Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
@xiananj.bsky.social
Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.
Exeter Green Party stands in solidarity with the Exeter University and College Union in condemning the University of Exeter’s announcement of sweeping job cuts. These plans will recklessly imperil the University’s vital contributions to the social, cultural, and economic life of the city. 1/4
They tell me: early bird fee is much cheaper, and there is only one week left 👀 Will you join our exciting online method course in Feb? ✌️
Catherine Owen@catherineowen.bsky.social · 7mo agoListen to my awesome colleague @xiananj.bsky.social talk about our up-coming @komex.bsky.social methods course - one week left to register for the early bird fee!!!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... the more oil we get from the sea, the costal line will eat us sooner one day 🔫🔫🔫
$170,000 a minute: why Saudi Arabia is the biggest blocker of climate action
Desert kingdom depends on oil dollars but its people already face a climate ‘at the verge of livability’. What’s going on?
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Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026! Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively? Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻♀️🗻 Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻♀️
Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops@komex.bsky.social · 10mo agoInterested in authoritarian, post-conflict, or surveilled settings? 📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social. Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism. By Françoise Vergès
Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!
Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops@komex.bsky.social · 12mo agoRegistration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026 ✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights. In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex Learn from top scholars in: 🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more 🗓️ Feb 2026 🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon... @methodsnet.bsky.social
Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...
Gender - Dr Xianan Jin, Lecturer in African and Gender Politics
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA
Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’
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Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
On bathrooms
I am writing this from a bath tub in my house, more precisely it’s my partner’s private property on legal terms.
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my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here. There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
There is nothing public in the US
This would be my first substack article. This is also my first visit in the US.
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Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹
VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social
African Studies Centre Leiden@ascleiden.bsky.social · last yr.📢 Join us 3 April for a seminar with Dr Xianan Jin @exeter.ac.uk, on Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis. 📅 3 April, 16:00-17:30 📍 Herta Mohr building, Leiden 👉🏾 Register: www.ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se... #Rwanda #GenderEquality #PoliticalAnalysis #FeministStudies #ASCLSeminar
My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.
Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂
Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!
just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.
Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Abstract. Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populi
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It gives me goosebumps to see how Trumpist authoritarianism under the cover of democracy travels to other late democracies like South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Why supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags
The prominence of the US flag at conservative rallies reflects a complex intersection of religion, politics and identity that defines South Korea’s far-right movement
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Cannot wait to teach this course and meet a new cohort of participants 🎶 register now for the early bird fee 🤓
Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops@komex.bsky.social · 2y ago🌍 Researching in tough contexts? Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts equips you to navigate complex settings like post-conflict zones or authoritarian regimes. ✨ Taught by experts online: @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social 📢 Register today: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
