Jo Littler

@jolittler.bsky.social

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Prof @Goldsmiths @MediaComGold.bsky.social
📕📗: Left Feminisms, Care Manifesto, Against Meritocracy, Politics of Heritage
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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · Jan 27

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda

This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

read.dukeupress.edu

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · 7d

Well done to our PhD student @clareb82.bsky.social for writing so well in a range of different contexts including here in @bigissue.com about the benefit cap and single mothers www.bigissue.com/opinion/bene...

Benefit cap puts single mothers like me at risk of homelessness and destitution

As a single mother who works two zero-hour contracts and once faced homelessness, the benefit cap is a constant worry for Clare Bowen.

www.bigissue.com

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Mirca Madianou @madianou.bsky.social · 7d

'After Technocolonialism' - a book panel @mediacomgold.bsky.social to discuss 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' published by @politybooks.bsky.social with Helen Kennedy, @andreamedrado.bsky.social Nirmal Puwar & @jolittler.bsky.social November 26th, 5-7pm, all welcome! ⬇️

After Technocolonialism

A panel discussion about the book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' with Helen Kennedy, Jo Littler, Mirca Madianou, Andrea Medrado and Nirmal Puwar.

www.gold.ac.uk

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · 11d

"How smart became the new hot online" - includes quotes from our MCCS Prof @jolittler.bsky.social

www.newsweek.com/social-media...

How smart became the new hot online

Performing intelligence has come into Vogue amidst declining literacy rates and concerns about the impact of AI.

www.newsweek.com

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 20d

Reposted by Cas Mudde, Naomi Klein, Colin F. Camerer , and 7 more Cas Mudde, Naomi Klein, Colin F. Camerer, Steve Peers, W. Andy Knight, Caroline T. Schroeder, Stuart White, Jo Littler, Richard M. Carpiano, John Fabian Witt

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 5: Vito Marcantonio

There are many who dismiss our vision for New York as impossible. To them, I say we need look only to our past for proof of how we can shape the future.

Tomorrow is Election Day. And this is the final Until It's Done of our campaign.

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · 23d

@andreaschatzidakis.bsky.social

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International Journal of Cultural Studies @ijcs-journal.bsky.social · 26d

We are presenting the most cited articles in the International Journal of Cultural Studies in the last three years. This week's article is “An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19”, authored by Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler.

Most cited articles in the last three years. An anatomy of carewashing: Corporate branding and the commodification of care during Covid-19, Andreas Chatzidakis and Jo Littler (University of London, UK). volume 25, issue 3-4, 2022

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 29d

“Forget about the polls. Go into the last eight days of this election assuming you are five points behind.”

You heard the man: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

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MvBZ Gender Studies FU Berlin @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social · Oct 24

📅 Save the Date:

🎥 POWER, REPRESENTATION, RESISTANCE.
Feminist Media Studies at 50: A Workshop with Leading Scholars
Hannah Curran-Troop, Rosalind Gill, @jolittler.bsky.social & @lennartspion.bsky.social

🗓 Nov 7, 2025 | 🕙 10:00–12:00
📍 JFKI, Room 203

registration: https://f.mtr.cool/frmeigfsqh

Reposted by Dorothy Bishop, Jo Littler, Christina Pagel

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Oct 23

We're facing a political emergency: a high likelihood of an shamelessly authoritarian government in 2029. So we urgently need this basic safeguard: a codified constitution.
This week's column explains what we're missing and why it's so important.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We must act now: without a written constitution, Reform UK will have carte blanche to toxify our nation | Goerge Monbiot

It means breaking with hundreds of years of tradition, but it can’t wait. As hard-right figures spread division and laud autocrats, a fail-safe is vital, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · Oct 22

Here’s an interview I did for the S Korean newspaper @hankyoreh.bsky.social on meritocracy, authoritarianism etc in preparation for the event tomorrow on futures of democracy

english.hani.co.kr/arti/english...

[Interview] Politics of care as an antidote to divisions caused by meritocracy

Asia Future Forum: Next Democracy | Jo Littler of The Care Collective discusses how merit has been used to sow fear and assault democracy

english.hani.co.kr

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Nela Smolovic Jones @nela-smolovic.bsky.social · Jul 21

Thrilled to see the announcement for our new journal, Feminism and Organization, I will be co-editing with @profalisonpullen.bsky.social, and a legion of superb feminists around the globe everyone would be honoured to work with: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/new-journal-... @bupjournals.bsky.social

Bristol University Press

bristoluniversitypress.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · Jul 1

Labour MP Rachael Maskell close to tears as she 'pleads' with the government to abandon planned welfare cuts

'These Dickensian cuts belong to a different era and a different party', she said

How on earth has it come to this?

Reposted by Jo Littler

Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Jun 20

What a wonderful degree show opening yesterday...!

It's on all weekend and open to all, so come and see the fantastic student work in film, documentary, sreen fiction, audio, animation, journalism, promotional media, scriptwriting, creative writing, photography...

www.goldsmithsmediashow.com

Reposted by Sabine Pahl, Jo Littler

ProfKFH @profkfh.bsky.social · Jun 19

Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

Colorful quilt of a nighttime scene with Harriet Tubman in an orange jacket and purple dress carrying a rifle. She is leading other figures who walk behind her.

