Maša Mrovlje
@mmrovlje.bsky.social
Maša Mrovlje is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leeds. She is exploring the political value of disappointment within resistance.
ICYMI: Irma Kinga Allen, 'Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Thinking with a Feminist Political Ecology of Air-and-breathing-bodies - Irma Kinga Allen, 2020
Social theory has paid little attention to air, despite its centrality to bodily existence and air pollution being named the world’s biggest public health crisi...
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Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people. wagingnonviolence.org/2026/07/indi...
Indigenous women already have the climate solutions
Three emerging feminist leaders have a vision for real climate action — and it starts with centering the voices of youth, women and Indigenous people.
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From the Archive: Lisa Jones (Translator), 'Power and Violence by Paul Ricoeur' - addresses the political thought of Hannah Arendt, taking as his starting point her paper ‘On Violence’, and her treatment of the conceptual pair power and violence. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Power and Violence by Paul Ricoeur - Lisa Jones, 2010
In this article, from his Lectures I: Autour du politique, Ricoeur addresses and subjects to critical examination the political thought of Hannah...
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Arundhati Roy’s gripping dispatch from Delhi: ‘Perhaps the rest of us can take lessons from our farmers and our cockroaches on how to become a little dangerous. The young have given us a gift. It is up to us all, every one of us to make what they have done matter.’ m.thewire.in/article/righ...
robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 2w agoSolidarity with Indian youth & students protesting despite brutal repression! Here’s a statement from the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative in support of the protest against the government’s ‘diversionary weaponizing of religion & nationalism & its criminal disregard for the futures of the youth’
Arundhati Roy: “Just when hope seemed lost, they came. Young roaches riding in on the rain. The progeny of the unholy union between a judge and a joke.” m.thewire.in/article/righ...
Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous - The Wire
Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.
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My chapter looks at the disappointment of marginalised groups within resistance and argues it can serve as an important critical tool against the failures and oppressive attitudes within the resistance movement. You can check it out here academic.oup.com/book/63059/c...
The Power of Disappointment in Resistance
Abstract. Against the dominant perception of disappointment as an inward-oriented emotion, I explore the political power of disappointment in resistance. S
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robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 3w agoexciting new volume on ‘Resistance in Epistemic, Communicative, and Political Practices’ put together by José Medina, Dina Lupin & Leo Townsend: academic.oup.com/book/63059 w/ great contributions by @mmrovlje.bsky.social, @luke-rage.bsky.social, @edileon.bsky.social & others
Delighted to be part of this conversation! Thanks so much to Leo, Dina and José for all your work putting this together and to all the contributors for your wonderful contributions!
robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 3w agoexciting new volume on ‘Resistance in Epistemic, Communicative, and Political Practices’ put together by José Medina, Dina Lupin & Leo Townsend: academic.oup.com/book/63059 w/ great contributions by @mmrovlje.bsky.social, @luke-rage.bsky.social, @edileon.bsky.social & others
i have a chapter in it on Resisting Solidarity: Theorizing Migrant Epistemic Resistance & you can check it out here: www.academia.edu/170243820/Re...
Resisting Solidarity: Theorizing Migrant Epistemic Resistance
This chapter explores the relation between epistemic resistance and solidarity and advances three claims. First, it distinguishes between two registers of solidarity, the hegemonic integrationist and ...
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exciting new volume on ‘Resistance in Epistemic, Communicative, and Political Practices’ put together by José Medina, Dina Lupin & Leo Townsend: academic.oup.com/book/63059 w/ great contributions by @mmrovlje.bsky.social, @luke-rage.bsky.social, @edileon.bsky.social & others
Resistance in Epistemic, Communicative, and Political Practices
Abstract. New research in philosophy and neighboring disciplines has moved beyond cataloguing and characterizing forms of oppression to highlighting the pr
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New as Online First in Theory, Culture & Society: Andreas Folkers, Wendy Brown, Brenna Bhandar and Robert Nichols, 'Property, Power, Politics: An Interview with Brenna Bhandar, Wendy Brown, and Robert Nichols'. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The first Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels conference occurred in April 2026. Professor Richard Beardsworth, principle fellow of the Priestley Centre, reflects on what the conference revealed about the future of climate leadership edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/html5/reader...
