Arshad Isakjee @Isakjee Twitter profile

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 months

I notice every single one of my social-science colleagues who go on about their day, their lives and their work and pretend that this isn’t happening. It teaches me more about race and coloniality than any of their research.

TIMES OF GAZA

@Timesofgaza

4 months

A girl freezes in terror after mistaking thunder for an Israeli airstrike

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

1/15 Senior academic whose MO was to exploit non-white researchers on low-paid contracts to extract data from 'diverse' communities gets a major fellowship - working for them was infuriating, at times traumatic tbh, and an education on #race in #academia .

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3 years

1/9 #Geography #AcademicTwitter is tracing links between academics & supervisors. It's urgent we reflect critically on our praxis, networks and mentorship. Two big challenges for our discipline: 1.) Global North dominance [white, middleclass] 2.) Entrenched + increasing precarity

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@Isakjee

3 months

1/x12 Everyone should be very clear about both the silencing of Dianne Abbot and the use and abuse of #race politics, not just by the Tories but by right-wing factions of the #Labour party, and the complicity of 'trusted' liberal news organisations in not giving it coverage.

Nadine White.

@Nadine_Writes

3 months

During today's #PMQs , Speaker Lindsay Hoyle ignored Diane Abbott who repeatedly stood to ask a question. Britain's first Black woman MP being disrespected in the House of Commons, as news emerged of the Tory Party's biggest donor saying she should be shot, is most concerning.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

@joshuarolson "the producer who makes us stan soulless right-wing #girlboss Shiv Roy on Succession..." I think the writer is telling on themselves there. Shiv is written as a ghoul.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

15/15 ...to interrogate how race/exploitation plays out in the processes of research. Why is research on 'diversity' or race done? Who is doing the labour? Who is getting paid? Who is getting credit? Who gets material benefit? Who is heard? Who really holds 'expertise'?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

🚨Job alert: Research Fellow🚨 @LivUni @livunigeog @ESRC project "Channel Crossings: Irregular #Migration , Policies and Politics in the English Channel" 🔹30 months 🔹£36,386—£42,155 🔹10/01/23 deadline 🔹With me, @ThomDavies @LucyMayblin & Joe Turner

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@Isakjee

2 years

2/15 I'm now wary of research groups specialising in migrants/diversity with hardly any non-white people. This senior white scholar claimed a level of expertise they didn't have, but got away with it because so few POCs in academia are in positions to question their authority

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

11 months

Preaching 'abolition' and breaking picket lines is another special praxis-free take. Honestly, to think some academics lucky enough to have stable positions in academia might be dreaming about radically challenging the state, when they can't even say 'no' to some marking.

Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

1 year

Breaking a picket to help the poors 💪💪💪

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 months

If there's such a thing as an academic community then Iain's Palestinian colleagues & students, those slain by Israel's bombing are part of that community. If we aren't seeing this at the very least *acknowledged* by the press or institutions we work for, we should ask why.

Dr Iain Overton

@iainoverton

7 months

I was supposed to be part of a graduation ceremony in Gaza today for students living with disabilities completing a course on storytelling. The University now lies in rubble, the students are uncontactable and at least one of my fellow lecturers has lost 9 members of his family.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 months

The annihilation of Gaza's educational infrastructure was recorded & testified to months ago. Now journalists at major news orgs purport to reveal these facts. Academics who missed this should also be questioning the sources of their own ignorance about our colleagues in #Gaza .

NBC News

@NBCNews

2 months

Gaza’s universities embodied the ambitions of young Palestinians. In weeks, the Israeli military destroyed them.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

They aren't getting worse at it - its become clear over the past week that (destructive) ambiguity *is* the strategy, the overall aim being the end of the lockdown and return to business as usual, with 'the public' rather than the government blamed for the consequences.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 months

🧵 I think that certainly in refugee studies and advocacy, this is down to the dominant liberal humanitarian framework and its disregard, and even fear of race and material politics, as well as its often uncritical trust in institutional and legal architecture.

