Session #2 – Reading Lists

A chairde,

Thanks so much to everyone who came out for week one! We had the best time and it was so nice chatting with everyone! Also thank you so so much to our hosts Connolly Books, FLUX, and Marrowbone Books! Absolute angels all of them!

This week we’re going to be running our very first film club (!!!) in Ballybough Community Centre and we’d love to see you there! There’s more information below, and we’ve also included the reading for next week’s reading groups. We’ll be looking at INTERNATIONAL NON-ALIGNMENT, THE COMMONS AND THE LOUGH NEAGH CRISIS, and CARE! They’ll be great sessions and we’d love to see you there! Newcomers are always welcome!

P.S. AGAIN, don’t worry if you couldn’t get through all of the reading for a group. If you’ve read one article/chapter, that’ll do!

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Film Club #1 on Wednesday!

Wednesday 2 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Ballybough Community Centre, 49 Ballybough Rd, Dublin 3

[FYI this is not a screening! Just a chat!]

Bamboozled (dir. Spike Lee, 2000) [WATCH]

Frustrated when network brass reject his sitcom idea, producer Pierre Delacroix pitches the worst idea he can think of in an attempt to get fired: a 21st century minstrel show. The network not only airs it, but it becomes a smash hit.

Suggested reading: Patrick Nkang, Joe King and Paul Ugo, “Legacies of Blackface Minstrelsy and Contemporary American Media: The Political Critique of Spike Lee’s Bamboozled”, available at https://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjh/article/view/79385/69682

Further viewing (optional): The Producers (dir. Mel Brooks, 1967); American Fiction (dir. Cord Jefferson, 2023)

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NEXT WEEK! 

Militarism and Neutrality

Tuesday 8 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Connolly Books, 43 Essex Street East, Dublin 2

International Non-Alignment

Core Reading

• Comhiarracht Gaelach, ‘Non-alignment and neutrality: A response to Ireland’s Consultative Forum on International Security Policy’ (10 January 2024), available at: https://diem25.org/non-alignment-and-neutrality-a-response-to-irelands-consultative-forum-on-international-security-policy/
• Pat Walsh, ‘Non-Alignment Now!’ (2 December 2022), available at: https://drpatwalsh.com/2022/12/02/non-alignment-now
• Paul Stubbs, ‘The Non-Aligned Movement Then and Now’ (8 November 2023), available at: https://www.greeneuropeanjournal.eu/the-non-aligned-movement-then-and-now/

Further Reading (optional)

• Dáil Éireann debate 14 June 1978 – Questions on Non-Aligned Nations, available at:https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1978-06-14/21/
• DiEm25, ‘Yanis Varoufakis, Jeremy Corbyn and Ece Temelkuran present the Athens Declaration’ (13 May 2022), available at: https://diem25.org/yanis-varoufakis-jeremy-corbyn-and-ece-temelkuran-present-the-athens-declaration/
• Harsh V. Pant, ‘End of the Road for the Non-Aligned Movement?’ (29 September 2016), available at: https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/end-road-non-aligned-movement
• Hennie Strydom, ‘The Non-Aligned Movement and the Reform of International Relations’ (2007), available at: https://www.mpil.de/files/pdf1/mpunyb_01_strydom_11.pd

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Property, Land and Ecology

Wednesday 9 July 2025 / 7pm-8pm //
Flux Studios, 4 Chatham Row, Dublin 2

The Commons (and Lough Neagh)

• Louise Taylor & John Barry, “The Commons / Lough Neagh
  Northern Ireland as a Sacrifice Zone: The Lough Neagh Crisis”. Available at: https://pureadmin.qub.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/613768576/Northern-Ireland-as-a-Sacrifice-Zone-The-Lough-Neagh-Crisis.pdf
• Silvia Federici, “Feminism and the Politics of the Commons”. Available at: https://wealthofthecommons.org/essay/feminism-and-politics-commons
• Daniel Long, “The case for a land observatory in Ireland”. Available at: https://www.arc2020.eu/the-case-for-a-land-observatory-in-ireland/

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Care and Community

Saturday 12 July 2025 / 10am-11am //
Marrowbone Books, 78 The Coombe, Dublin 8

Care

• Ch. 3 – “Caring Communities” in The Care Collective, The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence.
• Ch. 2 – “The Political Economy of Love” in Alva Gotby, They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotion.
• Ch. 1 – “Redefining Democracy as Settling Disputes about Care Responsibilities” in Joan Tronto, Caring Democracy.

Chapters available as a PDF.

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Love and solidarity,
SAINTS AND SCHOLARS ☘️ 🩷