James Mark
@jamesamark.bsky.social
Historian. Uni of Exeter. Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024); Socialism Goes Global (2022)
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James Mark
@jamesamark.bsky.social
· Nov 12
Our new co-edited collection Off White. Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024) is open access, free to download here: www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
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Happy to have contributed a chapter on culture and #memory in far-right #protest events in Eastern #Germany, and I’m especially excited that one of my fieldwork photographs was selected for the cover!
BTW this book is fully #openaccess
BTW this book is fully #openaccess
Congratulations to Jan Kubik and Richard Mole! Their #OpenAccess book The Anatomy of Right-wing Populism published yesterday. Read and download free at: bit.ly/46I25Ju #Politics #RightWingPopulism #Illiberalism
The Anatomy of Right-Wing Populism
Over the past two decades, populist politicians and parties have enjoyed remarkable success across the globe. The rise of right-wing populism is perhaps most noticeable in post-communist Europe, espec...
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October 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Happy to have contributed a chapter on culture and #memory in far-right #protest events in Eastern #Germany, and I’m especially excited that one of my fieldwork photographs was selected for the cover!
BTW this book is fully #openaccess
BTW this book is fully #openaccess
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Yesterday, we launched the new Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. @catherineowen.bsky.social Muireann Maguire, Nelly Bekus, and others organised with excellent external speakers and a display of the wealth of Eurasia expertise at Exeter.
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Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies (ECEEES) | Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies | University of Exeter
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May 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Yesterday, we launched the new Exeter Centre for Eastern European and Eurasian Studies. @catherineowen.bsky.social Muireann Maguire, Nelly Bekus, and others organised with excellent external speakers and a display of the wealth of Eurasia expertise at Exeter.
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
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My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
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February 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
My article 'Between Moscow and Geneva: The Soviet Red Cross and the International Red Cross Movement' is out in the Journal of Global History. It explores the mutually beneficial relationship between the Soviet Red Cross & the League of Red Cross Societies during the Cold War tinyurl.com/yck3xzsc
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Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic
A lecture by Professor Catherine Hall on the question: what was ‘racial capitalism’ in its C18 form?
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January 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Professor Catherine Hall will be delivering our annual early modern history lecture, "Racial Capitalism across the Black/White Atlantic". Join us on Wednesday 5 March from 15:30 to 17:00 in the Newman Red lecture theatre, or on Zoom. Register here: racialcapitalism.eventbrite.co.uk
#earlymodern
#earlymodern
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Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.
February 21, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Just finished and highly recommend this by Eva Dou. Sober yet gripping. Perhaps not enough detail on how exactly Huawei leapfrogged so many times, but fair enough. The best parts are on Ren Zhengfei's early life and on Huawei's initial expansion along the fringes (and in the rubble) of US empire.
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From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
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This Week’s Top Picks in Imperial & Global History
erhui1979/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images Marc-William PalenHistory Department, University of Exeter From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this we…
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February 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
From the reality of settler colonialism to the end of the postwar order, here are this week’s top picks in imperial and global history.
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/02/21/t...
imperialglobalexeter.com/2025/02/21/t...
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📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢
My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️
📆Tues 12 March 7pm
🏫Bookbag
🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️
📆Tues 12 March 7pm
🏫Bookbag
🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
February 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
📢EXETER BOOK LAUNCH📢
My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️
📆Tues 12 March 7pm
🏫Bookbag
🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
My fab colleague Ryan will be in conversation with Dr. Malcolm Richards to talk about his biography of Robert Wedderburn, a man central to Black radical political thought in the Revolutionary Atlantic. 🗃️
📆Tues 12 March 7pm
🏫Bookbag
🎟️£5 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tues-11-ma...
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I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Wilson’s White World: the Foundation of Central-Eastern European Nation-States and the Global History of Race
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December 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Wilson’s White World: the Foundation of Central-Eastern European Nation-States and the Global History of Race
cutt.ly
December 10, 2024 at 3:32 PM
I'm giving a hybrid talk on our new book Off White: Central and Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race in Budapest next Tuesday at the CEU Democracy Institute - also via Zoom:
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
Details and registration: cutt.ly/ueZXnxIf
🗓️ Dec 17, 5:30pm
📍 Budapest, Nador u. 15 / Zoom
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My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon.
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Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China)
Amazon.com: Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism (Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China): 9781009382267: Hirata, Koji: Books
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November 26, 2024 at 11:57 PM
My book, “Making Mao's Steelworks: Industrial Manchuria and the Transnational Origins of Chinese Socialism,” finally has a confirmed publication date—December 5, 2024. You can order it via Amazon.
www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...
www.amazon.com/Making-Maos-...
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Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended!
