Lara Montesinos Coleman
@laramonteco.bsky.social
Professor of International Law, Ethics and Political Economy | Author Struggles for the Human (Duke 2024), lyrics and other writings | Moonlighting singer |
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@laramonteco.bsky.social beautifully responds to the symposium on Struggles for the Human: criticallegalthinking.com/2025/02/17/v...
Violent Legality and the Politics of Rights From Colombia to Palestine:
A Response to the Symposium on Struggles for the Human On the anniversary of publication of Struggles for the Human: Violent Legality and the
criticallegalthinking.com
Critical Thinking published a fabulous symposium on my book Struggles for the Human with @dukepress.bsky.social and here's my response reflecting on the argument in relation to genocide in Palestine
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
Thanks to Christine Schwöbel-Patel, @balsokhi-b.bsky.social and @illanwall.bsky.social
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
April 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Congrats to @laramonteco.bsky.social!
We have now announced our Susan Strange Best Book Prize shortlist of 3 excellent books 📚
to read more- buff.ly/vp0XnCY
Congratulations to all the authors! 🎉
@epir-bisa.bsky.social @irss-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social
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Congratulations to all the authors! 🎉
@epir-bisa.bsky.social @irss-bisa.bsky.social @bisa-global-health.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social @bisasee.bsky.social
Susan Strange Best Book Prize 2025 shortlist announced
Three excellent books made the list and will be judged by a committee appointed by a BISA trustee.
buff.ly
April 8, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Congrats to @laramonteco.bsky.social!
A little piece I wrote for the ISRF on Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights
Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights (Or: Corporate Attempts to Obliterate Democracy, and Law as Terrain of Struggle)
@laramonteco.bsky.social (@sussex.ac.uk) rethinks the relationship between #rights, #law, and #resistance in the face of #fascist resurgence.
isrf.org/blog/liberal...
@laramonteco.bsky.social (@sussex.ac.uk) rethinks the relationship between #rights, #law, and #resistance in the face of #fascist resurgence.
isrf.org/blog/liberal...
Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights
In this contribution to Bulletin 32, Lara Montesinos Coleman rethinks the relationship between rights, law, and resistance in the face of fascist resurgence.
isrf.org
April 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A little piece I wrote for the ISRF on Liberalism, Fascism and the Politics of Rights
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Two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of two presidential orders that threaten to deport or jail those advocating for Palestinian rights.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl
March 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Two graduate students and a professor at Cornell University have filed a lawsuit seeking a nationwide injunction blocking the enforcement of two presidential orders that threaten to deport or jail those advocating for Palestinian rights.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/gl
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As universities engage in more "death spiral" cuts to academia, we need to focus on the intense bureaucratisation of the C21 university.
A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds:
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds:
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
On the responsibilities of intellectuals and the rise of bullshit jobs in universities
You may never have considered yourself to be one. Why would you? But if you’re reading this, there is more than a likelihood that you are one. If you’re a
academic.oup.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:13 AM
As universities engage in more "death spiral" cuts to academia, we need to focus on the intense bureaucratisation of the C21 university.
A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds:
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
A wannabe D-VC implements travel management outsourcing, and massive costs ensue. They've moved on before the disaster unfolds:
academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
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"Democracy in America did not begin with a victory in court—and will require far more than one to save it."
Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.
Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.
Today, @nikobowie.bsky.social argues that the enforcement powers available to federal courts are simultaneously too limited, weak, and dangerous for us to depend on courts alone to save democracy.
Courts Are Useful, but We Cannot Depend on Them to Save Democracy
Federal courts have an important role to play in enforcing laws against powerful figures who defy them. But the options available to federal courts are simultaneously too limited, weak…
lpeproject.org
March 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Democracy in America did not begin with a victory in court—and will require far more than one to save it."
Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.
Don't miss the great Niko Bowie on the promise and perils of fighting Trump and Musk in federal courts.
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I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides.
International law is a discipline in crisis.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
International law is a discipline in crisis.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
Statement by International Lawyers, ESIL Members, and ESIL Interest Group Convenors related to the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference at Freie Universität Berlin
voelkerrechtsblog.org
February 26, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I am a signatory of this letter, but I am also a keen observer of my field since the genocide started in 2023. The gap opening between parts of my field is massive and does not follow prior methodological divides.
International law is a discipline in crisis.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
International law is a discipline in crisis.
voelkerrechtsblog.org/statement-by...
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“In terms of annexation, in the long term, what is really being placed on the agenda — specifically through Trump — is this notion of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians and driving them from the land of Palestine.” Abdaljawad Omar www.juancole.com/2025/02/isra...
