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Malcolm MacLean
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UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 2d
It is with sadness that we learned that Viola Fletcher, the oldest survivor of the Tulsa racist massacre, has died at the age of 111. Learn more about this event here: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1038...

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Jonathan Westaway @jonwestaway.bsky.social · 3d
'Greenlandic parents in Denmark are 5.6 times more likely to have children taken into care than Danish parents, according to the Danish Centre for Social Research, a government-funded research institute.'
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#KalaallitNunaat #Greenland #IndigenousRights #Colonialism
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Ewan Gibbs @ewangibbs.bsky.social · 4d
Resistance by Steve McQueen is an impressive and extensive exhibition exploring a century of British popular protest from suffragettes and hunger marchers to the demonstrations against the Iraq War.

It’s on at the National Gallery’s Modern Two in Edinburgh til after Christmas!

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 6d
There is some evidence in early boxing and prizefighting writing of awareness of 'punch drunk' but no matter the era sport records of injury are patchy and uneven by sport and country: Allyson Pollock unpacks this in her 2014 book about youth rugby in the UK www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Tackling Rugby
Every week young children are hospitalized on the playing fields of Britain. Yet this data is never collected, nor is there any concerted attempt to work out how to make sport safer. Using meticulous,...
www.versobooks.com

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Karim Zidan @karimzidan.com · 6d
Proud to feature @shireenahmed.bsky.social's latest on how World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest against Israel’s participation, whose team boasts active IDF soldiers.

www.sportspolitika.news/p/ultimate-f...
Ultimate Resistance
World Ultimate Frisbee players are mounting an unprecedented protest, warning that Israel’s participation—bolstered by IDF soldiers on the roster—could fracture the sport’s global community.
www.sportspolitika.news

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 9d
For over 150 years, trans people have used courts to change legal sex. While writing Before Gender, I found what may be the first case in the US: a formerly enslaved trans woman in Georgia in 1869. Her story shows that trans people found legal support long before the word transgender even existed.

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 10d
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
www.theguardian.com

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jich.bsky.social
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · 12d
Check out the recent #OpenAccess current debate 'Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law' by Nicola Perugini: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law
Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...
doi.org

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Ideas on Fire @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social · 15d
Congratulations to Ideas on Fire author Jodi Byrd @arsavium.bsky.social on the publication of Indigenomicon: American Indians, Video Games, and the Structures of Dispossession, out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! 🎉

dukeupress.edu/indigenomicon

#IoFAuthors
Cover of Indigenomicon, with a person in a shallow boat next to a river bank with plants, trees, and birds

malcomaxx.bsky.social
Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 15d
"To truly defeat Shein, we must radically re-evaluate and reorient our relationship to clothing."
France is at war with Shein. We should copy its tactics to defeat fast fashion | Nicole Lipman
The dirt-cheap clothing company has opened its first permanent store in Paris – and politicians and workers have united against it, says writer Nicole Lipman
www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 16d
'The global scientific community has been urged to adopt and support non-profit scholarly publishing models to help solve the problems caused by today’s predominant systems—described as “arguably the largest science crisis of all time”.' 1/3

Reposted by Jonathan Gray, Malcolm MacLean, Halil D. Kaya

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Sara Salem @sarasalem.bsky.social · 17d
I wrote this piece for @antipodeonline.bsky.social on street names as anticolonial traces, looking at Lusaka's map as a cartography of solidarity. Though these solidarities are less vivid today, I suggest these traces continue to hold revolutionary potential

antipodeonline.org/2025/11/06/c...
Intervention—“Cairo Road” - Antipode Online
Sara Salem, London School of Economics and Political Science Growing up in Lusaka, Zambia, I distinctly remember Cairo Road, one of Lusaka’s main thoroughfares named after the city my father was from....
antipodeonline.org

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The Spinoff @thespinoff.bsky.social · 17d
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
We’ve forgotten what universities are for
With New Zealand universities facing not only a funding crisis but a philosophical challenge to their role, the soul of tertiary education is at stake....
thespinoff.co.nz

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 18d
A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/11/fait...
A Retrospective of Trailblazing Artist Faith Ringgold Centers Narratives of Black Americans
Faith Ringgold is renowned for her story quilts, which combine fabric and embroidery with painted tableaux of scenes around Harlem and beyond.
www.thisiscolossal.com

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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 18d
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com

Reposted by Malcolm MacLean, Laurent Dubois, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · 18d
My latest @theguardian.com: As a genuine soccer fan & generational political talent, freshly elected NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani might be able to achieve the unthinkable: force the FIFA behemoth to share its lucre by targeting its tax exemptions & extreme privilege www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Zohran Mamdani has upended US politics. Now he should take on Fifa | Jules Boykoff
New York’s mayor-elect has taken on powerful institutions. With the World Cup taking place in his city, he should challenge Fifa next
www.theguardian.com

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 19d
22 authors in a new OA peer-reviewed article in Soc of Sport Journal:

Israel is committing *athleticide* in Gaza, "an indispensable component of the overall genocidal campaign enforced by the Israeli settler colonial regime and bankrolled by the US."

journals.humankinetics.com/view/journal...

