hannah
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Lead Judge, James Tait Black Prize for Fiction
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hannah
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
· Aug 11
Planting Palestine: Food, environment, and the arts of solidarity - Hannah Boast, 2025
This article identifies an ‘environmental turn’ in contemporary Palestinian arts and activism. It argues that environmentalism, mediated especially through food...
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I have a new article out today. It's about an environmental turn in Palestinian arts and activism, and how environmental framings of Palestine and the Palestinian struggle enable different forms of identification and solidarity: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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Librarian
The Library of the Scott Polar Research Institute is one of the most comprehensive collections of published polar information in the world. This highly specialist reference collection, which attracts
www.cam.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The @scottpolar.bsky.social are looking for a librarian. This is a rare opportunity! Work with (probably) the world's largest dedicated polar library alongside archive and museum colleagues. The dream 😍
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House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.
BBC Parliament - Select Committees
Coverage of select committee proceedings at the Palace of Westminster.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
House of Commons Education Committee on Universities and the threat of insolvency starts its last session at 10:00.
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Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
November 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Nottinghamshire MPs have written to @uniofnottingham.bsky.social, urging the university to reconsider proposed course suspensions and potential closures, which would significantly impact staff, students, and our wider city and county.
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Another weekend drafting this book, I finally understand when authors say they're sick of reading and revising their own work and would rather do anything else. I am there.
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
Publisher Not Found: A Decade of Disruption by 404 Ink — 404 Ink
What really goes on behind closer doors in publishing? After ten years of running their own award-winning company, 404 Ink, McDaid and Jones-Rivera call time on their venture and invite readers into t...
www.404ink.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Another weekend drafting this book, I finally understand when authors say they're sick of reading and revising their own work and would rather do anything else. I am there.
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
But at least I can punt the book at last! Preorder! Royalties going to other small presses!
www.404ink.com/store/p/inkl...
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And who could not then believe in sea gods and portals to the other world (thanks @dgplacenames.bsky.social for sharing)
November 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
And who could not then believe in sea gods and portals to the other world (thanks @dgplacenames.bsky.social for sharing)
The power of the meat and dairy industry, directing European lawmakers about what we can call our food 🙃 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Ban on veggie ‘burgers’: plant-based products may lose meaty names in UK under EU law
Exclusive: Trade agreement means UK is subject to some food labelling rules, with vote on vegetarian food terms this week
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The power of the meat and dairy industry, directing European lawmakers about what we can call our food 🙃 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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30 years ago this month Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were executed for protesting oil extraction by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
November 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM
30 years ago this month Ken Saro-Wiwa and the Ogoni 9 were executed for protesting oil extraction by Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
This poem written for Sister Majella McCarron connecting the anti-colonial 'hunger for justice and peace' from Ireland to Nigeria.
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UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
Join us tomorrow at the Parliament for a staff and student rally against the cuts!
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 PM
UCU Edinburgh strike rally. 1pm, Wed 19 Nov, on the concourse outside the Scottish Parliament. Speakers from @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social UCU, Unite and Unison branches at the university and students #StopTheCuts #StopStaffCutsatUoE
wishing (again) that I hadn't lent out my copy of the collected Dykes to Watch Out For, because I would like to post some of the Madwimmin Books vs Barnes and Noble strips today
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
wishing (again) that I hadn't lent out my copy of the collected Dykes to Watch Out For, because I would like to post some of the Madwimmin Books vs Barnes and Noble strips today
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Defence has apologised after it accidentally leaked secret documents to The Ferret revealing it was considering Grangemouth and other sites across the UK for new arms factories.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4i5MZSg
Read the full story: bit.ly/4i5MZSg
November 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The Ministry of Defence has apologised after it accidentally leaked secret documents to The Ferret revealing it was considering Grangemouth and other sites across the UK for new arms factories.
Read the full story: bit.ly/4i5MZSg
Read the full story: bit.ly/4i5MZSg
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We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Anger as Waterstones snaps up prime site on doorstep of independent bookshop
UK's biggest bookselling chain under fire over plans for new store beside Edinburgh tram line.
www.heraldscotland.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
We need your help.
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
(1/2)
@waterstones.bsky.social, without any direct communication with us, will be opening their 6th Edinburgh branch less than 100 metres from our front door at the Foot of the Walk in Leith.
Please read on for more information
www.heraldscotland.com/news/2562908...
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Argonaut takes the risk of opening a beautiful, independent, community-oriented bookshop in Leith, then big chain @waterstones.bsky.social comes in, having done none of the work, to try and steal their market. I will always support indie bookshops, especially my local @argonautbooks.bsky.social!
Argonaut Books needs your help 📣
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
Waterstones are set to open a store less than 100m from the indie bookshop's front door.
Full info on @argonautbooks.bsky.social's Insta: www.instagram.com/p/DRMULI1jCI...