David Álvarez

@El_Arvare

2 months

It's mostly academics I follow in Border & Migration studies who in most cases have nothing to say about the #GazaGenocide or about Palestinian liberation. In contrast, activist intellectuals like @HarshaWalia & @_maxgranger have a lot to say about all of these matters.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

5/15 But most egregiously of all was the treatment of exploitable community researchers. If you don't have real knowledge of communities, you buy it - and some prefer to do that cheaply, utilising BAME people including refugees who will never be cited in academic work.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

3/15 In this case this senior white scholar (SWS) led bizarre tours of migrant neighbourhoods as if they were holiday tours, asking researchers to observe everyday behaviour of 'diverse' people in various settings, as if they were animals in a zoo...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

There's probably a lot more to say on this that I've missed, and introspection too about my place in the work I did at the time, and responsibilities I have on work I do now.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

6 months

Incredible still, the silence. Utterly incredible. Hospitals routinely targeted, children as well as men and women killed in their hundreds daily. Never want to hear some pathetic hand-wringing 'how-did-we-let-this-happen' spiel from Europeans about wars/genocides ever again.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

6 months

"This department in Nasser medical complex has been targeted by Israeli shells.. on that bed was a girl who had her leg amputated after another attack. The shell hit her directly and killed her immediately" Wael Dahdouh reporting. The girls name was Dina Abu Mohsen

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

12/15 Watching some of of the people who actively or passively contributed to that state affairs take part in events about race in academia or BLM, is frankly galling. I remember a senior academics suggesting to me that they wouldn't intervene because "this is just a job"

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

7/15 This person, dependent on insecure work for survival, was told to be grateful for having the chance to be abroad. They ended up in tears outside a university in Europe because they were denied 16 hours of pay for two days of travel on a project worth over a million euros.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

6/15 I've worked on projects who engaged ethically with 'community researchers' - but in this instance the exploitation was so profound that one of the researchers on a zero hours contract was refused pay for travel time whilst journeying abroad to 'train' salaried academics.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

10/15...the 'community' researcher in question - and so too others working precariously for this institute - were conscious of their own exploitation, but were at times in no position to turn down opportunities for further work. "I know how they use me"

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

14/15 On one hand we all need to do more as academics to engage with communities who we 'research with'. Yet at the same time, in an increasingly precarious industry with exploitation of staff rife, and yet with unis keen to gesture towards racial justice, there's a real need...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

4/15 ...and this helped create behavioural explanations for structural racism, in order to fulfil an idea for a 4* REF paper. When data was being collected that did not support the theoretical idea, it was a problem.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

9/15 When I found a way to pay the 'community researcher' for travel time anyway, getting approval signed off externally, the researcher was later admonished by the SWS leading the project for supposedly 'bullying Arshad into paying you more than you deserved'

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

8/15 I was utterly furious on this person's behalf. I alerted other senior professors on the project who refused to intervene. Another SWS (on 60k) suggested it was fair for the 'community researcher' because they also had to fly on a Sunday outside the academic working week.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

11/14 It's not surprising either that the SWS would openly bemoan research-focus on race as opposed to 'diversity' in a room full of scholars who were all white, except myself.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

Creating a public health crisis, then responsibilising students whilst simultaneously forcing staff to do face to face teaching where it isn't necessary. The state of this.

Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN

@UniofNottingham

4 years

Dear current UoN students, we’re asking you to join the rest of Nottinghamshire in following stricter social distancing measures now to help save lives. Thank you to all of our students who have been following the guidelines to keep our community safe. (1/6) #WeAreUoN

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

@JohnRentoul @SpaJw @YouGov @timesredbox I mean 54% said they didn't know in a survey that doesn't exactly allow for any expansive reflection on race and politics, but mainly I'm here for the 'white people telling ethnic minorities what they think' energy.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

6 years

Many thanks to @antipodeonline for supporting @J_Obradovic_W , @ThomDavies and I to work with @NoNameKitchen1 on a Scholar-Activist project looking at border activism in the Balkans.

Antipode

@antipodeonline

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Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards – 2017/18 recipients

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 years

13/15...another younger academic got very angry with me when I confided in them, tentatively, that maybe race was a factor influencing the various problems I'd encountered on the project.

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Arshad Isakjee

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1 year

Opinion piece on Channel Crossings for the @FT . With @ThomDavies , Joe Turner and @LucyMayblin .

