@alfnilsen.bsky.social
“Revolutions are true as movements and false as regimes.”
The programme for CASA’s third annual symposium - “Engaging Stuart Hall in/from the global South” - is ready, and it is 🔥🔥🔥
Check it out below!
Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.
https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia
I had a great time at the University of Amsterdam this week, teaching a workshop on how to turn a PhD dissertation into a book, and giving a lecture about my new book Southern Interregnum — thanks to Tommy Tse and his team for hosting me :)
13.09.2025 11:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yay! I finally got my hands on @marcusrediker.bsky.social’s new book.
Diving into one of his texts is always a combined intellectual, literary, and emotional (because human!) experience ❤️
Now excuse me while I dig in 🤓
The World Bank says it can fight poverty through technical solutions. But poverty is inherently political ✍️ @alfnilsen.bsky.social
Read the story 💰⤵️
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Our new Alternative Reading List is out!
Check out fantastic new books on pressing issues.
Featuring @drdconlon.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @alfnilsen.bsky.social @samklug.bsky.social @giselacm.bsky.social @mona-ali.bsky.social & many not on BlueSky!
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It's publication day for this beast today!
A comparative conjunctural analysis of hegemonic projects in a crisis-ridden global South.
Check it out here manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526179791/
Congratulations to team @alfnilsen.bsky.social for this latest contribution to the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series with @manchesterup.bsky.social
03.06.2025 05:03 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Thanks to @alfnilsen.bsky.social , for the next three years I will be a research associate at the Center for Asian Studies in Africa at the University of Pretoria. Super excited for this!
16.06.2025 21:30 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Book No.10 in the @manchesterup.bsky.social series Progress in Political Economy (PPE) by team @alfnilsen.bsky.social on nascent forms of inter-imperial rivalry and emerging powers in the global South @abieler.bsky.social @monicaclua.bsky.social @angelawigger.bsky.social @garethbryant.bsky.social
23.06.2025 20:44 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
The PhD position for my project with @somdeepsen.bsky.social
- on diasporas and right-wing nationalism is currently being advertised --- please share far and wide!
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We are now accepting applications for the PhD position in my project with @alfnilsen.bsky.social . Deadline is April 21st
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
As we wrapped our symposium last Friday, one of the speakers said to me: "Do you realize we haven't mentioned the US or Europe a single time in our discussions? We've thoroughly provincialized the global North, haven't we?"
That is something I count as an intellectual lifegoal.
Second academic skills session coming up this week - this one is focused on how to construct a valid argument in the social sciences.
Link to PPT here: www.academia.edu/128003064/AC...
Getting ready …
25.02.2025 14:51 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What can possibly go wrong ...
25.02.2025 06:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alright, alright, alright ... this is kicking off tomorrow, and I'm very excited!
Keynote by Achille Mbembe, presentations by fab scholars and legal practitioners, convos between fierce journalists, and super film screening 🔥
Folks, is there a working link for Libgen at the moment?
21.02.2025 10:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Behind every academic email saying "This is just a gentle reminder" ...
19.02.2025 10:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I've always really liked teaching academic skills, and this semester, I get to run a series of six skills sessions for our postgraduate students - starting this Friday, with the ABC of academic reading.
Happy to share the notes if they seem useful.
May God grant me the strength to bear with the contortions of the anthropologists ...
13.02.2025 00:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fresh off the press this morning - my new article on emerging powers and the political economy of the southern interregnum.
It’s Open Access - dig in!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Not really.
08.02.2025 13:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0You can’t beat the Right by being a slightly softer Right, exhibit 76436907 …
08.02.2025 07:38 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ngl, the conjuncture is very hectic right now.
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This time next week, I'll be at Yale-NUS College to do some "interregnum talk" -- friends in Singapore, please come through!
06.02.2025 07:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Michael Burawoy's death is just so utterly heartbreaking and hard to fathom.
His brilliance, energy, jovial kindness, curiosity, and principled and brave stances are all examples to follow for scholars everywhere.
Michael will rest in power.
So, these two great scholar-activists actually shared a birthday (3 February).
Theirs was a complicated relationship - "... Thompson made it clear that he hated Cultural Studies" (Hall/FS) - but I'm in awe of how consistently their thinking enabled insurgent epistemic gain.
I'm SO excited about CASA's second joint symposium with the Innovation Foundation for Democracy - "Making Democracy as a Community of Life: Transregional Dialogues across Asia and Africa" (26-28 February).
Check out our programme below, and RSVP here: tinyurl.com/yc2anc6c
