Jess Eastland-Underwood
@jessunderwood.bsky.social
Everyday politics, economic ideas and racism scholar. PhDone @ University of Warwick. GTA @ King’s College London. Political economist. PSA race, migration and intersectionality SG co-convenor.
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I research the relationship between everyday political thought, economic ideas and racism. Briefly, I am interested in why economic language is specifically useful for those aligned with white identity politics.
What does that mean? A quick 🧵
I research the relationship between everyday political thought, economic ideas and racism. Briefly, I am interested in why economic language is specifically useful for those aligned with white identity politics.
What does that mean? A quick 🧵
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We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
deadline is approaching - July 31st.
Please spread the word
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
deadline is approaching - July 31st.
Please spread the word
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
We are Hiring! We have a 3-year teaching fellow position in IPE. Come and work with an amazing group of IPE scholars and fabulous students in the Department of Politics and International Studies.
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
deadline is approaching - July 31st.
Please spread the word
warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
deadline is approaching - July 31st.
Please spread the word
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📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
June 30, 2025 at 2:43 PM
📢 Workshop: Call for Papers 📢
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
Borders in Motion: Critical Conversations on Race, Migration, and Intersectionality Abstracts (up to 200 words) due: Friday, July 25th, 2025.
Submit here: forms.gle/Z5VgJ9V5Qzek...
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They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
May 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
Their *economic* model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.
There is so little language to accurately reprimand such cruel and hateful practices.
April 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There is so little language to accurately reprimand such cruel and hateful practices.
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Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
April 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Deadline to submit your abstract is TOMORROW! Don't miss your opportunity to contribute to this symposium with a view to publish in @psrjournal.bsky.social! Find the full call for papers and abstract submission link here: bit.ly/42tgmYC
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
Thanks to the @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social for their support!
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My terrific colleague @josephineharmon.bsky.social at the @psaamericanpol.bsky.social has a call for papers for the APG ECR conference- A New Era in America. Looks so good- get involved! Full CFP here mcusercontent.com/8ba9bc605e8e...
a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky
ALT: a large american flag is flying in the wind against a blue sky
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
My terrific colleague @josephineharmon.bsky.social at the @psaamericanpol.bsky.social has a call for papers for the APG ECR conference- A New Era in America. Looks so good- get involved! Full CFP here mcusercontent.com/8ba9bc605e8e...
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Still figuring out your schedule? See our six panels below! Our first is this afternoon at 1:30 at Lib of Birmingham room 102!
Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
April 14, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Still figuring out your schedule? See our six panels below! Our first is this afternoon at 1:30 at Lib of Birmingham room 102!
The deputization of whiteness as discussed by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social … they’re signaling that it’s ok to break the law and in fact you won’t be punished but actually rewarded.
the DOJ calling for REPARATIONS for INSURRECTIONISTS
April 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Listened to this interview with Oren Cass @vox.com where he's described as 'somewhat unusual for an economist'. Yes, in that he is not really an economist.
Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...
Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...
Would you pay more for an American-made TV? This influential thinker thinks you will.
A conversation with Oren Cass, the right’s point person on tariffs.
www.vox.com
April 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Listened to this interview with Oren Cass @vox.com where he's described as 'somewhat unusual for an economist'. Yes, in that he is not really an economist.
Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...
Maybe a petty insight, but when asked what data supports his argument, he was like 'that's the wrong question.' www.vox.com/politics/407...
“A truly open concept of ‘the people’ could be precisely what is needed to account for the injustices produced by the intersections of race, class, gender etc., which are often marginalised.” Well said.
📢New blog📢
Our member, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, discusses the construction of 'the elite' and 'the people' in anti-populist discourse and whether or not populism is still a useful term in political studies. Check it out below!
reacpol.net/anti-populis...
Our member, @alexyates2000.bsky.social, discusses the construction of 'the elite' and 'the people' in anti-populist discourse and whether or not populism is still a useful term in political studies. Check it out below!
reacpol.net/anti-populis...
Interview: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people (Alex Yates) - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This interview is based on Alex Yates and Aurelien Mondon’s article ‘‘Get off your high horse and vote for us’: The anti-populist construction of the elite and the people' published in BJPIR (2025).
reacpol.net
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“A truly open concept of ‘the people’ could be precisely what is needed to account for the injustices produced by the intersections of race, class, gender etc., which are often marginalised.” Well said.
Really excited to be chairing three panels next week in my first PSA conference as a co-convenor for the RMI specialist group. Come and visit me if you have a minute!
@psa-race.bsky.social
@psa-race.bsky.social
Planning your #PSA2025 agenda? Be sure to add the Race, Migration and Intersectionality panels to your agenda! All of our sessions will be @ Library of Birmingham Room 102 - head that way to meet up with other RMI members and co-convenors @mikebankole.bsky.social & @jessunderwood.bsky.social!
