Worth reading this to understand that the UK's recent press regulator has views identical to openly white supremacist perspectives on "racial self-interest". www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

GB News critics want to limit free speech to ‘liberal, Islington consensus’, Grade says

Former Ofcom chair says he welcomed arrival of rightwing news channel five years ago in name of ‘plurality’

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An important project scrutinising deep time justifications of environmental policy. Really glad to be involved.

Graeme Warren@graemewarren.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our first Prehistoric Policies Academic Advisory Group meeting today. What a wonderful group of people to have in the same virtual room - loads of good ideas, insights and a really positive tone to the whole discussion. Many thanks to all (too many to name here). Funding @britishacademy.bsky.social

Terrific piece on "liberal indigeneity".

Ben Pitcher@benpitcher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2026

This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...

doi.org

This article on indigeneity in popular British nature writing is now officially out in the latest issue of @theoryculturesociety.org There is some great campaiging work being done by the likes of @righttoroam.bsky.social. Here I address the nativism that it has to contend with.

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2026

This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...

doi.org

The latest issue of Theory, Culture & Society is now available with articles on liberal indigeneity and the repudiation of colonialism in postimperial Britain, Agamben’s temporal thought and the coming community, and more. journals.sagepub.com/toc/TCS/curr...

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Join us for an online seminar to celebrate the end of our project, Redistributive Imaginaries, and the launch of our report. 18.03.26 12.00-13.30 CET With @mrtzg.bsky.social, Mercè Oliva, Milana Čergić, John Clarke, @hannakuu.bsky.social & Eva Frade ema.uzh.ch/RXNMK

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...

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In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'. www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life

Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...

theoryculturesociety.org

How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025

This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...

doi.org

How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...

Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025

This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...

doi.org

Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.

Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 7mo ago

New as Online First: Ben Pitcher, 'Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain' - examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.

Theory, Culture & Society@theoryculturesociety.org · 7mo ago

New as Online First: Ben Pitcher, 'Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain' - examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide. Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread. https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S

UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November. Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/ or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG

The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE: Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars. Every. Single. One. What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.

'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3. 'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape' Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...

Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...