Miranda Iossifidis
@mirandaioss.bsky.social
Lecturer in Sociology at Newcastle University
Interested in populationism, speculative ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, cities, SF, creative & collaborative methods.
Interested in populationism, speculative ecofascist futures, reproductive and climate justice, cities, SF, creative & collaborative methods.
We co-wrote a book and it’s out in the world now! Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics.
It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
October 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We co-wrote a book and it’s out in the world now! Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics.
It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Silence is complicity
We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership
Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance
We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership
Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance
September 14, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Silence is complicity
We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership
Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance
We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership
Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance
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It's a real honor to be featured in the latest podcast episode by @drilledmedia.bsky.social -- a climate news media platform I greatly admire. You can checkout my interview where I discuss Apocalyptic Authoritarianism here: drilled.media/news/hanna-m...
A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’
In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?
drilled.media
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
It's a real honor to be featured in the latest podcast episode by @drilledmedia.bsky.social -- a climate news media platform I greatly admire. You can checkout my interview where I discuss Apocalyptic Authoritarianism here: drilled.media/news/hanna-m...
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🚨new book alert! 🚨 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' by our very own alumni affiliate, @hannamorris.bsky.social 📚 Read the e-book here: academic.oup.com/book/59887
Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power
Abstract. In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power, media scholar Hanna E. Morris reveals how national anxieties following the 201
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April 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
🚨new book alert! 🚨 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' by our very own alumni affiliate, @hannamorris.bsky.social 📚 Read the e-book here: academic.oup.com/book/59887
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New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism?
As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 27, 2025 at 5:17 PM
New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
Sign the Petition
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University
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May 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.
chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS
Tomorrow: Palestine, a sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation
Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...
thesociologicalreview.org
May 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Tomorrow: Palestine, a sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
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This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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www.crabmuseum.org/visit
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April 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
www.crabmuseum.org/visit
🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
Read this article by Cable Collective on ecobordering narratives and the British far right
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...
“Sink the boats – Save the world”: Ecobordering narratives on the British far right - Undisciplined Environments
Many far-right groups claim that migration drives environmental destruction, from river pollution to climate breakdown. These ‘ecobordering’ narratives greenwash racism and cover up the political...
undisciplinedenvironments.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Read this article by Cable Collective on ecobordering narratives and the British far right
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...
undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...
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HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B
How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma
A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model.
Supported by: Queen…
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April 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B
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if you're coming to the AAG In Detroit, drop by and say hi at the zine fair !! we will have so many wonderful zines for you to take home and read and share with friends :)
Join us for the opening reception of the AAG X GEOZONe Zine Fair! Tuesday 3/25 at 1pm in the Exhibit Hall! A time to browse zines and meet cool folks while learning a bit more about geoz.one! #geosky @geographers.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
if you're coming to the AAG In Detroit, drop by and say hi at the zine fair !! we will have so many wonderful zines for you to take home and read and share with friends :)
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📢 What changed, Chi? 50% of kids in Newcastle live in poverty! In 2023, @chionwurah.bsky.social asked why the government was making life so hard for kids. But in 2025, with a new government in power, the policies keeping children in poverty are still in place!
March 18, 2025 at 10:25 AM
📢 What changed, Chi? 50% of kids in Newcastle live in poverty! In 2023, @chionwurah.bsky.social asked why the government was making life so hard for kids. But in 2025, with a new government in power, the policies keeping children in poverty are still in place!
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#WelfareNotWarfare
The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing
Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts
Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links
The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing
Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts
Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links
March 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
#WelfareNotWarfare
The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing
Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts
Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links
The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing
Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts
Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links
Traversing Harlem, New Cross, the Cairngorm mountains, histories backwards & forwards. The persistent injustices in our cities. With & through sound, music, art, books, words & friendship. Precious stories about Les & Paul Gilroy’s early Goldsmiths days! Picket lines & thinking devices. Thanks, Les
Thanks to @mirandaioss.bsky.social who hosted a This Cultural Life event yesterday for the Sociology Department at Newcastle. I chose: Meshell Ndegeocello’s album No More Water, Steve McQueen’s film Grenfell, Ralph Ellison’s essay Harlem is Nowhere and Nan Shepherd’s book The Living Mountain.
March 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Traversing Harlem, New Cross, the Cairngorm mountains, histories backwards & forwards. The persistent injustices in our cities. With & through sound, music, art, books, words & friendship. Precious stories about Les & Paul Gilroy’s early Goldsmiths days! Picket lines & thinking devices. Thanks, Les
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In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
Coping, Thriving, Progressing? What happens after ‘early career’?
www.britsoc.co.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:17 PM
In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.
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Interested in knowing more about the links between far-right movements, fossil businesses, and environmental issues? On 12 February (2pm-5pm GMT) we organise an online workshop with an INCREDIBLE line-up of speakers...
January 29, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Interested in knowing more about the links between far-right movements, fossil businesses, and environmental issues? On 12 February (2pm-5pm GMT) we organise an online workshop with an INCREDIBLE line-up of speakers...
It’s the final day we can send in our ballot @newcastleucu.bsky.social to be in a position to collectively decide how what action we take in the face of proposed redundancies and changes that would transform the university for staff and students. Don’t stick your head in the sand!
February 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
It’s the final day we can send in our ballot @newcastleucu.bsky.social to be in a position to collectively decide how what action we take in the face of proposed redundancies and changes that would transform the university for staff and students. Don’t stick your head in the sand!
Zines printed and ready to go! “Care, Temporality, Justice” a collective zine made from the speculative climate futures zine workshops. Beautiful cover by Mack Sproates & participants. Also inside, radical imagination & envisioning exercises by Bethan & making activities by Mack.
November 22, 2024 at 12:12 PM
Zines printed and ready to go! “Care, Temporality, Justice” a collective zine made from the speculative climate futures zine workshops. Beautiful cover by Mack Sproates & participants. Also inside, radical imagination & envisioning exercises by Bethan & making activities by Mack.
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📣 Critical Research on Reactionary Politics starter pack 📣
Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc)
Work in progress (see below) 👇
go.bsky.app/AmREGSz
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Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc)
Work in progress (see below) 👇
go.bsky.app/AmREGSz
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November 15, 2024 at 1:55 PM
📣 Critical Research on Reactionary Politics starter pack 📣
Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc)
Work in progress (see below) 👇
go.bsky.app/AmREGSz
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Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc)
Work in progress (see below) 👇
go.bsky.app/AmREGSz
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Our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI on positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies is coming up this Thursday. Check out all the details and registration info below.
Join us for our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social
and CASEI on 21st November at 2PM (GMT).
Rae Jereza, Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, and Imo Kaufman will be discussing the importance of positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies.
reacpol.net/webinar-3/
and CASEI on 21st November at 2PM (GMT).
Rae Jereza, Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, and Imo Kaufman will be discussing the importance of positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies.
reacpol.net/webinar-3/
Webinar 3: Positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This webinar series, co-organized by RPRN, CASEI and C-REX, aims to initiate and facilitate a much needed discussion about the methodological, ethical, political, personal, practical and professional ...
reacpol.net
November 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
Our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI on positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies is coming up this Thursday. Check out all the details and registration info below.
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Section 1, “What’s in a Name?”, engages with key terminological debates which have been core to the discipline for decades, but seeks to push traditional discussions further by weighing the impact of our choice of words
@kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social
@kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social
February 21, 2024 at 3:19 PM
Section 1, “What’s in a Name?”, engages with key terminological debates which have been core to the discipline for decades, but seeks to push traditional discussions further by weighing the impact of our choice of words
@kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social
@kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social