Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧📝New publication! Fossil fuel phaseouts must incorporate: 1. 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗲 incl. 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗲𝗯𝘁 2. 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 and 𝘂𝗻𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 3. 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝘄𝗻𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹𝘀 Read and share: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧If you’d like to know more about extinction and empire, some upcoming book events: 18 June, with Gary Younge, KCL www.kcl.ac.uk/events/vanis... 26 June, Linnean Society, London www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-unnatu... 9 July, with Helen Macdonald, Cambridge www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vanished-a...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧And so we begin: the first panel on friendship and solidarity, with papers on Portugal and Cuba, emotional work in the Zimbabwean anti-apartheid movement and women in the Uzbek Friendship Society during decolonisation.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧This is a very human(e) addition about what students are being stripped of in the mad rush towards "AI". The heart of rebuttal is about those crucial things we try to educate towards: a flowering personhood, an adaptive, and curious, type of resilience. AI eats that stuff and leaves nothing behind.
- I wrote about the widespread adoption of AI in education, and why there needs to be more resistance to it open.substack.com/pub/irinadum...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Every now again it’s useful to repeat advice about accessing papers that are behind a paywall that excludes you. Email the author. My estimate is that 90% of academics are so thrilled that a living, breathing, possibly even reading, person shows interest that they will swiftly send you a copy.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences? This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧'Understanding the specific history of South Asian Black politics highlights both tensions and possibilities for antiracist solidarity today.' Saffron East (@saffroneast.bsky.social) on lessons learned from the history of the feminist collective Southall Black Sisters 🗃️
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧📣 Amazing PhD opportunity with Dr Hannah Young at the University of Greenwich: ‘De-colonising Maritime Greenwich: Confronting histories and legacies of empire, c. 1694-2025.’ Fully-funded!! Spread the word to prospective applicants! #PhD #postgraduate www.gre.ac.uk/__data/asset...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧We are now approaching 4,000 formally announced university redundancies in the UK since January alone. The real situation is far worse than that, and will also accelerate going forwards. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧#OtD 6 Apr 1981 Operation Swamp 81 was carried out by police in Brixton, rounding up and searching Black residents. In five days, over 900 people were stopped and searched, with 82 arrests. The local area erupted into rioting, which spread nationally stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1058...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧My colleague Martin Dribe is looking for a doctoral candidate interested in demographic inequality in his Wallenberg Scholar project ‘Unequal Lives: Socioeconomic Stratification, Life-Course, and Demography from Preindustrial Society to the Welfare State’. lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧#OtD 1 Apr 1998 Christopher Alder died on a police station floor in Hull, UK. While unconscious, police failed to examine him and made monkey noises over his body. A verdict of unlawful killing was made in 2000. No officers were ever found guilty stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8041...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧I’ve written a piece for @africasacountry.bsky.social about the liberal humanitarian sector’s response to the recent USAID cuts and reformist efforts to defend - what has always been - an unequal system ⬇️
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Hello everyone going to the British History Today conference at @qmcbs.bsky.social at the start of May! I'm giving a paper on young people, politics & age in late 1980s Britain at the @ihr.bsky.social the night before! See details here: www.history.ac.uk/events/fancy... #skystorians #histchild 🗃️
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
- Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧When I describe "AI" chatbots as plagiarism engines, I'm not exaggerating, I'm simply describing reality: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧PhD Studentship: Exploring the Visual Record of Black Caribbean Men and Women Serving in the UK During the Second World War- University of Westminster - School of Humanities #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMH227/p...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧This International Women's Day use the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) to learn more about women’s history. In our subject tree, ‘women’ offers over 40,000 articles, chapters, and books – why not have a look for yourself? buff.ly/3L7a33B
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧We are increasingly concerned about the crisis in UK Higher Education. Read our joint statement with @royalhistsoc.bsky.social , History UK and the @histassoc.bsky.social buff.ly/4hSg16N #history #skystorians
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧University history lecturers spend much of the first year survey courses unravelling students' conviction that a source is useless because "it is bias (sic)". No, the bias or perspective is precisely what we're interested in.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Academia’s “labyrinth of acronyms, endless forms, and confusing hierarchies” can be barriers for professional services staff hoping to enter the sector, according to a new book. @patrickjack.bsky.social writes #AcademicSky #EduSky
- He's very proud of his mudstache
- Genuine question - why won't people (journalists, I'm particularly looking at you) just use the past tense when talking about the past?!?
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧In the UK, February is LGBTQ+ History Month. In this thread, we're sharing some of our past articles on queer history - from Northern Ireland to Argentina, from an old post box to the dental damn. 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈 #queerhistory #lgbtqhistory #LGBTHistoryMonth www.historyworkshop....
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Explore an alternative history of Cambridge 📖🌈 'Queer Cambridge' delves into the history of one of Cambridge’s most iconic institutions to recount the untold story of a gay community living for many decades in the heart of the University Discover more about the new @cambridgeup.bsky.social book 👇
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Are you studying or researching the histories of sexuality? The Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) contains a wealth of resources in this area. You can also explore our LGBTQIA+ history reading list
- My alarm clock
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧And the book exists online! Available in July this year manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧#OnThisDay 170 years ago, the first women were granted admission to the University Library as readers. Constantia Ann Ellicott, pictured here, was one of them. To find out more, head to the latest @theulspeccoll.bsky.social blog post: loom.ly/GTVcMbY
- Thank god straight, white, rich men are finally being liberated! 🙄
- “I feel liberated,” said a top banker. “We can say ‘retard’ and ‘pussy’ without the fear of getting cancelled . . . it’s a new dawn.” Business in the age of Trump. Sounds liberating. www.ft.com/content/cf87...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Reading about Charles Hardinge 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst, once Viceroy of India, who retired and led the Organisation for the Maintenance of Supplies, a 'volunteer' org which attempted to break the 1926 General Strike. He received six knighthoods in his life and in Delhi there's a huge statue.