Talking tough won’t stop migrant crossings of the English Channel

Expensive security measures have been in place for years on the maritime border between France and the UK

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

8 years

The last ‘fuck you’ from the baby boomers. Burning the economy before they die #EUref

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

7/9 Two areas of action: Firstly if we're remotely sincere about 'decolonisation' we need to stop ourselves from reproducing our privilege - and think about knowledge production, hiring practices, authorship and journal metrics - as well as the way we adjudicate as reviewers.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

8/9 Secondly, in this precarious discipline, scholars far far better than me - and us - don't have jobs. Collective struggle with respect to working conditions isn't an optional extra - it's a responsibility.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

9/9 Even for some of us who consider ourselves ECRs - we need to be keenly aware of when we also stop being the 'downtrodden' or the 'hustlers', and *become* those with relative job security - and relative power. Let's ask ourselves: how are we using it?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 months

Labour Friends of White Phosphorous

Kay Burley

@KayBurley

7 months

Kay: If Israel is found to be using white phosphorus in Gaza - what will the Labour party say about it? Labour's @leicesterliz : I think it would be unwise when we are not on the ground to comment Kay: Govt says they'd condemn it... #KayBurley FC

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3 months

Their is a managerial class of liberals including journalists and academics whose sense of their own intelligence is so overblown, they lack even the ability to describe massacres adequately, let alone being able to identify settler colonialism in any broader sense.

Jason Hickel

@jasonhickel

3 months

The @guardian is calling the massacre "food aid-related deaths". I cannot believe what I am seeing.

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3 years

2/9 This combination is absolutely toxic for many young scholars - my heart goes out to the wonderful talented post-docs out there struggling to find jobs, let alone job security. As permanent FT staff many of us had great mentoring - but we now bear a deep responsibility...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

Hoping loads if people just lied to exit pollsters so the evening could unfold like Istanbul 2005

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

11 months

Ianucci, the man that satrirised New Labour technocracy, then allied with that technocracy when an alternative emerged. Now retreating to the liberal safe-space of handwringing. Sure mate, we'll kindly ask the self-serving managerial class to not be precisely what they are.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

3/9 We're great at talking the talk, but fail to walk the walk. We need to think about not just supervisors and mentoring - but also our the makeup of own departments. Look around our research networks, our conferences: are we really (re)producing a GLOBAL discipline ?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

8 months

From here, on Gaza, got nothing to say other than amplifying Palestinian voices. But it's an education in a lot of things. Settler colonialism, the racial hierarchy and racial exceptions of Euro-whiteness and liberalism and the fantasy of 'international law'.

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3 years

6/9 ...or is it more comfortable for us to work with our existing friends and networks...do we even fear having someone from a minority background or from the Global South in our seminars, less their knowledge through lived experience show up the limits of our 'research'?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

5 years

Shout Out for Teach Out. Meet at 1.00pm at University Square for @andyddavies 's Campus Tour about the University's links to colonialism and the slave trade. It will be ace! @ULivUCU2

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

5/9 If we research marginalised groups and populations, are any of those groups represented among us as FT staff - equal producers of knowledge? If we picked up an international grant, how many international scholars led the project, led publications...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

10 months

🧵 What white establishment liberals wish to do with race politics is discursively curate their own personal and institutional identities as 'nice' and 'progressive', being as they are, diligent and professional entrepreneurs of the self...

Sky News

@SkyNews

10 months

Diane Abbott has been accused of exploiting the deaths of 41 migrants in a shipwreck off Italy in a now-deleted tweet about the tragedy

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Arshad Isakjee

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2 months

Not surprising. The dominant liberal response to such problems is to sigh, look sad, appear concerned and regretfully conclude that nothing can be done. "The picket must be crossed. The arms must be sold. The genocide must go on. Me being sad in my heart is my politics🙏" #BDS

Declassified UK

@declassifiedUK

2 months

A compilation of how senior Labour figures refused to support the upholding of international law as Israel killed 10,000 Palestinians during the first month of bombing👇

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Arshad Isakjee

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7 months

I may not have any courage, but I swear to you, I have conviction!

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

4/9 Or do we honestly still entertain the pure fiction that a TIBG/AAG etc paper equates to world leading research, merit and (ugh) pedigree? Because if so, this insularity is reproducing structural inequalities. All of us hired on the basis of 'top papers' are implicated.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 months

She of "I'm an Islamophobe and proud of it" fame. As liberal hegemony is threatened, there's less effort to put on even a facile humanitarian mask. Many liberals today are politically comfortably to the right of the neo-conservatives of two decades ago who they used to deride.

