Thread on UK higher ed and its rigidities
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Thread on UK higher ed and its rigidities
Malyn Newitt - Cabo Verde and the Creole South Atlantic
A New History
Vient de paraître chez Hurst
Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Caitlin Jones, Eliza Breder & Tyler McCreary (2026) entitled: 'Alligator Alcatraz and the Production of Environmental Carcerality in the Everglades' with a black banner at the top. In June 2025, the state of Florida opened 'Alligator Alcatraz', a federal immigration detention centre, in the Florida Everglades, weaponising animals and landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear and rationalise multispecies environmental injustice. In this paper, we examine the symbolic and material conditions of Alligator Alcatraz, pulling apart how what appears to be a novel use of landscape and species for immigration enforcement, is in fact, a deeply historical logic that draws on long-standing settler colonial tropes of emptiness, danger and disposability. We illustrate how both the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and the Everglades itself, are conscripted into carceral geographies that reflect both ecological degradation and racialised state violence. The alligator becomes conscripted as a federal immigration officer, touted by federal and state officials as a mascot of environmental carcerality. Meanwhile, the Everglades is deployed as an empty, deterrent landscape, reviving a settler imaginary that has long justified its destruction and casts Indigenous land, life and knowledge and the more-than-human beings living within it as expendable. Alligator Alcatraz pushes us to consider what carceral geographies of US immigration policy reveal about the disposability of certain bodies—human, ecological and more than human. Ultimately, existing in this spectacle of the racialised past and present are the real human costs of detention development in the Everglades, which is damaging local ecologies and Indigenous and migrant lives.
New in Area - 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬
'Alligator Alcatraz and the production of environmental carcerality in the Everglades' by Caitlin Jones et al.
This paper explores the weaponising of animals & landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear in the U.S.
doi.org/10.1111/area...
No, no, no. *Britain* does *not* “back war with Iran”.
Instead, Britain has been thrown into an illegal war with Iran by an idiotic Prime Minister with who has no backbone, no ideas, and no clue.
Britain’s involvement in this destructive lunacy is on one man - Keir Starmer.
Place is not passive—Memory is not settled
We work across cognitive science, social science & the arts to examine how people find their way. In contested pasts & rapidly changing environments, understanding place and memory underpins how we locate ourselves—intellectually, socially and historically
"NZ condemns Tehran's retaliatory strikes..."
I'm sorry, you fucking what?
So glad we have a fundamentalist piece of shit who thinks he's gonna get "saved" along with the 12 tribes of Israel, in charge of our country.
#nzpol
Local opposition to converting warehouses into concentration camps is forcing ICE to shift towards a network of fewer-but-bigger concentration camps.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Text reads: What could a city look like after capitalism?
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. The book sits against the background of an empty gravel path and blue sky. Review quote reads: 'Truly global and deeply humane... Oli Mould proposes a radical urbanism that draws on past, present and future visions that could reshape the world.'
Promotional image for Oli Mould's book 'Postcapitalist cities' published by Manchester University Press. Gravel background with blue sky. Review quote reads: 'A much needed antidote to the daily escalation of urban authoritarianism and the existential threat of planetary destruction.'
Publishing today!🏙️
In a world of environmental degradation, inequality and social strife, a vision for what comes next is vital.
@olimould.bsky.social takes readers from strikes in Santiago to urban commoning and Solarpunk, revealing how communities are making a new kind of city possible.
It's also very nice blended up with a banana.
#NexoArquivo | O Carnaval é um dos eventos anuais mais esperados pelos brasileiros. Com celebrações tradicionais e de mais de século, muitas cidades aproveitam o feriado para impulsionar o turismo. Veja como a data é comemorada no país neste #NexoGráfico
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
important commentary!!!
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/uk-u...
Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.
“A 2024 study by Cornell University found that US LNG’s carbon footprint is 33% higher than coal’s.
Last summer, as part of a deal with Donald Trump to avoid higher tariffs, the EU agreed to spend $750 billion on US energy products by 2028.”
www.irishtimes.com/world/2026/0...
Lots of new excitement about the 'Manchester model' but it's built an extractive economy that benefits capital, not labour.
Read our data-led report
"Centripetal Cities A critique of supply-side urban development" - t.co/Dec4wIkGGe
“Blue is the colour of longing for the distances you never arrive in.”
-@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Beautiful images from Democratic Republic of Congo in this feature by Hugh Kinsella Cunningham: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Trump’s tariffs are hurting Americans, according to research from the US Federal Reserve: nearly 90 percent of the tariffs’ economic burden fell on U.S. firms and consumers.
This WSJ article is free to read...
www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...
A new paper on mining temporalities, between displacement and resettlement, in Mozambique's coal frontier, just released today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new paper on mining temporalities, between displacement and resettlement, in Mozambique's coal frontier, just released today: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
In light of Bad Bunny's lights out Superbowl halftime show, here are three folks I've interviewed from Puerto Rico about how the island can light up its grid with local power: vist.ly/4rdkb
‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up
I'm gifting this article.
The Socialists batter the Far Right in Portugal.
Lets do it in the UK.
Performances like this help weaken MAGA's political project even without any direct references to the current administration. But most importantly, they are a reminder of what most people can see: that Latinos, Asians & Africans are part of U.S. communities, schools, labs, the art and music scenes.
What's that? You say you want to learn more about Puerto Rico's electricity grid?
You can actually just leave all the racists crashing out where you found them.
There's a place in York (UK) that makes wraps with Yorkshire pudding as the wrap.. I haven't tried it yet.
