Candida Yates
@profcand.bsky.social
Professor Emerita of Psychosocial and Cultural Studies, Bournemouth University. All views are my own.
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Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
January 21, 2026 at 12:48 AM
Moriarty: "A police officer of color who was off duty was boxed in by ICE - she's a citizen - they demanded to know who she was & see her papers. She was going to try to record it & they ripped the phone out of her hand. That happened to a cop. That's what's happening here on the streets of MN."
Join us on Thursday 12 June at the beautiful garden of the Freud Museum in London for a very special theatrical workshop (rehearsal and live analysis + Q&A) on Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in a fractured world.
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London
A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and
www.freud.org.uk
June 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Join us on Thursday 12 June at the beautiful garden of the Freud Museum in London for a very special theatrical workshop (rehearsal and live analysis + Q&A) on Shakespeare's Pericles: Prince of Tyre - a manual of reconciliation in a fractured world.
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
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Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
May 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Congratulations to the editors of this exciting new collection, which interrogates psychosocial studies as a scholarly praxis of “creative disruption”. Including a playful piece of my own about Brexit, drawing on @profcand.bsky.social work on political culture: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
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This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
May 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This sums the whole situation up quite nicely.
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A reminder for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group - 6pm tonight! Please join us to discuss the allure of fascism in liberal societies, with Alasdair Cannon and @profcand.bsky.social
Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon
Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
May 1, 2025 at 11:56 AM
A reminder for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group - 6pm tonight! Please join us to discuss the allure of fascism in liberal societies, with Alasdair Cannon and @profcand.bsky.social
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If you know, you know
April 21, 2025 at 8:19 AM
If you know, you know
Delighted to be taking part in this international theatre workshop in the beautiful garden at The Freud Museum London, 12 June. Come and join us! www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
Uncanny Shakespeare: Distance and Reconciliation in 'Pericles' - Freud Museum London
A special theatre workshop, organised by The Freud Museum in partnership with Bournemouth University’s Centre for the Study of Conflict, Emotion and
www.freud.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Delighted to be taking part in this international theatre workshop in the beautiful garden at The Freud Museum London, 12 June. Come and join us! www.freud.org.uk/event/uncann...
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Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
The Allure of Fascism: Infinite Discontent with Alasdair Cannon
Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Alasdair Cannon on the allure of fascism in contemporary societies.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
April 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Please join us for our next reading group! Writer and podcaster Alasdair Cannon will be presenting a psychosocial perspective on fascism, based on his timely new book. Thursday 1 May, 6pm.
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
@profcand.bsky.social @tjfielder.bsky.social @heidis-ann.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-allure...?
With reference to the film Adolescence, Debbie Ging’s excellent article on the gender scripts of patriarchal masculinity and the contradictions between the exp of male fragility and the performance of toughness- leading to violence www.thejournal.ie/readme/adole...
How fragile we are: Why Netflix drama Adolescence is essential viewing for everyone
Debbie Ging says the new Netflix drama series is a call to liberate boys from toxic gender scripts.
www.thejournal.ie
March 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
With reference to the film Adolescence, Debbie Ging’s excellent article on the gender scripts of patriarchal masculinity and the contradictions between the exp of male fragility and the performance of toughness- leading to violence www.thejournal.ie/readme/adole...
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Exciting things are happening for APS 2025 @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social
More details coming soon!
More details coming soon!
February 22, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Exciting things are happening for APS 2025 @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social
More details coming soon!
More details coming soon!
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” he said at the time. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains … We want to put them in trauma.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Dreams under fascism, and paralysis:
"Between 1933 and 1939, the journalist Charlotte Beradt compiled The Third Reich of Dreams ... the paralysis theme was possibly the most recurrent and striking"
Zoe Williams in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Zoe Williams in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The new world order is exactly what it looks like. Are we too frozen with fear to name it? | Zoe Williams
The truth is paralysing. But after JD Vance met the far-right leader Alice Weidel in Germany, it is time to be clear about what we are seeing, writes Zoe Williams
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Dreams under fascism, and paralysis:
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Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
Performing (Post) Pandemic Grief: Prof Fintan Walsh
Join us for our next APS online reading group, with Prof Fintan Walsh on responses to death and loss in (post) pandemic theatre.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 5, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Do join us for the next @assocpsychosocial.bsky.social reading group on 19 Feb! Prof Fintan Walsh will be presenting his latest research on theatre, performance and post-pandemic grief @noreengiffney.bsky.social @profcand.bsky.social @jacobjohanssen.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/performing...
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My god, if you'd told me 15 years ago that the British press and establishment would be mesmerised by the antics of a needy overgrown man-child ... What foolishness. We were supposed to have had our great debate about sovereignty - tell him to piss off & get on with the real business of politics.
January 7, 2025 at 10:03 AM
My god, if you'd told me 15 years ago that the British press and establishment would be mesmerised by the antics of a needy overgrown man-child ... What foolishness. We were supposed to have had our great debate about sovereignty - tell him to piss off & get on with the real business of politics.
Trolling the UK: the issues enraging Elon Musk, world’s richest ‘pub bore’.
January 4, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Trolling the UK: the issues enraging Elon Musk, world’s richest ‘pub bore’.
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On the history side it would be 19th/early 20th century politics/economic history
On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology
On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology
January 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
On the history side it would be 19th/early 20th century politics/economic history
On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology
On pol sci it would be comparative govt/sociology
Another piece that highlights the contemporary relevance of Richard Hofstadter’s essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ -characterised by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy”’
Donald Trump’s election campaign seemed more fuelled by conspiracy theories and moral panics than ever
There are no easy solutions to the rampant conspiracy theories in today's politics, write Dan
Davison and Sacha Marten
https://buff.ly/3DvfPew
There are no easy solutions to the rampant conspiracy theories in today's politics, write Dan
Davison and Sacha Marten
https://buff.ly/3DvfPew
December 29, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Another piece that highlights the contemporary relevance of Richard Hofstadter’s essay ‘The Paranoid Style in American Politics’ -characterised by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy”’