Steve W

@StevenGWalker74

7 months

Just the grotesque moral void that is @PollyToynbee claiming that pressuring the Labour Party leadership to oppose, rather than enable, the Israelis genocidal attack on Gaza is "playing politics". To repeat: opposing genocide rather than enabling it is "playing politics". /1

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

If it's any consolation to anyone today, everyone is fucking livid.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

1/2 Pleased to have this article out in @antipodeonline with colleagues @ThomDavies @J_Obradovic_W and @augustovak : Liberal Violence and the Racial Borders of the European Union.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

5 years

New Article on Halal food consumption by @BridinCarroll and myself in @SocCultGeog .

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

1 year

Sonia Sodha, the typical middle class and liberal reactionary who refuses to imagine policies that could place services outside of market relations. Nice that she finds time between attacking trans rights to write terrible articles about HE.

Ben Whitham

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1 year

Love to see middle-aged commentators with Oxford PPE degrees argue that working-class young people should be channeled into "vocational" courses as a paternalistic solution to the debt they incur bc other ppl with Oxford PPE 🙃 degrees trebled tuition fees

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 years

New paper in @Antipodeonline w @ThomDavies and @Surin75 , on #refugees in #Calais camp #migration #violentborders

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5 years

"Vocal resistance was sparse with silence, neglect and exit the more realistic options. The article concludes that it is academics’ illusion, their unwavering commitment to the game, which neutralizes resistance by pitting colleagues against each other"

The Academic Game: Compliance and Resistance in Universities - Senia Kalfa, Adrian Wilkinson, Paul...

This article draws on the sociology of Bourdieu to explore how academics respond to managerialist imperatives. Bourdieu’s metaphor of the game is applied to a c...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

Superdiversity is a pale, liberal and purely aesthetic version of intersectionality. It allows white academics to talk about race - without ever daring to talk about race. It exchanges a critical scalpel for a celebratory song.

IRiS

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4 years

What is #superdiversity ? How is superdiversity changing how we belong? #BeyondTheLockdown Watch IRiS director @nandosigona in this video for @MigrMatters

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

1 year

The documentary Shadow Game is showing at #FACT in #Liverpool on Monday 22nd May at 6PM. It tells stories of young #migrants crossing the Balkans towards western Europe. We also have a Q+A with @NoNameKitchen1 after the event - tickets only £6 - sign up:

Shadow Game + Q&A

Directed by Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel, Shadow Game tells the stories of young migrants attempting to cross the Balkans to reach Western Europe. This screening is part of our Community...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 months

@NafeezAhmed Look Nafeez, there's no 'we' here. You don't represent anyone. You aren't special despite your cringe self-promotional website- and even if you were, politics doesn't turn because one special Muslim non-representative kindly explained to politicians the error of their ways.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

8 months

@stefdoebler @redrumlisa Embarrassing takes from embarrassing academics.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

1 year

Thanks for coming to the Shadow Game documentary at FACT - and sorry if you couldn't get tickets as it was sold out. Thanks to @NoNameKitchen1 for touring the film in the UK - and @FACT_Liverpool for hosting. For information and ways of supporting NNK:

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

10 months

...whilst simultaneously shutting down any form of politics on racism that would demand something material or practical. Hence they are more interested in tone-policing the language of a black woman from the left, than focus on the policies that have caused the deaths of...

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

You better walk alone

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 months

Everything I've seen from this guy and his entourage and cheerleaders is that at best, they would like to use British Muslims only as a tool of their governing logic - to show paternalistic and superficial 'care' and 'concern', and to keep any dissenting voices firmly away.

Keir Starmer

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7 months

This Islamophobia Awareness Month comes at a deeply troubling time for Britain's Muslim communities. The recent surge in Islamophobia is devastating. My Labour government will tackle religious discrimination. A government for everyone, one that unites, not divides.

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3 months

2/12 It is very convenient for Labour at this point to try and paint racism as a Tory disease but Labour's ruling faction has long been a vehicle for racism - not even subtly - for years, and this has gone unnoticed in many quarters.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

Well, nobody could have predicted that...

CNN Breaking News

@cnnbrk

4 years

The University of North Carolina shuts down in-person classes at its Chapel Hill campus after a stunning rise in Covid-19 cases just a week after classes began

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1 month

Absolutely. We passed the ‘finding mass graves’ part of the genocide weeks ago and western liberal institutions and their leaderships here in the UK are quieter than mice. For them, race politics is just building their ‘equalities’ brand.

