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Out now: Issue 87 Palestinian geographies | Authoritarian Starmerism |queer Ukraine | Chinese capitalism | neoliberal mutations | feminist schooling | institutionalised forgetting | historicising Southall | bitter homecomings | the effluent society journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

In the (open access) Editorial, 'Change under an authoritarian sign', Dave Featherstone dissects Starmer's authoritarian statism: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

'A map without guarantees: Stuart Hall and Palestinian geographies' by Hashem Abushama is the The Stuart Hall Foundation 's prize-winning essay, reprinted in full #OpenAccess here: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Debs Grayson Uni of East London In 'Resisting racial police warfare through radical histories', Jasbinder Nijjar Brunel University of London focuses on the work of Southall Resists 40 (SR40), a community-led project in West London that highlights long histories of problem policing: journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Debs Grayson Uni of East London Brunel University of London @acumbers John Clarke The Open University asks: how can we situate Starmer in the current conjuncture? By considering its 'fiscal realism'; a ‘value-led’ project; Starmer’s version of managerialism; the celebration of ‘working people’; and its reworking of ‘race’ journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

I reviewed John Clarke’s book ‘The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture’. (The review is open access here) TL:DR : it’s not a long book & you should read it

Read Hannah Curran-Troop's review of This is Not a Feminism Textbook in Soundings Journal journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Ahead of #LabourConference24 - my thoughts from a year ago on what a Labour government could mean for higher education. From Soundings Journal and open access journals.lwbooks.co.uk/soundings/vol-…

Change under an authoritarian sign Starmer looks set to entrench the Tories’ erosion of civil liberties, but the lack of ideas could allow the left to shape the agenda. Labour Hub publishes the latest editorial from Soundings Journal by  Dave Featherstone. labourhub.org.uk/2024/09/24/cha…

Essential reading from the latest issue of Soundings Journal: Hashem Abushama outlines multiple geographies of Palestine, from the infrastructure of settler colonialism to practices of resistance, starting from Al 'Arub camp where he grew up. Download here: bit.ly/4dMRs8s

Great to read these generous and thoughtful repsonses by Kathi Weeks, Francesca Sobande, Janet Newman, Alison Hearn and Kate Soper to 'Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal + the Political' in FeministTheory - #OpenAccess here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Fully funded PhD project working with the Doreen Massey archives (!) at the Open University in partnership with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) 😍 w/ @ColinLorne Carry van Lieshout Benjamin Newman Applications due before Jan 7, 2025: oocdtp.ac.uk/making-geograp…

The geography of Israeli settler colonialism; queer perspectives on the war in Ukraine; the experiences of Afghan ‘returnees’; and the familiar pattern of UK Labourism, Review of Soundings Journal 87 (2024) eurozine.com/layers-of-disp…