Alf Gunvald Nilsen
@alfnilsen.bsky.social
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Alf Gunvald Nilsen
@alfnilsen.bsky.social
· Jun 24
It's publication day for this beast today!
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
Some thoughts on Stuart Hall and/in the global South after CASA’s third annual symposium last week.
www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
www.ppesydney.net
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Some thoughts on Stuart Hall and/in the global South after CASA’s third annual symposium last week.
www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
www.ppesydney.net/stuart-hall-...
Reposted by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
www.ppesydney.net
November 3, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
@versobooks.bsky.social
@chrishesketh.bsky.social
@abieler.bsky.social
@ingridhk.bsky.social
The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥
Check it out below!
Check it out below!
October 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥
Check it out below!
Check it out below!
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Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record
Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.
www.them.us
September 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)
September 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)
Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book.
Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️
Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️
Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
September 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book.
Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️
Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️
Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
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The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social
Read the story 💰⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Read the story 💰⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Global inequality is the World Bank’s elephant in the room
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political
www.opendemocracy.net
July 1, 2025 at 1:17 PM
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social
Read the story 💰⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Read the story 💰⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
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Our new Alternative Reading List is out!
Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.
Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!
d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.
Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!
d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
D-Econ’s Seasonal Alternative Reading List – 2025, pt. 1
It’s been quite a year thus far, and we have some reading recommendations from new books on economics that were published this year that you may have missed either because of the identity of the au…
d-econ.org
August 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Our new Alternative Reading List is out!
Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.
Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!
d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.
Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!
d-econ.org/d-econs-seas...
It's publication day for this beast today!
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
June 24, 2025 at 5:53 AM
It's publication day for this beast today!
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
Reposted by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
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Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!
June 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!
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Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
Emerging Powers and/in the Southern Interregnum - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How do we understand our age of crisis from a distinctly Southern perspective? That is the question at the heart of the newly published book Southern Interregnum: Remaking Hegemony in Brazil, India, S...
www.ppesydney.net
June 23, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
PhD on Diasporas and Right-Wing Nationalism
The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a PhD fellowship in International Studies from September 1st, 2025
candidate.hr-manager.net
March 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
March 5, 2025 at 8:02 AM
We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?"
That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited!
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
March 5, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?"
That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences.
Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
March 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences.
Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
Getting ready …
February 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Getting ready …
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited!
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
February 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited!
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?
February 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?
Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...
a man is screaming with his mouth wide open
ALT: a man is screaming with his mouth wide open
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February 19, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...
I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading.
Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
February 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading.
Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...
February 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum.
It’s Open Access - dig in!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s Open Access - dig in!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Emerging Powers and the Political Economy of the Southern Interregnum
How do we best conceptualize the global South and its role in the rapidly changing world system of the early twenty-first century? This article approaches this question through a critical engagemen...
www.tandfonline.com
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum.
It’s Open Access - dig in!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
It’s Open Access - dig in!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
You can’t beat the Right by being a slightly softer Right, exhibit 76436907 …
As per the latest ECI data, the BJP is leading in 48 seats, while the AAP is ahead in 22 seats.
thewire.in/politics/liv...
#DelhiElections2025
thewire.in/politics/liv...
#DelhiElections2025
February 8, 2025 at 7:38 AM
You can’t beat the Right by being a slightly softer Right, exhibit 76436907 …