Simon Dawes
@SimonDawes2
Lecturer @IECIuvsq/@CHCSCuvsq. Editor @FrCulturalSt/@meejatheory. Not here. There: @simondawes2.bsky.social
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My intro to the special issue ‘« Islamogauchisme » ? Moral Panics, Culture Wars and the Threat to Academic Freedom’ is out now. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…
Last chance to register for the Media Theory at the Coach House Conference ! mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp/
Gideon Levy in Haaretz, a liberal Israeli newspaper, calling for full sanctions against Israel: "... the pressure and the punishment must be directed at Israel in its entirety... In Israel, all of us are now Ben-Gvir and Smotrich. All of us." archive.ph/6SiZV#selectio…
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Sanctioning Ben-Gvir and Smotrich Is but a Tiny, Sad Step in Ending t…
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Rabea Eghbariah on the "ongoing Nakba" - almost 80 years of apartheid and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. New article in The Guardian after his "controversial" article in the Columbia Law Review. theguardian.com/commentisfree/… columbialawreview.org/content/toward…
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The two-state solution is a delusion | Rabea Eghbariah
Israel controls the lives of all Palestinians, without equal rights or equal representation: this is an entrenched one-state reality
Join us for our inaugural conference! Here's the call for papers: mediatheoryjournal.org/cfp
"Journalists aren’t wrong to interview people in power. But when that’s all they do, they let power – rather than expertise – define the boundaries of legitimate public debate. " theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Encore des mensonges de la part de Caroline #mytho Fourest blogs.mediapart.fr/lenaig-bredoux…
Interview with @aaronzwinter on the British pogroms and the mainstreaming of the far-right. crossbordertalks.eu/2024/08/22/far…
Peaceful climate protesters have just been sentenced to years in jail. And they’re appealing. Join me in telling the new government to scrap Tory anti-protest law now and #StopJailingTruthTellers secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk…
There can be no excuses or euphemisms.
There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga
Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed
To put the violence directed at British Muslims, Black Britons and asylum seeking down to “legitimate grievances” is to fall for one of the most toxic and intentionally divisive falsehoods in the populist handbook theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga
Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed
Interview with Kehinde Andrews on the cycle of racist and anti-racist riots in the UK. opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-r…
Could there be a more appropriate book rn? Britishness as whiteness, colonial amnesia, conditional citizenship and Islamophobia in a continuing hostile environment - this gem by Nadya Ali is a must-read and now freely available
📚FREE EBOOK!📚 The Violence of Britishness by Nadya Ali explores how 'Britishness' functions as a tool of violent racial bordering. Download your free copy here: plutobooks.com/9780745341705/…
George Monbiot on the racists, the Tories and the media.
These riots are more than thuggery: they're the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting | George Monbiot theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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These riots are more than thuggery: they're the outcome of 14 years of Tory race-baiting | George...
Because the Conservatives had nothing to offer the people of the UK, they sought to refocus our attention on scapegoats, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Des Freedman @lazebnic on the role of the mainstream media in normalising the Islamophobia behind the riots counterfire.org/article/talkin…
This wave of racist violence is not a protest against injustice. It isn't like a Black Lives Matter for white people. Sharing a country with people of other faiths and skin tones is not an injustice. This violent, racist movement doesn't represent us and will be defeated.
Get ready to hear a LOT in the next few weeks about how disinfo created the riots – new social media legislation, endless reports about Twitter and Telegram – and absolutely ZERO about mainstreaming of Islamophobia, social disintegration accelerated by austerity etc
.@sianushka on the the modern far-right strategies behind the racist riots opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-r…
Iain Chambers on the racist and white ethnonationalist riots mediatheoryjournal.org/2024/08/06/iai…
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Iain Chambers: White Riot
A hotel in Rotherham is attacked by protesters. Photograph: Reuters In response to the immediate racial riots by white men on the streets of northern towns in the UK, there is the usual recour…
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