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Ben Pitcher

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Director of the Centre for Social Justice Research UofW. I work on the cultural politics of race. Latest book: Back to the Stone Age: Race and Prehistory in Contemporary Culture www.benpitcher.com

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I certainly am. Watch this space, etc., etc.

13.06.2025 06:46 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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#ICYMI: “Why are the soldiers hurting Palestinian children?” Parenthood, identity and culture during #genocide.

Ala Sirriyeh’s look at how the war on Gaza has affected children and parents across the Palestinian diaspora is among the Magazine’s #2024mostread.

https://buff.ly/3VlVH3S

17.02.2025 12:18 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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UCU Westminster notes with dismay that two senior professors from the University of Westminster delivered keynote addresses to a conference at Tel Aviv University last November.

Read out full statement on Instagram: www.instagram.com/p/DGK3ZMStqYU/
or here: westminsterucu.craft.me/YTKHiJYOa8r0OG

17.02.2025 10:12 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 1

The most depressing thing about University Ranking Days is that it ignores the fundamental truth about UKHE:

Every department in every university is full of outstanding and original scholars.

Every. Single. One.

What distinguishes between them are the systemic inequalities in which they work.

07.09.2024 15:31 — 👍 406    🔁 116    💬 16    📌 11
Black text on a yellow page - article 'Thinking with Prehistory'

Black text on a yellow page - article 'Thinking with Prehistory'

'Thinking with Prehistory' is now out in Epoch issue 3.

'Across contemporary Europe there is a renewed interest in engaging with the ancient earthworks and megalithic artefacts of the prehistoric landscape'

Read or download here www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/m55zr...

03.07.2024 11:12 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Still from Mary Poppins featuring Mary, the children and Bert the chimneysweep on a rooftop

Still from Mary Poppins featuring Mary, the children and Bert the chimneysweep on a rooftop

Today's story about the BFI's reclassification of Mary Poppins on account of its reference to 'Hottentots' reminds me of this thing I wrote about the way that cultural change around race undermines the legitimacy of our own pasts sociologyatwestminster.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/m...

26.02.2024 11:52 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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