Maša Mrovlje
@mmrovlje.bsky.social
Maša Mrovlje is Associate Professor of Political Theory at the University of Leeds. She is exploring the political value of disappointment within resistance.
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
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ICYMI: Annabel Herzog, 'Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory, - a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political wrong. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory - Annabel Herzog, 2021
This essay is a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political w...
journals.sagepub.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:18 PM
ICYMI: Annabel Herzog, 'Dilemmas of Political Agency and Sovereignty: The Omelian Allegory, - a political reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s ‘The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas’, which examines agency and resistance in situations of political wrong. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Today the ballot closes. Thank you to everyone who voted and spoke to a colleague.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Today the ballot closes. Thank you to everyone who voted and spoke to a colleague.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
In six weeks we’ve:
• Sent 100,000+ texts
• Delivered 650,000 emails
• Reached 12,000 branch inboxes
• Held weekly livestreams
Every vote strengthened our fight.
We are the university.
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📢We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with our Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
📢We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off todays event with our Contemporary Research on International Political Theory Working Group
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
👉Today we are joined by Lara Monticelli and Mathias Thaler for a discussion of The conjunction of prefiguration and utopia.
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REVIEW FOR US: our Book Reviews editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social has 16 new titles up for review in The Sociological Review magazine – on subjects including AI, ageing, the care economy, water, internet culture, ambivalent activism and the feminist art of walking.
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
REVIEW FOR US: our Book Reviews editor @emmacraddock.bsky.social has 16 new titles up for review in The Sociological Review magazine – on subjects including AI, ageing, the care economy, water, internet culture, ambivalent activism and the feminist art of walking.
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
➡️ Find out more: buff.ly/JzirQGt
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How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
How The Left Can Come Together To Beat Reform | Yanis Varoufakis | Zack Polanski www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjLZ...
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LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
November 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
LSE Public Lecture "Race and the Question of Palestine"
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
📍2 Dec, 6PM
Speaker: Lana Tatour
Discussants: Ralph Wilde, Ayça Cubukcu, Neve Gordon
Register here:
lselaw.events/event/race-a...
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You have until 5pm to vote safely.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
You have until 5pm to vote safely.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
Get it in.
We can build a better future for HE and only you can decide it.
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We often hear about the stories of Egypt's political prisoners, but what about the loved ones who visit them behind bars?
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
NEW: In Egypt, the impact of imprisonment extends to the entire family. Presenting a deep dive into prison visits, TIMEP nonresident fellow Dina Kamel examines the financial and psychological strain on those visiting their loved ones behind bars.
Read more: timep.org/2025/11/24/e...
Read more: timep.org/2025/11/24/e...
November 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
We often hear about the stories of Egypt's political prisoners, but what about the loved ones who visit them behind bars?
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
Don't miss my @timep.bsky.social colleague Dina's important new analysis bringing us stories on the emotional and financial cost of prison visits.
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New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel - Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado, Annelies Van Assche, 2025
This article examines digital dance, not in opposition to physical bodies but in material continuity with them. By offering an expansive notion of ‘presence’ in...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
New as Online First in Body & Society: Jorge Poveda Yánez, Beatriz Herrera Corado and Annelies Van Assche, 'Presence Rewired: The Re-materialisation of Digital Dance from the Sweatshop to the Pixel'. (Open Access) journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Kathy Sheridan: Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people?
Number of trans people in Irish society is tiny – and each one is a human being
www.irishtimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Where is the kindness when we talk about trans people? Deeply empathetic essay from Kathy Sheridan. The take of the young girl at the centre of transphobic outrage at a match is a horror story, but this where transphobia takes people! #speirgorm
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
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‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniel Trilling · At Modern Two: Protest Photography
Although the events depicted in Resistance are familiar territory for an exhibition concerned with social history –...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
‘“We are here, we are alive and we matter,” is the message so many of these images convey.
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
But, much like McQueen’s other explorations of British history, “Resistance” leaves it to us to work out what that legacy means today.’
@trillingual.bsky.social reviews.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change.
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
November 12, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Ambivalent Activism: Working with Contradiction, Hesitation and Doubt for Social Change.
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
Join us for the launch of 'Ambivalent Activism', an essential read for anyone engaged in #Activism.
📚Find the book: https://ow.ly/RxAY50XqxHe
📍Dec 10, 3:00 PM: https://ow.ly/BKog50XqxHm
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I meant to post this a few weeks ago. Thanks for the great conversation @matthew.flux.community!
Deva Woodly on how political change is made--and how it isn't
YouTube video by Theory of Change
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November 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I meant to post this a few weeks ago. Thanks for the great conversation @matthew.flux.community!
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Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
4 days of strikes begin tomorrow at Imperial College London over real terms pay cuts
Imperial College London staff will down tools tomorrow in a fight for a fair pay award, the University and College Union (UCU) confirmed today
www.ucu.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Strikes start today at Imperial.
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
2% below-inflation offer, misrepresented benchmarking, and levelling down parental leave, while billions are spent elsewhere.
Stand with staff and show your support.
www.ucu.org.uk/article/1426...
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Absolutely insane news from Egypt, where award-winning human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer has had his terrorism designation renewed for another five years.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Absolutely insane news from Egypt, where award-winning human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer has had his terrorism designation renewed for another five years.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
Mohamed was pardoned by Sisi in July 2023 after being prosecuted and after serving jail time for his work as a lawyer.
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"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
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Thanks so much to our FE members for the solidarity!
Listen to Suzi and get your votes in!
Listen to Suzi and get your votes in!
Posted this 3 years ago. Extremely disappointing to see the employers are still at it. Shameful cuts and redundancies, pay erosion and casualisation of the academic workforce. Get your votes in!
November 24, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Thanks so much to our FE members for the solidarity!
Listen to Suzi and get your votes in!
Listen to Suzi and get your votes in!
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Join us for a discussion between climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, and acclaimed sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou
Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.
www.versobooks.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Join us for a discussion between climate theorists Andreas Malm and Wim Carton, and acclaimed sci-fi writer Kim Stanley Robinson on the new front lines in the struggle for a liveable planet.
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...
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New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
November 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New publishing opportunity!
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
The London Record Society are looking for someone to edit a volume based on the archive of the Working Ladies' Guild, which supported impoverished women in late nineteenth-century Britain.
Further information and contact details in the text below.
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'Kurdish women’s activism in Iran: struggle for re-conquest of the public sphere' by Azad Rahim Hajiagha & Wendelmoet Hamelink
From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM
'Kurdish women’s activism in Iran: struggle for re-conquest of the public sphere' by Azad Rahim Hajiagha & Wendelmoet Hamelink
From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
From #Identities' latest issue 32.5, with #OpenAccess:
doi.org/10.1080/1070...
@nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine - Department of Sociology, Politics and International Relations
www.qmul.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 4:45 PM
QMUL is hosting the book talk of *Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism, and Race in Palestine* on 1st Dec. I’ll be attending it; booked my spot- lucky I get into London that afternoon.
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
Cast an eye and come meet the editors. It’s an important book!
www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/res...
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Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.
The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune
This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.
fortune.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.