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British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy

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Episode 5 - Publishing as an ECR: Rejection, patience and conversation ‘Publish or perish’ is something ECRs will hear consistently throughout their academic careers. But why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do? In this episo...

Why is there such a pressure to publish early, and is it always the right thing to do?

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow @fredpaxton.bsky.social and @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social discuss their different experiences with the publishing process as ECRs.

👉 Ep 5 #ConfessionsOfAnECR: tinyurl.com/yjkamh2a

10.11.2025 09:52 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Scholarship shapes structure. From the analysis of late colonialism to a mandate for urban change, the Mamdani legacy underscores that ideas do not stay in books and can be reclaimed in practice.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

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“May you inspire many and blaze a trail!”

05.11.2025 10:19 — 👍 43    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The person who pencilled in personal notes in this out-of-print library book about the liberal party with the word “crap” next to all the wild claims that the author makes: YOU have made my day 😂

28.10.2025 16:12 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Autumn View 🍂 #CambridgeUL

27.10.2025 12:51 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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“Survival in an Age of Revolution”: Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, and Global Counterrevolution Abstract. While great effort has been invested in analyzing the role of revolutionary intellectuals in history, much less attention has been paid to the co

While great effort has been invested in analyzing revolutionary intellectuals, much less attention has been paid to the counterrevolution & its guides. My open access article published by @historians.org's AHR on Charles Malik, Philo-Colonialism, & Global Counterrevolution 👇🏼 doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

28.08.2025 16:51 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Writing chaos

24.10.2025 06:59 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Really enjoyed listening to this David! Very compelling.

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I enormously enjoyed this conversation with David Runciman about the history of compulsory voting, how it came to be adopted in countries like Belgium and Australia, and what it could for British politics today.

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Archives!

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Call for abstracts:
Workshop “Recovering Voices, Reimagining Archives” at SOAS next year

03.10.2025 09:34 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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PSA26 FAQs and Additional Information | The Political Studies Association (PSA) How can I stay up to date with announcements about PSA26? The dedicated webpage for PSA26 will include all the latest information, deadline dates and related links. PSA Members will also receive…

*PSA26 Annual Conference* - taking place 30 March - 1 April 2026, Oxford.
📍 Call for papers, registration fees, and FAQs information online.
📆 Paper proposal deadline: 17 October 2025
➡️ buff.ly/G6WTB20

26.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 0    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

@juliango.bsky.social

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Excited to see this in print with Cambridge University Press. A fantastic new volume on Anticolonialism and Social thought (Ed’s): Julian Go and Anaheed Al-Hardan. My contribution includes an intellectual history of Zweledinga Pallo Jordan drawing from archival work and an oral history interview.

23.09.2025 13:34 — 👍 16    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Thrilled to have been a part of the British Academy/Leverhulme podcast series!

22.09.2025 08:56 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Confessions of an Early Career Researcher: A new podcast by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust A new podcast for early-career researchers has been launched by the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust.

Confessions of an Early Career Researcher. We've released a new 'warts and all' podcast, in collaboration with @leverhulme.ac.uk which might be of interest to anyone thinking of starting a career in research
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/confess...

22.09.2025 08:31 — 👍 31    🔁 15    💬 2    📌 1
Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Justice Beyond Rights: Haqq and Global South Migration - Volume 119 Issue 3

Please follow my excellent colleague @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social! She is new to B-Sky but writes very many interesting (& methodologically innovative) things, including her new piece in @apsrjournal.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @ecpr-nptmethods.bsky.social @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social

18.09.2025 10:07 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

...So, please follow the account above, please SHARE this post, & please do also get in touch if you're keen 2 help out or take part in Rome: @biapt.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @psapolthought.bsky.social @ecpr.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social @apaphilosophy.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

16.09.2025 15:14 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

...It's really important that pol-phi has a substantial & growing place in the only pol-sci organisation devoted primarily to scholars working outside of the 'global north', but to do so we need help & followers, as well as those interested in coming to the beautiful city of Rome in July 2027...

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Announcement: I'm now Co-Chair of the IPSA Political Philosophy Research Committee @ipsa-rc31.bsky.social. Working with @humeiraiqtidar.bsky.social. Have joined up partly 2 ensure the group continues but also 2 massively grow its presence, starting with the next biennial conference in Rome (2027)...

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Genealogies of Modernity — Modernity after Alasdair MacIntyre Genealogies of Modernity remembers Alasdair MacIntyre

Modernity after Alasdair MacIntyre

genealogiesofmodernity.org/journal/mode...

11.06.2025 15:08 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
Special issue seminar: 'On the Politics of Recognition' (TH181)
YouTube video by Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Special issue seminar: 'On the Politics of Recognition' (TH181)

We held our first special issue seminar yesterday, hosted by Chris Allsobrook (guest editor) and featuring contributors: Abraham Olivier, Dimpho Maponya, Olerato Mogomotsi, Pedro Tabensky, Jane Gordon, and Andrea Hurst. The recording is available now: youtu.be/89dRcKNB4EY #politicaltheory #theoria

11.04.2025 09:39 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
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@lassethomassen.bsky.social @camilavergara.bsky.social @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social

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The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Islam Podcast Episode · Past Present Future · 26/01/2025 · 1h 3m

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Delighted that a book project I was working on will soon be out in print with CUP elements.

28.01.2025 20:31 — 👍 12    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Please do not follow the account below, it is a fake/ impersonation account. I have reported it.

06.01.2025 10:57 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The trouble with electronic student evaluation questionnaires is that they eliminate creativity. For example I once saw a hand written questionnaire in which the student objected to the lecturer’s paisley body warmer he always lectured in and drew a helpful illustration to support his complaint.

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Advocate Tembeka Ngucakaitobi at the #LSE human rights lecture tonight.

10.12.2024 23:01 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight at the London School of Economics Advocate Tembeka Ngcukaitobi delivers a tour de force lecture on the South African tradition of human rights with its distinct revolutionary genealogy and on South Africa’s ICJ case on the genocide in Gaza. #LSEhumanrights

10.12.2024 22:59 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Techniques of disappearance: Unmaking Baloch worlds in Pakistan This talk builds on over a decade of political and intellectual engagement with the Baloch movement against enforced disappearances and state violence by Pakistan.

Next week join Dr Mahvish Ahmad at SOAS! Her talk will build on over a decade of political and intellectual engagement with the Baloch movement against enforced disappearances and state violence by Pakistan.

06.12.2024 11:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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