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Congratulations to Ella Cockbain and Aiden Sidebottom and Sheldon X. Zhang and their contributors! Their #OpenAccess book Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4oc6Lxg #HumanTrafficking #ForcedLabour
Evaluating Anti-Trafficking Interventions
Explore the complexities of trafficking and the importance of effective evaluation in anti-trafficking interventions and measures.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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On my "Christmas" wish list:
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing (forthcoming)
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...a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education.
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the U...
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November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Delighted to get a copy of Unearthing Collections published by UCL Press. I wrote the Afterward "Re-earthing the Past"
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November 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Forthcoming book on academic writing. Looks very interesting!

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Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing
Critical Perspectives on Academic Writing offers a timely, theoretically grounded examination of the often marginalised yet foundational role of academic writing in UK higher education. Based on the U...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Getting a few things off my chest in Chaper 2:

*** Academic writing as political ***

Forthcoming @uclpress.bsky.social in May 2026:

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Academic writing is never a neutral practice [...] its power [...] makes it a political act
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#WhatMakesWritingAcademic #AcWri

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1 Introduction Ayanna Prevatt-Goldstein and David Mallows Part I: Framing the politics and practices of academic writing 2 Academic writing as political Julia Molinari 3 The turn to difference: doing academic writing and writing development differently Amanda French 4 Multimodal and embodied approaches to writing for access and inclusion Arlene Archer Part II: Generative AI and academic writing 5 Progressive academic writing literacies: the constructive use of machine translation and generative AI as graduate competences Mike Groves and Klaus Mundt 6 Student writing as ‘passing’ in a time of synthetic text Helen Beetham 7 Generative AI, academic writing and learning differences: can ChatGPT scaffold writing development? Adrian Wallbank Part III: The practices of academic writing 8 Exploring writing pedagogy with subject lecturers Gillian Lazar 9 Investigating feedback on students’ written work to understand subject lecturer expectations and support student writing Lena Grannell 10 Creating time and space to write through social writing Rowena Murray Afterword Lisa Ganobcsik-Williams
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Why do environmental policies stall?
As COP-30 unfolds, explore systemic barriers and solutions in this open-access book:
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#COP30 #ClimateAction #OpenAccess
Obstacles to Environmental Progress
Why, when so many people understand the severity of environmental problems, is progress so slow and sustainability such a distant goal? What gets in the way? Perhaps you have immediately thought of se...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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New book by UCL Press 📚
Rent Strikes: A history of collective tenant actions across the world
edited by: Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf
Free download: bit.ly/4pkQ5VQ #anthropology #bookpublication #openaccess
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and…
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November 14, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Our book Rent Strikes has been downloaded more than a thousand times in only one week!
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November 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Universities can lead climate action.
Discover how higher education can transform teaching, research and governance in this open-access book:
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#COP30 #ClimateAction #OpenAccess #HigherEd
Universities and Climate Action
Universities and Climate Action explores how higher education can drive systemic change to tackle the climate crisis. It offers a practical framework for integrating climate engagement into teaching, ...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Read the history of how ordinary people fought back. Rent Strikes is available to download free from UCL Press: uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st...

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Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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In the Global South, housing struggles often take different forms. In the favelas of Brazil, organized workers fought against exploitative “rent seekers”. Their struggle reveals how informal rental markets generate their own forms of intense exploitation.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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One of the greatest catalyst for tenant revolt worldwide? Inflation.
It consistently acted as the “spark” that ignited collective tenant actions across borders.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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What were tenants fighting for? Historically, demands consistently revolve around: 1) Lower rents; 2) Renovations and maintenance; and 3) Fighting evictions. Tactics include the refusal to pay rent, withholding a portion of it, or channeling unpaid rent towards repairs.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
Understanding women's role requires different sources. The book employs autobiographical narratives to capture their specific experiences of managing household reproduction amidst activism.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
Tenant action was fundamentally connected to global politics. In Panama, rent strikes were interwoven with anti-imperialist struggles challenging U.S. domination. In France in the 1970s, immigrant rent strikes drew on the experience of Algerian national liberation.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
Another central argument is that women have consistently played a pivotal role in tenant activism, linking struggles over rent to the daily reproduction of the labour force. The role of women is analysed in case studies in New York, Rome, Buenos Aires and others.

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
The volume shows how the language of resistance often centers on E.P. Thompson's concept of “moral economy”. Tenants define certain rental practices as unfair and reject the domination of market laws. They denounce landlords as “profiteers”, “sharks”, or “vultures”

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
The core conflict analyzed in the book is the enduring contradiction in capitalist urban development: housing as a basic human need (use-value) versus housing as a source of profit and capital accumulation (commodity/exchange-value)

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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lucaspoy.bsky.social
📢 NEW BOOK ALERT!

The housing crisis is global, but so is the resistance.

A thread to introduce “Rent Strikes”, edited together with @hannesrolf.bsky.social, and published open access by @uclpress.bsky.social and @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social

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November 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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"Does neurodivergence shape the way that we sleep and dream? In this episode, Professor Dagmara Dimitriou, Professor of Sleep Education and Research, draws on two decades of research to explain why standard sleep advice often falls short for neurodiverse individuals."
#N24 #Autism #Circadian #Sleep
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From infant dreams to nightmares, take a deep dive into the strange world of sleep and the brain with the latest episode of UCL Press Play.

Get exclusive insights from Professor Dagmara Dimitriou's two decades of research.

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Why Sleep Hygiene Doesn’t Always Work, featuring Professor Dagmara Dimitriou
Professor Dagmara Dimitriou and Professor Philip Schofield take a deep dive into the strange world of sleep and the brain.
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November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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From infant dreams to nightmares, take a deep dive into the strange world of sleep and the brain with the latest episode of UCL Press Play.

Get exclusive insights from Professor Dagmara Dimitriou's two decades of research.

Listen now: uclpress.co.uk/podcast/why-...
Why Sleep Hygiene Doesn’t Always Work, featuring Professor Dagmara Dimitriou
Professor Dagmara Dimitriou and Professor Philip Schofield take a deep dive into the strange world of sleep and the brain.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Un libro con conversaciones con personas que vivieron durante el Tercer Reich. Puedes descargarlo gratis, ya que es un libro de acceso abierto de UCL Press. uclpress.co.uk/book/convers...
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Congratulations to Robin Hickman! His #OpenAccess book Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/42I3kGd #Transport #CityPlanning #PublicTransport #Foucault
Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility
Achieving sustainable transport systems and travel behaviours is proving problematic in many cities, including contestation over strategies and projects. Discourses on Sustainable Urban Mobility chall...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Did you ever wonder anything about the history of tenant organising and rent strikes? This volume, edited by me and @lucaspoy.bsky.social , might have some answers. Freshly published today and available with open access.

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Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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New Open-access book: "Rent Strikes. A history of collective tenant actions across the world" edited bu Lucas Poy and Hannes Rolf. uclpress.co.uk/book/rent-st... #urban #sociology
Rent Strikes
Since the nineteenth century, working-class families have predominantly relied on tenements for housing, with rents often consuming a large portion of their household budgets. There is a long and cont...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:35 PM