Yasmin Gunaratnam
@anilsghost.bsky.social
Writer, sociologist, yoga & mindfulness. Gaza & Colonial Aphasia https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00380261251333918
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“It’s not so much being lost for words. Though that too. More the sense of how our anticolonial criticality has become inexorably glitchy and unreliable.”
@anilsghost.bsky.social on #Gaza, sociologists and empire, and the imperative of situated knowledge.
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@anilsghost.bsky.social on #Gaza, sociologists and empire, and the imperative of situated knowledge.
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TY for sharing, the article is about the shattering of life by explosive violence!in Gaza & so a critique of situated know/l, part of a bigger thinking through of explosive whiteness, which includes how explosivity was honed in Europe, on other whites, before its colonial uses
Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals
'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'
'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'
I needed to write about psychic life and Palestine because I remain so angry with how deeply psychoanalysis as institution has been implicated in the horrors of the last two-and-a-half years www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 31, 2026 at 12:49 PM
Been waiting for this analysis & it requires re-readings. The citations alone stage 🔥 refusals
'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'
'Many of the models of loss that circulate inside and outside the academy do not adequately contend with the kinds of material, psychic, durational devastation inflicted through colonial brutality..'
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New #podcast 📻 Researcher+organizer Omar Jabary recounts how #infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism, as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Roads, electricity, water systems+ as sites of struggle.
January 30, 2026 at 3:17 PM
New #podcast 📻 Researcher+organizer Omar Jabary recounts how #infrastructures are constitutive of the logics of settler colonialism, as well as a vital terrain for land-based practices of anti-colonial resistance. rwm.macba.cat/en/podcasts/... Roads, electricity, water systems+ as sites of struggle.
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Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Join RPM editors at Declassified UK’s first summit ‘Challenging the War Machine’ at EarTH in London on Saturday 31st January 2026. For anyone interested in understanding the structures and systems that underpin the drive to war, and how we challenge it.
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Come along tomorrow (weds) for a sociological convo about the past year with @aaronwinter.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me, chaired by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?
I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?
28th January: Join our first Conversations Series of the year on Weds 28th Jan at 1pm: Where Are We Now? to reflect on 2025 and where hope might lie.
🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm
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🎙️ Speakers: Kirsteen Paton, Aaron Winter, Gholam Khiabany and Yasmin Gunaratnam
📅 Online 1-2pm
➡️ Get tickets: buff.ly/BkNjqjx
January 27, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Come along tomorrow (weds) for a sociological convo about the past year with @aaronwinter.bsky.social, Gholam Khiabany & me, chaired by @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social
I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?
I've been thinking about sociology as mutual aid. Maybe bring your whistles?
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OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
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Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
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January 1, 2026 at 11:15 AM
OUT NOW: the first 2026 issue of The Sociological Review journal.
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
buff.ly/lubHIf8
Featuring 12 new papers, of which 8 are open access, on subjects ranging from disability to citizenship, Gaza to Japan, care work to internet memes, and from death and bureaucracy to walking with Doreen Massey.
buff.ly/lubHIf8
A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (01/22/26)
Podcast Episode · Death Panel · 22/01/2026 · 1h 1m
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January 25, 2026 at 9:26 AM
A gem of a conversation on persistence in organisaing @deathpanel.bsky.social
Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Crips for eSims for Gaza w/ Jane Shi & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
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Rodney King
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God. Thank God we have video. Because according to DHS, these 7 heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against him or something. It's nonsense, people. It is nonsense and it's lies."
January 24, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Rodney King
Do respond to the government's consultation on these nasty proposals. Making settlement harder & longer undermines its own rhetoric on integration & use time to discipline & increase vulnerability
Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation
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Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation
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Guidance for responding to 'A Fairer Pathway to Settlement' consultation
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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January 24, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Do respond to the government's consultation on these nasty proposals. Making settlement harder & longer undermines its own rhetoric on integration & use time to discipline & increase vulnerability
Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation
www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Guidance below to help you respond to the consultation
www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...
Safe Haven Fellowship
For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war
5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project
Subsidised housing
Stipend
Reimbursement both outward and return travel
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For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war
5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project
Subsidised housing
Stipend
Reimbursement both outward and return travel
nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...
Safe Haven Fellowship | NIAS
NIAS Safe Haven Fellowships support scholars at risk by offering them temporary relocation and enabling them to continue their work.
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January 23, 2026 at 10:34 PM
Safe Haven Fellowship
For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war
5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project
Subsidised housing
Stipend
Reimbursement both outward and return travel
nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...
For scholars, writers, artists and journalists at risk due to conflict or war
5 month fellowship to pursue your individual research project
Subsidised housing
Stipend
Reimbursement both outward and return travel
nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...
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📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
ICE, resistance, and 'capitalism without humans' w/ Sarah Jaffe
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 01/20/2026 · 59m
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January 20, 2026 at 8:32 AM
📢 NEW EPISODE 📢 - @sarahljaffe.bsky.social on the murder of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the history of organising and protest in Minnesota (and the centrality of the Somali community to those efforts). We also talked about the entwinement of the tech industry with ICE and the surveillance state:
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Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
January 17, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019.
