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Open Letter to European Consortium for Political Research Council. If you want to join the 100+ political scientists who have signed, it is there: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… Adam Standring Jonathan Hopkin 𝐩𝐨𝐩 🍔👾💣 | populismblog.bsky.social

Woah Donna Shalala.

Da leggere la risposta della Presidente della New School all'università di Cologna. Da notare il passaggio in cui le ricorda che la New School è dove hanno trovato rifugio numerosi intellettuali tedeschi durante il Nazismo. Se non fosse tutto dannatamente serio verrebbe da ridere

Oggi #11aprile aderisco allo #sciopero generale indetto da CGIL, UIL e USB in Emilia. Ai miei studenti ho scritto che scioperare oggi mi sembrava più coerente che essere in classe a parlare di demercificazione e protezione sociale in astratto, mentre fuori si muore di lavoro.

Wow 👀 What a turnaround in Draghi’s views on competitiveness. Compare it with this quote, from 2012, advocating for cutting wage costs bis.org/review/r120315…

Last week, a group of political scientists called on the European Consortium for Political Research to release a statement condemning the Israeli killing of civilians, destruction of infrastructure and blocking of humanitarian aid. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

I would like to know why those crises merited a statement and this ongoing humanitarian disaster, with clear implications for academic freedom, does not.

“What happened should go around the world; should shame and blame Germany everywhere.” Israeli film maker Dror Dayan on the police crackdown on the Palestine Congress in Berlin. lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…

The world record for the fastest calling in of police on their own students: now held, to no one’s surprise, by the president of Freie Universität Berlin. He called the cops immediately. A man who’s proud of leaving Twitter because he got a "You might like Ghassan Abu Sitta."

The Young and the Hawkish: Generational differences in conflict attitudes in Israel My new article in Research & Politics analyzes generational trends in support for the two-state solution in Israel, highlighting significant generational divides. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

The Bologna train station rails have been occupied tonight in response to the latest Rafah massacre #FreePalestine

Super thrilled to announce that Kathleen Thelen Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will give a talk at Università di Bologna on June 11 at 11 am! If you're in Bologna, do not miss a great talk on #AmericanCapitalism at the Department of Polisci. More info below dsps.unibo.it/it/eventi/amer…

"We built these universities from tents. And from tents, with the support of our friends, we will rebuild them once again." If solidarity means anything at all, the least we can do is throw our time & resources into rebuilding Gaza's universities 🍉 #EndScholasticide

Our book 'Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emergency' is out! And it's available in open access here: cambridge.org/core/services/…

Il Tg1 è talmente fuori controllo che sarebbe capace di dare la parola al titolare di un’azienda in cui un operaio è morto dopo essere stato abbandonato con un braccio amputato davanti a casa. Come? Già fatto?

Le campagne intorno a Latina sono di proprietà delle stesse famiglie da 80 anni a questa parte. Sono comunità abbastanza chiuse, quasi tutti imparentati fra loro, quasi tutti fascisti nostalgici. Dei redneck nostrani. I mezzi pubblici che collegano le campagne ai centri urbani...