Charlotte Cator
charlottecator.bsky.social
Charlotte Cator
@charlottecator.bsky.social
Critical urban scholar interested in alternative economies, social theory and political ecology, based in Glasgow
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I edited a book "Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future" that was released at the tenth annual conference of @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social a few weeks ago. It celebrates 10 years of critical research presented at the conferences and can be downloaded for free here marxistiskestudier.com/wp-content/u...
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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Are you a PhD-student and do you want to join the PhD-course of the year?🔥

Then register before your comrade for this brilliant course with @genderhorizon.com herself on the 9th of October at Aarhus University the day before the annual conference!

Register here:
au.phd-courses.dk/CourseCatalo...
September 5, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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Marxist Besties💖

it is abstract selection season and it has been TOUGH this year😭💔

We got a lot of ✨a m a z i n g✨ abstracts and had to make some really tough decisions - since we could only select about half!!

So in the interest of transparency here are some insights into our process:
June 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Danish marxist @mariethogersen.bsky.social will be defending her PhD thesis, "Ruling the Cloud: A Critique of International Cyber Law" at University of Copenhagen 😍
Please join us on June 2nd if you want to see something as rare as a Danish Marxist PhD in international law💅
cms.ku.dk/preview/4932...
May 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Deadline for submission is next week! See the full call here: eventi.unibo.it/historical-t...
May 22, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU.

Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸
politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...
Dansk forsker: Forskningsopholdet ville fremme min forskning og karriere. Alligevel takker jeg nej til Trumps USA
Som hvid mand med papirerne i orden er risikoen ved indrejse til USA begrænset for mig. Alligevel tager jeg ikke imod legatet til et forskningsophold i landet.
politiken.dk
May 20, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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This is one of the best times I've ever had at an academic conference - highly recommend submitting something to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies conference this fall.
🔔‼️ REMEMBER TO SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACTS

Deadline is 1 May and there will be NO deadline extensions - Don’t hold off until the last minute, submit now!!!!
✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨

We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025.

As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme!

marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...
April 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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If you are one of those unfortunate people who can't join our conference in october then we are very sorry for you 💔

BUT you can stop crying now! @lottelist.bsky.social has got some great news for you and your fomo 💕

This conference in Bologna really looks exciting and you should all be going!😍
Critical researchers, Marxists, and historians of all kinds, please consider submitting your work to this conference on the concepts of history and time and their political implications, to take place in beautiful Bologna October 27th-29th:
The Conference
Images of Historical Times. Concepts, Metaphors, and Arts
eventi.unibo.it
April 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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❗🚨KEYNOTE ANNOUNCEMENT🚨❗

All the rumors are true!

Our first keynote speaker for this year's conference is none other than M.E.O’Brien😍

O'Brien writes and speaks on capitalism, gender freedom and family abolition!🔥
April 3, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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I made a short video-abstract introducing my recent article “Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions” out in @theoryculturesociety.org
New video abstract: Mikkel Flohr introduces the Theory, Culture & Society article, 'Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=X98K...
Mikkel Flohr on 'Political Theology: Origins, Concepts, and Contradictions'
YouTube video by Theory, Culture & Society
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April 1, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Call for papers out now for an SI on "Organizing wasteland" in ephemera! In the SI, we seek to explore wasteland as a socio-spatial process creating relations of discarding, (de)valorizing and (dis)organizing spaces, people and objects. ephemerajournal.org/node/5104
Organizing wasteland | Ephemeral Journal
ephemerajournal.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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Get in loser, we're abolishing hygge 😎
✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨

We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025.

As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme!

marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...
Call for Abstracts: 10th annual conference
Abolition Tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Aarhus University, Denmark10-11 October 2025 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme of &#82…
marxistiskestudier.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
“As the extreme right is attacking liberal institutions from within, critical scholarship has the urgent task to provide an alternative perspective on what it means to abolish in order to reconfigure” - if not now, then when? Join us in Aarhus in October!
✨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS✨

We are excited to publish the Call for Abstracts for our 10th annual conference: ABOLITION.

The conference will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark, on 10-11 October 2025.

As usual, we also accept papers outside this year's theme!

marxistiskestudier.com/2025/03/06/c...
Call for Abstracts: 10th annual conference
Abolition Tenth annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Aarhus University, Denmark10-11 October 2025 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme of &#82…
marxistiskestudier.com
March 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Save the date! Join us in picturesque Aarhus this October for our 10th anniversary
🚨ACADEMIC MARXISTS OF THE WORLD UNITE AND SAFE THE DATE!🚨

Our 10th(!) International Marxist Conference will be held at this beautiful campus at Aarhus University the 10th-11th of October 2025.
We are once again hoping to see ALL the Marxist researchers and your 💥presentations in #DenMarx this year😍
January 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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"Contrainte muette: Le pouvoir économique du capital", the French translation of my book "Mute Compulsion", will be out on May 30, translated by @prada-meinhof.bsky.social, designed by Léa Gallon, published by Édition Sans Soleil. I hope to be in Paris for the book launch.
December 20, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Ending the year with good news: this week I received funding for a postdoc project on urban waste, which aims to see waste like a city and will dive into the world of urban politics, ecology and waste colonialism. For the hygge description of the project, see www.carlsbergfondet.dk/det-har-vi-s...
December 19, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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"Wars alter the present in order to shape the future. (...) The difference between the war and the genocide is that the genocide destroys present and past in order to destroy the presence of a future." - Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah
Podcast: Ghassan Abu-Sittah, Muhammad Shehada and Adam Shatz · Gaza, Before and After
www.lrb.co.uk
December 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Moving myself out of the lurkers' backseat here: I'm a critical urban scholar, studying capitalism and post-capitalism in the city and currently interested in waste, urban metabolism and diverse economies. Based in Copenhagen at the moment and proud almost-Danish member of Danish Marxism
December 16, 2024 at 5:26 PM