November 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Argonaut takes the risk of opening a beautiful, independent, community-oriented bookshop in Leith, then big chain @waterstones.bsky.social comes in, having done none of the work, to try and steal their market. I will always support indie bookshops, especially my local @argonautbooks.bsky.social!
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If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?
MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
November 17, 2025 at 1:02 PM
If Edinburgh Uni, with no operational deficit, gets to sack 1800 people, imagine what this will signal to more fiscally challenged Scottish universities?
MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
MSPs need to realise that this is more than a local crisis – we need urgent public scrutiny of Edinburgh’s governance.
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Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
November 17, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Pickets all over Edinburgh this morning! From Old College to King's Building, Edinburgh UCU staff are saying NO to job cuts!
I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
November 17, 2025 at 10:58 AM
I'm on strike for the next three days in protest at my employer's refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of their cost-cutting vision for a radically diminished university. My school makes a healthy profit, most of which goes back into central coffers, yet still we're told to save more.
looking online to see what Scout Niblett - Staffordshire's greatest export - has been doing lately (not much in public, it seems), and came across this lovely review of an old show: 'these are songs full of space, with no wasted motion' joyzine.org/2018/11/27/l...
Live Review: Scout Niblett + The Legend! at The Victoria, Dalston - Joyzine
It's been quite some time since our paths have crossed, but Scout Niblett, winner of our first ever single of the year way back in 2003, has always maintained a special place in our hearts and we ente...
joyzine.org
November 17, 2025 at 10:45 AM
looking online to see what Scout Niblett - Staffordshire's greatest export - has been doing lately (not much in public, it seems), and came across this lovely review of an old show: 'these are songs full of space, with no wasted motion' joyzine.org/2018/11/27/l...
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Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an author, and ways of making co-translation equitable.
arablit.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Translation, Politics, and Solidarity
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
In this “BETWEEN TWO ARABIC TRANSLATORS” conversation, Yasmeen Hanoosh and Michelle Hartman discuss how the conceptual framework of solidarity raises important questions about translation, what it means to share (or not share) political commitments with an…
Seems odd to say that Zionism has a 'reformulated myth of the Black rapist' at its core, when the whole tradition of monstering Arab male sexuality seems more relevant (see...Orientalism)
November 17, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Seems odd to say that Zionism has a 'reformulated myth of the Black rapist' at its core, when the whole tradition of monstering Arab male sexuality seems more relevant (see...Orientalism)
haven't prepared for my seminar yet but have written a long and almost certainly pointless speech about ChatGPT
November 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
haven't prepared for my seminar yet but have written a long and almost certainly pointless speech about ChatGPT
even though I'm from a place that regularly had disastrous floods, and continued to live in places with the same problem as an adult, I still find charts of rising water levels exciting
Quite a spike on the river levels already and plenty more rain due today.
waterlevels.sepa.org.uk/Station/14868
waterlevels.sepa.org.uk/Station/14868
November 13, 2025 at 8:37 AM
even though I'm from a place that regularly had disastrous floods, and continued to live in places with the same problem as an adult, I still find charts of rising water levels exciting
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Today the British union IWGB said it has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar Games for firing 30+ employees two weeks ago, as Bloomberg first reported. Rockstar said the employees were leaking information. The IWGB calls it union-busting. More to come as the legal process plays out...
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today the British union IWGB said it has filed formal legal claims against Rockstar Games for firing 30+ employees two weeks ago, as Bloomberg first reported. Rockstar said the employees were leaking information. The IWGB calls it union-busting. More to come as the legal process plays out...
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Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library):
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
In praise of small presses: Ireland's indie publishers celebrated
Ahead of the inaugural Dublin Small Press Fair this November, co-founders Tim Groenland and Éireann Lorsung salute a golden age for independent publishing in Ireland.
www.rte.ie
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Me and @eireannmor.bsky.social have a few words on @rte.ie about small presses, the "rich forest of independent publishing," and the Dublin Small Press Fair @dublinsmpressfair.bsky.social (28/29 November, Pearse St library):
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
www.rte.ie/culture/2025...
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American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.
Please support and share this petition to help save American Studies teaching at The University of Nottingham. Staff are facing redundancy. The expertise that would be lost would be monumental. Please sign.
c.org/26qjPmffNy
c.org/26qjPmffNy
This campaign needs you now
SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM
c.org
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.
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Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide):
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Any journalists interesting in covering/following can DM here or contact me at pdkmitchell at gmail dot com. The most recent BBC and ITV coverage is here (CW: violence, femicide, suicide):
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.itv.com/news/tyne-te...
Strange to see my granddad looking out from the centre of this photo of workers at Donisthorpe Colliery (black hat, hands at his chest)
November 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Strange to see my granddad looking out from the centre of this photo of workers at Donisthorpe Colliery (black hat, hands at his chest)