Sonali Dhanpal
@sonalidhanpal.bsky.social
Historian of modern architecture and urbanism and a fellow at the Buell and SOF Heyman
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This is such a huge compliment to get from of the best urban historians of Britain
My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.
My article is the first from my second project on race, empire and post war housing in Britain! It’s in a Special Issue on State Effects in Grey Room edited by Zeynep Celik Alexander with Lucia Allais.
Friends how are you’ll going through the emails????
I am impressed, I barely have time for my own let alone trawling through that 😭
I am impressed, I barely have time for my own let alone trawling through that 😭
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Friends how are you’ll going through the emails????
I am impressed, I barely have time for my own let alone trawling through that 😭
I am impressed, I barely have time for my own let alone trawling through that 😭
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Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:
November 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:
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Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
Reading Stuart Hall for the Climate Crisis
Stuart Hall’s politics of culture offers the left a blueprint for confronting the climate crisis.
www.break-down.org
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis.
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today.
www.break-down.org/reading-stua...
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This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
November 12, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.
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I wrote about this last year: hitting all the markers of adulthood (and middle age!) while still being precariously employed. It’s not good for anyone. williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/p...
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I wrote about this last year: hitting all the markers of adulthood (and middle age!) while still being precariously employed. It’s not good for anyone. williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/p...
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Since the U.S.’s inception as a nation in the 18th century, white people have deployed monuments to territorialize their power through representations of famous men, writes Mabel O. Wilson in her essay for Issue No. 8
hammerandhope.org/article/uva-...
hammerandhope.org/article/uva-...
A Free Black Woman, a Memorial to Enslaved Laborers, and the Battle Over U.S. History
How Charlottesville’s memorial landscape can help us understand — and combat — the White House’s violent plans to reshape the nation’s public spaces.
hammerandhope.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Since the U.S.’s inception as a nation in the 18th century, white people have deployed monuments to territorialize their power through representations of famous men, writes Mabel O. Wilson in her essay for Issue No. 8
hammerandhope.org/article/uva-...
hammerandhope.org/article/uva-...
Do share this fully funded PhD (with stipend) in Architectures of the Global South as broadly conceived with people who maybe interested. It has Amit Srivastava, Peter Sciriver and Katherine Bartsch as supervisors in Adelaide University adelaideuni.edu.au/research/res...
Expression of interest | Adelaide University
adelaideuni.edu.au
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Do share this fully funded PhD (with stipend) in Architectures of the Global South as broadly conceived with people who maybe interested. It has Amit Srivastava, Peter Sciriver and Katherine Bartsch as supervisors in Adelaide University adelaideuni.edu.au/research/res...
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#OtD 5 Nov 1975 300 youths fought police in protest at racist harassment in Leeds, UK. Police had used cars to circle groups of young Black people. After the battle, a plainclothes officers' car was destroyed while two other officers were hospitalised stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...
November 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#OtD 5 Nov 1975 300 youths fought police in protest at racist harassment in Leeds, UK. Police had used cars to circle groups of young Black people. After the battle, a plainclothes officers' car was destroyed while two other officers were hospitalised stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...
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For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.
‘In pursuing its goal of globalising the story of slavery, the Maritime Museum has inadvertently enabled some (white) Liverpudlians to reduce the city’s own role in transatlantic slavery to, as one resident put it, a “mere footnote”.’
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite · Holed below the Waterline: Liverpool’s Losses
Liverpool’s explosive growth followed the construction of a deep-water port in 1715. Soon it was a centre of the...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.
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a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 9:19 PM
a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen
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Y'all remember when they said Mamdani tried to pretend to be Black to get into Columbia? And newspapers rushed to mention this without discussing the hack of applicants' data or the politically motivated reasons behind publicizing anything about his college app to a college that rejected him.
November 5, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Y'all remember when they said Mamdani tried to pretend to be Black to get into Columbia? And newspapers rushed to mention this without discussing the hack of applicants' data or the politically motivated reasons behind publicizing anything about his college app to a college that rejected him.
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Obviously the Mamdani victory has nothing to teach Labour because he came out of the grass roots populist DSA and the Labour right deliberately killed any community based organising of that type and would move any and all institutional levers in their control to stop a Mamdani emerging
November 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Obviously the Mamdani victory has nothing to teach Labour because he came out of the grass roots populist DSA and the Labour right deliberately killed any community based organising of that type and would move any and all institutional levers in their control to stop a Mamdani emerging
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CfP for the new journal: Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital.
Please see below for the full call and to submit abstracts before the (extended) deadline of 16th of November 2025: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org
Please see below for the full call and to submit abstracts before the (extended) deadline of 16th of November 2025: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org
Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital
Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a Marxist journal based in London.
workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
CfP for the new journal: Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital.
Please see below for the full call and to submit abstracts before the (extended) deadline of 16th of November 2025: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org
Please see below for the full call and to submit abstracts before the (extended) deadline of 16th of November 2025: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org
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My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
November 4, 2025 at 8:14 AM
My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
@rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social
Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW
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*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
After Coasts: Cartography, Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
As cities and nation-states design massive coastal development projects, I show in this review how these projects require and produce emptied and flattened surfaces necessary for the workings of colon...
www.annualreviews.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
#openaccess 1/6
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
“For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated.
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated.
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover.
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
October 25, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover.
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...
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Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org
EQUATOR
Equator is a magazine of politics, culture and art.
www.equator.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org
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Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives
Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
October 27, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives
Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side
cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
Hakeem Jeffries will reportedly endorse Zohran Mamdani for New York City mayor today
After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani
The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.
www.politico.com
October 24, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
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India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.
Globally Renowned Scholar of Hindi Deported from Delhi Airport Despite Valid Visa
Francesa Orsini is perhaps the fourth foreign scholar with a valid visa to be denied entry in recent years.
thewire.in
October 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.
Please tell me how I can have so much shit going on at any given moment in academia - like when will I live and do things other than this😭
October 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Please tell me how I can have so much shit going on at any given moment in academia - like when will I live and do things other than this😭
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this is going to be GREAT and all the cool kids will be there
We are delighted to announce that MBS2026 will be held at the University of Birmingham, 3-5 June 2026!
Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.
For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Papers may consider the opening day's theme of 'Polycrisis', but we also welcome all submissions related to modern British studies.
For any questions please contact mbs2026@contacts.bham.ac.uk
Modern British Studies Conference 2026 - University of Birmingham
Conference information
www.birmingham.ac.uk
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
this is going to be GREAT and all the cool kids will be there