In 2018, SOAS UCU + grassroots members spontaneously marched on @UCU HQ to resist possible leadership capitulation on the pensions dispute. Amazing individuals slogged tirelessly on the details of valuations and contributions, members fought hard everywhere. Reader, we won.* ❤️🙌🏾

LSE’s IR department is hiring an Assistant Professor working in the areas of race, indigeneity, postcolonialism, or decoloniality. We’re really excited about this hire. Deadline is 10 Sept. Please share!

Oxford Political Theory is advertising for a new Associate Professor who works on political theories of race, empire and / or postcolonial politics. Applications due 1 September. Come join our wonderful Theory group! More details here: shorturl.at/qKM02

3.3 billion people live in countries that spend more on debt interest payments than on education or health.

This is more than a systemic risk – it’s a systemic failure.

Action will not be easy. But it is essential, and urgent.

Come work with me! Please apply if you are interested in researching and writing about self-determination, mineral cartels, monetary and financial reform, #imperialism , #delinking , socioecological transformation or other topics in the field of #postcolonial political economy.

Very happy to share my new (and first!) journal article. It's out with Millennium Journal and is open access: bit.ly/44kvQg1

It uncovers entanglements between race, caste, and capital in the Indian Ocean and asks what they reveal about the workings of racial capitalism.

Next up on Friday 23/6 is our panel on 'Worlding and Unworlding in IR', chaired by Meera Sabaratnam, with Tom Pettinger, Leila Mouhib, Ida Roland Birkvad, Dr Kristina Pikovskaia, and Sabrina Keller. #CPDatBISA

On Thursday 22 June, at 3:00PM, we're holding a panel on 'Colonising the Future', chaired by @aggiehirst (War Studies) with Rahul Rao as discussant, bringing together 'Ndidi Olibamoyo, Cristina Rojas (@Carleton_U), Meera Sabaratnam, Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD and Mariah T 宋妍嫵. #CPDatBISA

⏰ TWO WEEK REMINDER!: Applications are invited for the post of Departmental Lecturer in International Relations in Oxford Politics and IR, in association with St Hilda's College . 📆 CLOSES: Noon (BST), Monday 26 June 2023: buff.ly/3NkT9QO

It’s #StolenPayDay at SOAS University of London. Staff for whom marking is as low as *0.3%* of their contract (!) have had 100% of their pay stolen by management. This is vindictive, shameful, & punitive behaviour from management.

Stop bullying staff; #SettleTheDispute

#ShameOnSOAS #ucuRISING ✊

people of IR world, it’s time to send your nominations for the ISA Theory Section Theory Section 2024 Distinguushed Scholar!
email me your nomination by June 7, 2023

OK by popular demand, England's undergraduate fee system. Eyes down, look in.

In this week's POW!, we are welcoming Dr Meera Sabaratnam (SOAS), who will give a very exciting talk about 'Complex Indebtness: Theorising the International After Empire'.

Time: 13:00-14:00, 3rd May
Location: Congregation Hall 01.20

Meera Sabaratnam

Policymakers in the Global North have mostly responded to rising inflation by raising interest rates. That’s bad for their own workers — and it's creating a debt crisis for many countries in the Global South. jacobin.com/2023/04/global…

This statement of concern for #academicfreedom relates to Dr Susanne Täuber and her recent dismissal from University of Groningen

📢 ONE WEEK REMINDER!: Oxford Politics and IR, in association with St Catz, Oxford, seeks to appoint an Associate Professor of International Relations. 📆 DEADLINE: Noon BST, Wed 26 April 2023 👀 buff.ly/40lxKKT

The employer: 'Our decolonial outlook on education allows us to strive for a more equal and just world'

Also the employer: We will deduct 100% of your wages if you dare take action short of a strike in relation to a below-inflation pay offer, race & gender pay gaps, & precarity