Caleb Ward

She‘s fabulous! Can’t wait to read this

CfP #BISA2027 ‘Thinking climate politics from the Pacific’. This is a panel of researchers who work in the UK & Europe, who think about climate from the Pacific. We recognise the problems of doing this but share a commitment to challenging the marginalisation of Pacific knowledge in our region.

Anyone wondering what the kids are reading these days? Here's your answer👇 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sad right-wing faces in the background 💅

Cmon Germany, don’t deport human rights defenders back to get imprisoned by the authoritarian governments they criticize. This is egregious.

Gandalf: are you telling me I wasted my whole sabbatical on archival research when I could have just done a single oral history interview?

Excuse me, your journal is called what now?? Respectfully, Fiona, read the room.

The piece linked below brings out dynamics of nation, belonging, and identity with relevance far beyond roller derby...

This is really really good!

Teaching today was just fabulous. Love that for the first real week of reading and discussion. We talked double binds and how to square the possibility that oppressive systems may harm everyone but only oppress some

Listening to this album again with headphones and it’s just exquisite

In honor of Julie Dash's 74th birthday today, you should watch "Daughters of the Dust." And it's free on Tubi It was only 35 years ago that she was the first Black woman to have a movie with a theatrical run

I did not like this book. My review, which some have called "insightful" and "well-written" (and, I will add, extremely fair and rigorously argued), is coming out in the spring.

Here's another story of what rampant corruption is doing to the USA: this time a mayor whose primary source of income is a fancy private club he owns connected to the town racetrack. As a result, he ties the survival of the town to his own financial survival, and people die when floodwaters come.

"Everything we do has got to contribute to the struggle. Because everything THEY do is grinding us into dust. And we will not be ground." 👏We will not be ground!👏

Your average high-volume poster on here:

Me trying to get my social contract class excited about Hobbes: “You see, before we started reading and raging about random ppl’s bad takes on the internet, we used to just read and rage about this one guy’s bad take….”

A thread of things I've explained to undergraduate students this year.

I wrote about men in groups in connection with Jane Doe and the Cornell case. Some of what I discovered in my research shocked even me (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/20/o...

People think a world without cops looks like the purge and instead, every moment where it can briefly happen there is partying.

Adrienne Rich, Paris Review, Interview

This is how Carole Pateman begins "The Sexual Contract". It's one of my favourite openings in political theory!

My book is finally going to production tho there’s no timeline yet. If you don’t want to go on Polymarket, place your bets here on the projected publication date.