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Jana Bacevic ([email protected])

@jana_bacevic

Undisciplined, demi-social, fully-political theorist. Assistant prof @DurhamSociology; contributing editor @philosopher1923; associate fellow @Arendt_Center.

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“The more time I spent in Marinaleda the more I understood that to practice utopian politics is the opposite of abstraction. It means attending long cooperative assemblies after eight hours of sunburn, back injuries and heat exhaustion. It means work.”
thepointmag.com/politics/anoth…

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My paper 'No such thing as free speech? Performativity, free speech and academic freedom in the UK' is now published in Law&Critique. It was submitted in February last year so does not refer to this example, but has implications for talking about Gaza: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Higher education is in dire straits
But as long as you've got your union mates
We can resist the neoliberal curse
And make sure our working conditions are not worse

DurhamNEU

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Esto. 'Introducing legislation that guarantees the right to a platform enables the creation of an institutional context for speech-acts that could subject certain populations to ritualized public humiliation'.

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Jana Bacevic (unsocialtheory@bsky.social)(@jana_bacevic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I have written elsewhere on several cases where academics' employment was significantly impacted by their exercise of academic freedom to comment on ongoing conflicts: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

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Re-reading this and struck by how formative it was for my own thinking, as well as reminded of Charles Menzies'
(cited in text) beautiful phrase 'the world we live' in lieu of 'the world we live *in*'

Re-reading this and struck by how formative it was for my own thinking, as well as reminded of Charles Menzies' (cited in text) beautiful phrase 'the world we live' in lieu of 'the world we live *in*'
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Jana Bacevic (unsocialtheory@bsky.social)(@jana_bacevic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Excellent analysis from Aditya Chakrabortty, with implications for different contexts in which 'threatening *our* values, belief and culture (etc.)' is used to cater to the larger population while de facto excluding anyone not belonging to a small elite theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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My article, 'No such thing as free speech? Performativity, free speech, and academic freedom in the UK' is now published online at Law & Critique. Open Access too! Enjoy 🤗link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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Jana Bacevic (unsocialtheory@bsky.social)(@jana_bacevic) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My article, 'No such thing as free speech? Performativity, free speech, and academic freedom in the UK' is now published online at Law & Critique. Open Access too! Enjoy 🤗link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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