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:
'The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers'
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Breaking: Heba, Kamran, Lewie end hunger strikes after up to 73 days
Hebra Muraisi (73 days), Kamran Ahmed (65) and Lewie C have ended their hunger strikes, with several close to death.
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January 14, 2026 at 9:20 PM
'The decision to end their hunger strikes came as it was revealed that Elbit Systems UK was denied a vital £2 billion army training contract with the Ministry of Defence, a key demand of the hunger strikers'
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
"the offer of a fine equivalent to a parking ticket or a warning is both revealing and revolting...Revolting because it offers a fine like a sweetie – accept this sweetie, the offer states, and then stop asking us to get a moral compass”
🔴Protesters With Palestine Action Placards Handed £100 Fines Rather Than Face Prosecution
The levies, which are the equivalent of a parking fine, reveal the ridiculousness of attempts to prevent protesters from supporting the proscribed group, say campaigners
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/14/p...
The levies, which are the equivalent of a parking fine, reveal the ridiculousness of attempts to prevent protesters from supporting the proscribed group, say campaigners
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/14/p...
Protesters With Palestine Action Placards Handed £100 Fines Rather Than Face Prosecution
The levies, which are the equivalent of a parking fine, reveal the ridiculousness of attempts to prevent protesters from supporting the proscribed group, say campaigners
bylinetimes.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"the offer of a fine equivalent to a parking ticket or a warning is both revealing and revolting...Revolting because it offers a fine like a sweetie – accept this sweetie, the offer states, and then stop asking us to get a moral compass”
Forget the nostalgia for 2016, were back in 2013 & the Go Home vans
'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers.
It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers.
It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Home Office TikTok account posting deportation footage accused of turning ‘brutality into clickbait’
Video of raids and migrant arrests shared by profile with slogan ‘restoring order and control to our borders’
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January 13, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Forget the nostalgia for 2016, were back in 2013 & the Go Home vans
'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers.
It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
'The first 20-second video shows people handcuffed & escorted on to planes, & raids being carried out to arrest illegal workers.
It ends with a message reading: “And it’s just getting started.”
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
She says it's worth it and her mental health has been boosted by the regular sunlight and 15,000 steps she walks each day'
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My three-hour university commute is worth the £7,000 saving on halls - BBC News
Over a third of students choose not to live at university, latest figures suggest - but is it worth it?
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January 11, 2026 at 9:26 PM
She says it's worth it and her mental health has been boosted by the regular sunlight and 15,000 steps she walks each day'
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What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 PM
What did your family do in the General Strike? For our first annual print edition, Red Pepper will be covering the centenary of 1926 and we want to include some personal experience alongside the history. Email [email protected] with your story.
The European Sociological Association (ESA) Call for Papers for the 17th ESA Conference, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 25 to 28 August 2026
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European Sociological Association
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January 3, 2026 at 2:30 PM
The European Sociological Association (ESA) Call for Papers for the 17th ESA Conference, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 25 to 28 August 2026
europeansociology.org/event/72289c...
europeansociology.org/event/72289c...
Historical Materialism conference 2026 CFP, deadline 15th Jan
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Historical Materialism BCN – Historical Materialism BCN
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January 2, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Historical Materialism conference 2026 CFP, deadline 15th Jan
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historicalmaterialismbcn.net/historical-m...
'Across the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we see a particular kind of real estate development thriving in the absence of territorial integrity and sovereign political authority'
Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explored how the ideology of real estate finds geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a turn to unmediated accumulation, exemplified by the egregious “Gaza development plan.”
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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
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January 2, 2026 at 8:40 AM
'Across the Occupied Palestinian Territories, we see a particular kind of real estate development thriving in the absence of territorial integrity and sovereign political authority'
Samaher & her 6 children in Gaza are struggling to survive the harsh winter amidst severe shortages. Please donate whatever you can, it takes less than a minute using the link below
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This Christmas Help Samaher´s Family in Gaza Stay Warm
The situation in Gaza remains dire.
Aid entering the territory is extremely limited and far from sufficient to meet the needs of families who have lost their homes, livelihoods, and access to basic s...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Samaher & her 6 children in Gaza are struggling to survive the harsh winter amidst severe shortages. Please donate whatever you can, it takes less than a minute using the link below
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"A new culture of stifling dissent and self-imposed restraint is spreading across the academy, reinforcing and perpetuating silence"
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Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab
The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues with his wife back
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December 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"A new culture of stifling dissent and self-imposed restraint is spreading across the academy, reinforcing and perpetuating silence"
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"Hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have been enlisted to fight with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)"
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Colombian mercenaries in Sudan ‘recruited by UK-registered firms’
Exclusive Guardian investigation finds companies set up by people sanctioned by US hired Colombian fighters for Rapid Support Forces, widely suspected of war crimes in Sudan
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December 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
"Hundreds of former Colombian military personnel have been enlisted to fight with Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF)"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...