Patrick Neveling
@patrickneveling.bsky.social
Social Anthropology & Global Economic History, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences Bournemouth University, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Sociology & Social Anthropology, editor @FocaalBlog, views are mine
Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)
JUST OVER SEVEN HOURS TO GO 🚨‼️‼️🚨‼️‼️
📣 National Get The Vote Out LIVE!
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk
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What #wearetheuniversity means for students
YouTube video by Bournemouth University UCU
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October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
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Just voted in the @ucu.org.uk pay and conditions ballot. Voted YES.
I’m sick of worsening pay and conditions. I’m sick of working in a constant state of crisis. I’m sick of the exploitative, careless leadership in this sector.
I’m looking forward to fighting back with @ucu-ulster.bsky.social
I’m sick of worsening pay and conditions. I’m sick of working in a constant state of crisis. I’m sick of the exploitative, careless leadership in this sector.
I’m looking forward to fighting back with @ucu-ulster.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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#wearetheuniversity #ucu
Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education
Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education
October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
October 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good
September 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good
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In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇
September 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇
Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
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A day in the dangerous life of Gaza’s truck drivers
Aid convoy truckers witness first-hand how Israeli bombing and blockades have pushed the enclave into famine
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September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
on.ft.com/3V7bWCa
on.ft.com/3V7bWCa
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www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
www.change.org
September 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
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"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
September 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....
August 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....
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"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"
Die Türkei untergräbt die demokratische Option in Syrien
Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, „Hayat Tahrir al-Sham“ (HTS) die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus, und bedroht...
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August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"
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So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -
August 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -
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This is my ministry
August 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is my ministry
Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today
A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.
theconversation.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...
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BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers?
The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?
images.thedailystar.net
July 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Thrillingly promising: "Ofwat will be replaced by a regulator with supervisory powers, similar to oversight of banks after the financial crash."
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Water ombudsman to be created amid sweeping changes in England and Wales
Environment secretary to make announcement on Monday as part of review that is expected to abolish Ofwat
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Thrillingly promising: "Ofwat will be replaced by a regulator with supervisory powers, similar to oversight of banks after the financial crash."
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Published a short human geography encyclopaedia entry on Special Economic Zones. With so many trade press publications on the zones in the past year, it will be important to return to a more rigorous, historical materialist critique of the zones. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
Special Economic Zones
link.springer.com
July 20, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Published a short human geography encyclopaedia entry on Special Economic Zones. With so many trade press publications on the zones in the past year, it will be important to return to a more rigorous, historical materialist critique of the zones. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...
A visit to Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Good views of the city, impressive arts and architecture
July 16, 2025 at 10:11 AM
A visit to Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Good views of the city, impressive arts and architecture
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Das ist ja fast schlimmer als sein Nick Land-Stunt
June 30, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Das ist ja fast schlimmer als sein Nick Land-Stunt
Solidarity to the comrades flying the large "More Marx" banner during the #Amyl&theSniffers set at #Glastonbury. And no solidarity to the BBC camera crew doing their utmost to not get the banner into their wide shots of the crowd...
June 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Solidarity to the comrades flying the large "More Marx" banner during the #Amyl&theSniffers set at #Glastonbury. And no solidarity to the BBC camera crew doing their utmost to not get the banner into their wide shots of the crowd...
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June 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Solidarity with colleagues at Bournemouth UCU and their v well attended picket line💪
Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community.
#spreadTheResistance
#Bournemouth
Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community.
#spreadTheResistance
#Bournemouth
“If the VC and her team succeed in [these] attacks, it will not only ruin the livelihoods of more than 100 of our academic colleagues but render the university unrecognisable, irreparably harming students’ education" #bournemouth #bournemouthuni #highered www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2522297...
University staff to strike after "disgraceful" job cuts plans
Bournemouth University staff will begin four days of strike action on Wednesday in opposition to a “devastating attack” by the university.
www.bournemouthecho.co.uk
June 11, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Solidarity with colleagues at Bournemouth UCU and their v well attended picket line💪
Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community.
#spreadTheResistance
#Bournemouth
Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community.
#spreadTheResistance
#Bournemouth