April 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Really excited to be chairing three panels next week in my first PSA conference as a co-convenor for the RMI specialist group. Come and visit me if you have a minute!
@psa-race.bsky.social
@psa-race.bsky.social
Trump is not an aberration is American democracy. He is the embodiment of a tradition older than the nation itself - cruelty and violence towards minoritised groups with a promise of economic gains for the country’s racial majority.
April 7, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Trump is not an aberration is American democracy. He is the embodiment of a tradition older than the nation itself - cruelty and violence towards minoritised groups with a promise of economic gains for the country’s racial majority.
“Vichy on the Hudson.” 👀
If the shoe fits…
If the shoe fits…
Must-read from Mahmoud Khalil: “It is incumbent upon each of you to reclaim the University and join the student movement to carry forward the work of the past year.”
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
www.columbiaspectator.com/opinion/2025...
A Letter to Columbia
<i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detained at the Central ...
www.columbiaspectator.com
April 5, 2025 at 9:31 AM
“Vichy on the Hudson.” 👀
If the shoe fits…
If the shoe fits…
I was trying to explain to my British husband that Trump voters may not even know this is happening. Fox News are running the stock market as the 11th story on its website. I couldn’t even find it on OANN.
Fox News sure knows how to manipulate their followers.
FOX removed their stock ticker, can't let the ignorant fools see the damage being done by Trump's tariffs.
Fox knows that they create an alternative reality for their viewers, and they refuse to let actual reality ruin that.
#tariffs
FOX removed their stock ticker, can't let the ignorant fools see the damage being done by Trump's tariffs.
Fox knows that they create an alternative reality for their viewers, and they refuse to let actual reality ruin that.
#tariffs
April 3, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I was trying to explain to my British husband that Trump voters may not even know this is happening. Fox News are running the stock market as the 11th story on its website. I couldn’t even find it on OANN.
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CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions!
Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online
Limited ECR travel bursaries available
Please share widely!
Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info
Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online
Limited ECR travel bursaries available
Please share widely!
Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
CfP: Racialised Space and the Politics of Emotions!
Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online
Limited ECR travel bursaries available
Please share widely!
Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info
Workshop 6th June, Sheffield, UK and online
Limited ECR travel bursaries available
Please share widely!
Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Any questions, contact me or @drashleec.bsky.social for further info
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I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
March 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I received a heartbreaking email today: A paper in a special issue I’m editing is being retracted because one of its authors is afraid of losing their job and their legal status in the U.S. if they publish a scientific study on evolution. Yes, on evolution, nature's engine of diversity.
NYT publishing these opinion pieces effectively equating 'pressure to conform' in universities with differently racialised people literally being deported, detained and driven into hiding by the US gov't. Author writes 'a caricature is an exaggerated portrait of something real'. Some caricatures:
March 30, 2025 at 9:22 AM
NYT publishing these opinion pieces effectively equating 'pressure to conform' in universities with differently racialised people literally being deported, detained and driven into hiding by the US gov't. Author writes 'a caricature is an exaggerated portrait of something real'. Some caricatures:
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once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.
If you don't want to see this horrible garbage happen in every future high-stakes election, make sure it demonstrably fails in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race by helping elect Susan Crawford
March 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.
Read the OpEd that Rumeysa Ozturk and her fellow graduate students wrote that led to her arrest. ‘We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people.’ This is what they are afraid of—the recognition of equality and dignity of all humans.
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily
The independent student newspaper of Tufts University
www.tuftsdaily.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Read the OpEd that Rumeysa Ozturk and her fellow graduate students wrote that led to her arrest. ‘We, as graduate students, affirm the equal dignity and humanity of all people.’ This is what they are afraid of—the recognition of equality and dignity of all humans.
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
I’m really fascinated by people who are now saying they won’t travel to the US because of border detainments. Each time it’s ’this poor girl from Canada’ or ‘that tourist from the UK’ or ‘the conference attendee from France’. *clutches pearls* Dear Lord, not the white people! 😲
March 21, 2025 at 11:02 AM
I’m really fascinated by people who are now saying they won’t travel to the US because of border detainments. Each time it’s ’this poor girl from Canada’ or ‘that tourist from the UK’ or ‘the conference attendee from France’. *clutches pearls* Dear Lord, not the white people! 😲
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🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
March 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
🚨🚨🚨CALL FOR PAPERS! The PSA's Race, Migration & Intersectionality Working group is hosting a symposium entitled, 'Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Blackness and Black Politics.' We invite abstracts of up to 200 words by Friday 25 April 2025. forms.gle/jpPLz7Tuytuu...
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Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"
Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’
A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world
english.elpais.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"