Published just before 7 October, it can now be read in the light of Israel's destruction of Gaza. For the new Berlin Review, in English and with a German translation. blnreview.de/ausgaben/04-2024/martin-shaw-israels-militaerdoktrin-luttwak-shamir-idf
The International Court of Justice on Gaza: ‘Good, but Not Good Enough’
My new piece for Byline Times.
Inescapably Genocidal: my article opens new open-access Journal of Genocide Research forum on Gaza
Full article: 'Inescapably Genocidal' — Read on http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555
Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Gaza
I've signed this Statement of Scholars in Holocaust and Genocide Studies on Mass Violence in Israel and Palestine since 7 October. — Read on contendingmodernities.nd.edu/global-currents/statement-of-scholars-7-october/
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza – my latest
The Uses and Abuses of ‘Genocide’ in Gaza — Read on mailchi.mp/newlinesmag/genocide-in-gaza
New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain
I'm fairly well advanced with this exciting new project. The book is a short history of the movement from the early 1950s to date, and should appear from Agenda Publishing in the second half of 2024. Introduction 1 Ban the Bomb (1957-63) 2 The Campaign and the New Movements (1964-79) 3 Against the Euromissiles (1979-87) 4… Continue reading New book project: The Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons in Britain
5 years on, racism still shapes the legacy of Brexit and the Tory nationalist regime
Today is the 5th anniversary of the Brexit referendum. I remember it as the day I was aggressively told I was 'not English' by a Leave-supporting woman, as I stood outside a polling station in a sleepy Devon town - the first time in a lengthy life (as a white person in England) that I… Continue reading 5 years on, racism still shapes the legacy of Brexit and the Tory nationalist regime
Racial self-interest, Max Weber and the production of racism: the strategy and propaganda of Vote Leave during the Brexit referendum
This paper is finally out in Patterns of Prejudice, HERE. Here's the abstract: 'Shaw’s paper examines Eric Kaufmann’s idea of ‘racial self-interest’—which references Max Weber’s types of rationality in order to support ‘cordoning off’ racism from broader anti-immigration attitudes—through an analysis of Brexit, Kaufmann’s principal case. It discusses how Weber’s ideas might help us identify… Continue reading Racial self-interest, Max Weber and the production of racism: the strategy and propaganda of Vote Leave during the Brexit referendum
Political racism and the making of ‘Brexitland’ – review article
My latest on openDemocracy: review article on Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford, Brexitland: Identity, Diversity and the Reshaping of British Politics, Cambridge University Press, 2020. Political racism is key to Johnson's rise, but 'racism' is absent from Brexitland's conceptual framework British politics has been profoundly restructured since the 2016 referendum, Sobolewska and Ford argue in… Continue reading Political racism and the making of ‘Brexitland’ – review article
Only a bold democratic programme can stop Starmer becoming Labour’s third leader to be squeezed in the war of English and Scottish nationalisms
(Now published on openDemocracy) As Keir Starmer prepares for Labour’s 2020 conference he has almost closed the gap with the Tories in the polls and is ahead of Boris Johnson as ‘best prime minister’. He is currently visiting Scotland - where Labour is still very weak - and writes in The Scotsman that ‘the number… Continue reading Only a bold democratic programme can stop Starmer becoming Labour’s third leader to be squeezed in the war of English and Scottish nationalisms
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