Congratulations to @mostowlansky.bsky.social, Elmira Muratova, and everyone who contributed to Humanitarianism from Below? Universalism and the Politics of Inhumanity, which publishes today! Read and download it free: uclpress.co.uk/book/humanit...

Humanitarianism from Below?

Since the late twentieth century, wealthy nations and international organisations have claimed a monopoly on humanitarianism. Even critical views of this regime of global aid and assistance have reinf...

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New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.

New essay out co-authored with @mostowlansky.bsky.social on #AcademicFreedom, fear and the culture of silence in European universities. Published on @allegralab.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social allegralaboratory.net/shush-how-si...

Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab

The camera shows a deserted, dilapidated room somewhere in war-torn Ukraine. On an intercepted phone call a Russian soldier argues with his wife back

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New PhD 👉 Digital technologies, mobility, and border violence in European borderlands | by 🎓 Nina Khamsy @gvagrad.bsky.social y.social @mostowlansky.bsky.social 📲 How does #ethnography reveal new links between #digital #technology and border #violence? 👁️ 👁️ Read the interview shorturl.at/fRKPJ

Commentary with @adoolotkeldieva.bsky.social on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility. @gvagrad.bsky.social carnegieendowment.org/posts/2025/0...

How Chinese Miners Adapt to Kyrgyzstan’s Legal Compliance

Negative public perception about Chinese expansion into Kyrgyzstan, along with an unpredictable regulatory environment, has profoundly shaped Chinese business practices inside Kyrgyzstan. Despite comm...

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Should Switzerland pump development funds for digitalisation into an autocracy? Some of my thoughts here: www.swissinfo.ch/eng/democrac...

Promoting democracy in authoritarian Tajikistan – is Switzerland making a difference?

While the government of Tajikistan’s long-standing ruler grows more repressive, Switzerland continues to support human rights – a delicate balancing act.

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In this interview, I talk about the importance of #academicfreedom, the challenges it faces globally, and the ways in which academics & researchers can promote and defend this essential liberty. @gvagrad.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/0kuI...

Academic Freedom Under Fire: Why It Matters and How to Protect It

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I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!

Geneva Graduate Institute@gvagrad.bsky.social · last yr.

@juliebillaud.bsky.social is hiring a PhD researcher with an anthropology, sociology, STS or Political Sciences (with ethnographic fieldwork experience) background for her 4-year SNF funded project on Digital Humanitarianism (shorturl.at/SLzUC) at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 👉 shorturl.at/H7CGZ

Job alarm with the fabulous @juliebillaud.bsky.social in a project on “Digital Humanitarianism: Governing Vulnerable Populations in an Age of Technological Innovation”, hosted by @gvagrad.bsky.social erecruit.graduateinstitute.ch/recrutement/...

Great funding opportunity for scholarly - creative - transdisciplinary projects that relate to Asia in the broadest sense possible (and no, there is no fascist language code that you have to adhere to in order to get funded): deltamove.org/small-grants...

Small Grants Scheme - Delta on the Move Foundation

Small Grants Scheme The Foundation’s Small Grants Scheme has been established to support creative scholarship and independent projects with an inter-disciplinary and inter-Asian nature that may not ha...

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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought: - 1.65 million deaths from AIDS - 500,000 from lack of vaccines - 550,000 from lack of food aid - 290,000 from malaria - 310,000 from TB

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · last yr.

Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children. He's a eugenicist. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

republicans: fyi we are bombing france for being too gay and lead poisoning is now mandatory democrats: yeah? well prepare yourselves for several strongly worded haikus

No space in history books for all these twists and lies. kyivindependent.com/trump-says-h...

Trump says he 'can't believe' he called Zelensky 'dictator'

"Did I say that? I can't believe I would say that," U.S. President Donald Trump responded when asked whether he still considers President Volodymyr Zelensky a "dictator."

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This is a good summary.

Illia Ponomarenko@ioponomarenko.bsky.social · last yr.

Yes, this is definitely the first case in human history that a nation bleeding out under attack has a knife by its throat from yesterday’s biggest friend in need that went bonkers and switched to Al Capone-style racketeering amid war.

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

Professor Billaud (@juliebillaud.bsky.social) and Professor Mostowlansky (@mostowlansky.bsky.social) discuss their Spring 2025 Course on Comparative Humanitarianisms. Read more about it here 👇

Julie Billaud@juliebillaud.bsky.social · last yr.

This term, my colleague @mostowlansky.bsky.social and I are teaching a course on 'Comparative Humanitarianisms' @gvagrad-mint.bsky.social The course offers a grounded understanding of key debates in different humanitarian traditions. More info here 👇 www.graduateinstitute.ch/communicatio...

I have held a professorship in urban studies at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) sind the beginning of this year. If you would like to get some insights into what my students and I have been up to have a look at this short article based on our collaboration. allegralaboratory.net/pasts-cast-i...

Pasts Cast in Concrete and Steel? Infrastructure and the War in Ukraine - Allegra Lab

In May 2024, following a barrage of Russian missile attacks on power stations across Ukraine, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal announced that citizens had to

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Plenty of heated debates around types of missiles and escalation outside Ukraine. Viewed from Kyiv it all seems fairly superficial and catering to rather abstract fears of people far away. What people disconnected from Ukraine often seem to miss are degrees of much more mundane, but grinding terror.

Tajik music in the 90s was absolutely incredible. Still my favorite recording from those days youtu.be/sUSzgiGQDcM?...

ДАЛЕР Н МУБОРАКШО М ДУНЁИ САВДО БИГЗАРАД

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