Raewyn Connell
@raewynconnell.bsky.social
"Trans Lives: Social Realities Across the Globe" out now https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=trans-lives--9781509572038 www.raewynconnell.net
We are delighted to welcome Professor Amanda Wise from the University of Technology Sydney as keynote speaker for Theorising Migration, Settlement, and Diversity in Unsettled Times. Register: tasa.org.au/content.aspx... #AmandaWise #MigrationStudies #SocialTheory
Racist poetry as a genre? you'd better believe it! Fascinating article on the US extreme right's attempt to build a culture around bigotry and fear.
Illiberalism Studies Program@illsp.bsky.social · last wk.New piece! Laura Jeffries continues her dive into the mythopoetics of the far right, looking at the white nationalist poetry of Mark Mazari. Check it out! @ieres-gwu.bsky.social
Bigger. Better. Stronger. NTEU National Councillors celebrated our strong membership growth in 2026 - more than 30,000 members and growing everyday! 💜 We’re organising, we’re growing and we’re winning better workplaces and better universities. Be part of it. Join today: nteu.au/join
Fascism, Faust, and Thomas Mann. A new post about Mann's remarkable and terrifying novel "Doctor Faustus". Among other things it's a deep analysis of the rise of fascism Mark I, 100 years ago; something we can learn from today. www.raewynconnell.net
Raewyn Connell
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Conference co-organised by the ISA RC58 Society and Emotions and ISA TG12 Social Love and Solidarity. Conference on Sociology of Hope: A Global South Perspective. 🗓️ Thursday, September 24 🕧 12:30–3:30 p.m. (US ET) 📍 North Academic Center (NAC) 6/141
Very clear account of the background & significance of the far-right election victory in one German state - highly relevant to other countries too!
Illiberalism Studies Program@illsp.bsky.social · 3w agoNew piece! Marlene Laruelle on the AfD's victory in Saxony-Anhalt and the deeper dynamics that undergird its rise in popularity as a viable political option.
“If there was ever a time to dust off the participatory mechanisms of our universities and bring them back to life, it is now.” David Brophy on the attempt to convene a Convocation for Gaza at the University of Sydney.
A Convocation for Gaza: decision looms on historic meeting of alumni and academics - Overland literary journal
Convocation is only an advisory body, and holding one will still leave us a long way from the democratic university we need. But at a time like this, we need to make use of any mechanisms we have to c...
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Many workplace protections we take for granted were won through collective struggle. For Labor Day, Judith Stepan-Norris writes in Contexts about how unions raise wages, reduce inequality and give workers a collective voice, and what their decline costs us. Read here: doi.org/10.1177/1536...
👉 l'article de El tiempo sur cet assassinat de « dos reconocidos dirigentes comunitarios del corregimiento de La Pedregosa, en el municipio de Cajibío » : www.eltiempo.com/colombia/cal... 3/3
Asesinan a dos líderes sociales en Cajibío, Cauca: ¿quiénes eran María Ovidia Palechor y James Edímer Flor?
La pareja fue asesinada en su vivienda, en la vereda Buenavista, que corresponde al corregimiento de La Pedregosa.
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Le 1er septembre, à l'aube, María Ovidia Palechor Anacona, leader indigène, et son mari James Edímer Flor ont été assassiné·es dans le Cauca (sud Colombie) où il et elle vivaient et militaient pour le bien des communautés indigènes, afrodescendantes et paysannes victimes du conflit armé... 1/3
University of Sydney staff are taking strike action tomorrow for a better future. AI is here to stay, but without safeguards and worker governance, it can be used to cut jobs, intensify workloads, and compromise academic standards. Be part of the change - get involved today: betterworkplaces.nteu.au
See how efficient it still is, how it keeps itself in shape— our century’s hatred. How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down. The opening of "Hatred", by the amazing Wislawa Szymborska. For the other 7 stanzas, try: genius.com/Wisawa-szymb...
Wisława Szymborska – Hatred
See how efficient it still is, / how it keeps itself in shape— / our century’s hatred. / How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles. / How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down. / It’
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Recent open access article by TASA Member Philippa Collins et al. The politics of a ‘duty of care’: children, climate change and social media in Australia, 2020–2025
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New issue of the journal Feminist Africa, on the 20-year story of the African Feminist Forum - about experiences of organizing on a continental scale. feministafrica.net/2026/08/20/f...
Feminist Africa 2026, Volume 7, Issue 1“Twenty Years of the African Feminist Forum” - Feminist Africa
by Sylvia Tamale We often hear the provocative remark: “the feminist movement is dead!” If feminism were truly dead, we would not see a global, ultra-conservative movement rising specifically to undo fi...
