Marzia Maccaferri
@marzmac.bsky.social
Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian and James Bond expert. Gramsci and Brexit researcher @Queen Mary University of London. I love Martinis.
In English e italiano.
In English e italiano.
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'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social
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'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social
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November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR
'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social
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'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social
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Gramscian friends, help me out here: I can’t find the reference to an article on the German translation of the Prison Notebooks, probably published in the International Gramsci Journal.
Do you remember it?
Do you remember it?
October 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Gramscian friends, help me out here: I can’t find the reference to an article on the German translation of the Prison Notebooks, probably published in the International Gramsci Journal.
Do you remember it?
Do you remember it?
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’.
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
#Gramscianisation
#new_paper
Some reflections on Starmer's crisis (in Italian).
Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com.
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo.
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com.
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo.
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo
La vittoria del premier laburista in Gran Bretagna aveva riacceso le speranze delle sinistre socialdemocratiche in tutta Europa. Cosa è andato storto?
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July 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Some reflections on Starmer's crisis (in Italian).
Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com.
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo.
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com.
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo.
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
June 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
An importa new archive. enricoberlinguer.fondazionegramsci.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
Enrico Berlinguer
enricoberlinguer.fondazionegramsci.org
May 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
An importa new archive. enricoberlinguer.fondazionegramsci.org?fbclid=IwZXh...
May 23, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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May 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
May 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Farage ha vinto con parole d’ordine di sinistra, sostenute però da una piattaforma di destra radicale (servizi ai soli britannici, nazionalizzazione in funzione militare).
Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni
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Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni
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Democrazia vs popolo
L’eterno ritorno di Nigel Farage e il successo di Reform certifica che in Gran Bretagna si sta sgretolando il rapporto tra istituzioni e meccanismi democratici con la legittimazione popolare
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May 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Farage ha vinto con parole d’ordine di sinistra, sostenute però da una piattaforma di destra radicale (servizi ai soli britannici, nazionalizzazione in funzione militare).
Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni
open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Mentre capisco, e magari un po' condivido, quell'atteggiamento del "io-ve-lo-avevo-detto" nei confronti del partito laburista che ha subito una bella batosta alle elezioni locali,
After 100 Years, Britain’s Two-Party Political System May Be Crumbling (Gift Article)
Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party, Reform U.K., is presenting a serious challenge to the governing Labour Party and to the opposition Conservatives.
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May 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Mentre capisco, e magari un po' condivido, quell'atteggiamento del "io-ve-lo-avevo-detto" nei confronti del partito laburista che ha subito una bella batosta alle elezioni locali,
Le mie ultime 10 righe.
Grazie a Stefano Feltri per l'ospitalità.
La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Grazie a Stefano Feltri per l'ospitalità.
La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer
Il premier britannico è il promotore del nuovo formato intergovernativo che discute la strategia europea sull’Ucraina. Analisi del nuovo “starmerismo” globale
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March 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Le mie ultime 10 righe.
Grazie a Stefano Feltri per l'ospitalità.
La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Grazie a Stefano Feltri per l'ospitalità.
La coalizione dei volenterosi di Starmer open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Unsolicited reading suggestion: This is a fantastic book—one of the best I’ve read in years. It’s the kind of book I wish I had written myself.
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Naples 1925
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history A New Yorker “Bes...
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March 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Unsolicited reading suggestion: This is a fantastic book—one of the best I’ve read in years. It’s the kind of book I wish I had written myself.
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yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Does the Times regret its contributions to those attacks?
February 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Does the Times regret its contributions to those attacks?
Writing assistant.
February 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Writing assistant.
Just realised that today is both the birthday of #EPThompson, #StuartHall and my father. That can’t be a coincidence!
February 4, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Just realised that today is both the birthday of #EPThompson, #StuartHall and my father. That can’t be a coincidence!
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New collections today!
• J.J. Barlow Papers
• Paul Robeson Collection
• Cartazes da Revolução Portuguesa (Posters from the Portuguese Revolution)
• MOVE Organisation collection
• South Asian Organizations in North America Collection
• The Art of Protest poster collection
• J.J. Barlow Papers
• Paul Robeson Collection
• Cartazes da Revolução Portuguesa (Posters from the Portuguese Revolution)
• MOVE Organisation collection
• South Asian Organizations in North America Collection
• The Art of Protest poster collection
New collections part 1
• Emma Goldman papers (Duke University)
• Tribune photograph negative collection (CPA newspaper)
• Political Trials of the 1950s (Czech National Archives)
• Sahiyar’s Grassroots Feminist Political Posters in India
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• Emma Goldman papers (Duke University)
• Tribune photograph negative collection (CPA newspaper)
• Political Trials of the 1950s (Czech National Archives)
• Sahiyar’s Grassroots Feminist Political Posters in India
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radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
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February 2, 2025 at 8:53 AM
New collections today!
• J.J. Barlow Papers
• Paul Robeson Collection
• Cartazes da Revolução Portuguesa (Posters from the Portuguese Revolution)
• MOVE Organisation collection
• South Asian Organizations in North America Collection
• The Art of Protest poster collection
• J.J. Barlow Papers
• Paul Robeson Collection
• Cartazes da Revolução Portuguesa (Posters from the Portuguese Revolution)
• MOVE Organisation collection
• South Asian Organizations in North America Collection
• The Art of Protest poster collection
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Do you have a proposal for an innovative new seminar to join the IHR Research Seminar programme? We are looking for 3 fresh seminar series to launch in 2025-26. Applications are open now - deadline of 31 March. Full details of what we are looking for and how to apply here:
"It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies".
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
"It is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies".
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Now in print: my article with @marzmac.bsky.social
on the Lega Nord's role in normalising fascist discourse as 'common sense' in Italy. Things have got progressively worse since we wrote this a few years ago. A short 🧵 about the article (1/7)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
on the Lega Nord's role in normalising fascist discourse as 'common sense' in Italy. Things have got progressively worse since we wrote this a few years ago. A short 🧵 about the article (1/7)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
From performative anti-fascism to post-fascism: the Lega (Nord)’s political discourse in historical context
This article addresses a significant gap in the literature on the Lega (Nord) by examining the resemiotisation of the party’s early discourse of ‘performative anti-fascism’ under Umberto Bossi into...
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January 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Now in print: my article with @marzmac.bsky.social
on the Lega Nord's role in normalising fascist discourse as 'common sense' in Italy. Things have got progressively worse since we wrote this a few years ago. A short 🧵 about the article (1/7)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
on the Lega Nord's role in normalising fascist discourse as 'common sense' in Italy. Things have got progressively worse since we wrote this a few years ago. A short 🧵 about the article (1/7)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Paul Copeland and I have explored #Brexit and the #NorthernIrelandProtocol. Here are the results:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status - Paul Copeland, Marzi...
This article analyses the fallout between the United Kingdom and the European Union regarding the Northern Ireland Protocol. The Northern Ireland Protocol was a...
journals.sagepub.com
January 17, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Paul Copeland and I have explored #Brexit and the #NorthernIrelandProtocol. Here are the results:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...