David Storey

@davidstoreygeog.bsky.social

Human Geographer (retired, sort of); Interested in national identity, sport, heritage, and many other things

"University repression of Palestine solidarity is best understood as a mode of aesthetic ordering: a set of institutional practices that regulate what can be seen, said, & felt in university space & in doing so, determine which claims can become legible as politics" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Repression as Aesthetic Ordering: How UK Universities Make Palestine Solidarity Illegible in a Time of Genocide | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Repression as Aesthetic Ordering: How UK Universities Make Palestine Solidarity Illegible in a Time of Genocide

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32 excellent volumes in the Geography Publications County History series overseen by Prof Willie Nolan, and one in particular is apparently flying off the shelves just now. Includes a chapter on the GAA by Arlene Crampsie (plus one on post-independence political history).

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England's misadventure "almost always including the Cyclops (aka the English media): a one-eyed monster that first convinces them this, finally, will be their year, then eats them alive when it isn’t" @frankmcnallymp.bsky.social with a Homeric take on the World Cup www.irishtimes.com/opinion/an-i...

They call it an epic, but The Odyssey was a harder watch than the woeful World Cup final

I’ll give Christopher Nolan’s film this much: the wooden horse was good

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