Catherine Ruth Craven
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Sheffield
Forthcoming book: Diaspora Governance in Practice (Bristol).
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenNothing quite like a blanket email from HR to chase away the January blues. @sheffielducu.bsky.social members took lawful strike action in Nov/Dec. we were docked pay. Now the Uni says refusal to reschedule cancelled classes results in breach of contract and 💯 pay deductions. 😡 Punished twice.
- Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
- 🔊 I've been quiet about this, but can't hold it in any longer ... 🍾 Beyond happy to say that my first book "Diaspora Governance in Practice" - which will be published with @brisunipress.bsky.social next year - now officially has a cover!!!
- 📖 Diaspora Governance in Practice will offer a new perspective on how power operates in an entangled international system, through a practice-centered study of diaspora governance as it is encountered (remade and resisted) by a globally mobilizing Tamil diaspora.
- 🤩 Stay tuned to learn more about the contents of the book, and to hear me gushing about all the wonderful people who've helped to make this happen!!!
- The fabulous @oulakadhum.bsky.social and I are planning on putting together a panel on diaspora politics and decolonization for @mybisa.bsky.social annual conference, if anyone is interested in joining?! More info below, please get in touch via c.r.craven@sheffield.ac.uk
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenBREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.
- Latest research from MIGZEN now out in @jcms-eu.bsky.social We advance understanding of emergence of transnational communities of practice in global politics, exploring how Brexit opportunity structures shape transnational political mobilisation in Europe. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth Craven#publicationalert New article by @michaelacbenson.bsky.social Catherine Craven & @nandosigona.bsky.social on the political mobilisation of #EUcitizenship during #Brexit drawing @ukri.org www.migzen.net
- #Brexit and the Emergence of a Transnational European Community of Practice: From Grassroots Mobilisations to Supranational Political Opportunity Structures in the Struggle for Citizens' Rights Journal of Common Market Studies (@jcms-eu.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenIt was a pleasure to welcome @susanbanki.bsky.social to a well-attended end of semester @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social seminar to hear about her dedicated work on the Ecosystem of the little-known Bhutanese exile politics & to hear excellent provocations from @catherineruth.bsky.social around #precarity
- UK academic recap: spruiked book @ox.ac.uk @soasuni.bsky.social @sheffielduni.bsky.social @durhamuniversity.bsky.social . Reunion with many colleagues @alexanderbetts.bsky.social Nich Van Hear Anita Fabos @hannahjlewis.bsky.social Alice Bloch Fiona Adamson Michael Hutt Martin Jones Alice Nah. Joy
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenI have been working on building this database of crimes of solidarity&humanitarianism for a few years. It's a resource for research and legal cases and activists -to get an overall sense of patterns across different locations. If you would like to help please get in touch www.crimesofsolidarity.org
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenJoin us for: The ecosystem of exile politics: The importance of physical location in diaspora mobilisation ⌚ Thu 26th June, 1130 Susan Banki, University of Sydney University of Sheffield 🏢 & online 💻 Register ➡️ www.sheffield.ac.uk/migration-re... @sheffieldmrg.bsky.social & Activism Network
- Reposted by Catherine Ruth CravenWe are screening The Big Meeting - a film about the Durham Miners' Gala 📅Thursday 5th June 2025 from 7:15 at the Broomhall Centre Open to all! Please sign up here: forms.gle/iHeJCWRKfrE1... @sheffieldtransformed.org
- Made it to page 13 of the Immigration White Paper but was ultimately defeated by this paragraph/sentence/string of words?!
- Phew I thoucht it was me and my no-math brain.
