I had a fabulous time discussing the importance of decolonising galleries, libraries, archives and museum with @dustinhosseini.bsky.social and Samuel Owusu Achiaw. What is culture. What are the stories we tell. Whose stories do we tell. These are questions we must ask to begin decolonising!

King's Arts & Humanities@kingsartshums.bsky.social · 7mo ago

💬 'The lives of ordinary people tell us a different history. We're still not telling those stories.' Dr @sarafelix.bsky.social from @kingsinterhums.bsky.social examined the role of galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) in decolonisation for The Pluriversity Podcast ⬇️🧵

The annual Walter Rodney Lecture (hosted by the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick) will be given this year by Professor David Scott (Columbia University) on the 25th November 2025. Please share. All welcome.

🔴Carta a la Comunidad de @nuriaalabao.bsky.social "Que se llame violencia política a una protesta pacífica contra un genocidio, pero no a las redadas racistas o a la tortura policial, muestra como estamos ante una lucha por definir qué violencias cuentan y cuáles no." ctxt.es/es/20250901/...

Las batalla de las palabras violentas

Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente

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Brilliantly said, and I’ll add the money we spend on visa applications and language courses. It’s unbelievable how an MP can say this and suffer no consequences.

Praṇay Manocha@pranman.com · last yr.

As an immigrant, disinfo like this pisses me off. We don't move here penniless. We can't. EVERY international student brings £150K for tuition fees & living expenses. Then we work hard to make that money back and pay taxes. Moving countries & careers is VERY HARD and we do it and we succeed.

500 strong Palestine march today in Brighton. A very small group of about 20 Zionists once again tried their tactic of marching just in front of the Palestine demo with huge Israel flags. But this time we refused to move while they were there and stopped, blocking the street. 🧵

Learn more about my upcoming e-book with Nyasha Mandivenga, and check out the Global Policy Journal blog site for early releases of key chapters.

King's Arts & Humanities@kingsartshums.bsky.social · 2y ago

🎒 Dr @sarafelix.bsky.social (@kingsinterhums.bsky.social) and Nyashadzashe Mandivenga (LSE) are co-editors of a new e-book exploring the colonial, neoliberal & capitalist foundations of global #education systems, offering alternative models that acknowledge youth power & agency. 🔗 Discover more ⤵️

Here is my chapter called ‘A theory of Decolonial Imaginations’ from the upcoming book.

Global Policy@globalpolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

A Theory of Decolonial Imaginations (Chapter 1) www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/02/2...

Read the introductory chapter to my co-edited upcoming book called Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations (co-edited with Nyasha Mandivenga).

Global Policy@globalpolicy.bsky.social · 2y ago

Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations (Introduction to a forthcoming GP E-Book) www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/02/2...

My colleague Nyasha Mandivenga and I have been co-editing an e-book called Decolonial Education and Youth Aspirations. Read below my chapter called 'A theory of decolonial imaginations', released early on the Global Policy Journal's blog: www.globalpolicyjournal.com/blog/11/02/2...

Join us for the second APSA Virtual Research Meeting, April 10th & 11th, to explore "Political Science Research in a Virtual World." Submissions are due February 14th! 💠Submit General Papers and Panels » 💠Apply to a Virtual Research Group Workshop » connect.apsanet.org/vrm2025 #VRM25

"to accept that the world is broken is an invitation to repair. Humanity stands here with history’s ghosts in the ongoing ruins of Euro-modernity. And it is in these ruins that we must find the power to repair... to build something new... from these ruins." folukeafrica.com/falling-apar...

Falling Apart in 2024: Trying to build from ruins

Empire has no new lyrics… And it is in its ruins that we must find the power to repair ourselves and the world

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AHA council vetoed resolution against scholasticide. They oddly named HS teachers as 1 reason for veto ⬇️. We work with teachers all over US who know you can't be an "unbiased historical actor." You're either for or against genocide. AHA council chose a side. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Historians' council vetoes Gaza scholasticide condemnation

American Historical Association convention-goers overwhelmingly passed the statement on Jan. 5, but the group’s top elected body has vetoed it without letting all AHA members vote.

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We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

We ignore Sudan at our peril. This campaign of mass murder and rape will have global consequences | Nesrine Malik

Almost two years into the war, Sudan is facing anarchy, famine, genocide – and ambivalence from the rest of the world Sudan’s war, which began in April 2023, is closing in on its second year. No one expects or becomes accustomed to war, but it is…

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If you've noted the massive failure to mention climate change in mainstream coverage about the LA fires, here is a piece that specifically discusses how climate change has exacerbated wildfires in California in the last decade. The current fires will likely go down as among the most destructive.