- Found a dead mouse in the kitchen. That was not the worst part of my day. How many more hours of work this year?!?
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Really exciting to be going through the applications for this #Indigenous histories & perspectives project! If you’re an academic working on Indigenous histories (or presents) & might be prepared to give up an hour or two to advise a keen teacher on their resources & lesson plans then please HMU! 🗃️
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Sharing this interview with @drkeisharay.bsky.social about her work on anti-black racism and Black Bioethics. Check it out! You can find her (excellent) book, Black Health, here: global.oup.com/academic/pro... blogs.bmj.com/medical-huma...
- New article (with wonderful colleagues Lena Grinsted and Catherine Murgatroyd) now out! journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧HEX Conference 2025 - Historicizing Experiences - Call for Papers deadline this Friday 29 November. The conference will take place at Tampere University, Finland 10-12 March 2025. Please find the full CfP and more info on the conference website: events.tuni.fi/historyofexp...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧📢The call for papers for our 2025 conference is now ✨LIVE✨ We are the biggest gathering of social and cultural historians in the UK and will be at the @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social from 7-9 July 2025! Call is open until 17 January 2025🌟🗃️ Please share widely! socialhistory.org.uk/conference/s...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Here's a full view of the cover, which I think came out rather nicely.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Latest publication: ‘An Inclusive History of LGBTQ+ Aversion Therapy: Past Harms and Future Address in a UK Context’. Co-authored with four excellent collaborators including @rebeccawynter.bsky.social (the others are not here yet). journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧“A new writing award for authors aged 60+ has launched, and is backed by My Name is Leon (Penguin) author @kitdewaal.bsky.social and agency AM Health.” via The Bookseller Magazine #NewWritingAward www.thebookseller.com/news/new-wri...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Hey. Writing/comics bsky could you share this around? (I’m judging & want to share BEYOND my circles!) This is a prize for if you’re working on an unpublished YA book: - Submit a short extract - Win money/ feedback - Open worldwide till Feb - INCLUDES YA GRAPHIC NOVELS
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧🚨 A bit of a surprise, this, but our Bloomsbury volume Integration and Collaborative Imperialism in Modern Europe: At the Margins of Empire, 1800-1950 appears to now be ONLINE (and in OPEN ACCESS)! Read, share, tell your friends, discuss! 🗃️
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I wrote this a while ago on how categories of migration can obscure hierarchies, and how these inequities explain why ‘managing’ mobility entrenches inequities - Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Reminder that our next & final 😢 #womensgrassrootsactivism online panel takes place on Tuesday 3 December at 12.30pm (UK time). Join us to hear about the lessor known grassroots activism of Chinese women in post-war Britain. Link to register below:
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Today marks 50 years since the Birmingham pub bombings, which killed 21 people and injured over 180. Nobody has been convicted for this crime since the Birmingham 6 were exonerated in 1991. Time for a public inquiry, before more family members die without answers. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧THREAD: Weaponizing of Twitter in 2021 to spread denialism & manufacture consent for mass slaughter in Ethiopia, a mini case study. I bring up social media damage, both to urge @bsky.app to work on preventative mechanisms & to raise awareness of the horrors it has caused, far from western shores.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧I grew up under Section 28 I was aged 3 when it started & was at university when it ended When I’ve taught undergraduates about it, they didn’t realise that it meant that our literal *existence* was not acknowledged 21 years later, its important to remember the significance #LGBTQ+ 🏳️🌈
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧We have just released the call for applications for this funded PhD position on the history of social and political reactions to HIV and AIDS: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Please share the word! #History #HIV #AIDS #MedicalHumanities
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Although reintroduction of student number controls won't solve the crisis, even the very modest step of reintroducing SNCs into the discussion would improve its quality. The resounding silence on this issue impoverishes both systematic understanding of how HE actually works and policy-making. 3/3
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Find out more on our website about the Month, events happening near you, and our historical figures for the 2025 celebration (Octavia Hill, Ivor Cummings, Annie Kenney, Charlie Kiss, and Olaudah Equiano). You can also order a badge. lgbtplushistorymonth.co.uk
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Re-upping this for the Friday crowd: On what legal and film scholars can gain from thinking about the treatment of the law as a theme in Hollywood cinema in the age of the New Deal. All reposts (and subscriptions) much appreciated. x
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Māori MPs briefly suspended the Aotearoa parliament’s attempts to reinterpret their founding treaty in the most bad ass use of the Haka I’ve ever seen.
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧⭐️ Exciting News ⭐️ Race & Resistance is excited to officially announce our 2025 conference, RESISTANCE, RENEWAL, REIMAGINATION: 100 Years of Race & Resistance in Britain🚨 ⏳CfP deadline: 13th January 2025 📅 7th March 2025 📍University of Oxford Huge thanks to our sponsor, Black Academic Futures⭐
- A blog I wrote recently about the IoE conference on decolonising higher education: history.port.ac.uk?p=3250
- Reposted by Jodi Burkett 🇨🇦🇬🇧Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...
