Senel Wanniarachchi
@senelw.bsky.social
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Oxford Anthropology. Interested in theory, resistance, anticolonialism, nationalism, the works.
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-senel-wanniarachchi
https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-senel-wanniarachchi
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Prof Clare Hemmings interviewed for Affective Socities blog ⬇️
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
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After Affects, Future Feelings – Clare Hemmings in Conversation
A lot has happened since notions of affect first emerged as a theoretical concept and took hold across the humanities and social sciences. The contours of what was then still confidently called Theory...
affective-societies.de
November 5, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Prof Clare Hemmings interviewed for Affective Socities blog ⬇️
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
affective-societies.de/2025/sfb-117...
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
affective-societies.de/2025/sfb-117...
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview.
"when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again."
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again."
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview
Airline says singer’s defiant interview breached its policy on politically sensitive or controversial subjects
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:31 AM
British Airways pulls Louis Theroux podcast sponsorship after Bob Vylan interview.
"when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again."
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
"when Theroux asked if Vylan stood by the chant and if he would do it again, he said: “Oh yeah. Like what if I was to go on Glastonbury again tomorrow, yes I would do it again."
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...
King’s College London accused of putting the life of a second-year student at risk by withdrawing his visa sponsorship after pressure from a pro-Israel lobby group.
He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
King’s College London Withdraws Pro-Palestine Student’s Visa, Risking His Torture, After Pressure From Israel Lobby Group | Novara Media
EXCLUSIVE: KCL suspended Usama Ghanem after pressure from the pro-Israel Campaign Against Antisemitism, despite knowing he would be sent back to Egypt where he was previously imprisoned and tortured. ...
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October 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
King’s College London accused of putting the life of a second-year student at risk by withdrawing his visa sponsorship after pressure from a pro-Israel lobby group.
He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
He would have to return to Egypt – where he is likely to be imprisoned and tortured.
novaramedia.com/2025/10/22/k...
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Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan.
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F. Zahrah Rizwan | Transgender Sex Work in Sri Lanka: The Politics of Nachchi Sex Workers. Kaushalya Ariyarathne. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
F. Zahrah Rizwan is a doctoral student in the Women’s Gender & Sexuality Studies Department at Ohio State University, USA. Her research interests include exploring the intersections of colonialism, ra...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Kaushalya Ariyarathne breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and sex-work in South Asia, beyond binaries of victim-hood and empowerment, in a fine ethnographic account of #SriLanka's #Nachchi, writes Zahrah Rizwan.
polity.lk/f-zahrah-riz...
polity.lk/f-zahrah-riz...
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Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse.
Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
A mouse in a cage – a feeling for the rights of another species -
Is medical testing on animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues while there are no easy answers, humans can learn a great deal from the life of a laboratory mouse.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Is the use of laboratory animals ethical? Carrie Friese argues that while there are no easy answers to this question, humans can learn a great deal by considering the seemingly faraway life of a laboratory mouse.
Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
Read more in @lseeuroppblog.bsky.social ⬇️
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Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
☎️ Call For Papers ☎️
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
🔹International Symposium: Far Right, Gender and Femonationalism🔹
Mid-March 2026, Lausanne
CRAPUL and CEG (UNIL) invite scholars to submit proposals for a three-day symposium on far-right politics and gender.
👉 Full CFP text: urlr.me/35GyhK
⏰ Deadline : 30th October 2025
October 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Thrilled to be part of the scientific committee for this amazing symposium on the relationship between far-right politics and gender. Send your proposals and share the CfP with your friends, colleagues, and broader networks! More info here 👇
How do we understand this moment where Europe’s largest LGBT+ rights organisation is endorsing Europe's largest Weapons Manufacturer in the midst of an ongoing colonial genocide?
Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.
Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.
September 18, 2025 at 8:58 AM
How do we understand this moment where Europe’s largest LGBT+ rights organisation is endorsing Europe's largest Weapons Manufacturer in the midst of an ongoing colonial genocide?
Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.
Presented this paper at a workshop at SOAS.
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The great historian Joan Wallach Scott writing for the Boston Review (@bostonreview.bsky.social); h/t @jvmoltke.bsky.social; #skystorians: www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review
The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.
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September 16, 2025 at 10:19 PM
The great historian Joan Wallach Scott writing for the Boston Review (@bostonreview.bsky.social); h/t @jvmoltke.bsky.social; #skystorians: www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...
14.09.2025, London.
September 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
14.09.2025, London.
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Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.
September 13, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Don’t recall BBC News leading with any of the myriad marches for Palestine, #PeoplesVote or #Rejoin. How very odd. How very strange. How very expected.
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My chapter on white, middle-class masculinities in UK national security policymaking is now open access:
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Gentleman-Bureaucrat Masculinities and UK National Security Policymaki
There has been a tendency for literature on masculinities, conflict, and security to focus on the masculinities of poor, racialised men in the Global South,
www.taylorfrancis.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:41 PM
My chapter on white, middle-class masculinities in UK national security policymaking is now open access:
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...
Nepal’s prime minister resigns after ‘Gen Z’ protests over corruption & nepotism sparked by social media ban. At least 19 killedby police brutality. Thousands storm the federal parliament building ..and set it on fire.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Nepal’s prime minister resigns after social media ban sparks deadly protests
Thousands joined ‘Gen Z’ demonstrations, which protesters said reflected frustration with ban and anger over alleged corrupt officials
www.theguardian.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Nepal’s prime minister resigns after ‘Gen Z’ protests over corruption & nepotism sparked by social media ban. At least 19 killedby police brutality. Thousands storm the federal parliament building ..and set it on fire.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!
📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
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September 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
We‘re inviting all LSE students, staff and alumni to attend our WELCOME LECTURE 2025!
📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
@rkdasgupta.bsky.social @sumimadhok.bsky.social
📩 Comment for details on how to attend!
www.lse.ac.uk/gender/event...
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Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
ESC General Assembly shows overwhelming support for motion; ESC Board denies vote
We, Criminologists for Palestine, are writing to express our profound shock at the decision of the European Society of Criminology (ESC) Executive Board to openly subvert the democratic will of its…
criminologists4palestine.wordpress.com
September 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Yesterday the President (Michele Burman) and Executive Board of the European Society of Criminology brought the society into disrepute by refusing to allow a vote on collaboration with Israeli academic institutions complicit in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Statement by Criminologists for Palestine:
Some pictures of people confronting the police state at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social protest in Parliament Square
September 8, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Some pictures of people confronting the police state at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social protest in Parliament Square
love this by the quakers: Statement of Policy on Provision of Trans Inclusive Facilities.
This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”
www.quaker.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 12:38 PM
love this by the quakers: Statement of Policy on Provision of Trans Inclusive Facilities.
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We‘re delighted to welcome Dr. Zuzana Dančikova (back) to the department as our new LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🥳
Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...
Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...
September 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
We‘re delighted to welcome Dr. Zuzana Dančikova (back) to the department as our new LSE Fellow in Gender, Policy and Inequalities! 🥳
Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...
Find out more about Zuzana‘s research and work here: www.lse.ac.uk/gender/peopl...