Jenny Edkins
@jennyedkins.bsky.social
Looking awry at global and local politics. Trauma | Memory | Missing Persons | Disappearance | Hunger | Disasters. Poetry and story-telling as method. Grenfell 💚
Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini.
https://tinyurl.com/2krunykv
Prof @ Manchester & Aberystwyth. Tanguera, yogini.
https://tinyurl.com/2krunykv
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Jenny Edkins
@jennyedkins.bsky.social
· Sep 15
Studying the Conjuncture - STUART HALL: THROUGH THE PRISM OF AN INTELLECTUAL LIFE
YouTube video by Media Education Foundation
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"A dose of Stuart Hall for what ails us." Lisa Diedrich
@lisadiedrich.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHph...
@lisadiedrich.bsky.social
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Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Thank you! And we are proud that our Chair, @franfd.bsky.social, contributed to 'When This is Over' - an important book. ❤️
Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️
Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing."
We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y
Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing."
We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y
The volunteers were at Parliament today to hear the government announce that our beautiful memorial is to be made permanent. It was an emotional day, as we have fought so long and hard to ensure that our beloved dead are not forgotten. We are grateful and happy. ❤️
November 13, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Congratulations and respect to you all. ❤️
Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing."
We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y
Lisa Nandy acknowledges that the grief of Covid bereaved "is profound. With friends and families unable to mark people’s passing in the normal ways it felt as if people were disappearing."
We wrote about this in 'When This is Over': tinyurl.com/48v8nb8y
A brilliant reading list, extensive but not overwhelming and usefully arranged in thematic sections.
One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'
One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'
This is a thematic reading list of antiracism material that includes a wide range of sources: books, articles, videos, movies, etc. It is partially crowd-sourced. The decol list mentioned therein will be published soon. 🤞🏿
Suggestions for additions are very welcome.
folukeafrica.com/an-anti-raci...
Suggestions for additions are very welcome.
folukeafrica.com/an-anti-raci...
An Anti-Racism Reading List
A reading list, thematically structured.
folukeafrica.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A brilliant reading list, extensive but not overwhelming and usefully arranged in thematic sections.
One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'
One suggestion for inclusion in the final section would be Isaac Julien's 1997 docudrama 'Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask'
I would say this piece has three significant implications for @zackpolanski.bsky.social's #Green Party.
Thread 🧵
Thread 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
I would say this piece has three significant implications for @zackpolanski.bsky.social's #Green Party.
Thread 🧵
Thread 🧵
Missing persons in Gaza: The pain of ambiguous loss and the task of recovery
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
-- Wislawa Szymborska
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
-- Wislawa Szymborska
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza
Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Missing persons in Gaza: The pain of ambiguous loss and the task of recovery
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
-- Wislawa Szymborska
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
After every war
someone has to clean up.
Things won’t
straighten themselves up, after all.
-- Wislawa Szymborska
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Dyna’i diwedd hi, Nôs Galan Gaeaf hapus oll ! / and that’s the end of things on the west coast - happy Halloween all ! #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales
October 31, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Dyna’i diwedd hi, Nôs Galan Gaeaf hapus oll ! / and that’s the end of things on the west coast - happy Halloween all ! #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #Wales
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'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
October 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
'Alternative ecological futures: Art climate change & the radical imagination' new event with Environment and Climate Politics Working Group 🌳
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
Bringing together Carl Death, Audra Mitchell, Farai Chipato & Cara Berger Hannah Hughes at this roundtable to discuss 🌟
Sign up 👉 https://ow.ly/Y56j50XjGl9
#Caerphilly by-election
The result highlighted a major obstacle Reform will have to overcome at the next election, which is just how many people don’t like them.
They may have it their ceiling.
They may have it their ceiling.
Reform odds to win next election plummet off the back of Caerphilly by-election
Reform's odds of winning the next general election have fallen following their by-election defeat in Caerphilly.
www.thelondoneconomic.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#Caerphilly by-election
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
#Caerphilly
@stevebasnett.bsky.social
"Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
#Caerphilly
@stevebasnett.bsky.social
Next week, Reform faces a key by-election in Wales. Yet voters in Caerphilly know none of this.