Reposted by Jo Littler

Miro Born @miroborn.bsky.social · Jun 18

My new article in @city-journal.bsky.social argues for a critical understanding of the meritocratic ideal among urban researchers. In particular, it explores the consequences of how this ideal is reproduced in stigmatised neighbourhoods:
doi.org/10.1080/1360.... @lsemethodology.bsky.social

Meritocracy from below: dreams, divisions, and the struggle for merit in a stigmatised neighbourhood

The ideal of a meritocratic society continues to exert significant normative power in political and public discourse, including in discussions about marginalised spaces and neighbourhoods. However,...

doi.org

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Cllr Liam Shrivastava @liamshrivastava.bsky.social · May 28

🚨Amiel & Melburn Lecture 2025

A special panel discussion on 'Resisting the rise of the Radical Right' with @zarahsultana.bsky.social, Costas Douzinas, Rob Topinka, @kojokoram.bsky.social, @irrnews.bsky.social, @afoggyplace.bsky.social

🗓️Wed 2 July
🕠17:30PM
📍Birkbeck University

INFO & REGISTER 👇

Annual Lecture 2025: Resisting the rise of the radical right - Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust

Join us on Wednesday 2 July 2025 with Costas Douzinas, Liz Fekete, Rob Topinka, Zarah Sultana MP and Kojo Koram. Chaired by Esther Leslie.

amielandmelburn.org.uk

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · May 24

“Blue Labour rhetoric likes to imagine that everyone in the UK who isn’t a blue-haired postgraduate is a churchgoing industrial worker, desperate to turn back the clock on multiculturalism and trans rights.”

Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · May 24

labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...

'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList

Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.

labourlist.org

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · May 24

labourlist.org/2025/05/blue...

'Progressivism or bust: Why Blue Labour is the wrong answer to Reform surge' - LabourList

Callaghan lost the support of his own base while losing the 1979 election to Thatcher. Any Labour government that tries to follow the Blue Labour formula is likely to end the same way.

labourlist.org

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ProfAFinlayson @profafinlayson.bsky.social · May 22

Missed this last month: welcome evidence that somebody in the Democrats has a clue about digital politics (and recognition that in the US as in the UK liberal, progressive and left political groups are still about a decade behind. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

Opinion | I Worked for Harris and Biden. Here’s the Missing Link for Democrats.

www.nytimes.com

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · May 21

thank you so much! It was such a good event

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Simon Gray @protexblue.bsky.social · May 21

Highlight of my day/week: Hearing @jolittler.bsky.social talk about inequality, including highlights from her 2017 book, "Against Meritocracy".
The talk was so provocative, thought-provoking and inspiring that I now have an immense amount of thinking and reading to do now. Wonderful feeling.

Jo Littler gives a lecture about inequality; behind her is a slide featuring highlights from her book "Against Meritocracy"

Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · May 20

thank you!

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Anna Marchi 🌈 @journolinguist.bsky.social · May 20

an excellent discussion with @jolittler.bsky.social about the myth of meritocracy, with hugely quotable pearls such as: "threads of truth within this
quilt blanket of mystification". I recently got Jo Litter's brilliant book Against meritocracy #openaccess here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...

Reposted by David M. Schultz, David Dunning, Don Ross , and 12 more David M. Schultz, David Dunning, Don Ross, Jānis Stirna, Peter Campbell, Kris Inwood, Andrew L. Rypel, Elizabeth Stevenson, Bhuva Narayan, Nancy K. Baym, Jo Littler, Jonathan Marks, Noel D. Johnson, Melanie Williams, Ailsa Cox

Rachael King @rachaelking70.bsky.social · May 20

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · May 20

5 yrs after the publication of The Care Manifesto, the Care Collective - incl Catherine Rottenberg + @jolittler.bsky.social, both @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - reflect on post-pandemic systematic 'care-stripping' across the political stage:
@versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/...

Care-stripping: Beyond the Pretence of Care

Five years ago, we published The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence. It was a small volume that provided a large overview of what we described as the ‘structural carelessness’ of our worl...

www.versobooks.com

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · May 20

What does #sociology have to say about #gender and #class in 2025?
Is academic life any easier for working-class women than it was three decades ago?

📺 WATCH Bev Skeggs, @jolittler.bsky.social and @michaelacbenson.bsky.social in the first of our new Conversations series.

buff.ly/x6b6rzi

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Over The Top Under The Radar @overunderpod.bsky.social · May 16

We are the people who Wipe Your A**es! 🏥

@GaryYounge reflects on his Mother’s experience in the NHS as an Immigrant Worker… @nadinewrites1.bsky.social

🎧 Listen To The Full Episode - linktr.ee/overthetopun... (LINK IN BIO) 🔗

This episode is sponsored by @powertochange.org.uk

Reposted by Jessica A. Gephart, Jo Littler

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · May 16

(Reuters) - Food rations that could supply 3.5 million people for a month are mouldering in warehouses around the world because of U.S. aid cuts and risk becoming unusable, according to five people familiar with the situation.

www.reuters.com/world/us-aid...

Exclusive: US aid cuts leave food for millions mouldering in storage

The food stocks have been stuck inside four U.S. government warehouses since the Trump administration's decision in January to cut global aid programs.

www.reuters.com

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Jeremy Gilbert @jemgilbert.bsky.social · May 13

Here's me and @profafinlayson.bsky.social talking on a podcast. Come for the analysis of the UK local government election results; stay for the 300-year history of liberalism and its current, possibly terminal, crisis.
culturepowerpolitics.org/2025/05/13/t....
You can listen online or subscribe.

The Crisis of Liberalism (and the 2025 UK local elections)

Alan Finlayson returns for an in-depth discussion of the crisis of liberalism as an effective and legitimate philosophy of government, as exemplified by the success of the right-wing populist Refor…

culturepowerpolitics.org

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