Henrique Tavares Furtado
@furtadoht.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer at @uwebristolofficial.bsky.social | Researches the links the far right and militarism in contemporary "culture wars" | Co-convener of @reacpolrn.bsky.social | Author of https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-politics-of-impunity.html
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Immigration: the imagined problem of imagined communities...
October 31, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Immigration: the imagined problem of imagined communities...
In the last few years it has become somewhat of a fad to reject the term militarizaiton in IR. Well, here is what militarized policing under a far-right state government looks like. The pain and grief and horror is the embodied residue of what you seek to deny.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘This was a slaughter, not an operation’: the favela reeling from Rio’s deadliest police raid
Residents of Vila Cruzeiro gather bodies after more than 130 were killed in pre-dawn assault
www.theguardian.com
October 30, 2025 at 8:52 AM
In the last few years it has become somewhat of a fad to reject the term militarizaiton in IR. Well, here is what militarized policing under a far-right state government looks like. The pain and grief and horror is the embodied residue of what you seek to deny.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Scale of ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march shows free speech ‘alive and well’ in UK, says minister – UK politics live
Peter Kyle said he was not ‘disturbed’ by huge Tommy Robinson-organised far-right protest but condemns violence against the police
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
After the rivers of blood speech, precisely no one in the major parties patted themselves on the back and declared free speech to be alive and well. They declared Powell a pariah, and he was only able to re-emerge in public life as the incongruous unionist MP for South Down.
Use this template and email your local MP to fight back against the current xenophobic and unreasonable project to destroy HE in Britain! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
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June 11, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Use this template and email your local MP to fight back against the current xenophobic and unreasonable project to destroy HE in Britain! members.parliament.uk/FindYourMP
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May 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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May 2, 2025 at 8:59 AM
30% turnout, mate
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Our statement on the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the Equality Act. We stand in solidarity with trans and non-binary people and believe that it is the responsibility of researchers to hold our institutions to account to defend trans equality and dignity.
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RPRN statement on the Supreme Court ruling on the Equality Act - Reactionary Politics Research Network
The RPRN stands in solidarity with trans and non-binary people and believes that it is the responsibility of researchers and academics to hold our institutions to account to defend trans equality and ...
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April 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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April 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Gotta love political scientists
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Talk - Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies (Jean Beaman - 19/05/2025) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Talk - Suspect Citizenship: Rethinking Belonging and Non-belonging in Plural Societies (Jean Beaman - CUNY)
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April 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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I'm uploading the pre-print of my forthcoming article on the 2024 UK race riots and the need for an infrastructural approach to far-right studies.
Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Should we Reconcile with the Far Right? The 2024 Race Riots in Britain and the End of Post-Fascism
PDF | This article interprets the pogrom in Southport and the subsequence events of the 2024 race riots in Britain as a rupture in the fantasy of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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March 25, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I'm uploading the pre-print of my forthcoming article on the 2024 UK race riots and the need for an infrastructural approach to far-right studies.
Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Should we reconcile with the far right? The short answer is absolutely not! Please, find the reasons below 👇
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I'm running for the EISA Board.
1) More global south representation
2) A stronger membership-led organisation
3) Solidarity with precarious colleagues and causes
4) The protection of a critical ethos and practice in HE!
Deadline 21st of April
1) More global south representation
2) A stronger membership-led organisation
3) Solidarity with precarious colleagues and causes
4) The protection of a critical ethos and practice in HE!
Deadline 21st of April
✅ Henrique Tavares Furtado (University of the West of England)
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March 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm running for the EISA Board.
1) More global south representation
2) A stronger membership-led organisation
3) Solidarity with precarious colleagues and causes
4) The protection of a critical ethos and practice in HE!
Deadline 21st of April
1) More global south representation
2) A stronger membership-led organisation
3) Solidarity with precarious colleagues and causes
4) The protection of a critical ethos and practice in HE!
Deadline 21st of April
Deadline extended, folks! There's still time to submit to REACT and join us in Bologna.
Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social
March 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Deadline extended, folks! There's still time to submit to REACT and join us in Bologna.
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Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social
👇Now open access for your perusal!
Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering | European Journal of International Security | Cambridge Core
Terrorism as an aesthetic signifier: The afterlives of terrorism discourse in Western reactions to wartime suffering - Volume 10 Issue 1
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March 12, 2025 at 2:26 PM
👇Now open access for your perusal!
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Our member, @furtadoht.bsky.social, discusses the reactionary violence presented in Walter Salles' Oscar-winning film 'I'm Still Here' (2024).
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Our member, @furtadoht.bsky.social, discusses the reactionary violence presented in Walter Salles' Oscar-winning film 'I'm Still Here' (2024).
reacpol.net/im-still-here/
Reactionary Violence in Walter Salles's I’m Still Here (2024) (Henrique Furtado) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This text is based on a short talk given by Henrique Furtado (UWE Bristol) as a part of a special viewing of the Oscar-winning film I’m Still Here (2024) hosted at the Watershed Bristol on the 26/03/2...
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March 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My two cents on this jewel
Reposted by Henrique Tavares Furtado
Today is the first day of the @ducuuo.bsky.social strike against cuts. The future of higher education, our members jobs, & our students, is being ripped up across the UK. Brilliant work from the branch fighting back for us all, please send your solidarity.
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
I’m a Dundee University lecturer – and this is why I’m striking
Professor Angela Daly sets out why she and other lecturers will strike over the threat of compulsory redundancies at Dundee University.
www.thecourier.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 8:14 AM
Today is the first day of the @ducuuo.bsky.social strike against cuts. The future of higher education, our members jobs, & our students, is being ripped up across the UK. Brilliant work from the branch fighting back for us all, please send your solidarity.
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/opinion/5...
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Dreadful news. 'UCU said that it believed as many as 1,000 professional services staff were likely to be threatened with redundancy under a plan to restructure every school within the university.'
Union fears 400 jobs set to go at Sheffield in £23 million cuts
Strike ballot called at South Yorkshire university, with similar vote also under way at Durham University
www.timeshighereducation.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Dreadful news. 'UCU said that it believed as many as 1,000 professional services staff were likely to be threatened with redundancy under a plan to restructure every school within the university.'
Reposted by Henrique Tavares Furtado
All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.
What's happening at the International Studies Association (ISA)? A whole catalogue of censorship & punitive actions against sections & caucuses by the ISA leadership is silencing democratic discussion, especially among Global South & marginalised members.. medium.com/@bdsatisa/ce...
Censorship & Antidemocratic Governance at the ISA
The International Studies Association (ISA) claims to be “an organization that is governed by and answerable to its membership.” However…
medium.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
All around us institutions built on/sustained by our own labour are hollowed out by a lethal mix of mismanagement, moral decrepitude, and political inertia. No time to sit silent—Organise and mobilise whenever/wherever you can.
Reposted by Henrique Tavares Furtado
Sure, it looks unfortunate. But can we really say for sure that his parents liked fascists?
January 20, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Sure, it looks unfortunate. But can we really say for sure that his parents liked fascists?
Reposted by Henrique Tavares Furtado
Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up at 2pm GMT tomorrow! Sign up below.
Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up on 20th February at 2pm BST/3pm CET. Follow the link below to sign up and check out our great line up of speakers!
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Webinar series: Researching the Far Right: Methods and Ethics
- C-REX - Center for Research on Extremism
This webinar series, co-organized by RPRN, CASEI and C-REX, aims to facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional challenges th...
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February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Our webinar with CASEI and @crexuio.bsky.social on 'Complications of Engaging Far-Right Participants and Formers' is coming up at 2pm GMT tomorrow! Sign up below.
Bristolians, this 26th at 5:30 in the Watershed I will take part in a special viewing of the Oscar nominated film I'm Still Here with a Q&A session on
Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...
Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...
I'm Still Here
Walter Salles makes a triumphant return with an emotionally layered, visually rich account of family life under an oppressive regime in 1970s Brazil.
www.watershed.co.uk
February 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Bristolians, this 26th at 5:30 in the Watershed I will take part in a special viewing of the Oscar nominated film I'm Still Here with a Q&A session on
Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...
Come, watch this moving story and ask me anything you wanna know about this dark period.
www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1304...
Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Call for Papers @europeanisa.bsky.social PEC 2025 for the newly established standing section on Reactionary Global Politics (REACT) in Bologna, Italy. @reacpolrn.bsky.social
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February 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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