Miranda Iossifidis

We co-wrote a book and it’s out in the world now! Reading Science/Fiction: Practices, Pleasures and Publics.

It explores the relationship between reading science in fiction and engaging with science. Find out more here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Silence is complicity

We would not have had 100000 people at a far-right demonstration without Starmer's appalling leadership

Silence is thus unsurprising and what matters now is whether those who actually care accept this and turn to real alternatives rather than give Starmer yet another chance

A Q&A with media scholar Hanna E. Morris on her new book, ‘Apocalyptic Authoritarianism’ In their obsession with the “moderate center” have some journalists become unwitting tools of apocalyptic authoritarianism?

It's a real honor to be featured in the latest podcast episode by @drilledmedia.bsky.social -- a climate news media platform I greatly admire. You can checkout my interview where I discuss Apocalyptic Authoritarianism here: drilled.media/news/hanna-m...

Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power Abstract. In Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power, media scholar Hanna E. Morris reveals how national anxieties following the 201

🚨new book alert! 🚨 'Apocalyptic Authoritarianism: Climate Crisis, Media, and Power' by our very own alumni affiliate, @hannamorris.bsky.social 📚 Read the e-book here: academic.oup.com/book/59887

Daniel Trilling · Is this fascism? As the historian Ian Kershaw says, trying to define fascism is ‘like trying to nail jelly to a wall’, yet for all...

New piece: been working on this for the best part of a year. But really it's trying to draw on everything I've seen and thought about since I first started reporting on far right politics in the late 2000s. Online now and in tomorrow's LRB.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Sign the Petition End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University.

Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks.

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Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...

Tomorrow: Palestine, a sociological issue thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

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“Sink the boats – Save the world”: Ecobordering narratives on the British far right - Undisciplined Environments Many far-right groups claim that migration drives environmental destruction, from river pollution to climate breakdown. These ‘ecobordering’ narratives greenwash racism and cover up the political...

Read this article by Cable Collective on ecobordering narratives and the British far right

undisciplinedenvironments.org/2025/04/22/s...

How to Have a Trade Dispute Over Funding In Higher Education · Zoom · Luma A cross-branch UCU online meeting in support of a trade dispute with the Secretary of State for Education over the current funding model. Supported by: Queen…

​HE is in crisis. Join an online cross branch @ucu.org.uk meeting 10 April 6-7:30pm BST to develop a strategy for a dispute with Sec of State for Ed to tackle funding @qmucu.bsky.social @goldsmithsucu.bsky.social @ucuessex.bsky.social @ducu.bsky.social @kclucu.bsky.social lu.ma/a0vv0sjb?tk=Av7h7B

Hello, I’d like to join please :)

Looks amazing!

if you're coming to the AAG In Detroit, drop by and say hi at the zine fair !! we will have so many wonderful zines for you to take home and read and share with friends :)

A digital graphic with a red and blue colour scheme comparing MP Chi Onwurah’s stance in 2023 and 2025. On the left, a red-tinted photo of Chi Onwurah from 2023 is paired with a speech bubble that reads: “Why is this Government making it so hard for our kids?” On the right, a blue-tinted 2025 photo of Chi Onwurah appears with a red speech bubble containing a zipper-mouth emoji (🤐), implying silence. A large blue arrow points from the 2023 quote to the 2025 image, with bold text reading: “What changed?” The background features faded images of protest banners, and the years "2023" and "2025" are prominently displayed next to Chi Onwurah’s name.

📢 What changed, Chi? 50% of kids in Newcastle live in poverty! In 2023, @chionwurah.bsky.social asked why the government was making life so hard for kids. But in 2025, with a new government in power, the policies keeping children in poverty are still in place!

Image is of a pink, yellow, green background In black text at the top it says DIsabled People Against Cuts planned actions including DPAC Colour logo There are black arrows that shows where planned protests are across the country Cardiff Actions planned in Derry Northern Ireland Darlington North East Exeter Devon Edinburgh Scotland Leeds London Manchester Margate Newcastle Norwich Swansea York

#WelfareNotWarfare

The planned protest list against disability benefit cuts keeps growing

Awesome to see disabled people organising & mobilising against Labour’s planned disability benefit cuts

Please use #WelfareNotWarfare & repost all the links

Hi Aaron, I couldn’t attend because Iris was off sick, I hope it went well, do you know if it was recorded?

Traversing Harlem, New Cross, the Cairngorm mountains, histories backwards & forwards. The persistent injustices in our cities. With & through sound, music, art, books, words & friendship. Precious stories about Les & Paul Gilroy’s early Goldsmiths days! Picket lines & thinking devices. Thanks, Les

In Newcastle to speak at this the BSA event Coping, Thriving Progressing? What Happens After ‘Early Career’. www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b... Also, going to do a ‘This Cultural Life’ conversation with the inimitable Miranda Iossifidis for the Sociology Seminar.

Donald Trump clapping in his hands in front of an oil refinery

Interested in knowing more about the links between far-right movements, fossil businesses, and environmental issues? On 12 February (2pm-5pm GMT) we organise an online workshop with an INCREDIBLE line-up of speakers...

It’s the final day we can send in our ballot @newcastleucu.bsky.social to be in a position to collectively decide how what action we take in the face of proposed redundancies and changes that would transform the university for staff and students. Don’t stick your head in the sand!

Zines printed and ready to go! “Care, Temporality, Justice” a collective zine made from the speculative climate futures zine workshops. Beautiful cover by Mack Sproates & participants. Also inside, radical imagination & envisioning exercises by Bethan & making activities by Mack.

📣 Critical Research on Reactionary Politics starter pack 📣

Researchers who work to tackle the rise of exclusionary, authoritarian and reactionary politics in an intersectional manner (racism, sexism, LGBTQ+phobia, classism, ableism etc)

Work in progress (see below) 👇

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Our webinar with @crexuio.bsky.social and CASEI on positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies is coming up this Thursday. Check out all the details and registration info below.

1. What the far right is(n't) - Omran Shroufi 2. Race, racism, and the far right: Critical reflections for the field - Kurt Sengul 3. When racism seems to be the hardest word: Critical reflections from studying the Lega (Nord) - George Newth 4. Violence and the far right: Our ethical duty to the othered - Ryan Switzer 5. Ecofascism, far-right ecologism and neo-Malthusianism - Miranda Iossifidis

Section 1, “What’s in a Name?”, engages with key terminological debates which have been core to the discipline for decades, but seeks to push traditional discussions further by weighing the impact of our choice of words

@kurtsengul.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, @mirandaioss.bsky.social