Even tho Reform’s candidate is Nathan Gill’s former assistant.
We are at a critical point of failure in Britain. The delay of the authorities, the silence of the media..
6/
Even tho Reform’s candidate is Nathan Gill’s former assistant.
We are at a critical point of failure in Britain. The delay of the authorities, the silence of the media..
6/
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Martin Shipton, Nation Cymru:
"Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
#Caerphilly
@stevebasnett.bsky.social
"Caerphilly matters because Wales is Reform’s next big target. If Reform wins, it’s going to boost their chances of winning the Senedd next May. And if they do, it will make the national Reform party flush with taxpayers’ cash."
#Caerphilly
@stevebasnett.bsky.social
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Caerphilly Senedd by-election: thread 🔽
Why is the Green Party of Englandandwales standing its own candidate in such a critical by-election?
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Why is the Green Party in Caerphilly not supporting the Plaid Cymru candidate in Thursday's by-election?
October 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Caerphilly Senedd by-election: thread 🔽
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Why is the Green Party in Caerphilly not supporting the Plaid Cymru candidate in Thursday's by-election?
October 18, 2025 at 9:27 PM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Why is the Green Party in Caerphilly not supporting the Plaid Cymru candidate in Thursday's by-election?
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Benjamin Zephaniah reading his poem People Need People on the One Show June 2020 in lockdown after George Floyd was killed, and talking about multicultural Britain
October 17, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Benjamin Zephaniah reading his poem People Need People on the One Show June 2020 in lockdown after George Floyd was killed, and talking about multicultural Britain
Reposted by Jenny Edkins
Reposted by Jenny Edkins
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Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 14/10/2025
www.coe.int
October 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
The search for the missing in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘My heart is broken’: Palestinians begin searching the Gaza rubble for their dead
Using manual tools and their bare hands, people start the immense task of trying to find their loved ones’ remains
www.theguardian.com
October 12, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The search for the missing in Gaza
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
October 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:
Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?
t.co/BUTtpK9C4S
Worth a read. A study of working class perceptions of “government of the people, by the elites, for the rich”. Is this why the approach of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party resonates?
Today's Marxist Sociology Blog post is a banger from @lwestheuser.bsky.social & Linda Beck based on their Critical Sociology article. It examines how workers think about class & class politics. Against ideas that they are irrelevant or "lost to the right" 1/
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...
marxistsociology.org/2025/10/work...
Workers’ Political Consciousness in Demobilized Class Societies: Redistribution, Recognition and Representation | Section on Marxist Sociology
A sole focus on right-wing ideology captures only a narrow part of working-class consciousness. Most workers—including many right-wing voters—are politically demobilized and distant from all politics,...
marxistsociology.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Worth a read. A study of working class perceptions of “government of the people, by the elites, for the rich”. Is this why the approach of @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the Green Party resonates?
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Timeline cleanser 🐈
September 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Timeline cleanser 🐈
Heading for 1.5 million signatures now
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards
We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.
petition.parliament.uk
September 26, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Heading for 1.5 million signatures now
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
At last.
Today, after decades of campaigning by the families of the 97 people unlawfully killed at the Hillsborough Football Disaster, the government will introduce the Hillsborough Law to Parliament.
The families have campaigned tirelessly to ensure future families don’t face the same injustice.
The families have campaigned tirelessly to ensure future families don’t face the same injustice.
September 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
At last.
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Happy to see our latest work together published in Millenium. After disaster a return to the status quo isn't inevitable. It can be an opportunity to resist journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Always a joy to work with
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social
Always a joy to work with
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social
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September 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Happy to see our latest work together published in Millenium. After disaster a return to the status quo isn't inevitable. It can be an opportunity to resist journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Always a joy to work with
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social
Always a joy to work with
@kandidapurnell.bsky.social @jennyedkins.bsky.social @lucygobag.bsky.social