Alf Gunvald Nilsen
@alfnilsen.bsky.social
“Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes.”
Some thoughts on Stuart Hall and/in the global South after CASA’s third annual symposium last week. www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
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Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
ppesydney.net
The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥 Check it out below!
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
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I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)
Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book. Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️ Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social Read the story 💰⤵️ www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Global inequality is the World Bank’s elephant in the room
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political
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Our new Alternative Reading List is out! Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues. Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky! d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1
It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…
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It's publication day for this beast today! A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South. Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!
Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...
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The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social - on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide! candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD on Diasporas and Right-Wing Nationalism
The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a PhD fellowship in International Studies from September 1st, 2025
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We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?" That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
Alf Gunvald Nilsen@alfnilsen.bsky.social · last yr.Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited! Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences. Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited! Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?
Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...
a man is screaming with his mouth wide open
ALT: a man is screaming with his mouth wide open
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I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading. Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum. It’s Open Access - dig in! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emerging Powers and the Political Economy of the Southern Interregnum
How do we best conceptualize the global South and its role in the rapidly changing world system of the early twenty-first century? This article approaches this question through a critical engagemen...
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This time next week, I'll be at Yale-NUS College to do some "interregnum talk" -- friends in Singapore, please come through!
Michael Burawoy's death is just so utterly heartbreaking and hard to fathom. His brilliance, energy, jovial kindness, curiosity, and principled and brave stances are all examples to follow for scholars everywhere. Michael will rest in power.
So, these two great scholar-activists actually shared a birthday (3 February). Theirs was a complicated relationship - "... Thompson made it clear that he hated Cultural Studies" (Hall/FS) - but I'm in awe of how consistently their thinking enabled insurgent epistemic gain.
