Milli Lake

@MilliLake

Assoc. Prof 🌈 she/her. Socialist. Feminist. Writes about states, societies, violence, poverty, war: /

London, England
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Joined February 2012
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  1. 23 hours ago

    Are you fucking kidding me. Apparently we need to have this conversation Every. Three. Weeks. Schools in England told not to provide free school meals at half-term

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  2. Jan 14

    This is so real.

    I know this is annoying, but it's not right to say the FT has 'changed its mind' on austerity. 10 years ago, the cuts were in the interests of the ruling class. Now they're not. If that changes, austerity ideology will return and the media will uncritically echo it once again.
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    Jan 13

    What happens when research findings challenge the work that policy makers are invested in promoting - or aren't politically convenient? () & of write about their experience of this phenomenon:

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  4. Jan 13

    🔥 🔥 from ⁦. ⁩ Want to Improve Equity and Inclusion in Political Science? Address White Supremacy – Duck of Minerva

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    Jan 11

    Concerns about outdoor transmission risk seem to be trending again. What is the risk of transmission outdoors and should we be more worried about outdoors with the new more-transmissible variant? 🧵(1/n)

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  6. Jan 12

    I have been buried in meetings all day, so late to my own party(!!), but pls spread the word about this,+ if you have questions, or thinking of applying but not sure, please don't hesitate to let us know! We are so excited to grow this project even in spite of current constraints

    We are hiring a postdoc!!! Come work with and me and the incredible team. Based at LSE next year (I’m coming too for a bit!!) and focused on sub-national data collection/analysis. Please share with your networks; we are thrilled about this position!
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    Jan 12

    We are hiring a postdoc!!! Come work with and me and the incredible team. Based at LSE next year (I’m coming too for a bit!!) and focused on sub-national data collection/analysis. Please share with your networks; we are thrilled about this position!

    Research Officer – Women's Rights After War Project. We seek a post-doctoral Research Officer to undertake independent and collaborative research and support co-ordination and dissemination activities in the w/ &
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    Jan 11

    Which Tory donor was given the contract for this one?

    3 days of food for 1 family... Just not good enough.
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    Jan 11

    “Public-facing scholarship” is not always a safe—and I mean literal personal safety—thing to do. I would sincerely like to see scholarly organizations and universities reckon with this as reality.

    So, I was asked to write down my thoughts on the coup for a major newspaper earlier this week. I told them no, and let me tell you why.
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  10. Jan 8

    This is so beautifully and jarringly put.

    Here's the thing. The stuff that holds societies together is not things that can easily be named or quantified. It is the softer stuff of being human that we often ignore as we try to make our politics or social lives "scientific", and these are the things that are getting broken
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    Jan 7

    Just another example of how “liberating women” (by forcibly inserting IUDs, requiring abortions, and sterilizing them, in this case) is used to justify state violence. Paging all the incredible work by & for anyone interested in learning more.

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  12. Jan 7

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    The irony here is that the insurrection showed that the police can de-escalate and be restrained in their actions not just at the individual level, but at the leadership level. This means that police (leadership) choose to use a heavy hand against some protesters and not others.
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    Jan 7

    Gavin Williamson rejected BT’s offer to provide free/cheap broadband for thousands of working class families & returned free WiFi vouchers. From the algorithm fiasco, legal threats against schools that wanted to close, recent u-turn to this - how is he STILL Education Secretary?

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    Jan 6

    This.

    Just a reminder of how the police/military pull up during Black Lives Matter protests.
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    Jan 6

    What an incredible feat! Honored to have been a part of this dialogue and process toward accountability and transparency in research. Thanks to ALL involved, esp and Tim Büthe for their heroic leadership

    The "emerged in this context of accelerated rule-making on... data sharing & other forms of openness in .." THE : INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS By Alan M. Jacobs, Tim Büthe & more
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    Jan 6

    Delighted to play a small role in , an enormous and wide-ranging discussion of what "transparency" means in various traditions of qualitative research. It was a terrific, collective endeavor & a model of intellectual & epistemological pluralism. Good stuff. Have a read!

    The "emerged in this context of accelerated rule-making on... data sharing & other forms of openness in .." THE : INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS By Alan M. Jacobs, Tim Büthe & more
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    Jan 6

    Was a delight to contribute to the . Important, careful, and thoughtful pushback and dialogue from those of us usong qualitative and interpretative methods and methodologies

    The "emerged in this context of accelerated rule-making on... data sharing & other forms of openness in .." THE : INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS By Alan M. Jacobs, Tim Büthe & more
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  18. Jan 6

    Really blown away to see this remarkable collaboration out - it was such an honor and privilege to contribute and I hope it helps further goals of building multiple forms of accountability more deeply into our research practices.

    The "emerged in this context of accelerated rule-making on... data sharing & other forms of openness in .." THE : INSIGHTS AND IMPLICATIONS By Alan M. Jacobs, Tim Büthe & more
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    Jan 6
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    Yes! For e.g., in the international development sector, it is almost always upper caste South Asian feminists (like myself) who are part of "brown women representation", with very little regard to the structures of oppression upper caste women themselves perpetuate.

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    Jan 6

    This is so important, and often seems to be (implicitly) what is expected from 'policy-relevant' research: "It is disingenuous—and dangerous—to shine light only on research that supports what policy-makers want to hear."

    In our most recent research, + I argue that reformist approaches focused on adding excluded groups into existing institutions can reinforce the same patriarchal, capitalist + militarist logics of hierarchy + exclusion that denied those groups access in the 1st place
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