"This powerful and deeply critical engagement with authority literature will appeal to scholars seeking new horizons across the social sciences and humanities." Zeynep Ceren Correia reviews Nonauthoritarian Authority for @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social 🔗 https://bit.ly/4wkRVJk

Beyond authoritarianism – exploring power and agency in daily life - LSE Review of Books

Nonauthoritarian Authority by Julian Brigstocke explores how authority operates in everyday relations, shared spaces & nonhuman actors, not only coercive power.

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India getting it right.

Bullet trains will wipe out short-haul flights, Ashwini Vaishnaw warns airline investors

India's new high-speed rail network will significantly impact short-haul flights. Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw stated that routes like Mumbai-Pune and Hyderabad-Bengaluru will be dominated by tr...

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My article, 'Railing through reality: Trains and mobility in Victorian ghost stories' is available open-access in this collection, along with many other excellent articles on various aspects of railway history spanning 200 years!

The Journal of Transport History@jtransporthist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Dear Followers, ‼️JTH created an open-access collection of papers to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first railway journey in Britain‼️ Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec...

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The Journal of Transport History@jtransporthist.bsky.social · 4mo ago

A new Book Review has been published in JTH! "Book Review: Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel: From Platform to Plot via the Railroad by Nicola Kirkby", by Alicia Barnes. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Don't miss it! #Transportation #history #mobility

NEXT WEEKEND! Sat 25 April, 2pm Museum in the Park, Stroud What was railway work really like in the past? And who did the work? Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike (of @uophistory.bsky.social) joins @jodurrant.co.uk In Conversation. Book here: www.ticketsource.com/the-museum-i...

🚨🚨New article from our very own Nirali Joshi: "Plural policing in and through the railway: a view from India" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Plural policing in and through the railway: a view from India

This article draws on archival research and ethnographic observation to historicise the organisation of policing in the Indian Railways, focusing particularly on how it traverses institutional boun...

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"Tuolta se tulee, tuolta se tulee..." ["There it comes, there it comes..."] (1979) If you're ever in Seinäjoki, Finland, don't forget to see Heikki Varja's lovely sculpture celebrating the railway's importance to the city. Unsurprisingly, it's in front of the railway station. #railway #mobility

Book news! I’m pleased to say that Railway Infrastructure and the Victoria Novel is now in circulation www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Railway Infrastructure and the Victorian Novel | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Call for Papers. Doing research on how the railway has been experienced and imagined? Join our conference on "Imagining the Railway from 1900 to the Present: People, Infrastructres, Texts"! (Åbo Akademi University, Finland, 1-3 April 2027) #railway #transportation #train #mobility #publictransport

A new Article has been published in JTH! "Capturing connections: Interrail photography and youth encounters, 1972–1993", by Mikko Manka. Check it out here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... Don't miss it! #Transportation #History #Mobility

Call for Papers. Imagining Railways from 1900 to the Present: Places, People, Infrastructures, Texts – a RAILIMAGE Conference. Host and dates: Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. 1-3 April 2027. Deadline for submissions: 30 September 2026. #essecfp. 👉 essenglish.org/cfp-conferen...