Crystal A. Ennis
academic & author writing about labour & development in global political economy
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- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThe article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisNot exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisHey #academicsky: friendly reminder that taking the exact ideas or sources, or the exact way someone puts together ideas or sources from someone else's work and framing them as your own is plagiarism. Ideas are what we theorists make in the lab, through long hours of work and years of honing.
- Join us to celebrate and discuss @libertychee.bsky.social 's important new book this Friday! I'm very much looking forward to the event. #migration #polisky
- arc-m.uva.nl/content/even... If you are in or near Amsterdam, please join us for the launch of "Merchants of Migrant Domestic Labour: Recruitment Agencies and Neoliberal Migration Governance in Southeast Asia". Please register to attend in person or online #migcitsky #IRsky #polisky #gendersky
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisSo pleased to see that Crystal Ennis's (@crystalennis.bsky.social) book, MILLENIAL DREAMS IN OIL ECONOMIES: JOB SEEKING AND THE GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY OF LABOUR IN OMAN is the winner of this year's AGAPS Book Award
- It was brilliant speaking with my colleagues about our ten year journey, and debating what we consider the most critical political economy questions of today. (Will write more on this soon!)
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisCongratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social for the well earned award for her brilliant book. I am thrilled that Making Space for the Gulf was also recognized by AGAPS
- To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisCongratulations to @crystalennis.bsky.social - I indexed this book, and the reward is richly deserved!
- To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...
- To my great delight and astonishment, my book, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and the Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman, has received the 2025 AGAPS Biennial Book Award! agaps.org/agaps-awards...
- I am so honoured to receive this award from such a distinguished review committee, and to see my book in such great company next to @keshavarziana.bsky.social .
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisI have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
- Join us to celebrate the Leiden Political Economy Group's 10th anniversary!
- Racism motivated the securitisation of our campus. www.mareonline.nl/nieuws/hoe-d...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisAllies and critics alike have bought into the narrative of Israel as a hub of high-tech military "innovation." But, as the scholar Rhys Machold explains in his new piece, this story obscures the true motor powering Israel's violence: Western backing. jewishcurrents.org/the-myth-of-...
- CBC Fifth Estate investigates millions of dollars of Canadian tax deductible charitable donations funding the military occupation and illegal settlements. youtu.be/-4eOsVAxCTM?...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisTwo years of genocide and the AP still starts its articles with “Israel said” Israel continues to be given the right to narrate the genocide it is doing
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisPls share: Applications open for Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Toronto, 5-10 July 2026 Featuring: Lars Coenen, Karen Lai, Devika Narayan and Stefan Ouma Early career economic geographers (broadly defined) are welcome to apply. Stipends available. www.econgeog.net/Toronto2026
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIsrael is still not allowing International Media back into Gaza, despite the Ceasefire
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThis is so significant: a new comprehensive report detailing the myriad modalities of Canadian university complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. static1.squarespace.com/static/68bf2...
- Very pleased to see our article (with Yujing Tan & Shivant Jhagroe) on the GPE of Labour & platform capitalism, drawing on our study of migrant gig workers in multinational food delivery platforms in the Netherlands published with @gpejournal.bsky.social! doi.org/10.1332/2635...
- Thanks to @stellamorgana.bsky.social & @jmchickson.bsky.social for including us in their collection.
- De dag waarop iedereen altijd al tegen deze genocide was @bramvermeul.bsky.social www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisBuilding on our workshop last year on The Global Politics of Precarity and Insecure Work, @stellamorgana.bsky.social and I are delighted to share a collection of 6 original commentary articles on this theme in @gpejournal.bsky.social Read the full introduction here: doi.org/10.1332/2635...
