Patrick Neveling
@patrickneveling.bsky.social
Social Anthropology & Global Economic History, Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences Bournemouth University, Programme Leader BA (Hons) Sociology & Social Anthropology, editor @FocaalBlog, views are mine
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"Hitchcock also believes that AI has heightened a trend according to which “the process of education is being downplayed in favour of the outcome”, with students interested in a degree primarily for the advantage it confers in the job market." www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...
"Hitchcock also believes that AI has heightened a trend according to which “the process of education is being downplayed in favour of the outcome”, with students interested in a degree primarily for the advantage it confers in the job market." www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...
Is mass cheating the inevitable result of AI’s rise?
The brief launch of an app promising to attend students’ lectures as well as write their assignments caused some academics to despair at a dystopian near-future in which learning becomes a pointless s...
www.timeshighereducation.com
May 16, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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"Hitchcock also believes that AI has heightened a trend according to which “the process of education is being downplayed in favour of the outcome”, with students interested in a degree primarily for the advantage it confers in the job market." www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...
"Hitchcock also believes that AI has heightened a trend according to which “the process of education is being downplayed in favour of the outcome”, with students interested in a degree primarily for the advantage it confers in the job market." www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/mass-c...
This came out online already last year, now in print.
Part of Symposium on Ulbe Bosma's "The World of Sugar".
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Part of Symposium on Ulbe Bosma's "The World of Sugar".
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas - Volume 70 Issue 3
www.cambridge.org
February 19, 2026 at 4:35 PM
This came out online already last year, now in print.
Part of Symposium on Ulbe Bosma's "The World of Sugar".
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Part of Symposium on Ulbe Bosma's "The World of Sugar".
Historical Materialist Anthropology and The World of Sugar: Cross-Disciplinary Research Agendas | International Review of Social History | Cambridge Core - www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Let’s make a Bad Bunny theory 101 list!
Hier kommt die Leseliste für Bad Bunny Theorie 101.
Ich mach mich da jetzt endlich auch mal dran.
Ich mach mich da jetzt endlich auch mal dran.
Übrigens auch auf deutsch, kann beides sehr empfehlen:
Dussel, Enrique: Kölner Vorlesungen, Thuria + Kant (darin auch seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritischen Theorie)
Cusicanqui, Silvia Riveira: Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Eine Reflexion über Praktiken und Diskurse der Dekolonisierung, Unrast
Dussel, Enrique: Kölner Vorlesungen, Thuria + Kant (darin auch seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Kritischen Theorie)
Cusicanqui, Silvia Riveira: Ch’ixinakax utxiwa
Eine Reflexion über Praktiken und Diskurse der Dekolonisierung, Unrast
February 15, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Let’s make a Bad Bunny theory 101 list!
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Out Now: Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, edited by Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco Kanters
Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
January 16, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Out Now: Elgar Encyclopedia of Economic Anthropology, edited by Cristina Grasseni, Erik Bähre, Douglas R. Holmes, and Coco Kanters
Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
Learn more: www.e-elgar.com/shop/isbn/97...
Free chapter: doi.org/10.4337/9781...
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Breaking news! Do you want to come to this year's Tolpuddle for last year's prices?
We are opening a flash sale for HeartUnions week - 9-15 Feb!
Swing over to tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival to grab your early bird tickets 🔥
We are opening a flash sale for HeartUnions week - 9-15 Feb!
Swing over to tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival to grab your early bird tickets 🔥
The Festival | Tolpuddle Martyrs
The HeartUnions Sale runs 9-15 February inclusive – don’t miss out!
tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk
February 6, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Breaking news! Do you want to come to this year's Tolpuddle for last year's prices?
We are opening a flash sale for HeartUnions week - 9-15 Feb!
Swing over to tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival to grab your early bird tickets 🔥
We are opening a flash sale for HeartUnions week - 9-15 Feb!
Swing over to tolpuddlemartyrs.org.uk/festival to grab your early bird tickets 🔥
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🚨NEW: Federal officers like ICE agents have been routinely prosecuted by states for violating state laws, up to and including murder, since the 1800s.
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
ICE Agents Can Be Charged With Murder - The American Prospect
As a killing in Minneapolis is documented, the law clearly stipulates that federal agents do not have universal immunity.
prospect.org
January 7, 2026 at 9:30 PM
🚨NEW: Federal officers like ICE agents have been routinely prosecuted by states for violating state laws, up to and including murder, since the 1800s.
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
Minnesota has every ability to do this with today's killing of a motorist by an ICE agent.
prospect.org/2026/01/07/i...
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UK: Unions accuse McDonald's of 'repeated harassment' against 'mostly teenage' staff www.bbc.com/news/article...
McDonald's sexual abuse: Government offers to intervene in row with unions
It follows a BBC investigation three years ago which exposed a toxic culture at the fast-food chain.
www.bbc.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:25 PM
UK: Unions accuse McDonald's of 'repeated harassment' against 'mostly teenage' staff www.bbc.com/news/article...
Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)
November 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)
JUST OVER SEVEN HOURS TO GO 🚨‼️‼️🚨‼️‼️
📣 National Get The Vote Out LIVE!
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
Join us next Thursday 6 November at 7PM as we go live from campuses across the UK 💪
Hear from members, branches and organisers as we make the final push to get every ballot posted 🗳️
Watch LIVE on UCU X and YouTube
#WeAreTheUniversity
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
What #wearetheuniversity means for students
YouTube video by Bournemouth University UCU
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October 23, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...
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Just voted in the @ucu.org.uk pay and conditions ballot. Voted YES.
I’m sick of worsening pay and conditions. I’m sick of working in a constant state of crisis. I’m sick of the exploitative, careless leadership in this sector.
I’m looking forward to fighting back with @ucu-ulster.bsky.social
I’m sick of worsening pay and conditions. I’m sick of working in a constant state of crisis. I’m sick of the exploitative, careless leadership in this sector.
I’m looking forward to fighting back with @ucu-ulster.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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#wearetheuniversity #ucu
Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education
Just voted. Let's get the vote out for better funding and working conditions in higher education
October 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
October 2, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.
Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good
September 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good
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In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇
September 13, 2025 at 8:44 PM
In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇
Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
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A day in the dangerous life of Gaza’s truck drivers
Aid convoy truckers witness first-hand how Israeli bombing and blockades have pushed the enclave into famine
on.ft.com
September 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
on.ft.com/3V7bWCa
on.ft.com/3V7bWCa
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www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable
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September 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊
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"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
September 2, 2025 at 4:41 PM
"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.
Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....
August 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....
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"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"
Die Türkei untergräbt die demokratische Option in Syrien
Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, „Hayat Tahrir al-Sham“ (HTS) die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus, und bedroht...
deutsch.anf-news.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"
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So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -
August 7, 2025 at 9:32 PM
So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -
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This is my ministry
August 7, 2025 at 10:29 PM
This is my ministry
Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today
A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.
theconversation.com
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
theconversation.com/why-people-i...
Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...
August 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...
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BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...
Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers?
The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?
images.thedailystar.net
July 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...