Dr. William A. Booth
Historian of Latin America, especially Mexico. Armchair for cats, short-order chef for children.
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothAction taking place now at UCL to condemn complicity with GoogleDeepMind in genocide in Gaza.
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothEnd UCL’s ties with Google DeepMind! Join BDS@UCL for a workshop to find out more about links with DeepMind and to work with others to write letters to UCL managers calling for an end to UCL’s ties with DeepMind. No need to register! Dates below ⬇️
- Reposted by Dr. William A. Booth3. 'José Revueltas and the temporalities of the Mexican 1956' by @williamabooth.bsky.social journals.lwbooks.co.uk/tcc/vol-2025...
- Reminder: this is TONIGHT!
- Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.
- Delighted to welcome @yararf.bsky.social to @uclhistory.bsky.social on 20/6 for a public reading and Q&A. Full info and free registration here: bit.ly/3HyYCTx - please share.
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothAre you interested in Mexico and its politics? Don’t miss this panel at UCL on 7th March 2025 at 6:30 pm. Book your tickets following the link below: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mexico-in-...
- Revising an article on Mexico and the ‘Global 1956’ and it’s turned into an extended essay on why José Revueltas was (often) weird and (almost always) brilliant
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothKohei Saito to packed audience at Japan Institute in Cologne: „it‘s great the room is so full, but you should hire some Marxist professors in German academia!“
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothMy 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...
- This was a superb event
- TODAY'S EVENT: Upholding humanitarian principles in contexts of impunity with Francesca Albanese, Dr Agnès Callamard and Dr Nimer Sultany. 📢 You've still got time to register to attend online: buff.ly/3ZgoZnv (Interpretation from English to Arabic and French will be available.)
- Booth & Son, purveyors of wonky little Tudor houses
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothFascinating this need to externalise the authoritarian turn in Western countries History has shown that the west doesn't need an other to act in the most brutal and authoritarian manner Ignoring this is deeply counterproductive
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- Absurd creature
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothWhen the edibles finally kick in.
- Done multi week reading groups on Black Jacobins which always works well. Fifth Sun too recently. Making of the English Working Class one I want to do soon.
- It’s freezing so we’re sharing the furry blanket
- Bluesky follows seem to have gone wild
- Feliz navidad, pendejxs. May all oppression cease. Black lives matter, trans joy is real, and free fckn Palestine!
- @amnightingale.bsky.social that is a somewhat terrifying profile pic!
- Digital humanities impact case study
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothThe National Security Archive has compiled a sort of “greatest hits” of primary sources involving Kissinger. Like Nixon, Kissinger loved secretly taping calls, which is why we know about his involvement in so many crimes.
- Went on TV briefly to discuss Milei - thought I’d have longer to cover the horror but here’s what I got in www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1wp...
- Content
- Astrid is the newest member of the family
- Exploring my office
- Very sweet baby
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothJob in IR at GIGA Institute in beautiful Hamburg: postdoc for someone working on "Latin America’s international relations, foreign policy, regional integration and multilateralism" 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDQ749/p...
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothI've been running my Substack newsletter, The Academic Bubble, for a few weeks now, so here's a thread of posts I've written for it in August and September (All retweets much appreciated, as always) 🧵 #skystorians 🗃️ #polisky
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothIt's been a few months in the making... & it's now finally ready: The Anti-Colonial Research Library hosts 400+ open-access articles and books, websites, YouTube videos on practical examples of Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. Use and share widely! anticolonialresearchlibrary.org
- Can’t match Stephen’s resumé but… - Stockroom need - Assistant Greenkeeper - Butcher/Fishmonger - Delivery Driver - Small press editor (and basically ghostwriter) - Whatever weird bundle of odd jobs I used to do at Canning House
- *nerd not need
- Here’s the opening comments I gave at the workshop on Marxism in the global south in the first half of the twentieth century last week at UCL: t.co/FzRTCgTXIX
- Reposted by Dr. William A. BoothOur #earlymodern IHR seminar has a REALLY cool line-up for this first term! Everybody very welcome to join. If you can't make it to London, you can sign up to get a zoom link (all times are UK) www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eur... 🗃️ #18thc