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis"The idea...is to retell the story of #Oman’s modern economic development from the perspective of #labor instead of oil... 'The story of Oman’s history and of development is the story of living and working. You want to understand the Omani story? Follow the workers.'" - @crystalennis.bsky.social
- Haven't read my book yet & want to know more? Check out my #NewTextsOutNow interview with @jadaliyya.bsky.social ! #newton #millennialdreams #oman www.jadaliyya.com/Details/46914
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis#OtD 25 Sep 2003 noted Palestinian intellectual Edward Said died. A founding father of postcolonial theory, he wrote extensively on the Middle East and Palestine, and how Western culture has been moulded by imperialism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9791...
- Solidarity to our colleagues at Birzeit University, enduring repeated attacks by Israeli occupation forces. If you haven't been, please pay attention. #scholasticide right2edu.birzeit.edu/birzeit-univ...
- Canada has recognized Palestine. Finally. It feels like a tiny victory. But let's also put it in context. 140 other UN member states already recognize Palestine. It is meaningful in Canadian FP terms & represents a shift. Canada has been more than a holdout, it has even been an obstacle at the UN.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisYes! I just spoke to a librarian and they are spending time trying to find fake citations - they are being given pages of fake references to find via inter-library loan Again, digital asbestos - quick to produce, but so much cost and labour to clean-up.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIncrease in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisNothing to add.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisTa-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and those who have canonized him. archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisMy column in the new issue of @thenation.com, in which I argue that liberals who are finally acknowledging that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza must atone for nearly two years of complicity.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisI had the opportunity to review Elham Fakhro's excellent and highly timely book on the Abraham Accords. It sheds light on Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, the GCC, and the US at this current moment. merip.org/2025/09/the-...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisAt the University of Valencia to explore AI and agency in politics, convened by Marco Guglielmo:
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThey bombed the Katara area in Doha. That area is a tourist spot, and always filled with families. I used to take my kid there every other day. What is this rogue world
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis*How Commerce Became Legal* is finally out with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped along the way. www.sup.org/books/middle... (50% site-wide discount valid until September 8; 20% discount using code "CHETA20" after that)
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisWhen the classroom is a tent and the dream is survival. In Gaza, students study by flashlight, under bombs, and through grief. This powerful essay by Taqwa al-Wawi honors their defiance and asks: how do you dream when your school no longer exists? www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThis must stop. Israel must stop this mass starvation. Our lawmakers must do more. “Since AFP was founded in August 1944, some of our journalists were killed in conflict, others were wounded or made prisoner, but there is no record of us ever having had to watch our colleagues starving to death.”
- Look what just arrived in the mail - Fabricating Homeland Security! Looking forward to reading this important work. Congrats Rhys ! @stanfordpress.bsky.social
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis🤖 New Pre-Print: Ad Machina: Partisanship and Support for Delegating Government Decisions to Autonomous Algorithms osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisOf course it is: Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30/s...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThe masks are coming off: human values and international law seem to count for nothing anymore. This was already evident when the world did nothing to stop the genocide in Gaza. As you read this, Israel is still killing civilians who are already displaced & starving. www.standaard.be/opinies/je-k...
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis"As a commentator on Iran, write confidently and on behalf of all Iranians, even if you have never been to Iran or speak Persian. You are a bona fide Iran expert if you are white, male, and have an assistant who can tweet in Persian on your behalf."
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisOok wij sluiten zondag 13.00 uur weer aan bij dit initiatief van @oxfamnovib.bsky.social en @amnestynl.bsky.social en eisen actie van dit kabinet. Help mee, doe je roodste outfit aan en trek een #RodeLijn voor alle burgers, journalisten, zorg- en hulpverleners die zijn omgekomen en vermoord in Gaza.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThe people united will never be defeated! ✊ En daarom gaan we zondag massaal naar Den Haag om tegen onze regering te zeggen: trek NU die rode lijn en stop de genocide in Gaza. Als je kunt, kom alsjeblieft. ✊❤️🇵🇸 (Ook als je je niet hebt aangemeld, ben je heel welkom om 13 uur op het Malieveld ❤️)
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIsrael’s war on Iran has killed hundreds of people. Each has a face, a name, a story. Parnia Abbasi is one of them. She was a 24 year old poet and English teacher. Until an Israeli missile hit her home in Tehran, killing her and her entire family. This is one of her poems, translated to English
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisExcited to see my friend @masayalb.bsky.social’a latest book published! Pre-order it through your favourite independent bookstore like I did (Words Worth Books, Waterloo ON) or from Bloomsbury Canada here: www.bloomsbury.com/ca/pandemic-...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThe deportation of pregnant and lactating women is a new low in an already inhumane mass deportation wave in the #DominicanRepublic. My article for @ca.theconversation.com For Haitian migrants in the Dominican Republic, ‘reproduction is like a death sentence’ theconversation.com/for-haitian-...
