Now I am a teacher, I wonder what conception of political theory could, at the level of principle, include Machiavelli or Rousseau, say, but discount hooks. lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/dece…

'You can’t count on this white racist world to keep anything of ours with the care and the commitment that we would like for it to have.' I wrote about bell hooks for the London Review of Books: lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/dece…

Mine & the most excellent Philippa Hetherington's historiographical review, 'Trafficking, a Useless Category of Historical Analysis?' is open access for 1 month! Ring in the holidays w/ a deep dive into the question of why policies on trafficking are, & always have been, so f&*cked up.

8 Dec, 5:15pm: Jennifer Pitts (Chicago) will speak on 'Democracy’s World Shadow: Du Bois’s International Thought' at the final Institute of Historical Research HPI Seminar of the term.

Please register below to receive the Zoom link: history.ac.uk/events/democra…

Two pregnant women have now died in Poland as a direct result of the country's anti-abortion law. Abortion Support Network is running a Christmas fundraiser to ensure access to safe abortion for pregnant people in Poland. All donations doubled until Dec 7th: donate.thebiggive.org.uk/campaign/a0569…ęcej

people complaining that academics have better conditions than XXXX job and are still striking: we are striking because it’s not a race to the bottom, and because we have a union that fights for us, and because many academics actually have shit conditions and shit pay anyway.

Solidarity with everyone striking today but especially those on zero-hour contracts who are relentlessly exploited and do triple the amount of work as everyone else – the landscape only changes when those with permanent positions push back against exploitative contracts✊

much to admire and debate in the LRB Andreas Malm double feature, but I particularly appreciate James B’s attention to sticky political challenges

This article by myself and @F_Waldmann presents a new John Locke manuscript - entirely unknown to scholars - which I identified and recovered in the Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill at UNC-Chapel Hill.

It's not too late to register for the first GIH seminar of the year! We are delighted to be hosting Shruti Kapila, who'll be talking about her forthcoming book, 'Violent Fraternity: Indian Political Thought in the Global Age', from 4pm tomorrow: zoom.us/meeting/regist…

'Scholars working on non-European sites often forced by the structure of scholarship to cite European thinkers to make other parts of the world intelligible as a proper subject of political thought...that approach can diminish the specificity & interest of other ways of thinking'

New essay by Adom Getachew: 'The Movement for Black Lives has developed an incipient internationalist language and vision, with the potential to remap America’s place in the world': dissentmagazine.org/article/the-ne…