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Angela Last

@mutablematter.bsky.social

Cultural geographer interested in materialism, histories of theory, political ecology, geopoetics, antiracist pedagogy and censorship. Visiting researcher at FU Berlin. mutablematter.wordpress.com

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Manchester University Press@manchesterup.bsky.social · last mo.

New Author Q&A📢 Angela Last (@mutablematter.bsky.social) discusses the trines and tensions between new materialism and decolonial thought, and the political environments that produced theorists like Nietzsche. Read more on the MUP blog: bit.ly/4vFvCOa

6 Questions with Angela Last on Theorising Beyond Disciplinary and Colonial Divides - Manchester University Press

Angela Last reflects on her new book, Tainted tools, and thinking critically about the theories we use to understand the world.

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Der Volksverpetzer@volksverpetzer.de · last mo.

Es ist heiß! Und wie jedes Jahr wenn es wieder mal so richtig heiß wird, teilen Menschen alte BILD-Schlagzeilen, die angeblich beweisen, dass es auch schon früher so heiß war. Vielleicht bist du oder jemand in deinem Umfeld auch schon drauf reingefallen.

Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My book is out today with @manchesterup.bsky.social! The book understands new materialisms as white decolonial projects and issues an appeal to address this whiteness to better attend to economic and affective drivers of environmental destruction. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526144256/

Manchester University Press - Tainted tools

Tainted tools - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Tainted tools by Angela Last

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TIBG@tibg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢From now, reference lists will no longer be counted in the 10,000 word limit for papers submitted to TIBG In our latest editorial, we lay out the reasons behind this decision & encourage prospective authors to reflect on their citational practices. Available to read here ⬇️ doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an editorial abstract in Transactions by Anna Lawrence, James Esson, Ben Anderson, Katherine Brickell & Beth Greenhough (2026) entitled: 'Citational politics in Transactions' with a red banner at the top. From now on, authors writing in Transactions will no longer be expected to count their reference lists within the 10,000-word limit. In this editorial, we take the opportunity to lay out the reasons behind this decision. Our purpose in removing references from the word limit is not to encourage authors to cram in as many references as they can to the detriment of their own voice, but rather to encourage practices of careful, conscious, and capacious citational generosity. Picking up on threads running through past editorials (Bailey et al. 2023; Esson et al. 2024), here we continue discussions of ‘care’ in scholarly publishing and what constitutes a ‘landmark paper’ within the discipline, this time through the lens of citational politics. This editorial proceeds by locating the decision within current debates around citational justice and citation as a reproductive technology (Ahmed 2013; Kim 2020), before considering the broader landscape of source discovery, reading and referencing in the digital/AI-crowded world, following the publication of the last ever print volume of Transactions in December 2023. We end with a discussion of how the practice of citation might be imagined differently, from the teaching of citation as a joyful praxis (Quave and Ohbi 2024) and the reflective insights collected around the #CiteBlackWomen movement (Smith 2022) to the rethinking of citation templates to better account for knowledge that sits outside of the Western episteme (MacLeod 2021). We encourage authors writing in Transactions to reflect on their own practices of reading and citing, and we highlight the role that journals, reviewers, and editors must play in moving forward with more inclusive citational practices.
Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Urgent petition! This important programme, only instated in 2025, is under threat of closure. Black academic staff are targeted for redundancies, while their university is claiming leadership on equality, diversity, and inclusion. Please read and sign!

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Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The best thing that Labour can do now is to support an electoral reform. Their method of 'out-Reforming Reform' has backfired badly, putting everyone in danger. Labour needs to finally abandon its territorial thinking ('it's either us or them') in a genuine act of care for the people.

kat köppert@katonymous.bsky.social · 4mo ago

✨ "Antifaschismus im 21. Jahrhundert" ✨ Vortragsreihe veranstaltet von Niki Kubaczek @nikikubaczek.bsky.social, Dirk Lange, Ruth Sonderegger, Malte Kleinschmidt, Ulrich Brand, Nanna Heidenreich @nachnennung.bsky.social @transversaltexts.bsky.social transversal.at/blog/antifas...

Antifaschismus im 21. Jahrhundert

Erster Termin der Vortragsreihe: Vanessa Thompson: Schwarze radikale Kritik des Faschismus. Eine antifaschistische Revision Mittwoch, 15.4., 16:30 Universität Wien, NIG-Erdgescho&...

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Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Petition: Local councils should match how we vote. They do in Scotland, N. Ireland and Wales where councils can choose a fairer system. This is not (yet) the case in England. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call for fairer practices: action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/2401/pe...

