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Rowan Lubbock

@bolshierowbot.bsky.social

Academic (IR, Marxism, Agriculture) Queen Mary University; Muso (turning things up to 11); Recently joined Twitter, has instant buyer's remorse.

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Adam David Morton@morton.bsky.social · 8mo ago

From October on the geopolitics of Venezuela by @armandovanrankinir.bsky.social “Venezuela appears in the equation as a more feasible and less geopolitically risky target, and one more profitable in the political calculations of MAGA’s interlocutors”.

The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...

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Raj Patel@rajpatel.org · 9mo ago

Clara Mattei founded the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation - FREE - just a few months ago. Already, it's a hub for praxis not just in Tulsa, but far beyond. Here's our conversation on the food system: youtu.be/BXZu39LWgm0

More Food, More Hunger: How Capitalism Turned Food Against Us

Food is more abundant than ever – but between rising prices, food insecurity, and a crisis of food affordability, we’re getting sicker and hungrier at the same time. In this live FREE (Forum for…

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Rowan Lubbock@bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Our final post in the Cultivating Socialism symposium comes from Aiko Ikemura Amaral. A very thoughtful reflection on food sovereignty that goes beyond upstream productivism, prompting us to consider the quotidian practices of food, consumption and everyday life. www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...

Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviari...

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Rowan Lubbock@bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Another stunning addition to the Cultivating Socialism symposium at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site. Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender. www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...

Regionalism, the State and Class in Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Whilst much ink has been spilt trying to grapple with where it all went wrong, Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty offers a novel reading of th...

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Rowan Lubbock@bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 11mo ago

The third installment of the Cultivating Socialism symposium at @ppesydney.bsky.social is here! Armando van Rankin Anaya digs into the edifice of sovereignty and its place in the historical sociology of state-formation. www.ppesydney.net/the-scaffold...

The Scaffolding of Disputed Sovereignty: Fantasy and Fragility in the Latin American Großraum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Cultivating Socialism by Rowan Lubbock is a particularly valuable contribution for those of us who work on the characteristics of sovereignty and on the global historical sociology of state formation ...

ppesydney.net

QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.

Where is the money? Cleaners, teaching associates, and trade unions haven’t had any of the money that isn’t part of the regular payroll since the beginning of the new financial year
QM_UCU@qmucu.bsky.social · 12mo ago

A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Page argues franchising — where students are disproportionately from poorer backgrounds — has been oversold as a means for widening participation. In reality, he says, it often leaves students behind, with outcomes “taking down our overall metrics”. Staff were never comfortable with the franchise-heavy model, he says. “Voices were raised about their concerns, the things they saw and practices that didn’t align with our values, but they weren’t listened to,” he adds. “Now we live or die by our own work. We’re not going to be reliant on other organisations. I would advise any other university with large franchise numbers to do the same.” Buckinghamshire cut ties earlier this year with five of its former private franchise partners. Even so, other universities are continuing to explore franchise models. For Queen Mary’s new “International Year One” in business and management, for example, it will outsource the teaching and recruitment for the programme to Kaplan International College, a for-profit group offering pathway courses into higher education. Taught at Kaplan’s centre in London Bridge, the one-year course will enable foreign students to move straight on to the second year of Queen Mary’s business management undergraduate degree. Kaplan’s tuition fee is about £9,000 cheaper and requires lower entry grades and English language qualifications.  Queen Mary academics fear the Kaplan pathway, billed as the only one of its kind leading to a London Russell Group university, will not improve the academic preparedness of students.
Rowan Lubbock@bolshierowbot.bsky.social · last yr.

So happy to finally see my review of "Now We Are In Power", by Angus McNelly, out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. A truly exhilarating read, prompting new insights and many questions over one of Latin America's most enigmatic examples of popular power and its contradictory path.

Antipode@antipodeonline.bsky.social · last yr.

New book review by @bolshierowbot.bsky.social -- Angus McNelly's "Now We Are in Power: The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia" @upittpress.bsky.social antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

Larry the Cat@number10cat.bsky.social · last yr.

The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story: 1: It's all lies 2: Most of it is lies 3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter 4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it 5. F**k you

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last yr.

"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection." www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...

Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza

An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy tell CBS News they have personal experience of the IDF forcing civilians to check buildings for explosives.

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Alex Stoffel@stoffelalex.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote up some provisional reflections on the changing character of US empire for @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/empi...

Empire Unmasked: Struggles for Gender and Sexual Freedom in an Era of US Imperial Crisis - Historical Materialism

US power has organised the expanded reproduction of global capitalism over the past 70 years and continues to do so. Much ink is currently being spilled over its decline. Commentators are debating whe...

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