Marisa Pyle

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I am watching a toddler die on a table in a field hospital in Rafah with half her face blown apart while listening to college students fight tears reporting on a police assault on their campus for protesting that, and I feel like I am losing my fucking mind.

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2 months

Furthermore, who sold the weapons that helped dispossess them? And what of liberal humanitarianism is left when we take all of this into account? No, it's better not to think too hard on this.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

2 months

That Cathy Newman survived this and that most people who watch C4 news don’t even know about it, tells you so much about British journalism.

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2 months

Hardly surprising. Channel 4 protected Cathy Newman when she was caught faking being thrown out of a mosque on a Muslim community outreach day. She still presents on C4 News whilst also working for Rupert Murdoch at Times Radio.

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Arshad Isakjee

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2 months

We might ask, how and why did Ukrainians, Syrians, Afghans, Palestinians have to 'flee'? Not just 'displacement' as if it were a natural occurrence, but dispossession, deracination. We might even have to take imperialism, coloniality, extraction and capitalism more seriously.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 months

Crocodile tears and manufactured fears are now required to wash away the bloodied red hands of those supporting the slaughter. Western liberalism’s narcissistic self-pity mobilized to obscure its racist barbarism.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

3 months

They've turned a story about the govt & opposition supporting Israels mass slaughter of Palestinians, which a majority of the public have opposed, into a story about the public threatening MPs.

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3 months

Contemporary liberalism depends on asserting that the neoliberal status quo is the only possible future. Politics itself is expunged. What's left are the utterings of the most vacuous and boring people imaginable, propped up only by tedious expressions of their class identities.

Francie Brady

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3 months

Honest to God 🤦‍♂️

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@Isakjee

7 years

@GoodwinMJ Or maybe the ad is there to make the who feel excluded and stigmatised by xenophobic crap feel like they belong. Or isn't that important?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

4 years

9am lecture on epistemology from a Marxist perspective. Free teaching material unintentionally provided here by Springer Nature Limited

nature

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4 years

The journals will charge authors up to €9,500 to make research papers free to read, in a long-awaited alternative to subscription-only publishing.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

7 years

@iankatz1000 @maitlis #newsnight The point is that no centralised emergency assistance betrays an institutional indifference. Where did the state go?

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

6 months

Good to see this work coming out with Lighthouse collaborators and colleagues, looking into hundreds of deaths and disappearances of people along the Balkan route. Important journalism and brave testimonies.

Lighthouse Reports

@LHreports

6 months

The no. of people travelling through the Balkans to claim asylum in Europe hit its highest since 2015 last year – & the route is now more deadly We've found that a growing number of bodies of those attempting the journey are piling up in morgues or being buried without a trace

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@NafeezAhmed People like you are useful to power, precisely *because* you don't speak for anyone. You are photo-opp fodder, a suit, an event, a handshake: you embody the irrelevance you speak of. Nothing would make Brush Muslims more irrelevant than voting labour, after Forde, after Gaza.

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Students aren't mere customers. They are contributors to and learners of knowledge. And their experience of #universities can't be reduced to a number. Any ideas for universities that don't correspond to decades' old failed #metrics and managerialism?

Sam Gyimah

@SamGyimah

6 years

Will be discussing our plans for consumer style ratings for university courses to help drive value for money on @BBCr4today at 7.50 today.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

10 months

... thousands of non-Europeans at Europe's borders. It's about asserting their sense of their own 'civilised' respectability - centering themselves and their class as arbiters of progressive values. And if in doing so they reproduce their own liberal form of racism, so be it.

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8 years

Best AAG Abstract: "Yep, forget it. Neoliberalism sucks. We don't need it." @AnarchistGeog #AAG2016 @paulmasonnews

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@Isakjee

2 months

In this framework refugees are conceived of as magically arriving at a border with the clothes on their back. It's too troublesome to ask how or why - if we did then we'd have to think about the broader political terrain.

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1 year

Thanks for being great hosts and organisers @aleks_lewicki and @budgekaty . I learned a lot from the participants - all doing great, thoughtful work. You helped create a really warm and rich space for critical reflection.

Aleksandra Lewicki

@aleks_lewicki

1 year

Day 2 at the @SEI_Sussex work-in-progress workshop ‚Europe’s Peripheral and Racial Borders’ - thanks to all participants for great talks and discussions

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Keep it simple. Let's not get 'political', god forbid. Race is beyond our remit. Palestine is for lefties. 'Justice' is a matter for courts and lawyers . And what matters ultimately is...are we *nice* enough.

