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Henrique Tavares Furtado

@furtadoht.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social | Researches the links the far right and militarism in contemporary "culture wars" | Co-convener of @reacpolrn.bsky.social | Author of https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politics-of-impunity.html

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Henrique Tavares Furtado@furtadoht.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We’re told to accept and understand and adapt to the legitimate concerns far right voters, but should we? Is hatred a legitimate concern? Who shoulders the burden of this type of reconciliation? My latest article: #farright #populism #internationalrelations academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

Should We Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism

Abstract. This article interprets the pogrom in Southport and the subsequence events of the 2024 race riots in Britain as a rupture in the fantasy of post-

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Henrique Tavares Furtado@furtadoht.bsky.social · 10mo ago

In the last few years it has become somewhat of a fad to reject the term militarizaiton in IR. Well, here is what militarized policing under a far-right state government looks like. The pain and grief and horror is the embodied residue of what you seek to deny. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid

Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault

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Henrique Tavares Furtado@furtadoht.bsky.social · last yr.

Use this template and email your local MP to fight back against the current xenophobic and unreasonable project to destroy HE in Britain! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP #InternationalRelations #PoliticalScience #HigherEducation #UK

Find your MP - MPs and Lords - UK Parliament

Enter your postcode, location, MPs name or job title to find the name and contact details of your local MP.

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BISA - British International Studies Association@mybisa.bsky.social · last yr.

After our open letter with @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social and @uaces.bsky.social to the UK Government we have now created an MP template for you to contact your local MP and detailed how BISA is responding! 🌟 find it here - buff.ly/oKRVLDm @julietdryden.bsky.social @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social

Henrique Tavares Furtado@furtadoht.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm uploading the pre-print of my forthcoming article on the 2024 UK race riots and the need for an infrastructural approach to far-right studies. Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) Should we Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism

PDF | This article interprets the pogrom in Southport and the subsequence events of the 2024 race riots in Britain as a rupture in the fantasy of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...

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Rhiannon Lockley (she/her)@illdoitanyway.bsky.social · last yr.

Today is the first day of the @ducuuo.bsky.social strike against cuts. The future of higher education, our members jobs, & our students, is being ripped up across the UK. Brilliant work from the branch fighting back for us all, please send your solidarity. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...

I’m a Dundee University lecturer – and this is why I’m striking

Professor Angela Daly sets out why she and other lecturers will strike over the threat of compulsory redundancies at Dundee University.

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C. B. Tansel@cbtansel.net · last yr.

All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.

BDS in International Studies@bdsatisa.bsky.social · last yr.

What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · last yr.

Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up at 2pm GMT tomorrow! Sign up below.

Reactionary Politics Research Network@reacpolrn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up on 20th February at 2pm BST/3pm CET. Follow the link below to sign up and check out our great line up of speakers! www.sv.uio.no/c-rex/englis...

Henrique Tavares Furtado@furtadoht.bsky.social · last yr.

Bristolians, this 26th at 5:30 in the Watershed I will take part in a special viewing of the Oscar nominated film I'm Still Here with a Q&A session on Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period. www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...

I'm Still Here

Walter Salles makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime in 1970s Brazil.

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Lee Jarvis@leejarvis.bsky.social · 2y ago

In this article by @furtadoht.bsky.social & Jessica Auchter, the focus is on how war on terror tropes and metaphors have been mobilised in contemporary commentary around the Ukraine war: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (Thread 5/12)

Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core

Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering

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