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Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Aug 11

#ERSNew 🐣🔓 What links Ugandan Asian refugees, a US multinational corporation that made its money from imperial warfare, a typewriter factory in Leicester, and a group of black revolutionaries? #1974ImperialTypewritersStrike. Article: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2539908

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks Ben!

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Aug 5

super happy that my article on Race Today and the Imperial Typewriters strike is out now and open access in @ersjournal.com!

doi.org/10.1080/0141...

Black struggles, black workers? Race Today and the 1974 Imperial Typewriters strike

In May 1974, around 500 ‘Ugandan Asian’ workers walked out of Leicester’s Imperial Typewriters factory. For the recently formed Race Today Collective (RTC), which published the radical journal Race...

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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · Jul 30

#OpenAccess in Transactions:

'Postimperial melancholia and the English North-South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' by @sazpaps.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky

Screenshot of a paper abstract in TIBG by Saskia Papadakis (2025) entitled: 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London'

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by London's ‘metropolitan elite’. Bringing together geographies of England's socio-spatial inequalities, emotional geographies, and postcolonial understandings of Englishness, this paper theorises the contemporary English North–South divide as a form of ‘splitting’, a psycho-spatial strategy born out of postimperial melancholia. In an attempt to contain the contradictory impulses towards helplessness and omnipotence produced through Britain's former global supremacy and its imperial decline, dominant imaginaries of England separate ‘good’ and ‘bad’ feelings and locate them in either the North or London, with implications for socio-spatial inequalities within the nation. Reading life stories recorded with women of colour from the North of England who are living in London through Avtar Brah's conceptualisation of England as a ‘diaspora space’, this paper destabilises binarised imaginaries of North and South. Contributing to geographies of race, class, and nation, this paper demonstrates that, through an attentiveness to individual biographies, identities, and experiences, the binaries of migrant and native, past and future, North and South, are rendered untenable.

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · Jul 31

Goodbye to the history department at Lancaster University, where the @socialhistsoc.bsky.social was founded 49 years ago. From tomorrow we are
part of a School of Global Affairs. Next year, who knows what will be - please sign our petition against mass redundancies chng.it/PZfTFDjNcr

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Jul 25

Great to be interviewed for the @rgsibg.bsky.social Ask the Geographer podcast series! Toby Butler and I chat to Rachel about oral histories and research. It's a lovely resource for A Level students and anyone interested in how oral history can be used in geography!

Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London @rhulgeography.bsky.social · Jul 14

Oral History of the Environmental Movement project researchers Toby Butler & Saskia Papadakis went on the Royal Geographical Society’s 'Ask the Geographer' podcast to talk about Using Oral Histories for Research.

www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and...
#RHULGeogResearch #RoyalHolloway #oralhistory

Screenshot of the webpage www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/departments-and-schools/geography/oral-history-of-the-environmental-movement-project/project-blog/using-oral-histories-for-research/

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Jul 22

thank you sol!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jun 9

🚨 Lincoln Uni staff vote to strike after nearly 300 redundancies announced.

🔺 86% backed action
🔺 95% no confidence in management
🔺 220 jobs already lost last year

Send your support and solidarity to @uculincolnbranch.bsky.social

www.ucu.org.uk/article/1404...

University of Lincoln staff vote for strike action

Staff at the University of Lincoln have voted to take industrial action in a dispute over plans to threaten nearly 300 staff with redundancy, the University and College Union has announced today.

www.ucu.org.uk

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Jun 9

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

North of England lost out on £140bn for transport in ‘decade of deceit’ – study

Thinktank calls on ministers to close investment gap after ‘hollow’ promises from previous governments

www.theguardian.com

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Jun 9

with reports that the north of england has missed out on £140bn of transport spending over the past 10 years, i've written about how the imagined white working class northern man is linked to infrastructural violence and the north-south divide
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

The myth of the white working-class Northern man

By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…

blog.geographydirections.com

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · Jun 3

new blog! on why everyone is obsessed with the idea of the white working-class northern man!
this continues to be depressingly relevant with reform in the ascendant, starmer's 'island of strangers' and blue labour's attacks on EDI 🙃🙃🙃
blog.geographydirections.com/2025/06/03/t...

