🚨 Are you interested in Historical Political Economy (HPE)? 🚨 At the Virtual Workshop in HPE (VWHPE), we discuss state-of-the-art research in the field on a regular basis. ‼️We have just issued a new call for papers. ‼️ Please see the link below if you’d like to join.

Check out the symposium on African systems of thought and IR in the latest issue of @internatltheory.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal.... H/T @ttieku.bsky.social, Andrew Grant, Karolina Werner, and all the contributors! #GlobalIR

Latest issue | International Theory | Cambridge Core

International Theory

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Wonderful to see our book out in the world! I had the pleasure of co-editing this wonderful #openaccess collection with @shrzd.bsky.social, Rethinking the Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Governance. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Rethinking the Political Economy of Non-Western Migration Governance

This open access book explores the political economy of migration in non-Western regions, offering global insights into migration governance and experience

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Next week deadline 👇

Crystal A. Ennis@crystalennis.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Do you work on the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula, or know a graduate student who does? The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula (AGAPS) 2026 awards calls are now open! Deadline for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award & AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize is 15 July. agaps.org/calls-for-20... #menasky

Do you work on the Gulf & Arabian Peninsula, or know a graduate student who does? The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula (AGAPS) 2026 awards calls are now open! Deadline for the Gwenn Okruhlik Dissertation Award & AGAPS Graduate Paper Prize is 15 July. agaps.org/calls-for-20... #menasky

US says Eid Mubarak Oman... x.com/i/status/205...

Department of State on X: "PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. https://t.co/hCs1tIhZGP" / X

PRESIDENT TRUMP: The Strait is going to be open to everybody. It’s international waters. We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s going to control it. Oman will behave like everybody else or we’ll have to blow them up. They understand that. https://t.co/hCs1tIhZGP

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Very much looking forward to hearing about the research and experiences of our researchers / secondees as part of our EU-MSCA research consortium this afternoon. If you're interested in Non-Western Migration Regimes, please join us. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Migration in the Global South: Experiences from the field

As part of the 2025–2026 cohort of Leiden University of the MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective staff exchange program, secondees conducted migration-related research at partne...

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“Women of the world, I call on you to stand with us. We’ve been deprived of the most basic human existence. We’ve lost our homes, our freedom and our privacy. Our lives as we knew them have been destroyed” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Listen to the stories of Gaza's women to fully grasp the horrors Israel is inflicting on us | Olfat al-Kurd

I survived months of bombardment before escaping. The systematic dismantling of our home has harmed every aspect of women’s lives, says B’Tselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd

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The paperback version of Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies is out! It's finally more affordable. And there's a discount 👇 www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Join the Leiden Political Economy Group for our annual lecture in GPE this Friday @unileiden.bsky.social. This year we're delighted to welcome @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social speaking about platform capitalism. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/...

Join the Leiden Political Economy Group for our annual lecture in GPE this Friday @unileiden.bsky.social. This year we're delighted to welcome @nielsvdoorn.bsky.social speaking about platform capitalism. www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/2026/...

Very happy to announce that I’ve signed a contract with @mitpress.bsky.social for the publication of my forthcoming book The Platform Fix. 🥳 It will be part of their Labor & Technology series, edited by Winifred Poster. @labortechresearchnetwork.org

Zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen worden gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd. Sinds 7 oktober 2023 is hun situatie enorm verslechterd. Een explosief rapport hierover van Save the Children werd aanvankelijk onder Israëlische druk niet gepubliceerd. buff.ly/KCqMV2l

Palestijnse kinderen gemarteld in de Israëlische cel: rapport Save the Children wijst op onhoudbare situatie

Kindermishandeling: Zo’n 350 Palestijnse kinderen in Israëlische gevangenissen worden gemarteld, seksueel misbruikt en uitgehongerd. Sinds 7 oktober 2023 is hun situatie enorm verslechterd. Een…

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Do you work at Leiden U & research migration outside the West? Please see our #CfA to participate in MARS: Non-Western Migration in Global Perspective - an EU-funded Marie Curie consortium for a secondment/research visit at one of our global partners: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

Call for interest: MARS staff exchange programme - Leiden University

MARS: Non-Western Migration Regimes in a Global Perspective Are you working at Leiden University and researching migration regimes outside of the Global North? Are you interested in doing fieldwork or a research visit at one of our partner universities? Then you might want to join the Leiden team of…

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Looking forward to launching Limin Teh's fascinating account of Chinese miners in Japanese Manchuria tomorrow at Leiden University. Please join us to the discussion and celebration if you're in the vicinity! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

I've published a new article Labour Importism: Its rise and reproduction in the Arab Gulf States www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Labour importism: its rise and reproduction in the Arab Gulf States

This article explores labour importism (LI) as a process of labour provisioning whose organising principle is the importation of temporary migrant workers. The analysis is developed around the Arab...

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"The question of who speaks for the Gulf...is... not a matter of political representation. It is a question of which lives are legible enough to count as affected, and which populations are visible enough to warrant a story." @miraalhussein.bsky.social www.jadaliyya.com/Details/4724...

The Gulf Between Us

I was seven when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. The memories of a child are vague and grainy, and I cannot vouch for their fidelity, but three images have stayed with me with the sharpness of things tha...

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#CfA: deadline this week! Are you a PhD student or are you a supervisor of a PhD student working on the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula? Apply to the AGAPS Graduate Student Workshop 2026! Fantastic opportunity!

Looking forward to speaking about my book #MillennialDreams this evening with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social in her Exeter CGS seminar series. Join us at 18:00 CET universityofexeter.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CGS Seminar - Crystal Ennis (Leiden). After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Today is the launch of the travelling exhibition, Picturing Scholasticide @unileiden.bsky.social. It raises awareness of Israel's destruction of Palestinian academic & intellectual life, & what can be done to support Palestinian scholars & institutions. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...

Picturing Scholasticide: Exhibition Launch

Picturing Scholasticide is a traveling exhibition initiated by staff and students of Leiden University to publicize the social and legal effects of Israel's effort to destroy Palestinian institutions ...

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The article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Iran in Revolt | Kayhan Valadbaygi

Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

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Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

Hey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.

Join us to celebrate and discuss @libertychee.bsky.social 's important new book this Friday! I'm very much looking forward to the event. #migration #polisky

Liberty Chee@libertychee.bsky.social · 8mo ago

arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky

So pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award

It was brilliant speaking with my colleagues about our ten year journey, and debating what we consider the most critical political economy questions of today. (Will write more on this soon!)

Crystal A. Ennis@crystalennis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social for the well earned award for her brilliant book. I am thrilled that Making Space for the Gulf was also recognized by AGAPS

Crystal A. Ennis@crystalennis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...

Congratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social - I indexed this book, and the reward is richly deserved!

Crystal A. Ennis@crystalennis.bsky.social · 9mo ago

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...

To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...