David Harvie
@davidharvie.bsky.social
deprofessionalised intellectual * co-author of Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (Zer0, 2024) * co-editor of Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici (Pluto, 2019) * Omnia Sunt Communia * he/him
Yep. Edmund Burke. Deputy vice-chancellor of U. Leicester in 2021 and responsible for overseeing mass redundancies, including my own. Assisted by chief financial officer Martyn "Fiddleston" Riddleston. Both now at Bagnor and doing the same thing there.
October 4, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Yep. Edmund Burke. Deputy vice-chancellor of U. Leicester in 2021 and responsible for overseeing mass redundancies, including my own. Assisted by chief financial officer Martyn "Fiddleston" Riddleston. Both now at Bagnor and doing the same thing there.
It hasn't changed at all! Across the UK police are responding with violence to peaceful protestors opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza and the British state's complicity in this genocide. Here's a report from the @defendourjuries.bsky.social action in Manchester on July 12.
Opposing genocide in Manchester: The reality of protest under Starmer’s government – In the global war between rich and poor,
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July 22, 2025 at 12:29 PM
It hasn't changed at all! Across the UK police are responding with violence to peaceful protestors opposing Israeli genocide in Gaza and the British state's complicity in this genocide. Here's a report from the @defendourjuries.bsky.social action in Manchester on July 12.
And this spirit lives on in the activists and organisers (chapeau Palestine Action) taking direct action to stop genocide and to stop (further) climate breakdown.
July 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
And this spirit lives on in the activists and organisers (chapeau Palestine Action) taking direct action to stop genocide and to stop (further) climate breakdown.
In case anyone's wondering, the "bullying complaint in previous role" was at U. Leicester, where he was enabled by VC Nishan Canagarajah and deputy VC Edmund Burke, now VC at Bangor.
June 27, 2025 at 8:23 AM
In case anyone's wondering, the "bullying complaint in previous role" was at U. Leicester, where he was enabled by VC Nishan Canagarajah and deputy VC Edmund Burke, now VC at Bangor.
Organisation scholars call this 'strategy' MIMETIC ISOMORPHISM. We write about it in Shaping for Mediocrity – it's a 'middling' strategy!
June 25, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Organisation scholars call this 'strategy' MIMETIC ISOMORPHISM. We write about it in Shaping for Mediocrity – it's a 'middling' strategy!