Alexander Cullen

Political Ecologist // Geographer, University of Cambridge. —- Lover of fine Lynchian narratives and difficult pop

[Julian Potter 👨‍🌾📚🍻 @julianjpotter]

These University governance numbers are krayzee

from NTEU's latest newsletter

[Owen Dowling @owenjdowling]

"Politics does not reflect majorities, it constructs them." — Stuart Hall

[Steven Cotterill @socialiststeve6]

All wars are class wars.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Look at the totality of Israel's conduct, in the totality of the land it unlawfully occupies, against the totality of the Palestinian people living there. And when you see how children, in particular, are targeted in so many depraved ways - through killing, maiming, starving, torture, terror, depriving them of schools, dreams, future, hope - you see the destructive mind and intent at work, in the realization of a plan that comes from afar.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Add "uninvited talks" to your academic CV - when you shared your research with a person against their will

[Infrastructural Geographies @IGeographies]

Our new speaker termcard.

Do come, if you're in Cambridge:

[Beastly Business Project @BeastlyProject]

This is a fantastic opportunity with a terrific team - and it’s the unicorn: a funded PhD place. Check it out ⬇️

[Voices in Movement @VIM_Media]

Normalista students from all over Mexico march in Chilpancingo, Guerrero to demand justice for 43 students who were forcibly disappeared in 2014. Ten years later we still don’t know their whereabouts. Stop the systematic violence against rural normal schools.🔥✊🏿📸Ig:maylo_m23

[Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana]

I will not be abstaining on austerity but voting against tomorrow’s motion to means-test Winter Fuel Payments.

We deserve better than Tory austerity versus Labour austerity.

Me in the @EveningStandard: https://t.co/pmxnVtrk6p

[Antipode @antipodeonline]

Call for Proposals, deadline September 15th -- "Palestinian Landscapes & Liberatory Ecologies", November 9th-10th, online and in Ramallah, Palestine https://t.co/6vSfsiCQiK

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”

[Jane Altoids @staticbluebat]

GY!BE are good for forcing every media outlet that wants to report on the new album to show their hand

[Alexander Cullen @alexeicullen]

@RaphaelMerx Congrats Raph. That’s fantastic! Looking forward to hearing about the PhD research as it takes shape

[@[email protected] @Imani_Barbarin]

This is why I say that disability justice and racial justice are inherently linked.

[patrick bresnihan @PBresnihan]

Grateful this evening for the thousands of people who turned up for anti-fascist demonstrations across England #NoPasaran

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This is wild. European countries import coffee and cocoa from Africa and then re-export at an average 300% mark-up.

This tactic was widely used by Europeans during the colonial period and it continues to be used today. https://t.co/6wy1fLVE7J

[Alexander Dunlap @DrX_ADunlap]

Wow… shit.

🙏 for making space in the academy for anti-authoritarian ideas & changing your ways in the second half of your life.

[Craig F̶o̶s̶t̶e̶r̶ @Craig_Foster]

In a week where a young, Muslim female senator was shamefully and systematically attacked and her religion weaponised to fuel moral panic, and a 14 year old devotee of the rising threat of white supremacy stabbed a Sydney University student this was a timely reminder of the impact that occurs over years of public discourse against minorities and ethnicities.

Against multiculturalism itself.

This was just 6 years ago and these same terms from the 1950’s of ‘tidal waves’ and of being ‘swamped’ by immigrants are still being used today. In fact, increasing.

A disturbing and dangerous trend around the world at a time when human mobility is rising due to climate and conflict.

And this week made very clear that as different cultural groups grow in voice in Australia, as they should and must, we will all need to stand up for multiculturalism which is in the cross hairs of nationalists, supremacists everywhere.

Social media is part of the problem in combating racism and the promotion and commercialisation of hatred.

But they cannot be the only target. So too, is the mainstream.

It was not hidden in 2018, nor this week.

[Les Back @AcademicDiary]

My thoughts are with Goldsmiths colleagues this weekend who are waiting to find out who will receive redundancy notices on Monday. Please share - on why this matters to anyone who believes in the transformative power of education.

[Stephen Fisher @SeaSpitfires]

I’m not interested in the politics of the incident, but I’m faintly amused by the outcry as if this sort of protest-vandalism has never happened at Stonehenge before. It has, more often than you might think.