ADD YOUR NAME: We need a fairer local voting system for all elections in England

In England the electoral system means we often get councils that do not represent what people voted for. Wales has made progress, but England is being left behind.

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Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🚨 The EU sanctioned journalist Hüseyin Doğru — freezing his finances and silencing him for speaking up about Gaza. Free Doğru & defend press freedom! #FreeDogru #PressFreedom #GazaGenocide action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-2-...

End EU Sanctions on Journalist Hüseyin Doğru! Protect Press Freedom & Confront Genocide in Gaza!

Journalist Hüseyin Doğru has been sanctioned by the EU without trial, losing access to money, work, and basic rights — simply for reporting on the genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile, the EU maintains its com...

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Arne Semsrott@arnesemsrott.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Es ist ein bisher einmaliger Vorgang: Eine Bundesbehörde will ein Demokratie-Projekt weiterfördern – aber das Innenministerium untersagt die Finanzierung ohne Begründung und trotz Warnung anderer Beamten. Wir veröffentlichen die Dokumente zum Förderstopp gegen die "Radikalen Töchter":

„Radikale Töchter“: Demokratieförderung nach Gutsherrenart

Das Innenministerium stoppt die Weiterförderung eines Demokratie-Projekts. Eine Begründung liefert es dafür nicht. Dabei hat das Projekt gute Chancen, gegen die Ablehnung zu klagen – sagt selbst ...

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History and Philosophy of Geography Research Group@hpgrg.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📣 Webinar 📣 20 March (13.00-14.00 GMT) Angela Last (Freie Universität Berlin) will discuss her forthcoming book 'Tainted Tools: New Materialisms as a Decolonial Project'. Registration 👉 tinyurl.com/5x4jd9tz Bio 👉 mutablematter.wordpress.com/about/ 📚 tinyurl.com/39wt72s9

Manchester University Press - Tainted tools

Tainted tools - Browse and buy the Hardcover edition of Tainted tools by Angela Last

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Angela Last@mutablematter.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Some notes from my teaching project, comparing books by N.Z. Davis and A.S. Mittman on racialisation in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, reflecting on parallels with today. So much more to read! mutablematter.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/n...

Notes on researching and teaching histories of racialisation

Although I am not currently teaching, I continue to work on teaching materials. Right now, I am revising a chapter that was prompted by the connections of Bernhard Varenius (1622-50), a geographer …

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Felicity Callard@felicitycallard.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We would love for @jaytoddgla.bsky.social’s and my critical response to be read widely, given the Sullivan Review’s potential for far-reaching implications across the social and health sciences — and indeed well beyond the academy

TIBG@tibg.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New Intervention in TIBG: 'A critical response to the UK's "Sullivan Review" into sex and gender in research and data' by @jaytoddgla.bsky.social & @felicitycallard.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/tran...

Screenshot of an intervention abstract in Transactions by Jay JD Todd & Felicity Callard (2026) entitled: 'A Critical Response to the UK's ‘Sullivan Review’ Into Sex and Gender in Research and Data' with a red banner at the top. This intervention argues that the UK Government-commissioned independent review of data, statistics and research on sex and gender (the ‘Sullivan Review’) implicitly promotes the erasure of trans and gender diverse people from research and data collection protocols and carries worrying implications for the inclusion of trans people within UK institutions and for critical social science research. Set in a context where trans and gender diverse people's rights are being rolled back in the United Kingdom and elsewhere, the Review attempts to install a singular model of binary, immutable, ‘biological’ sex as incontrovertible across data gathering on sex and gender across public bodies including government, universities, the health service and research organisations. It does so via appeals to science and to ‘clarity’, and by proposing to limit or even in certain cases remove default ethical review processes. The intervention argues that the Review can be situated within broader attempts to erase critical inquiry into the complex, intersectional production of social categories including sex, gender and sexuality, as well as inquiries that extend what ethical principles and governance involve. In sum, we contend that the Review carries deleterious consequences for geography and other social scientific disciplines and call upon scholars to refuse its vision and implications.
Anne Roth@anneroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ein #39C3 Talk, denn ich allen empfehle, die sich ab und zu in Diskussionen wiederfinden, in denen #Neutralität eingefordert wird: Von Vereinen, Lehrer*innen, Beamt*innen, NGOs oder anderen, die öffentliche Fördergelder bekommen. Von Hannah Vos and @viviankube.bsky.social von @fragdenstaat.de :

Wer hat Angst vor dem Neutralitätsgebot?

Wer überhaupt „neutral“ sein muss, was das bedeutet, und wer sich jetzt wehren muss. „Neutralität“ wird zum neuen Kampfbegriff: Weil sie...

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