enjoins a revaluation of conceptions of pathology and dysfunction, as well as the hegemony of whiteness that upholds them.'
Michael Romyn reviews Peter Barham's Outrageous Reason: Madness and Race in Britain and Empire, 1780-2020
histhum.com/review-outrageou…
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Pluto is currently making our book After Grenfell freely available #Grenfell
📚FREE EBOOK!📚
After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response
With contributions from activists, academics and artists, this book discusses the legacy of the fire that revealed the violence of the British state.
Download your copy here: plutobooks.com/9781786804617…
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Newcastle Uni students are now 50 days into their protest against the war in Gaza. Give them a retweet
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Open reports, not decisions behind closed doors! Contribute to Fight4Aylesbury's Open Report on the Future of the Aylebsury Estate. Demolition is not the answer, and together with residents&supporters we are imagining a just future for the estate. #RefurbishDon'tDemolish
ALT Workshop: Our open report on the future of the Aylesbury Estate. Demolition is not the answer! Come along to share ideas with other residents about what a refurbished Aylesbury can look like&to learn more. SATURDAY 18 may, 3-7 pm walworth living room.. Surrey Square SE17 2JU. Organised by Fight4Aylesbury
ALT Fight for Aylesbury is compiling an Open report to investigate what a refurbished and retrofitted Aylesbury Estate could look like. We invite residents, neighbours and supporters to contribute their ideas to the report.. 3-5 drop in, chat, share your thoughts. 4-5 Make your own map: a workshop on mapping the local area, what we like and what should change. 5:30-6:30 open meeting: presentation of successful refurbishment projects on other estates and discussion. Fight4Aylesbury is a local housing campaign group. YES to refurbishment, not to demoliton & social cleansing.
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Finally reading @michael_romyn's extraordinary article about Black identity and the history of British basketball which I'm teaching this week, and struck by this incredible image of Michael Jordan at the Brixton Recreation Centre in 1985. academic.oup.com/hwj/article…
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A refugee from Sudan. Likely made homeless at the end of the asylum process like thousands of others. This man has survived war, likely a brutal journey & years warehoused in the asylum system, only to be stamped in the stomach & dragged across the ground like an animal.
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Got your latest copy of #OralHistory 'Revisiting Shared Authority'? OHS Members get 2 issues every year and can download past issues back to 1972. We are so proud that #OralHistory is the oldest and only independent journal publishing the work of oral historians in UK and beyond!
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Aysen's high court victory this week: a summary 🧵 of the case and some thoughts about it.
First off, what happened?
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💥We won 💥 Aysen's case against Southwark Council and Notting Hill Genesis was successful. Thank you for everyone's support! The Aylesbury regeneration scheme is dead - back to the drawing board SC: refurbish the estate and keep it as council housing. #Fight4Aylesbury
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Just published: My review of Mike and Trevor Phillips' "Windrush: The Irresistible Rise of Multi-Racial Britain" (reprinted last summer to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Empire Windrush)! Thank you to the good folx at the @OralHistorySoc!
ohs.org.uk/uncategorised/win…
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I recently reviewed Rosa Schling's great book about 5 Caledonian Road for the Oral History Journal - rb.gy/vh2jrz - if anyone's got anything else they'd like to review for the OHJ do get in touch!