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The Economist @economist.com · 20d
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22d
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
Reckoning With Empire at Britain’s Imperial War Museum
An exhibition at London’s Imperial War Museum offers a welcome corrective to the nostalgia for empire common among Britain’s elites.
jacobin.com

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 22d
alari.fas.harvard.edu/2025/11/01/h...

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24d
'In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China.' 1/3
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 24d
Pretty extraordinary story here
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....
China intimidated UK university to ditch human rights research, documents show - BBC News
Sheffield Hallam University apologises to Professor Laura Murphy for restricting her academic freedom.
www-bbc-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org

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Dr Rebecca Hall WakeProductions @wakerevolt.bsky.social · 24d
Im glad you asked!

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Self-Defense, Non-Violence and the Diversity of Tactics
(This essay was written in 2017) There is a lot of discussion about non-violence as a moral belief, as a strategy, and as a tactic. I often see the following claim: “Non-violence is the only valid app...
rebhallphd.org

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Associate Professor Siouxsie Wiles @siouxsiew.bsky.social · 26d
Morning peeps! I’ve written a piece for @thespinoff.bsky.social on why I ended up taking legal action against my employer and a little bit about how it played out. The whole story needs a book to tell but this is a good start 😂 thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1... thespinoff.co.nz/society/01-1...
Siouxsie Wiles: Why I’m crowdfunding despite winning my legal battle
'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'
thespinoff.co.nz

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · Oct 23
BANGLADESH: Key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality ratified following long union campaign www.industriall-union.org/bangladesh-r...
Bangladesh ratifies key ILO Conventions on safety and gender equality following long union campaign
Bangladesh has become the first country in South Asia to ratify ILO Conventions 190, 155 and 187, addressing violence and harassment, occupational safety and health (OSH), and the promotional framewor...
www.industriall-union.org

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · Oct 23
New in 'Transactions': 'Possible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763–1829' bit.ly/4oygf5V

@julialaite.bsky.social shows how overlapping maps highlight complexity of encounter with place over a coherence of colonial ideologies. What were peripheries of some people’s empires were centres of others' worlds 1/2
Opening page for the new Transactions article: 'Ppssible Maps: Newfoundland, 1763-1829'. Full abstract: "Islands have a disproportionate role – as strategic locations, as imaginative or symbolic locales, as extractive zones and as ecological bellwethers – in oceanic imperial histories. They were and are places of ‘great practical use and metaphorical power’. And yet Newfoundland was seen (and continues to be seen) as marginal and peripheral, even if the biomass that was pulled out of its ocean fed – quite literally – a global network of exploitation. This article uses four overlapping maps to tell four overlapping stories: James Cook’s circumnavigation of the island in 1763–8; Lt David Buchan’s trek into the interior to contact the Beothuk in 1811 and 1820; William Eppes Cormack and Joseph Sylvester’s trek across the island in 1822; and finally, a series of story-maps created by Shanawdithit, who is apocryphally known as ‘the last of the Beothuk’. In doing so, it draws in Indigenous ‘storywork’ and cartographic histories and makes a case for storytelling as powerful methodology for examining overlooked colonial histories. These maps and stories highlight the complexity of encounter with a place rather than a coherence of colonial ideologies. Through the stories these maps help me tell, I hope to show how the peripheries of some people’s empires were the centres of other people’s worlds." Extract from Julia Laite's new TRHS article with image of Clarence Brown's 'The Newfoundland Centred World' (1977), reproduced with permission from the Department of Geography, Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador.

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · Oct 23
Making sure Big Fashion brands pay their fare share of tax is a good effort. We have a lot of work left to do on workers' rights and wages across the sector, however: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reeves expected to scrap ‘low-value imports’ loophole that benefits Shein and Temu
Chancellor reportedly plans to close tax loophole in budget, after complaints by UK retailers of uneven playing field
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Vanessa @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · Oct 23
#jobfairy the short deadline suggests they may have someone in mind for this role already, but icymi Univ. of Auckland seeks a historian of Aotearoa New Zealand for a permanent position: deadline 31 Oct. 🗃️
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPD267/l...
Lecturer in Aotearoa New Zealand History at University of Auckland, New Zealand
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
www.jobs.ac.uk

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North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) @nassh1972.bsky.social · Oct 22
The #NASSH2026 Call for Paper & Session Proposals is available! The conference will take place in 2 locations from May 22-25, the University of Texas at Austin & the New College on the downtown St. George campus of the University of Toronto, along with a virtual option. #SportHistory #Skystorians
NASSH 20226: Call for Paper and Session Proposals
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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · Oct 22
I have been reminded of this excellent piece by @drdiongeorgiou.bsky.social & Matilda Fitzmaurice exploring the meaning of and forces affecting academic freedom; it's a useful reminder of the landscape and stakes involved: precarity, managerialism, coercive power, a hostile media ecology, and more
Academic freedom and the knowledge commons
By Matilda Fitzmaurice and Dion Georgiou This article represents an attempt to establish some basic, but contingent, principles on academic freedom. It does not put forward a ‘UCU Commons position’…
ucucommons.org