Lars Cornelissen
@lcornelissen.bsky.social
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Researcher, editor, teacher Author of *Neoliberalism and Race* (https://bit.ly/46bn07F) Blogs at *Keeping Up With the Neoliberals* (https://bit.ly/3IhsnJk)
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Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!

Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A picture of eight copies of Neoliberalism and Race, sat on a wooden side table next to a plant
lcornelissen.bsky.social
Author’s copies of my book have arrived! It looks even better IRL!

Neoliberalism and Race will be coming out mid-October with @stanfordpress.bsky.social
A picture of eight copies of Neoliberalism and Race, sat on a wooden side table next to a plant
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rafeefz.bsky.social
Why is Palestine a defining fault line of 21st‑century politics? Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler‑colonialism within imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism—not just humanitarian / legal narratives. Officially out & available in paperback & ebook www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
www.versobooks.com
lcornelissen.bsky.social
(2/3) ... For reasons I haven't been able to reconstruct, the first five or so volumes of the MQ sported on its back cover an advertisement from the University of Edinburgh asking alumni to donate money towards the upkeep of the uni's estate and facilities.
At no time in our history has the need for higher education been greater: at no time has the demand been more insistent, or the requirements more exacting. The scope and content of many aspects of scientific learning has more than doubled in the course of a generation; and with the growth of science a corresponding efficacy in the processes of general and humane education has become essential.
The University of Edinburgh, conscious of the immensity and responsibility of its task, is painfully aware that its physical assets, in the shape of laboratories, classrooms, ancillary accommodation, and the necessary equipment, are inadequate and out of date. 
These things cost money. Though much will be provided from Government sources, the University itself will have to meet the cost of a substantial part of its building programme, which, over the next few years, will involve the expenditure of many millions of pounds.
To this end it is making an Appeal to all its graduates and friends, and has aiready raised more than £363,000. Still more is required if our young men and women are to have the education they desire and deserve.
All contributions will be most gratefully acknowledged, and full information on the University's needs and plans, with advice on methods of contributing, will gladly be sent on application to the Secretary to the University, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, 8
lcornelissen.bsky.social
(1/3) Apropos of the University of Edinburgh's report on its historical relations to slavery, colonialism, and race science:

For the first years of its existence, The Mankind Quarterly was published and printed in Edinburgh, which is where its editor, the intellectual fraud Robert Gayre, lived...
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"Snowdon’s is a knee-jerk reflex calculated to protect the neoliberal project and some of its most precious philosophers from what he perceives to be a smear campaign."

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The Neoliberals Read Slobodian
So You Don’t Have to - #2
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rachelkbright.bsky.social
This is my cat. In other news, if you have a chronic illness or identify as disabled and are in the UK, I've just co-founded a new support group, AccessingArchives. Instagram: www.instagram.com/aarchivesnet.... You can sign up here: forms.gle/5o8m8Jy9ux4B...
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lcornelissen.bsky.social
Wrote a post about Lionel Robbins and race.

After stumbling on a pair of surprisingly incendiary early pieces on race and population, I found that Robbins had a career-spanning interest in differential fertility rates.

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Robbins on Race
Notes from the Archive - #1
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lcornelissen.bsky.social
Yeah I saw; it's bleak!

The books I'm thinking of are:
(1) Woodley & Figueredo tinyurl.com/24h9f6j3
(2) Dutton & Charlton tinyurl.com/2z63wp78

Maybe this isn't too surprising given that Richard Lynn was one of the original signatories to the IEA's declaration of intent for an independent uni
lcornelissen.bsky.social
I knew it was going to be the Uni of Buckingham even before I saw the full poster. Buckingham, that famous bastion of politically neutral science whose university press published two literal eugenics textbooks in the last 15 years
lcornelissen.bsky.social
PS. I'd say that Eysenck wasn't so much 'accused' of eugenics as a card-carrying eugenicist - he'd been a fellow and even active officer of the Eugenics Society since the 40s!
lcornelissen.bsky.social
Great writeup! I've been doing some research in the LSE archives over the past month that happens to speak to the Eysenck incident. Fascinating to see how university management and governors spoke internally about the issue; a real sign of things to come in decades to follow
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I've accidentally wound up doing a mini-lecture tour of London this week & in case anyone is desperate to hear two very different perspectives on the history of Newfoundland, here they are. First, at Gresham (there are tickets left for the live stream) ... www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World
Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death of her world in the early nineteenth century, creating the only first-hand account we have of the Beothuk people from the Island of Newfoundland....
www.gresham.ac.uk
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cibled.bsky.social
I wrote a report with @cmmonwealth.bsky.social on the current corporate push to privatise outer space - one of the few remaining commons of humanity (dixit international law)
cmmonwealth.bsky.social
🚀 Space: The Final Frontier ... of privatisation?

🌕 Our new report warns of the nebula of billionaires & corporate interests attempting to privatise outer space.

🖊️ Carla Ibled on why the left should fight to protect the status of space as a commons.

www.common-wealth.org/publications...
Star Wars: Why the Left Should Protect the Status of Space as Humanity’s Commons | Report | Common Wealth
Wealthy countries and corporations are seeking to rewrite international law to undermine the neutrality of space and privatise its land and resources.
www.common-wealth.org
lcornelissen.bsky.social
Congrats Carla! Good to see this out in the world