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Last week, @drfoxpopuli.bsky.social and I presented our Law's a Drag papers at IVR 2026 at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. We talked about our cabarets, our analysis of the aesthetics of drag adjudication, and future projects! @lsjleeds.bsky.social @lawatleeds.bsky.social @lawsadrag.bsky.social
From the Archive: Tanya Maria Zivkovic, 'Tibetan Buddhist Embodiment: The Religious Bodies of a Deceased Lama' - explores how narratives of a Buddhist high-lama’s death and trajectory of lives contains formulations of Tibetan theories of embodiment. (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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‘Until the 1990s, most representations of Native Americans were by or managed by non-Native people, and the story they told was one of defeat, decline, disappearance.’ @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social on America before 1776. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Rebecca Solnit · Before 1776
In 1848, the US seized the northern half of Mexico, from California to New Mexico, and imposed American law and the...
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ICYMI: Lotte List, 'Political Theology and Historical Materialism: Reading Benjamin against Agamben' - shows that Agamben has replaced the radicality of Walter Benjamin’s historical materialist critique by a messianic nihilism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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How should we conceptualize history & human agency in the climate crisis? Join us for this panel discussion on Forces of History w/ Alyssa Battistoni, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lillian Cicerchia, Maeve Cooke, and Massimiliano Tomba, Rahel Jaeggi & myself. Juli 8, 6-8pm bUm Paul-Lincke-Ufer 21, Berlin
ICYMI: Joe P. L. Davidson and Filipe Carreira da Silva, 'Decolonising the Earth: Anticolonial Environmentalism and the Soil of Empire'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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TODAY at noon Eastern! Join Adom Getachew, Aziz Rana, & @dwaldstreicher.bsky.social for a panel moderated by Nikhil Pal Singh about their recent essays about America at 250. Cohosted with @dissentmag.bsky.social. Donations suggested; register here: tinyurl.com/44yrhzbt
#FirstView from @politicsgenderj.bsky.social - Care as a Human Right and a Public Good: Mapping Latin America’s Reconfiguration of Unpaid Care Work - cup.org/4oN1FZX - @jennpiscopo.bsky.social
From the latest issue of TCS: Volker Bernhard, 'The Dwelling Question: A Critical Theory of the Bourgeois Home' - offers a framework for reimagining dwelling in light of current existential and ecological threats. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Absolutely delighted to be able to participate in this, it‘s been such an amazing conference—a big thank you to the organisers!
IHC@ihchistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago📌 The international conference "The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias" will take place from 25 to 27 June at the National Library of Portugal. ℹ️Programme and further information: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/.../alterliv...
📌 The international conference "The Alter-lives of Independence Movements: Frustrated Hopes, Renewed Utopias" will take place from 25 to 27 June at the National Library of Portugal. ℹ️Programme and further information: ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/.../alterliv...
No dia 23 de Junho irá decorrer o seminário «Decolonial Epistemologies: Museum, Archives, Circulation, Reparation and African Heritages», no MUNHAC. Participação livre, mediante inscrição prévia obrigatória geral@museus.ulisboa.pt ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/decol...
The programme for the workshop 'Contested Imperial Endings', that will take place at NOVA FCSH on 8-9 September, is now available on our website. ℹ️ ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en/events/co...
ICYMI: Hany Zayed, 'The Political Economy of Revolution: Karl Polanyi in Tahrir Square' - redresses the underfocus of Polanyian political economy on the theory of revolution in general and the Egyptian Revolution in particular. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Excited to be part of this special issue on Philosophy in a Planetary Age, w/ great contributions by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lynne Huffer, Mohamed Amer Meziane & others. My exchange with @mafritsch.bsky.social is on Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene: www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Discussing Climate Disobedience in the Capitalocene - Volume 70, Issue 1, Winter 2026
This is the transcript of a written exchange that Robin Celikates and Matthias Fritsch carried out between November 2024 and March 2025. We focus the conversation on civil disobedience in response to ...
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Just in time for the current heat wave: new @criticaltimes1.bsky.social special issue “Climate Crisis Politics,” guest-edited by Wendy Brown & Timothy Mitchell w/ amazing contributions by Brown, Mitchell, @afolkers.bsky.social, @alybatt.bsky.social, @juliadehm.bsky.social, Nayanika Mathur & others
In his final Benjamin Lecture tonight, Dipesh Chakrabarty will turn to the implications of the climate crisis for what a shared future on this planet would require - because a shared future cannot be a prolongation of our present: INDIGENEITY AS PLANETARITY: PROVINCIALIZING AMERICA? at HKW at 6pm!
ICYMI: Alexandra Deem, 'Mediated Intersections of Environmental and Decolonial Politics in the No Dakota Access Pipeline Movement' - explores the politics of digital protest in the #NoDAPL (No Dakota Access Pipeline) movement. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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