Claire Blencowe
@claireblencowe.bsky.social
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Professor of sociology at Warwick. Critical scholar of cultural and religious racism, extractive industries, racial capitalism, planetary crises & power/knowledge. Wanabe devotee of oceans, birds, & hope.
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Super excited to discuss my new book Spirits of Extraction:Christianity, settler colonialism and the geology of race with these fantastic people! If you're at RGS_IBG on Friday please join us!
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📢Our Racism, Resistance and Social change series publishes the most challenging scholarship on race, racism and ethnic relations - mapping their shifting forms in the contemporary age and recognising anti-racism as an intellectual and social movement.

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Promotional image featuring three new titles in the Racism, Resistance and Social Change book series from Manchester University Press. Red background. Background image is a photograph of protestors raising their fists in solidarity. Book covers from left-right: Spirits of extraction, Islamophobia, antiracism and the British left, and The ethics of researching the far right.
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Research Fellow @jbrigstocke.bsky.social explores how communities in Brazil’s favelas establish forms of everyday community authority in response to the authoritarian violence of police and criminal groups. www.flipsnack.com/leverhulmetr... @cardiffuni.bsky.social
Screenshot of newsletter page. Title: Nonauthoritarian authority in stigmatised urban communities. Image: Demonstrators holding banners on a street in a favela, lined with small tin-roofed shops and many overhead electrical cables.
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The book explores the intersecting genealogies of biopolitical racism, evangelical Christianity, cultural genocide and the extractive industries in the context of British Empire zooming in on Methodists and miners in Bristol, Cornwall, and Anishinaabewaki/Upper Canada.
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So happy to have this book finally winding it's way into the world. So many thanks and love to everyone @manchesterup.bsky.social @sociowarwick.bsky.social, and the students, friends and family that have carried it along its way.
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💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.
Book cover for Spirits of extraction.
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💥Spirits of extraction by @claireblencowe.bsky.social provides a history of the role of Christianity in the expansion of the extraction industries, British imperialism and settler colonialism in #Britain and #Canada.
Book cover for Spirits of extraction.
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Hello BlueSky! I'm moving beyond my Musk induced social media paralysis and looking forward to getting to know this space.