Four wonderful titles out today! -the "achingly generous" Ghosts of Fourth Street by @lhertzel.bsky.social -Katherine McKittrick x2: the 20th anniv. ed. of DEMONIC GROUNDS & the collection Heartbreak and Other Geographies (co-ed: @camillahawth.bsky.social ) -Racializing the Ummah by Rhea Rahman
Dr. Camilla A. Hawthorne
@camillahawth.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Author of Contesting Race and Citizenship (Cornell) and co-editor of The Black Mediterranean (Palgrave) and The Black Geographic (Duke). Knitter, accordioness, aerialist.
🎙️NEW CASBS PODCAST EPISODE "In Edward Said's Shadow" Said wrote most of Orientalism at CASBS in 1975-76. CASBS fellows Shane Dillingham, Thomas Blom Hansen, @camillahawth.bsky.social & @ssinnar.bsky.social discuss the enduring influence of Said's landmark book 🎧 casbs.stanford.edu/podcast#edwa...
I'm selling 2 tickets to see KNEECAP in Sheffield, UK on November 25th. Partner and I can no longer make it to that show, but we are seeing them in Ireland in December! www.stubhub.co.uk/kneecap-tick...
Kneecap Sheffield Tickets | Octagon Centre - 25/11/2025 | StubHub UK
Buy and sell tickets at StubHub for Kneecap's concert at Octagon Centre in Sheffield on 25 Nov 2025.
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So excited to perform my tribute to Eartha Kitt in this show on September 20! Tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/icons-blac...
Honored to share the posthumously published research of my late, brilliant PhD student kirsten mai castle: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Visitation: policing the bodies of free women on the peripheries of the U.S. prison
Very little research has been conducted on the experiences of women who are not physically incarcerated but who nonetheless experience secondary forms of incarceration. In examining the degradation...
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My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...
Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s ‘From Forced Migration to Displacement?’
Abstract. Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdiscipl
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"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe" In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/ free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...
Check out the newest episode of Conjuncture in which I speak with critical geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy. This season is co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/italy-the-us...
CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social explains the importance of employing a relational theorization to gain insights into American & Italian common histories & 'common disasters' in this absorbing episode of the podcast Conjuncture www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_X...
Camilla Hawthorne on the U.S., Italy, and Xenophobic Nationalism | S4 Ep. 6
YouTube video by Trinity Social Justice Institute
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"We see the same thing happening in the U.S., Italy, and everywhere fascism is rearing its head," geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of Conjuncture. Produced with @cheatherton.bsky.social + co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/jG_X1wOqVdY. 1/2
Look to Italy for a foreshadowing of the damaging consequences a rollback of birthright citizenship would have on American society as a whole, explains CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social in this coauthored piece lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025...
US Aims to Abolish Birthright Citizenship: Italy Already Knows the Consequences
On January 20, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order entitled “Protecting the Meaning and Value of American
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Coming soon. Pleased to share stills from forthcoming interview with @camillahawth.bsky.social for new episode of Conjuncture. We discuss resurgent racisms and neo-fascism in Italy, the U.S., & the politics of theory. Co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social. More soon...
My new op-ed about the terrorism provision slipped into the budget bill: "At a time of growing American authoritarianism, the last thing Congress should be doing is granting new powers to the president to destroy civil society groups that stand in his way." slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Real Threat of the Nonprofit “Terrorism” Provision in Trump’s Big Bill
The Trump administration has already wielded the “terrorist” label to stigmatize and strip rights from student activists and migrants.
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I spoke with the Outlaw Podcast about the dangers that terrorism laws pose for protest movements -- and the importance of collective resistance and solidarity.
Amazing new episode alert 🚨 Breaking down terrorism laws and lists, their dangers, and how they’re changing with @ssinnar.bsky.social - a critical listen for anyone struggling for liberation. 1/3
Geography as story | Culture as Struggle | Transnational racialization & contested belonging In her CASBS fellows seminar, @camillahawth.bsky.social & collaborators presented parts of an in-progress doc film exploring the collision & synthesis of Black & Italian cultures through music, film, & food
CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social a coauthor writing in European History Quarterly ( @sagepub.com) on "the place of race and racialized identities within European history and how this relates to broader questions about knowledge production." OPEN ACCESS ➡️ journals.sagepub.com/eprint/MTDK2...
European History Quarterly Roundtable: Histories of Race in Europe and Questions of Knowledge Production - Bolaji Balogun, Sarah Demart, Claire Eldridge, Chandra Frank, Camilla Hawthorne, Stefanie Mic...
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🎙️The latest from the #Identities Podcast! Episode 4: The Black Atlantic Revisited With @jean23bean.bsky.social in conversation with @mamefatouniang.bsky.social, @alimeghji.bsky.social & @camillahawth.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social open.spotify.com/epi...
🎙️Have you listened to Episode 4 of the #Identities Podcast? The Black Atlantic Revisited With @jean23bean.bsky.social in conversation with @mamefatouniang.bsky.social, @alimeghji.bsky.social & @camillahawth.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social open.spotify.com/epi...
Episode 4: The Black Atlantic Revisited
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Trying to build a starter kit for Black Europe and Afropean scholars and activists - but many ppl I can think of are not (yet) on blusky. I need HELP 🖤 @eraldo.bsky.social @tnflorvil.bsky.social @afropean.bsky.social @historianmemory.bsky.social @camillahawth.bsky.social @jeannetteoho.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE in the journal Italian Culture by CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social (& coauthors Angelica Pesarini & Barbara Ofosu-Somuah) on colonial amnesia & the politics of memory "Memory, Forgetfulness, and Multidimensional Acts of Resistance" 👉 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Memory, Forgetfulness, and Multidimensional Acts of Resistance
In this dialogic intervention, we discuss the multiple dimensions of forgetting in Italian history and historiography through both temporal and geographical lenses. To do so, we begin by exploring ...
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