New Publication: ‘States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society’ by Peter Newell

Peter Newell’s new book examines state power within broader social relations to explore the possibilities & challenges of building a ‘transition state’.

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New Publication: ‘Public Order and the Internal Security Apparatus: Affective Tension Monitoring as Police Epistemology’ by Illan Rua Wall

This article explores how the ‘tension monitoring’ system aims to understand the affective life of communities.

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New publication: ‘Win-Win-Win: Taxing wealth for fairness, revenue and growth’ by Martin O’Neill and Howard Reed

This report for the Fairness Foundation outlines the case for changing the UK’s approach to taxing wealth.

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Launch: ‘Creating Inclusive Workplaces for Academics with Energy Limiting Conditions’ with Bethan Evans

Launching guidance around systemic changes and individual adjustments to create more inclusive workplaces for academics with energy limiting conditions (ELC)

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Reimagining Victims’ Reparations: Building a Global Network for Grassroots Justice

What happens when harms are irreparable, when the wounds inflicted are not just individual but collective, cultural, and historical?

isrf.org/blog/reimagi...

Neoliberalism is Constitutively Racialised

Lars Cornelissen - whose new book explores how race has played a crucial function in the neoliberal worldview - argues that the question of race has always preoccupied neoliberals, both as a theoretical and political issue.

isrf.org/blog/neolibe...

Against Improvement

As leaders & politicians continue to pursue budget cuts to essential resources, language becomes a tool to mask their harmful impacts. Lorna Finlayson explores the subtleties of ‘improvements’, a political euphemism that indicates a change for the worse

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Join us in person at UCL, or online, at 6pm on 9th December. Register at isrf.org/events/neoli...

Lars will be joined by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Director of the @sprc-ucl.bsky.social at @ucl-ias.bsky.social; Siddhant Issar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville; and @melaynakay.bsky.social, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Law, London.

Lars Cornelissen is a historian of neoliberalism. His writings have been published in History of European Ideas, Constellations, and Modern Intellectual History. He is the ISRF's Academic Coordinator, as well as a Lecturer in Politics at @manmetuni.bsky.social

The book argues that neoliberal ideology is constitutively racialised - that it cannot be divorced from its racial foundations without rendering it incoherent & unrecognisable - using historical methods to reconstruct neoliberal ideas of race & position them within the field of racist ideology.

In his new book, Neoliberalism and Race, @lcornelissen.bsky.social revisits the history of neoliberal ideas through the lens of race. He maps out how neoliberal thinkers like Hayek, Bauer and Sowell conceptualised racial difference, sometimes explicitly and sometimes in more coded terms.

Book Launch: Neoliberalism and Race, by @lcornelissen.bsky.social

Tuesday 9th December 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at @sprc-ucl.bsky.social.

What did neoliberalism’s intellectual advocates have to say about race?

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Join us at The Leeds Library, or online, at 6pm on 20th November 2025 - register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/isrf-book-...

Lisa will be joined by Mike Makin-Waite, author of On Burnley Road (2021); Tim Strangleman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent; & Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.

Author @lisajt67.bsky.social is Reader in Cultural Studies at @leedsbeckett.bsky.social. In 2021 she was awarded an ISRF Mid-Career Fellowship which enabled her to work collaboratively with a former textiles community to create the ‘Landscapes of Loss: Revaluing Labour, Remaking Community’ project

Book Launch: Threads of Labour: Tapestry of an Ex-Industrial Community, by Lisa Taylor

Thursday 20th November 2025, 6:00pm-7:30pm (GMT). In person at The Leeds Library

Threads of Labour examines how art & industrial heritage foster cohesion in post-industrial communities.

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November 2025 ISRF Director’s Note: Labour’s White Paper Fails Higher Education

@cnewf.bsky.social argues Labour’s White Paper promotes universities as drivers of growth with no new funds, worsening deficits through cuts, mergers, and neglect of education’s social value.

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