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Europe in British Literature and Culture
Cambridge Core - European and World Literature: General Interest - Europe in British Literature and Culture
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June 13, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Published today: "Europe in British Literature and Culture" edited by Petra Rau and Will Rossiter (Cambridge University Press). Chapter 6 by me is on "Balkans and Ruritania"; Chs. 1-5 and 7-26 also recommended!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
www.cambridge.org/core/books/e...
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The next item on my reading list: Masha Kirasirova's The Eastern International.
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November 25, 2024 at 9:14 AM
The next item on my reading list: Masha Kirasirova's The Eastern International.
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Russia’s stark population decline is leading to increasingly wild proposals for upping birth rates. Not just abortion restrictions, monetary incentives, or attacks on “child free propaganda” - there’s also consideration for freeing female prisoners and nullifying sentences of those who conceive.
#Russian Duma MP Alexander Iltyakov has discovered one of the reasons for the war in Ukraine: 'women having abortions' - hear for yourself: t.me/chtddd/80451 This, after Vladimir Putin has made the increase of human capital a priority. So Why is the #Kremlin worried about population decline? 1/n
ЧТД
🚑Депутат Госдумы назвал аборты причиной войны с Украиной. Что? Да!
Единоросс Александр Ильтяков нашел новую причину «СВО». И это даже не борьба с гендерно-нейтральными туалетами. Оказывается, винова...
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November 20, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Russia’s stark population decline is leading to increasingly wild proposals for upping birth rates. Not just abortion restrictions, monetary incentives, or attacks on “child free propaganda” - there’s also consideration for freeing female prisoners and nullifying sentences of those who conceive.
This global take on the contemporary rise of radical conservatism looks really good.
November 20, 2024 at 7:48 AM
This global take on the contemporary rise of radical conservatism looks really good.
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Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.
November 16, 2024 at 10:08 AM
Hello Bluesky, I am a historian based in Ankara. A few months ago, Oxford University Press published my first book, which explores the way that Russian and Turkish revolutionaries arrived at a statist partnership as they responded to post-WWI liberal internationalism.
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Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.
November 10, 2024 at 9:25 PM
Hi new followers! I use this account to stay updated on all things far-right, past and present. In August ‘24, I defended my dissertation ‘The Pursuit of White Security’. In it, I show that the fantasies of ‘white security’ fueling recent right-wing terrorist attacks are anything but new.
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#OpenAccess #new
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
November 16, 2024 at 4:54 AM
#OpenAccess #new
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters during the Cold War by Sebastian Pampuch, 2024,
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social.
library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...
#GDR #DDR #exil #SACP #ANC #internationalism #ColdWar
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Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.
Citing ‘fire safety violations,’ Russia shutters its last major museum dedicated to Soviet-era repressions — Meduza
On Wednesday evening, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum announced that it would close indefinitely due to “fire safety violations” discovered during an inspection. Citing the city’s Culture Department,…
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November 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Until recently, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum was the only major Russian institution dedicated to the memory of Soviet-era repressions that hadn’t come into the government’s crosshairs. Now that appears to be over.
On reactions in Hungary to Trump's win
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Goulash: Unexpected reactions to Trump’s win; Orbán allies plot major deals - VSquare.org
I’ve just returned from a trip through the Baltics and Central Europe, stirring the pot with the flavors of regional sentiment after Trump’s recent win. The general takeaway on how he pulled it off? A...
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November 15, 2024 at 8:08 AM
On reactions in Hungary to Trump's win
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this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
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April 24, 2024 at 9:58 AM
this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse).
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.
November 14, 2024 at 9:16 AM
Historians! I'm drawing up a bibliography of work from any region and any period that reflects on what history looks like from the sides, from the middles-of-nowhere, from the peripheries; and work that examines how those places come to be defined that way. I'd love some recommendations.
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And this afternoon, you can participate (also on Zoom!) in a workshop New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe, combined with the launch of 4(!) books discussing Central Eastern European pasts. @szidora.bsky.social
events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...
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November 14, 2024 at 10:54 AM
And this afternoon, you can participate (also on Zoom!) in a workshop New Tendencies in Writing the Intellectual Histories of East Central Europe, combined with the launch of 4(!) books discussing Central Eastern European pasts. @szidora.bsky.social
events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...
events.ceu.edu/2024-11-14/c...
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So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
November 14, 2024 at 10:47 AM
So I've had a go at a starter pack, if you want to be added, just let me know! go.bsky.app/JVTTJQd
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Our upcoming volume (comes out in January) is about rethinking modern imperialism from its (European) margins, the intro might be of interest?
Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe
This open access book provides a thought-provoking new perspective on European imperialism in the 19th and 20th centuries. It does so by inquiring how smaller E…
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November 14, 2024 at 9:56 AM
Our upcoming volume (comes out in January) is about rethinking modern imperialism from its (European) margins, the intro might be of interest?