Israel's West Bank Offensive looks very much like a Prelude to Annexation
by Rabia Ali ( Middle East Monitor ) - As its armed forces intensify their assault on the northern West Bank, concerns are mounting over Israel’s broader objectives: further territorial expansion, for...
www.juancole.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:08 AM
“In terms of annexation, in the long term, what is really being placed on the agenda — specifically through Trump — is this notion of ethnically cleansing the Palestinians and driving them from the land of Palestine.” Abdaljawad Omar www.juancole.com/2025/02/isra...
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Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
Woke Wars w/ Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Mike McCarthy
Featuring Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor and Mike McCarthy on the MAGA and DOGE war on woke; the complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; and the centrality of various oppressions...
thedigradio.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Timely episode of The Dig: @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @keeanga.bsky.social & @itsmccarthy.bsky.social on MAGA/DOGE war on woke; complicity of bankrupt liberal identity politics; centrality of various oppressions to capitalist class domination and struggles against it thedigradio.com/podcast/woke...
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By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.
EXCL Keir Starmer has told his cabinet Labour must stop looking down on working class voters and their immigration concerns.
In a letter to the cabinet, the PM wrote “good faith paternalism has too readily become looking down at people.”
More in London Playbook
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
In a letter to the cabinet, the PM wrote “good faith paternalism has too readily become looking down at people.”
More in London Playbook
www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
Starmer’s warm-up act
Presented by Google By ANDREW MCDONALD with BETHANY DAWSON PRESENTED BY Send tips here | Subscribe for free | Listen to Playbook and view in your browser Good Friday morning. This is Andrew McDonal…
www.politico.eu
February 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
By contrast, working class immigrants and their working class families are clearly not worthy of this respect. Hence this gaslighting that the wide-ranging hostility they have faced for decades from many sectors of British society is no more than the "concerns" of primarily working class people.
Looks like an interesting addition to conversations some of us have been having over the past couple of years as part of the @isrfoundation.bsky.social study group on political affect with @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social and others
In dialogue with authors such as Primo Levi, Annie Ernaux, Virginie Despentes and James Baldwin, Frédéric Gros explores a concept that is little understood in its depth – shame.
Now available for preorder - A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros
www.versobooks.com/products/306...
Now available for preorder - A Philosophy of Shame by Frédéric Gros
www.versobooks.com/products/306...
A Philosophy of Shame
Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of the world, of wealth in the face of those who h...
www.versobooks.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Looks like an interesting addition to conversations some of us have been having over the past couple of years as part of the @isrfoundation.bsky.social study group on political affect with @carolynpedwell.bsky.social @illanwall.bsky.social @henriquecarvalho.bsky.social and others
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Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."
February 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Some strains of the MAGA movement hope to return to “what they see as a more natural world, where men are in charge, white people are in charge,” says @quinnslobodian.com, commenting on the role of masculinity in "right-wing accelerationism."
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My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review.
Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad.
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Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad.
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The Reality of Settler Colonialism - Boston Review
Writers like Adam Kirsch mock the idea to demonize critics of Israel. The phenomenon itself remains.
www.bostonreview.net
February 19, 2025 at 4:06 PM
My critique of Adam Kirsch's "On Settler Colonialism" is out in the Boston Review.
Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad.
1/
Kirsch uses every trick in the book to try to dismiss what he calls "the ideology of settler colonialism," by which he means the idea that settler colonialism exists and is bad.
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There is no hurry guys, we are only boiling alive
HSBC net zero goal delayed 20 years, as CEO offered 600% bonus.
Bankers already live on another planet and are willing to let the earth burn to fuel their lust for profits.
Shareholders don't care, customers have no representation on boards, regulators and govts let them wreak havoc.
Bankers already live on another planet and are willing to let the earth burn to fuel their lust for profits.
Shareholders don't care, customers have no representation on boards, regulators and govts let them wreak havoc.
HSBC net zero goal delayed 20 years, as CEO offered 600% bonus
Bank is criticised for pushing climate targets to 2050 and watering down environmental goals
www.theguardian.com
February 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
There is no hurry guys, we are only boiling alive
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Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people.
This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up:
#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory,
#internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,
This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up:
#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory,
#internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,
February 2, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Hello International Relations/Politics/Security people.