The myth of the white working-class Northern man

By Saskia Papadakis, Royal Holloway, University of London In 1999, Prime Minister Tony Blair dismissed the English North-South divide as a ‘myth’. Calling the North-South divide ‘simplistic’, he po…

blog.geographydirections.com

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 26

Sign the petition against redundancies at @newcastleuni.bsky.social! Totally unnecessary and hugely damaging to staff, students, the uni, and to geography and other affected disciplines. All solidarity with @newcastleucu.bsky.social
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Sign the Petition

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London @rhulgeography.bsky.social · May 22

🎉 New Journal Article Alert

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... by @sazpaps.bsky.social

#RHULGeogResearch #royalholloway #royalhollowayuniversity #rgs_ibg

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Sarah Marie Hall @smhall.bsky.social · May 22

Please show your solidarity for Disability Studies colleagues at Liverpool Hope, who've recently been informed of plans to cut their team by half.

Open letter to sign:

docs.google.com/document/d/1... [docs.google.com]

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University

An Open Letter from the Disability Studies Community Regarding Proposed Redundancies at Liverpool Hope University To the Leadership of Liverpool Hope University, We, members of the international Disab...

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 21

Ah thanks Jack, that's very sweet of you! Go hard or go home, that's what I say 😂 Glad you're enjoying the article 💖

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 21

last week i published a journal article for the first time and i fainted for the first time! a week of firsts. luckily the journal article will have the more lasting impact! read it now on @tibg.bsky.social
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · May 16

🚨 NEW 🚨

We don't believe the EHRC's 'interim update' on trans people's rights is lawful.

So we’re bringing a legal challenge

We're bringing a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’

A number of trans and intersex individuals have today begun a legal challenge to the EHRC’s ‘Interim Update’ following the For Women, Scotland decision

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 13

Thanks Oli!

saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 13

Massive thanks to @kbrickell.bsky.social, Beth Greenhough, @benrogaly.bsky.social, @sashaengelmann.bsky.social and @naoisemurphy.bsky.social who helped make this happen! And to the British government and press for continuing to make this project depressingly relevant by constantly hating on migrants

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 13

It's out! It's here! My first ever journal article 'Postimperial melancholia and the English North–South divide: Reading the life stories of Northern women of colour in London' is out today with @tibg.bsky.social 🤩
rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library

The trope of the English North–South divide has come to frame a plethora of national crises in recent years, with the supposedly white working-class North understood as having been ‘left behind’ by L...

rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Oli Mould @olimould.bsky.social · May 1

NEWS!!! If you're in #Glasgow in June and want to hear about the history Scottish environmental movement, we've assembled a 'witness seminar' of activists and policy makers, and the event is public - get your free ticket here:

www.tickettailor.com/events/oralh...

Select tickets – Witness Seminar - Oral History of the Environmental Movement - Glasgow – Graham Hills Building, University of Strathclyde, 40-50 George Street, Glasgow

How has the Environmental Movement developed in Scotland? A Witness Seminar. We invite you to observe a Witness Seminar explori...

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Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · Apr 22

Amidst the bleakness, I've just published an article exploring how young trans people are dealing with life in the UK @geographers.bsky.social. Do read to understand more about how trans youth are navigating & thriving in these times. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exploring Young Trans and Non-binary People’s Strategies and Spaces for Navigating Marginality in the United Kingdom: A Novel Resilience, Resistance, and Restoration Framework

Amid recent, unprecedented sociopolitical scrutiny and hypervisibility of young trans people in the United Kingdom, this article considers how trans youth develop individual and collective mechanis...

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · May 2

Super chill lunch break with colleagues outside the offices of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Glasgow 🥰

Photo of people protesting outside a Victorian building. A woman wearing jeans and t-shirts stands on steps speaking into a megaphone. Two people hold a trans flag, and others hold placards that read: trans people belong here.

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Ruth Pearce @notrightruth.bsky.social · Apr 26

Just announced by a coalition of Glasgow groups - lunchtime protest outside the local office of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, opposing their call for trans segregation. Friday 2nd May, 12pm-2pm.

Against segregation - protest the EHRC. 2nd May, 12pm, 140 West George Street Glasgow

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saskia papadakis @sazpaps.bsky.social · May 2

proud to have signed - thank you to everyone who put this together 💙🤍♥️ look forward to @rgsibg.bsky.social taking a stand to protect trans people

Jay Todd 🏳️‍⚧️ @jaytoddgla.bsky.social · May 1

This morning, 533 academic geographers have written to @rgsibg.bsky.social calling for them to respond to UK Supreme Court and EHRC events, and take action to protect trans and gender diverse members of the geographical community and people across the UK. Please share docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter to RGS on Supreme Court and EHRC events April 2025

Dear Professor Dame Jane Francis and Professor Joe Smith, Re: The response of the Royal Geographical Society to the April 2025 Supreme Court ruling and EHRC interim update We are currently witnessing ...

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