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Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik | Robin D. G. Kelley

'You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.'
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These arrests are antithetical to the mission of higher ed. Our institutions exist to foster robust exchanges of ideas & open dialogue in service of knowledge & understanding. Sometimes that includes open dissent. Peaceful campus protests should never be met w/ violence.

Review of new books on the post-1989 moment: 'The Provenances and Postscripts of 1989': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07…

🌾 ‘A Workers’ Inquiry into Seasonal Agricultural Labour in the UK’, in our latest issue.

In this inquiry, Clark McAllister provides a first-hand account of the labour processes and struggles on a British farm.

👇 Read the full article now below

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Very pleased to see my book, GUAS, reviewed in this discussion by Jokubas Salyga in Thesis Eleven, and the broader treatment of the 'postscripts' of 1989
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I wrote a review essay for Thesis Eleven Journal on three excellent books by Fritz Bartel, Adam Fabry and Besnik Pula, which delve into the origins and evolution of neoliberal globalization in East-Central Europe.

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Excited to share that my book ‘The Politics of Precarity’ is coming out in paperback this month and now is available for pre-order 👇Routledge Politics, IR & Area Studies

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We (historians from the ZZF, the Czech Academy of Sciences and Georgetown University) have an exciting call for papers for our workshop 'Reconstructing Perestroika' in March 2024.
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Three years ago this month mass protests shook Belarus. They stood out by significant participation of workers. In this article I recall these events and reflect on their consequences today.

😱 The Coming Indigestion 😱

The full editorial to our next issue is available to read now. Using workers' inquiries into food production, we speculating on what a revolutionary transformation could look like on a burning planet.

Full issue out soon...

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In case you missed my recent article in Globalizations on post-Soviet monetary reforms in the Baltic states and authoritarian neoliberalism, I have written a brief piece for Developing Economics blog outlining my key arguments.

developingeconomics.org/2023/08/25/aut…

As Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN colleagues are being informed ££££ deductions for participating in UCU MAB, remember to donate to the University of Nottingham UCU branch hardship fund

Unity Trust Bank, account 20346359, sort code 608301, UCU Nottingham LA63

They are fighting for all of us

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NEW POST: Jokubas Salyga shows how post-communist transformations and monetary reform in the Baltic states in particular can be better understood through the corpus on authoritarian neoliberalism than the widespread assumptions of democratic backsliding.
developingeconomics.org/2023/08/25/aut…

I agree with Jokubas Salyga Developing Economics: The 'Baltic Miracle' has some nasty foundations. The construction of monetary orders (currency boards) in Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania in the 1990s is a typical case of #authoritarian #neoliberalism . developingeconomics.org/2023/08/25/aut…

Eagerly awaiting Kayhan Valadbaygi's forthcoming book *Capitalism in Contemporary Iran*.

This study meticulously explores the global-local interplay, capital accumulation, state formation, and socio-political shifts in Iran's recent history.

Available for pre-order now!

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Working on your fall syllabus?
We've got you covered. 👍

🚨Presenting the CPCS Subject Reading Lists 🚨

The lists include special issues & articles organized by region and subject area,

The lists will be updated periodically and is free to view!

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🚨Latest #article #onlinefirst #firstview in Business History #bizhis
🔖 Business history goes East: An introduction, by Vladimir Unkovski-Korica & Saša Vejzagić

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📍 CALL FOR PAPERS

📚 Unstable stability? Working class-life and the world of work in East-Central Europe after 1989-1990

📅 Deadline 30 September

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