Ben Pitcher
@benpitcher.bsky.social
Director of the Centre for Social Justice Research UofW. I work on the cultural politics of race. Latest book: Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture
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Ben Pitcher
@benpitcher.bsky.social
· Jan 5
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
doi.org
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
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Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion.
This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.
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In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'.
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Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...
www.theoryculturesociety.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'.
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'.
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’ — Theory, Culture & Society | Global Public Life
Ben Pitcher In a culture where we worry about ecological ruin and feel cut off from the natural world, it’s not difficult to understand the appeal of the distant past. Stone circles, foraging, rewil...
www.theoryculturesociety.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 AM
In this blog for @theoryculturesociety.org I parody the hand-crafted woodcut style of popular books on nature, folklore, and the distant past 'decorated with fluttering leaves, distant hills, perhaps a Morris troupe or a charismatic megalith or two'.
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
www.theoryculturesociety.org/blog/imagini...
Reposted by Ben Pitcher
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:11 AM
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain - Ben Pitcher, 2025
This article examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing on nature, landscape, and environment. It coins th...
doi.org
January 5, 2026 at 9:11 AM
How does race figure in writing on nature, landscape, and environment? This new open-access article in @theoryculturesociety.org charts the rise of ‘liberal indigeneity’ as an expression of nativism in postimperial Britain. 1/2 doi.org/10.1177/0263...
Reposted by Ben Pitcher
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
New as Online First: Ben Pitcher, 'Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain' - examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
New as Online First: Ben Pitcher, 'Imagining ‘Our Ancestors’: Liberal Indigeneity and the Repudiation of Colonialism in Postimperial Britain' - examines imaginative connections to an indigenous ancestry in popular British nonfiction writing. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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December 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Will witter on about this more when I’m back at work but this one tries to get to grips with the racial politics of stone circles, folk, foraging, and weird walks.
Reposted by Ben Pitcher
#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide.
Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread.
https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S
Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread.
https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S
February 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide.
Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread.
https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S
Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread.
https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S
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UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
February 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG
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The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE:
Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars.
Every. Single. One.
What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.
Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars.
Every. Single. One.
What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.
September 7, 2024 at 3:31 PM
The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE:
Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars.
Every. Single. One.
What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.
Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars.
Every. Single. One.
What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.
'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3.
'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape'
Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...
'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape'
Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...
July 3, 2024 at 11:12 AM
'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3.
'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape'
Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...
'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape'
Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...
Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...
February 26, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...