hannah
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
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hannah
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
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Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity - Hannah Boast, 2025
This article identifies an ‘environmental turn’ in contemporary Palestinian arts and activism. It argues that environmentalism, mediated especially through food...
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I have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide):
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide):
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
Strange to see my granddad looking out from the centre of this photo of workers at Donisthorpe Colliery (black hat, hands at his chest)
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Strange to see my granddad looking out from the centre of this photo of workers at Donisthorpe Colliery (black hat, hands at his chest)
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Save Geography at the University of Leicester
Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?
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November 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
if my IT teachers at school had told me how useful those boring skills would be in activism in the future, I would have paid attention in class instead of going on music forums (maybe)
November 6, 2025 at 9:36 AM
if my IT teachers at school had told me how useful those boring skills would be in activism in the future, I would have paid attention in class instead of going on music forums (maybe)
Totally inappropriate and frightening. Police should not be intimidating students on campus.
🔴 Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians killed by the Israeli military, prompting dozens to sign a letter of complaint.
theferret.scot/edinb...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Totally inappropriate and frightening. Police should not be intimidating students on campus.
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Are there dangers in framing climate change as a "threat multiplier" in states where militaries call the shots?
In a new post on @ceobs.org, Usman Ali explains how South Asia is being hard hit by the #ClimateCrisis but #India and #Pakistan's security postures are diverting money from adaptation and contributing to emissions: ceobs.org/militarisati...
Militarisation and the climate crisis in South Asia - CEOBS
Pakistan and India are increasing military spending and emissions, even as South Asia is being hit by the effects of the climate crisis.
ceobs.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Are there dangers in framing climate change as a "threat multiplier" in states where militaries call the shots?
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Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
For socialism and freedom: the life of Eugene Debs | Aeon Essays
How Eugene V Debs turned American republicanism against the chiefs of capitalism – and became a true crusader for freedom
aeon.co
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Delighted that Mamdani has won and moreover opened his victory speech by quoting Eugene Debs. aeon.co/essays/for-s...
Last week Rockstar Games, makers of the world's most profitable game franchise, GTA, sacked more than 30 staff for union activity: www.thenational.scot/news/2558855...
30 staff sacked at Grand Theft Auto developer in alleged ‘union-busting’ move
A union has claimed more than 30 UK staff of Rockstar Games – the developers of Grand Theft Auto (GTA) – have been sacked in a 'union-busting'…
www.thenational.scot
November 3, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Last week Rockstar Games, makers of the world's most profitable game franchise, GTA, sacked more than 30 staff for union activity: www.thenational.scot/news/2558855...
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Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
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November 2, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Here’s the cover for LIKE A CAT LOVES A BIRD: THE NINE LIVES OF MURIEL SPARK, out 16 April with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
Preorder here: lnk.to/LikeaCatLove...
Please share! The book doing well means I can write another (and fulfil my dream of owning a pizza oven), so it’s pretty serious
🐈⬛ 🐈⬛ 🐈⬛
“This is an extremely serious and troubling case that raises wider concerns about the academic freedom of staff and students at universities across the UK.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:50 AM
“This is an extremely serious and troubling case that raises wider concerns about the academic freedom of staff and students at universities across the UK.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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Are you looking for a postdoc on the environmental politics of conservation in Europe? Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic ERC Green Frontier team and work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social
🚨 We are looking for 3 new colleagues to join the GreenFrontier team as Postdoctoral Researchers!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
Deadline for applications: 25 Nov 2025
Each of the 3 openings will involve extended ethnographic fieldwork + plenty of opportunities to consolidate research & leadership skills!
Please share widely!
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Are you looking for a postdoc on the environmental politics of conservation in Europe? Amazing opportunity to join the fantastic ERC Green Frontier team and work with @georgeiorda.bsky.social
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Opportunity for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research in Japan for 12-24 months. You'll receive a monthly maintenence stipend, a settling in allowance, a research grant and round trip air fare. Apply by 10 Dec
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowships for Overseas Researchers 2026
The scheme provides funding for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct cooperative research in Japan, with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the ...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Opportunity for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct research in Japan for 12-24 months. You'll receive a monthly maintenence stipend, a settling in allowance, a research grant and round trip air fare. Apply by 10 Dec
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...
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my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
my band Shinlifter have their EP launch on Saturday and with impeccable timing our Instagram has been hacked so we’ve lost our main channel for promoting it. if anyone wanted to help share this brilliant poster by my pal Grace there, here or elsewhere we’d be very grateful!
Interesting report which resonates with things my students told me when I worked at Birmingham. Proper student journalism is important for holding institutions to account and needs supporting!
