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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · 7d

Very sad that I'll miss the 6th Global Policy North workshop
@uofglasgow.bsky.social 6-7 Nov 2025 due to another longstanding commitment. CFP attached - do apply if you're working on global governance broadly conceived. it's pluralist and engaged in the best sense and lovely people too!

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · 14d

Starmer's lot are so crap at politics. I managed to fix the headline for the Guardian anyway

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · 24d

J. Loginovich & @docstushi.bsky.social provide a CPE perspective on HIC-based SDG governance. Developing the concept of 'ideological fit', they theorise the relationship between institutional diversity and neoliberal hegemony within the SDGs.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony‐Building?

This paper adopts a Critical Political Economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the success or otherwise of the UN Sustainable Development Goals’ (SDGs) Hybrid Institutional Complex (HIC). The paper take...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · 27d

@benjaminfaude.bsky.social kicking off the @globalpolicy.bsky.social journal event on the 10th anniversary of the SDGs: Celebrations or Commiserations

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · 27d

If you’re interested in the SDGs come and join us in Durham later today!

Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · Sep 2

The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).

Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.

Comments: Fariborz Zelli

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · Sep 2

The SDGs at 10: Please join us for a Special Section Launch event on Friday 12 September 14:00-17:00 (BST).

Contributions by Faude & @jacktaggart.bsky.social; @policyrelevant.bsky.social; @danxuu.bsky.social; K. Abraham; J. Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social; B. Reinsberg.

Comments: Fariborz Zelli

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 26

Currently not enjoying #EISAPEC2025 as I'm sat in Manchester T2 departures waiting for a delayed flight hoping I don't miss my connection

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Benjamin Faude @benjaminfaude.bsky.social · Aug 19

Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the SDGs, Julija Loginovic & @docstushi.bsky.social argue that the institutional diversity of the SDG HIC constitutes a way to reorganise inter-and intra-class relations to co-opt a greater variety of policy actors at multiple transnational scales.

Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Early View Article

United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?

www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 19

We build on Abbott & Faude's Hybrid Institutional Complex emphasising the socio-economic content not just institutional form. Huge thanks to @benjaminfaude.bsky.social & @jacktaggart.bsky.social for encouraging us to write this & Eva-Maria Nag for steering us through with @globalpolicy.bsky.social

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 19

Delighted to see this paper out, co-written with Julia Loginovic where we think about what the #SDGs mean. Rather than concern for their apparent failure we argue they do exactly what they're supposed to: commodify and socialise ever more parts of the world under so-called "neoliberal" hegemony ...

Global Policy @globalpolicy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Early View Article

United Nations 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals: Hybrid Institutional Complexes as Hegemony-Building?

www.globalpolicyjournal.com/articles/cli...

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 15

which refuse to subsidise dissent. So now, with columns in the Times and the Standard , he finds himself reduced to chitchat; his home, inevitably, is in the stretch of NW1 where all the members of his garrulous class seem to live. www.theguardian.com/theobserver/...

The ultimate insider

Just as I was about to accuse Simon Jenkins of personifying the Establishment, he outwitted me by denying that such a thing any longer existed.

www.theguardian.com

Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 15

Before the intelligentsia was declared redundant, Jenkins had hoped to join its ranks. At university, he wanted to become an academic. 'In those days, that seemed a glittering career,' he said with a grimace, acknowledging the way the universities have since been cowed by governments

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 15

As Simon Jenkins scrambles yet another thousand words on something he knows very little about, I have to ask – why?

I wonder whether the Guardian has ever thought of asking someone who actually knows about universities to write something?

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

As thousands more teenagers scramble for university places, I have to ask – why? | Simon Jenkins

Student debt increasing, graduate salaries dropping, high-skilled jobs thin on the ground – higher education in the UK is a mess, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 14

Celebrating the youngest getting into university on the 'wrong' side of the Pennines with six and half hours of two blokes playing records
soundcloud.com/resident-adv...

RA.1000 DJ Harvey & Andrew Weatherall

Andrew Weatherall's first official posthumous mix. The only b2b DJ Harvey ever agreed to. Six hours at Trouw. The rarest of rare for RA.1000: this one's special. When mulling which direction to go in

soundcloud.com

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · Aug 12

My reminder as I work on my 2025-2026 goals

A light purple note that says "STOP SAYING YES TO SHIT YOU HATE" on a silver background

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 13

Polling at Labour HQ must be really bad if they're already putting this out.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Labour to revive Northern Powerhouse Rail project

Starmer and Reeves expected to announce move before Labour conference, with aim of boosting backbench morale

www.theguardian.com

Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 4

Inaugural workshop of the UK Curiosity Network

This workshop marks the beginning of a new effort to connect researchers with shared interests in curiosity and related themes.

👉 Read more & register: www.curiosity-battery.co.uk/uk-curiosity-network [curiosity-battery.co.uk]

Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Aug 2

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 30

Northern UK university researchers - Call for papers - Global Policy North Workshop, University of Glasgow, 6-7 November 2025

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ironically the btl comments rather proving Ha-Joon Chang’s point www.ft.com/content/9aab...

Economics teaching has become the Aeroflot of ideas

The discipline is failing students by ignoring the biggest social, political and ecological challenges facing the world today

www.ft.com

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 26

would that be #FuckItFriday?

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 26

I still mourn the loss of wunderlist and my endless search for an alternative

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jul 25

k but Things is actually really neat

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Jul 25

just like buying a new empty notebook, switching todo apps will *definitely* make me more productive

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UoM Politics @uompols.bsky.social · Jul 21

In July, Members of Politics Department co-hosted and attended events connected with EU Citizens Gathering in Manchester.

Left to right back row: Dr Stuart Shields, Dr Silke Trommer, HE Pedro Serrano, Prof Olga Onuch, Front: Prof Toni Haastrup.

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Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 12

must be somewhere in the vinyl vs digital sound quality debate ;)

Stuart Shields @docstushi.bsky.social · Jul 12

delighted to be a geriatric Italian

Benzie, the puppies Penn & Teller, and Richard @rdaily.medsky.social · Jul 11

Coffee

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