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It’s good to see ANU acknowledge its failures and apologise to Dr Liz Allen. Liz was brave to speak up about what she experienced and to keep pushing for accountability. You are never alone when you're a union member. Become a member today: nteu.au/join
Powerful ethnography of the bitter consequences of unemployment, structural racism, guns, and the narcotics economy. Not unique to USA!
International Sociological Association (ISA)@isa-sociology.org · 2mo ago🖊️ by Laurie Kain Hart (University of California, Los Angeles, USA), Philippe Bourgois (University of California, Los Angeles, USA),, Fernando Montero (Columbia University, USA) & George Karandinos (Massachussetes General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA).
At a time when masculinity is on the agenda more than ever, and some politicians are exploiting men & boys' insecurities, what does a more progressive approach to addressing issues they experience look like? @alistrathern.bsky.social shares his views on #NowandMen! www.nowandmen.net/episode/alis...
On Australian cities' water problem, and the policy paralysis around it - well written, well worth reading.
Overland Journal@overlandjournal.bsky.social · 2mo ago“This is what happens when governments treat climate change as a construction project instead of a policy failure.” Noa Wynn on how Australia’s sunniest city is quietly running out of water
“There are stories that need to be told and voices that need to be heard about what it’s like to be disabled in Australia in 2026.” Haley Zilberberg reviews the anthology CRIP STORIES
What Crip Stories tells us about being disabled in 2026 - Overland literary journal
At its core, Crip Stories is a book that says calmy and quietly, “We are here”. It offers insights into disability discrimination in education, employment and the healthcare system, as well as the com...
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“This is a book about that generation’s resistance to a capitalist war bequeathed to today’s anti-war generation. Tom Orsag reviews Rowan Cahill’s COLD WAR KID
Cold War rebel: how the government created its anti-war activists - Overland literary journal
“The only lottery I’ve ever won” quips Rowan Cahill about turning twenty — the date of his birthday being his number in the “lottery of death” or “blood lottery” run by the Australian government for c...
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On the occasion of the XXXV ALAS Congress (Congreso Latinoamericano de Sociología / Latin American Congress of Sociology), 26-31 July, 2026, we feature:
Personal bonds in the internationalization of the social sciences: A view from the periphery - Leandro Rodriguez-Medina, Hebe Vessuri, 2021
Due to the interest in formal relationships at work or to the difficulty to define what personal means, personal bonds in the social sciences have been an under...
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It’s UK publication day! Today my book on the colonial roots of French theory is officially out with @politybooks.bsky.social. Thanks for the wonderful blurbs from @stuartelden.bsky.social, @juliango.bsky.social, Adam Rosenthal, and Joachim Whaley. (US publication date: October 6th)
Onur Erdur@onurerdur.bsky.social · 7mo agoOut in July! "School of the South: The Colonial Roots of French Theory". More details & pre-orders here: www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b... @politybooks.bsky.social
"Nobody is searching for the truth, everybody is putting forward a 'case' with complete disregard for fairness or accuracy, and the most plainly obvious facts can be ignored by those who don't want to see them." Today's 'post-truth' world? No: Orwell on British pamphlets, 1944. Lying's not new.
Ambrose Bierce's best definition? (from The Devil's Dictionary, more than 100 years ago: "President, noun. A temporary chief, elected by the leaders of a party of political bandits, for the purpose of dividing the spoils amongst them."
The formative years of Putin's authoritarian regime were vividly described by investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya (murdered in 2006). A new collection of her work has just been published by Penguin; I discuss it in "Extreme Prejudice", here: www.raewynconnell.net
Raewyn Connell
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**Share widely** More than 40 civil society groups are calling on Australian universities to protect the right to peaceful protest, freedom of expression and academic freedom on campus… Read more: nteu.info/civilsociety
For an idea of what follows from mass bombing as in Gaza, read a very short story from another war: "Rats do sleep at night". Author Wolfgang Borchert died soon after WWII ended. I read this superb story in high school and never forgot it. Here it is: www.ejcampfield.com/rats.html
A useful account of the rhetoric of anti-trans propaganda. Strongly US-focussed. There's a larger international context to this propaganda and abuse, which I outline in "Trans Lives".
Contexts Magazine@contexts.org · 3mo agoAnalyzing Fox News broadcasts from 2012–2024, Jack G. R. Wippell, Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira, Shelby Frye, Bri Londerée, Ryleigh Adkins, and Shreya Yogesh identify the rhetorical strategies broadcasters use to fuel an anti-transgender moral panic. ➡️https://journals.sagepub.com/loi/ctx
