Ben Gidley

@bengidley

Senior Lecturer, . Tweeting on migration, cities, multiculture, racism, fascism, antisemitism, Jews, London, Europe.

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Joined December 2010

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 2

    My next three gigs: At New York on Yiddish anarchism 20 January At on antisemitism for Holocaust Memorial Day 30 January At on Zygmunt Bauman and the Jewish question 12 February

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  2. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    It’s time to get back on this. I’m crowdfunding for a group of Syrian filmmakers based in Istanbul, the objective is to facilitate for them to be able to tell and own their own stories. More in the story here:

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  3. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    I’m looking for a part-time research assistant to work with me across a range of Syria-related research, writing, policy, and analysis work. Must know Syria and be whip smart. Arabic desirable, as are tech/web and copy-editing skills. Any location. DM me for details/to apply.

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  4. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    ‘There Ain’t No Black on the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation, now in its thirties, is a book that made and makes the world differently’ - read on in

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  5. Jan 4

    There are lots of funding opportunities to do a PhD in my department, but the deadlines are starting to hit, with the first one ( ) on Tuesday:

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  6. 31 Dec 2018
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    30 Dec 2018
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    solid English-language article about this + general sources

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  8. 30 Dec 2018

    In Jordan, the government is keen to buy into Syria’s normalisation in order to get rid of refugees. The displaced of Rukban camp on the Jordanian border already experience a humanitarian nightmare, due to get massively worse now:

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  9. 30 Dec 2018

    The Assad regime and its Russian backers are trying to normalise the image of Syria. Central to this is the myth that refugees can return - a myth the European right (& mainstream governments tailing it) is happy to amplify. This kind of policy fits that narrative.

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  10. 30 Dec 2018

    Just bought my flights to this. Really excited about it.

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  11. 29 Dec 2018

    My cousin Tommy Orange is in Barack Obama’s favourite books of 2018 list. The UK paperback of “There There” will be out in 2019 and I really recommend it

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  12. 28 Dec 2018

    Always love arriving back in London after time away when the sky is blue

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  13. 23 Dec 2018

    With Gilad Atzmon in the news again, here’s something I wrote about him last year, and on the dangerous reflex of denial part of the left has developed towards allegations of anti-Jewish racism

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  14. 20 Dec 2018

    And the January edition has an extract from Chris Searle’s Whitechapel Boy, a book I intend to buy in 2019.

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  15. 20 Dec 2018

    The Spring issue has an interview with the late Sivanandan that you really need to read if you haven’t.

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  16. 20 Dec 2018

    The previous issue has the great Catherine Hall on reparative history, and a very good review essay on the massively underrated Yassin al-Haj Saleh

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  17. 20 Dec 2018

    The current issue has an article arguing that CLR James’ recent academic popularity has been at the price of editing out his adversarial politics, a fascinating article on race in 16th century Lisbon, and some lovely tributes to Sivanandan.

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  18. 20 Dec 2018

    Just browsing through issues from 2018, which are all free to read online at the moment. So many good pieces:

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    17 Dec 2018

    Please do take a look and share!! Hospitality and Hostility Towards Migrants: Global Perspectives The inaugural issue of Migration and Society. Free access until 31/12. Ed. by , Mette Berg and me! 😀😎

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  20. 19 Dec 2018

    And one of the reasons to go, even though it is in August, is that and Christine Achinger will be speaking in a special session dedicated to our late friend and colleague Robert Fine.

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