- They don't want to learn about Palestine. On censorship in Middle East studies by my Gulf studies colleague & comrade Alex Boodrookas. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view... #menasky #polisky
- Picturing Scholasticide: A Visual Testament to the Destruction of Education in Palestine. Important, devastating work by some incredible colleagues. www.picturingscholasticide.org #menasky #polisky
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis600 days in the genocide
- I read & watched this & sobbed. You should read it too. Then I grew angry. It took the BBC this long to report on Gaza properly? 19 months later.. www.bbc.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis
Do people understand how many people have been killed in just these recent days? - Still true. Can you still not say the word, even now? How will your grandchildren remember you?
- The king has landed, get this, for Canada to assert its sovereignty 🤣 #cdnpoli 🇨🇦
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisThe Gaza genocide is nearing its final, most brutal phase, and Israeli universities are providing intellectual, logistical, and technological support. The academic boycott of Israeli institutions is the minimum that justice demands. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/stud... #Palestine #Israel
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisKom morgen, zondag 18 mei naar Den Haag, trek de rode lijn en eis een einde aan Nederlandse medeplichtigheid aan Israëls oorlogsmisdaden! rightsforum.org/campagnes/pr...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisDe voorpagina van morgen. Met gratis rode lijn.
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIncredibly powerful investigation in Dutch newspaper NRC: Seven of the world’s leading genocide scholars — including renowned Holocaust experts — describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocidal. And according to them, nearly all of their peers agree.
- Hey Google, what is ethnic cleansing? Exhibit A www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...
- Reposted by Crystal A. Ennis📢We are delighted to announce that we have kicked off the Fifth session of @ipegbisa.bsky.social's financialisation in Latin America webinar series ! 👉Today we are joined by Dr Luiza Peruffo to discuss Brazil’s financial strategy in a polarised world.
- Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History. My colleague @ethanmark.bsky.social has organised this important roundtable. Attend! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIsrael is still killing Gaza. Why doesn’t it get attention anymore? New piece by me. abuaardvarkghost.ghost.io/israel-is-st...
- Join me Thursday, on International Workers' Day, to discuss the impact of AI, digital platforms, and gig work on labour. I'll be sharing the findings from a recent case study on female drivers for a ride-hailing app in Oman. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisAttending the book launch of @crystalennis.bsky.social new book: Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies. Great attendance and some interesting comments and questions from the commentators.
- Later today! 🥳 @cambridgeup.bsky.social @cambridgeuppolisci.bsky.social
- Please join me for this panel launching & discussing my new book, next week in Leiden! Thanks to LUCIS & L-PEG for hosting! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... cc @lucir.bsky.social
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisIn their video abstract, Vineet Thakur & Ladhu Ram Choudhary explain how nazi diplomat Curt Max Prüfer occupied the first chair in IR in India. Check out their video and be sure to read the full article! 📺 buff.ly/4euqAe5 📄 buff.ly/41pd9sX
- Reposted by Crystal A. EnnisWhat is mainstream political economy getting wrong about Oman's development story? Join us next week, from 15:00-17:00 for the presentation of @crystalennis.bsky.social 's amazing new book! Register here: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
