While I’m on a ‘crisis in HE’ roll - here is my piece in Soundings Journal [open access] about HE policy after the election - we need to build a broad based movement for change from the ashes of #UCUrising journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

: Pendle Labour hit by resignations: Soundings Journal argues that 'leadership efforts to show that Labour is 'under control' are achieved at cost of a brittle narrowness' : lwbooks.co.uk/something-abou… / Aaron Winter @CraigPBerry Nick Garland Eunice Goes Karl Pike Afrasiab Anwar MBE 💙

Colin Lorne The quote is from our Soundings Journal piece last year on ''Protecting the NHS' - and its limits'.

An even starker warning following today's #Panorama coverage on the patient safety crisis gripping private sector hospitals prioritising profit over care.
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Hashem said: 'I learned with Hall that one simply cannot think & write critically about Palestine without centring freedom in its widest sense... To see Palestine as a map without guarantees, where settler colonialism is abolished and rehearsals of return cease to be rehearsals.”

The judging panel, comprising Catherine Hall, Jo Littler and Kennetta Hammond Perry, described it as “an urgent reckoning with ongoing realities of violence of dispossession, but with an eye toward imagining more just futures.”

The 2024 Stuart Hall Essay Prize is awarded to Hashem Abushama, for the essay “a map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies”.

Learn more about the Prize and read the winning essay in full on our website now:
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'As a result of the leadership’s failure to support a ceasefire, a significant number of Labour councillors have left the party across the country' - open access article on the impact of Labour policy on Gaza for local politics in Burnley by processnorth for Soundings Journal

Seems as good a day as any to repost this article I wrote for Soundings Journal last year, on the limits of Labours energy policy (even with investment).

New management, old energy: The UK Labour party’s revanchist energy policy - Lawrence Wishart journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

My piece for Soundings Journal on the rise of real estate neoliberalism is now free to read.

All housing in the UK, including crucially social housing, is becoming increasingly financialised.

As higher education in the UK is currently a hot button issue, you could do worse that read the current (double) issue of Soundings Journal which looks at the crisis in higher education from multiple perspectives.

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Very happy to see this coming out despite the miserable subject! Thanks to Soundings Journal for publishing.

'There remains an ongoing challenge for politicians on the left to respond to the ideas spelled out in Williams’s Long Revolution...'

Aled Singleton, 'Responding to economic and social change in postwar South Wales' - on the Soundings Journal blog.

Read➡️bit.ly/3QOU9Pe

The narrowing spectrum: Representation and democracy in German public service broadcasting, by Annika Weiss via Soundings Journal eurozine.com/the-narrowing-…

Calls to reform Germany’s public service broadcasters have been intense following the ARD corruption affair in 2022. Greater civic participation must be enabled at all levels, writes Annika Weiss via Soundings Journal eurozine.com/the-narrowing-…

The narrowing spectrum: In German PSB, a culture of corporate democracy substitutes genuine representation, while rigid hierarchies invite abuses of power. By Annika Weiss via Soundings Journal eurozine.com/the-narrowing-…

Looks great!

Cultural studies 'offered a way of thinking about the political, social & cultural forces & dynamics of the present [..] in an expansive interdisciplinary way, not necessarily bounded by one academic zone of study'

Vron Ware w/ Jo Littler
Free to view:
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New publication🚨

'To be Heard through the #MeToo backlash'
Co-written w/ Charlotte Buisson No Giuseppina Sapio Zoé Duchamp

We argue the Depp v. Heard trial is a new iteration of postfeminism, one that acknowledges the cultural significance of #MeToo yet reactivates rape myths

'Left movements are far from immune to the harmful dynamics we seek to address in wider society.'

Debs Grayson speaks to people from Canary #meTU and Campaign Bootstrap about attempts to deal with institutional problems

Out now in Soundings 83

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'The ecological crisis requires more significant action and political courage than the revanchist New Labour 2.0 can ideologically countenance.'

Gareth Fearn : 'New Management, Old Energy'
Gareth

Free to view in the new Soundings, out now:

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