Can student journalism survive and thrive?
Tanshpreet Kaur and I spent part of the summer talking to student journalists and other interested parties. Our report focuses on Redbrick, the flagship paper here at Birmingham. You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1QiJG...
Tanshpreet Kaur and I spent part of the summer talking to student journalists and other interested parties. Our report focuses on Redbrick, the flagship paper here at Birmingham. You can read it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1QiJG...
October 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Interesting report which resonates with things my students told me when I worked at Birmingham. Proper student journalism is important for holding institutions to account and needs supporting!
Anyone have info on how this will affect Scottish unis? Will fees for English students go up here, too, even though we don't have TEF? Obviously in some sense it's all moot, when the government message remains 'we're not going to help you, and we won't let you help yourselves, either'
Higher fees, more regulation of teaching quality, less research for England. With a sharing link for 3 non-subscribers. on.ft.com/43wdRoe
University tuition fees in England to be linked permanently to inflation
Government promises ‘higher standards’ in higher education and ‘renewed focus’ on skills in long-awaited white paper
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October 21, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Anyone have info on how this will affect Scottish unis? Will fees for English students go up here, too, even though we don't have TEF? Obviously in some sense it's all moot, when the government message remains 'we're not going to help you, and we won't let you help yourselves, either'
This is very good, and a genuinely useful explanation of aspects of book manufacturing that regularly annoy me, but which I hadn't linked together as having a common cause.
He's written about this, and it would seem to have been received with complete indifference by all concerned. /2
robinkinross.substack.com/p/books-that...
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Books that lie open
Introducing the theme
robinkinross.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This is very good, and a genuinely useful explanation of aspects of book manufacturing that regularly annoy me, but which I hadn't linked together as having a common cause.
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The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November!
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair is happening at the end of November!
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
30+ presses, events, readings, and more. Organised by me and @eireannmor.bsky.social. More information coming very soon - follow @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social for updates
can't believe I taught queer theory in Birmingham English department for years without realising Tim Curry was one of our alumni. Portrait in the library when
October 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
can't believe I taught queer theory in Birmingham English department for years without realising Tim Curry was one of our alumni. Portrait in the library when
Edinburgh pals, put this in your diaries 🐱🐶🐰
Next joint reading group from @critiquecentre.bsky.social and @eehnetwork.bsky.social is on Richard Healey and Angie Pepper's article 'Pets, Power and Legitimacy', Thurs 20th November critique.sps.ed.ac.uk/pets-power-a...
Pets, Power, and Legitimacy – CRITIQUE-EEHN Reading Group (20th Nov)
Thursday 20th November 2025, 4-5:30pm Chrystal Macmillan Building room 3.15 Reading Group – All welcome CRITIQUE and the Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network are holding a joint reading group se...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Edinburgh pals, put this in your diaries 🐱🐶🐰
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V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
October 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
V excited to see #POLLEN2026 sessions being advertised. Myself, @guillemrubio.bsky.social and Larissa Flesichmann are delighted that our session on 'Political Ecologies of Animal Waste/Waste Animals' has been accepted. And we would like to invite you to submit an abstract (see below!) 🐕🦺🐟💩🪶🥚🦴🐚🐌🐖
Is this a solidarity frog I spy on Leith Walk
October 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Is this a solidarity frog I spy on Leith Walk
while we're talking value of the humanities: one of my old housemates is a very successful dance musician and he's always making reference to his American Studies degree (samples, his stage name...)
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon
I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon
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October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
while we're talking value of the humanities: one of my old housemates is a very successful dance musician and he's always making reference to his American Studies degree (samples, his stage name...)
It's on the website now, so: I'm Co-I on a new AHRC Curiosity Award, The Many Lives of Cardboard, with Antonia Thomas (Highlands and Islands) and Lucy Razzall (National Archives). Please consider this permission to send me any and all cardboard trivia gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
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October 16, 2025 at 7:35 AM
It's on the website now, so: I'm Co-I on a new AHRC Curiosity Award, The Many Lives of Cardboard, with Antonia Thomas (Highlands and Islands) and Lucy Razzall (National Archives). Please consider this permission to send me any and all cardboard trivia gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...
Don't hate me because I'm posting all my good news in one go 🎵 I actually have more good news but need to prepare for a seminar
October 16, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Don't hate me because I'm posting all my good news in one go 🎵 I actually have more good news but need to prepare for a seminar
Don't think I've posted about this yet, but I'm happy to have joined the advisory board of C21 Literature, and looking forward to getting involved!
October 16, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Don't think I've posted about this yet, but I'm happy to have joined the advisory board of C21 Literature, and looking forward to getting involved!