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Lisa Tilley@tilley101.bsky.social · 3mo ago

📢📚Please nominate your wonderful books published in 2025/26 for the GDS Book Award! Nominations for texts taking critical approaches to development, political economy, & related fields are encouraged. Deadline June 30 & info below ↙️ @GlobalDev_ISA gdsisa.org/gds-book-award

📢📚Please nominate your wonderful books published in 2025/26 for the GDS Book Award! Nominations for texts taking critical approaches to development, political economy, & related fields are encouraged. Deadline June 30 & info below ↙️ @GlobalDev_ISA gdsisa.org/gds-book-award

GDS BOOK AWARD — GDS

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@tilley101.bsky.social turns to natural resource extraction as the material basis of raced finance in the world system. She examines how the green transition is reconfiguring the global hierarchies of race and finance 9/n www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Indonesian nickel sovereignty and global raced finance: the value of Element 28 in an age of ‘transition’

In the context of a global rush to electrify vehicle markets, for which nickel is recast as a ‘critical mineral’, Indonesia has sought to build sovereignty over its mineral resources and reinvigora...

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We start by positioning our concept of raced finance within a set of conceptual categories: racial capitalism, race, and racialization, drawing inspiration from @maliniranga.bsky.social, Nikhil Pal Singh, @tilley101.bsky.social, @robbieshilliam.bsky.social, @ulasince.bsky.social and others 3/n

New article! How is finance ‘raced’, and why is this the case? With what consequences for our understandings of race, finance, and capitalism? To explore this, we develop a 'raced finance' analytic, grounded in political economy and racial capitalism debates. Link 👇🏾and 🧵:

New OA article on nickel extraction & processing in Indonesia - I hope this is useful to someone 🙏 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Indonesian nickel sovereignty and global raced finance: the value of Element 28 in an age of ‘transition’

In the context of a global rush to electrify vehicle markets, for which nickel is recast as a ‘critical mineral’, Indonesia has sought to build sovereignty over its mineral resources and reinvigora...

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"Muslim sectarianism" is when the majority of a diverse community vote for a working class woman representing a party led by a gay Jewish guy 💚🌱

My favourite bit about ethnonationalist Matt Goodwin complaining that he lost to Muslim sectarianism is that Muslims voted for a party led by a gay Jewish man. Sectarianism eh.

Beautiful news out of Gorton & Denton! All you fascists bound to lose! 💚

🎉🎉After more than a month blockading Cargill's grain terminal, Indigenous peoples in Brazil have won a major victory. President Lula has revoked Decree 12,600/2025 🧵👇

A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful. Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.

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Here's a counterpoint to this grim revival of climate eugenics at Essex (lots of other great research against populationism is available): journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Ahead of ISA 2026, join us to organise for academic boycott for Palestine! Tues 3rd Feb online 🍉 #BDSatISA #FreePalestine #NoConferencingAsUsual us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

West Papua is being erased at gunpoint. Indonesian National Armed Forces are deployed not to protect forests or people, but to clear rainforests, secure bulldozers, silence Indigenous resistance, and turn one of Earth’s last intact ecosystems into sugar, rice, and biofuel fields.

Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 7mo ago

West Papua Indonesia Earth's oldest living eco system existing for at least 70 million years Look at the 292 square Kilometers of ancient forest cleared in just 21 months Now army brought in to fast track 5 million more acres www.ft.com/content/27a6...

Happy to be back at Warwick with wonderful people today! 🌱

Just out paper which might be of interest to those who work on Urban Geograpy, Geographies of Home, and affective thinking (especially ambivalence). It is a paper that considers the wonderful Iman Mersal's poetic oeuvre as a form of geography. academic.oup.com/isagsq/artic...

“Giving up the Idea of Home”: Ambivalent Geographies, Geopoetics, and Resisting Capture in the Cities of the Middle East

Abstract. This paper sits with the geopoetics of the Egyptian poet and writer Iman Mersal to grapple with affective ambivalence towards common objects of d

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Our wonderful seminar series starts today at SOAS with Esmat Elhalaby, also Mai Taha & Nivi Manchanda as discussants 🫶

A big Thank You to Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, @tilley101.bsky.social, and Samia Khatun from @soaspolitics.bsky.social, @soasdevelopment.bsky.social and @soashistory.bsky.social for putting this fantastic programme together. For more info go to www.soas-walter-rodney-collective.com/events

Histories of Capitalism and Race in the Middle East and Indian Ocean seminar series, Autumn 2022 — Walter Rodney Collective for Historical Research

Nada Moumtaz, God's Property; Alden Young, Transforming Sudan; Muriam Haleh Davis, Markets of Civilization; Aaron Jakes, Egypt's Occupation; Nurfadzilah Yahaya, Fluid Jurisdictions; Johan Mathew, Marg...

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Nothing opens markets and flattens forests like racism — West Papua: where plunder meets profit, and human lives are just another resource. #WestPapua #colonialism #imperialism #enviroment #racism #mining #palmoil #ecology #deforestation Must read by @tilley101.bsky.social

Opening Frontiers, Cheapening Nature: The Economic Functions and Socioecological Effects of Racism in West Papua

Abstract. European colonialism in the Pacific brought racial taxonomies and hierarchies to the shores of West Papua and the wider Melanesian region. Since

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Selamat Idul Adha dari Sulawesi 🙏 may Eid bring justice & liberation to Palestine & beyond 🙏

🎓So proud of our amazing PhD student Dr Irna Nurlina for passing her Viva today 😭 With huge thanks to @maranogueira.bsky.social & Rita Padawangi for being generous & thoughtful examiners 🙏 (& Joel for being a great chair & @melissa-geog.bsky.social as ace co-sup!)

Fantastic book launch for #HayaksBastards co-organised by @parvathimenon.bsky.social Co- Director of CCEIL & by Eco Dept @SOAS - @quinnslobodian.com ablely unpacked race, neoliberalism & science w brilliant & provocative discussants @brosef-stalin.bsky.social @tilley101.bsky.social & @EmilHuth.

Parvathi Menon@parvathimenon.bsky.social · last yr.

Come listen to @quinnslobodian.com discuss his latest book with @tilley101.bsky.social @brosef-stalin.bsky.social and @emilhth.bsky.social on Wednesday, May 7th, at KLT, SOAS from 12-13:30 Please register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Come listen to @quinnslobodian.com discuss his latest book with @tilley101.bsky.social @brosef-stalin.bsky.social and @emilhth.bsky.social on Wednesday, May 7th, at KLT, SOAS from 12-13:30 Please register here: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

📚 Please nominate your *brilliant* books for the Global Development Section Book Award! ("Development" very broadly defined) Deadline June 30 🙏 📚 www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

I got to join Miranda Melcher @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social for an interview about Eros and Empire last week: newbooksnetwork.com/eros-and-emp...

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50 years later, Vietnam’s environment still bears the scars of war – and signals a dark future for Gaza and Ukraine

Harmful dioxins in Agent Orange, used to strip forests of their leaves, still linger in soil. Restoration work has been slow, and upheaval at USAID may slow it more.

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📚 Please nominate your *brilliant* books for the Global Development Section Book Award! ("Development" very broadly defined) Deadline June 30 🙏 📚 www.isanet.org/Programs/Awa...

New online: Nick Serpe interviews @quinnslobodian.com about the new fusionism of the MAGA right. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Blood-and-Soil Neoliberalism - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Quinn Slobodian, the author of Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right.

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