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@Isakjee

7 months

Don't call for a ceasefire. Send £10 million in aid. Humanitarianism is a hell of a drug.

David Lammy

@DavidLammy

8 months

Gaza is in a humanitarian emergency. Labour is calling for: - £10 million extra in humanitarian aid. - Appointing a UK special coordinator for aid to Gaza. - UK emergency relief & medical experts. - Funding for UNRWA. - Insist fuel can get to Gaza. My letter with @lisanandy 👇🏿

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4 years

All the asinine political discourse which paints New Labour as 'socially liberal' relies on racialised people and migrant labour being omitted from analysis.

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@Isakjee

3 months

Don’t vote Labour.

Stats for Lefties 🍉🏳️‍⚧️

@LeftieStats

3 months

🚨 BREAKING: Labour has endorsed the Conservative Party's plans to restrict pro-Palestine protests. Rishi Sunak has called for a more robust police response to pro-Palestine protest. The BBC reports that Labour believes "the proposals are sensible".

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3/12 We should all know that Dianne Abbot has been the recipient of a huge amount of personal abuse - in the run-up top the 2017 general election a study found that 45% of abusive tweets were aimed at her personally:

Black and Asian women MPs abused more online

We analysed abusive tweets mentioning women MPs and found shocking results. Read now.

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

3 years

Lol. Fuck off.

The Labour Party

@UKLabour

3 years

6 May is the biggest set of elections ever, and we need your help. Join the thousands of Labour members who will be out in pairs on the doorstep in England this Saturday. Sign up to volunteer and help Labour win 🌹👇

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Utter moral bankruptcy. Not just these people, but all the silent ones. All the silent colleagues. All the silent institutions.

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

4 months

Asked if an Israeli operation—where forces wore disguises and entered a West Bank hospital to carry out killings/executions—is the appropriate conduct for a state, StateSpox Miller says: “We think it is appropriate that they have the ability to bring members of Hamas to justice”

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@Isakjee

3 years

Yes. Columnists were happy to point out that voters saw Corbyn as anti-British. But they didn't expend enough effort interrogating why. Proximity to Muslims and what are thought of (sometimes misguidedly) as Muslim causes are part of the reason.

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6/12 It is egregious that some of these same people now use Dianne Abbot or 'black women' in general as a tokenistic fig-leaf to cover up their own indiscretions - of course whilst also trying to frame this as a party-political issue. This works as long as she is also kept quiet.

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@Isakjee

5 years

Brilliant evening. Every exam script marked after 10pm Saturday will get a First. #ynwa

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3 years

I know the system is structurally fair and meritocratic, because personally I'm doing well.

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12/12 The jarring juxtaposition of largely unexamined racism mobilised on a grand-scale in policy at home and abroad - with sudden concern with respect to one Tory donor's racist diatribes, is also something we need to think critically about.

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@Isakjee

7 years

Paper by @drkathyburrell in Mobilities on retaining connections with pre-migrantion lives #migration #geography

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@Isakjee

4 months

Yes. And the thing is that lots of liberals actually quietly agree with the Guido tweet - and that, more than anything, explains the indifference to Palestinians being massacred. It also explains the differential reception of Ukrainian refugees to those racialised as non-European

@PriyamvadaGopal

4 months

Well, there we have it.

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@Isakjee

5 years

He's right, but this should also put the UK fees into perspective

Bernie Sanders

@BernieSanders

5 years

The average cost of college tuition in: Denmark: $0 / year Finland: $0 / year Germany: $0 / year Norway: $0 /year Poland: $0 / year Sweden: $0 / year United States: $8,202 / year College for All is not an impossible idea.

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Arshad Isakjee

@Isakjee

10 months

Really good research here on #refugees , the political-economy of camp spaces and the subjectivities they seek to reproduce.

Hanno Brankamp 🍉 (@hannobrankamp.bsky.social)

@HannoBrankamp

10 months

1/4 OUT NOW #OpenAccess in #Geoforum : Our article “The camp as market frontier: refugees and the spatial imaginaries of capitalist prospecting in Kenya” w/ @de_Jong_Sara , @sophmackinder and @Drumdoe .

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