15 of the Most Destructive 20 Wildfires in California Have Occurred in the Past Decade

The effects of the climate crisis appear to be making California wildfires more destructive.

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Reflexivity in research receives a lot of attention, but how to initiate it? Join TESS 🕔12.00, Fri 24 Jan! 👉https://tinyurl.com/2p8w5w98 Dr Omolola Olarinde draws on conversations between 3 African women researchers unravelling complexities of insider-outsider status in global-North/South research.

My small 2025 request to academics: Stop misusing and overusing the word “decolonize”. It’s not a buzz word. It has meaning, and often academics say they’re “decolonizing” something but they really aren’t doing anything close to that.

By focusing only Gazprom, this article fails to note that Rosneft's profit for 2023 was $14.07 billion, a 47.2% increase from 2022 despite the war - because they now mainly sell to India and China. This ‘winding down’ hurts Europe way more than Russia. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Russia winds down gas supply to Europe via Ukraine as transit deal expires

Exports to cease on New Year’s Day as Europe faces cold snap and higher than usual fall in reserves since September

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“By refusing to accept the designations of genocide & ethnic cleansing, […]Israel’s allies force an adaptation on to the world after which it simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik

It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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This is becoming the mainstream, consensus position in the global humanitarian / human rights community. It should be recognised and treated as such. Not just in the general discourse, but by policymakers above all. They have a specific obligation to prevent genocide. Active facilitation is criminal

daniel sieradski@self.agency · 2y ago

Joining Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has also concluded that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Here, I recommend 20 African novels that we can incorporate into our teaching to ensure we produce learning environments that do not consign Africa and her peoples to the silence of ignorance and distorted narratives. Further suggestions are very welcome!!! folukeafrica.com/20-contempor...

20 Contemporary African Novels as Pedagogical Material

African fiction can teach us about African realities

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#Italy: Doctors Without Borders forced to end operation of #GeoBarents search & rescue ship due to Italian laws & policies. They made it impossible to continue with the current operational model, they disregard the lives of people crossing the #Mediterranean. Our ship saved over 12,600 lives.

Glad this is out now! We introduce the concept ‘paradoxical representation’ to help understand the politics of the Conservatives’ ethnic minority politicians cc: @dangodshaw.bsky.social @drshardiabpalmer.bsky.social 1/4 🧵

Politics & Gender@politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 2y ago

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In their new Critical Perspectives article Neema Begum, Michael Bankole, Shardia Briscoe-Palmer, @dangodshaw.bsky.social & Rima Saini introduce the concept paradoxical representation to understand the actions of ethnic minority officeholders. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Israel has invaded Syria. The failure of the Western media to refer to an invasion is nothing other than disinformation. A lie by omission is still a lie. You are being lied to. New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-has...

Israel has invaded Syria - with Western complicity

This is a blatant land grab - and an attempt to hobble any new Syrian government - by an Israeli state cheered on by Western politicians and media.

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Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies blog.degruyter.com/call-for-man...

Call for Manuscripts: SubAtlantic – Latin American, Caribbean and Luso-African Ecologies - De Gruyter Conversations

We are looking for book proposals in English, Spanish and Portuguese for an exciting new series on environmental humanities in the Iberian South Atlantic. We welcome submissions spanning the field in ...

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Britain is arresting 3X more environmental activists than the global average, while the majority of global north has ‘increased sentence lengths for non-violent protest’ and ‘given police new powers to stop protests during them and before they take place.’ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Britain leads the world in cracking down on climate activism, study finds

Research shows UK police arrest environmental and climate protesters at three times the average global rate

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Belgium found guilty of crimes against humanity in colonial Congo for separating mixed raced children from their mothers. A tiny sliver of justice that hopefully can opening up to more for the thousands that were stolen.

#ReadPalestineWeek starts today. I’ll post some of my personal favourite reads here 🧵

On the eve of the international say of solidarity with palestine, here is one of my favorite poems, Darwish’s on Edward Said postcolonial.poetry.blog/2019/03/05/o...

On Edward Said, by Mahmoud Darwish

In a poem published in Arabic last month, Mahmoud Darwish bids Edward Said farewell New York/ November/ Fifth Avenue The sun a plate of shredded metal I asked myself, estranged in the shadow: Is it…

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faisal فيصل@faisalhamadah.bsky.social · 2y ago

He loves a country and he leaves: I am what I am and shall be. I shall choose my place by myself, and choose my exile. My exile, the backdrop to an epic scene. I defend the poet’s need for memories and tomorrow.