This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up:
#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory,
#internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,
This is your periodic reminder that there’s an IR feed here and these are the hashtags it picks up:
#Int-rel, #IR, #IRTheory,
#internationalrelations, #IPE, #worldpolitics, #intaffairs,
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📢Calling all prospective #MA students in #development #internationalrelations #geography #anthropology #migration #climatechange 🌍Global Studies🌍 at the University of Sussex🎓 is hosting a series of FREE #masterclasses on Tackling Urgent Global Challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/global/inter...
February 11, 2025 at 11:56 AM
📢Calling all prospective #MA students in #development #internationalrelations #geography #anthropology #migration #climatechange 🌍Global Studies🌍 at the University of Sussex🎓 is hosting a series of FREE #masterclasses on Tackling Urgent Global Challenges www.sussex.ac.uk/global/inter...
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📣The Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) is now on Bluesky. Please give it a follow here for all things #IR Theory @sussexcait.bsky.social and repost. Thank you!
For more information on the Centre:
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
For more information on the Centre:
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) : University of Sussex
www.sussex.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 11:40 AM
📣The Sussex Centre for Advanced International Theory (CAIT) is now on Bluesky. Please give it a follow here for all things #IR Theory @sussexcait.bsky.social and repost. Thank you!
For more information on the Centre:
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
For more information on the Centre:
www.sussex.ac.uk/research/cen...
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A carefully nuanced essay. Do read & share widely.
The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
- Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social)
bit.ly/3CVWdQM
The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
- Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social)
bit.ly/3CVWdQM
Nakba Denial — Parapraxis
On the politics of history and genocide Esmat Elhalaby
www.parapraxismagazine.com
February 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
A carefully nuanced essay. Do read & share widely.
The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
- Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social)
bit.ly/3CVWdQM
The relationship of the Palestinian to Zionism and to Israel has always been one of subordination. This relationship, a colonial one, must guide both our politics and our historical methodology.
- Esmat Elhalaby (@esmat.bsky.social)
bit.ly/3CVWdQM
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I'm not going to be striking over pay - totally misguided venture, and even the ballot serves to sew confusion and discord
🚨Attention UCU members in HE: we have started an open letter for you to sign in support of a motion we're bringing to the meeting on Weds 19th which calls for a focus on defending jobs, reforming HE, & calling off a national ballot.
docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...
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Plea to HEC to defend jobs and reform UK HE: call off ballot for Industrial Action
We, the undersigned members of UCU working in Higher Education, call on HEC to vote FOR the following motion at the emergency meeting on 19 February 2025.
Your signature and institution will be added...
docs.google.com
February 18, 2025 at 9:05 AM
I'm not going to be striking over pay - totally misguided venture, and even the ballot serves to sew confusion and discord
It will be crucial to se where this goes...
If you’re not confirmed by the Senate then you have no business meddling in the lives of MILLIONS of Americans
We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power
I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...
We are suing DOGE for violating the constitution & illegally seizing power
I’ll discuss tonight @ 8PM ET on @insidewithpsaki.msnbc.com 👇
statedemocracydefenders.org/fund/new-law...
February 18, 2025 at 10:14 AM
It will be crucial to se where this goes...
At the @isrfoundation.bsky.social conference in Warsaw in October we watched Agnieszka Holland's incredible film, Green Border, and learnt about the extent of the horrors ongoing at the Poland-Belarus border. Here is journalist Joanna Klimowitz's important report for the ISRF:
‘Migrants have been beaten, hounded by dogs and burned with cigarettes’ – Joanna Klimowicz reports on the frontline of the Poland-Belarus border crisis #GranicePolskie #ZielonaGranica
www.isrf.org/2024/12/03/o...
www.isrf.org/2024/12/03/o...
‘Migrants have been beaten, hounded by dogs and burned with cigarettes’ - on the frontline of the Poland-Belarus border crisis
Families attempting to start a new life in Europe have become stuck in the woods between two countries, regularly receiving horrific treatment at the hands of the authorities.
www.isrf.org
February 18, 2025 at 10:03 AM
At the @isrfoundation.bsky.social conference in Warsaw in October we watched Agnieszka Holland's incredible film, Green Border, and learnt about the extent of the horrors ongoing at the Poland-Belarus border. Here is journalist Joanna Klimowitz's important report for the ISRF:
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Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty.
Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...
Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...
The Crisis of Democracy Is Here
And it’s going to get a lot worse.
www.persuasion.community
February 17, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Larry Diamond is arguably the world’s foremost expert on democracy and one of the most well-respected members of the Stanford faculty.
Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...
Larry is not prone to hysterics; here he brings a sober (and damning) analysis of the state of American democracy.
www.persuasion.community/p/the-crisis...