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I have been listening to the fantastic @BotakozKassymb1 in recent days speaking not only about (Russian/Soviet) colonialism, but also about how colonial structures and knowledge are still part of academia and how we are all part of it. A thread.
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Bota's analysis made me think about my encounters with senior scholars as a PhD-candidate, many (but not all) from Russia, who teach at top-institutions in the West and are thus very well integrated into the international scholarly community.
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In 2009 I decided to write my dissertation on Muslims in the Russian imperial army, the majority of whom were Tatars. For me it was clear, if I do this topic, I will only do it with Tatar sources alongside Russians.
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3/13
भारत के पहले शिक्षा मंत्री : मौलाना आज़ाद (एक🧵)
11 नवम्बर 1888 को पैदा हुए मक्का में,वालिद का नाम था "मोहम्मद खैरुद्दीन" और अम्मी मदीना (अरब) की थीं। नाना शेख मोहम्मद ज़ैर वत्री,मदीना के बहुत बड़े विद्वान थे। मौलाना आज़ाद अफग़ान उलेमाओं के ख़ानदान से ताल्लुक रखते थे जो
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11 नवम्बर 1888 को पैदा हुए मक्का में,वालिद का नाम था "मोहम्मद खैरुद्दीन" और अम्मी मदीना (अरब) की थीं। नाना शेख मोहम्मद ज़ैर वत्री,मदीना के बहुत बड़े विद्वान थे। मौलाना आज़ाद अफग़ान उलेमाओं के ख़ानदान से ताल्लुक रखते थे जो
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बाबर के समय हेरात से भारत आए थे।
सब कुछ घर में पढ़ा और कभी स्कूल कॉलेज नहीं गए। बहुत ज़हीन मुसलमान थे। इतने काबिल कि कभी स्कूल कॉलेज का मुंह नहीं देखा और बना दिए गए भारत के पहले केंद्रीय शिक्षा मंत्री। इन शख्स का नाम था "मौलाना अबुल कलम आज़ाद "।
सही मायने में देखा जाये तो
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सब कुछ घर में पढ़ा और कभी स्कूल कॉलेज नहीं गए। बहुत ज़हीन मुसलमान थे। इतने काबिल कि कभी स्कूल कॉलेज का मुंह नहीं देखा और बना दिए गए भारत के पहले केंद्रीय शिक्षा मंत्री। इन शख्स का नाम था "मौलाना अबुल कलम आज़ाद "।
सही मायने में देखा जाये तो
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पूरे भारत को मुगलिस्तान के रूप में देखना चाहते थे।
उन्होंने एकबार भारत के इस्लामीकरण की वकालत करते हुए कहा था कि 'भारत जैसे देश को जो एक बार मुसलमानों के शासन में रहा चुका है,कभी भी त्यागा नहीं जा सकता और प्रत्येक मुसलमान का कर्तव्य है कि उस खोई हुई मुस्लिम सत्ता को फिर
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उन्होंने एकबार भारत के इस्लामीकरण की वकालत करते हुए कहा था कि 'भारत जैसे देश को जो एक बार मुसलमानों के शासन में रहा चुका है,कभी भी त्यागा नहीं जा सकता और प्रत्येक मुसलमान का कर्तव्य है कि उस खोई हुई मुस्लिम सत्ता को फिर
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The first step is to admit that we are mentally colonized... #decolonization
Excerpt from 'Being Different' by Shri @RajivMessage
Excerpt from 'Being Different' by Shri @RajivMessage
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Sum. of Dr.@Susanrosepower’s comments (Head of Research @alhaq_org) on the consequences of ICJ advisory opinion & #state_responsibility, during our webinar:On the Table of the ICJ: The Legality/Illegality of #Israeli_Occupation &the Subsequent Int’l Responsibility
#L4PThreads
Sum. of Dr.@Susanrosepower’s comments (Head of Research @alhaq_org) on the consequences of ICJ advisory opinion & #state_responsibility, during our webinar:On the Table of the ICJ: The Legality/Illegality of #Israeli_Occupation &the Subsequent Int’l Responsibility
#L4PThreads
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Article 14 of the Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts state that the international #obligations on a state committing a continuing crime arise only for the period during which the act continues.
Article 14 of the Draft articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts state that the international #obligations on a state committing a continuing crime arise only for the period during which the act continues.
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According to IL Commission, an example of continuing unlawful act is unlawful occupation . Therefore, #Israel is responsible for the consequences of the #occupation as long as it continues, even if it was deemed to be an act of self-defence initially.
According to IL Commission, an example of continuing unlawful act is unlawful occupation . Therefore, #Israel is responsible for the consequences of the #occupation as long as it continues, even if it was deemed to be an act of self-defence initially.
Over the summer, my brilliant colleague Dr. Ramona Beltrán and I provided consultation with one of NPR's producers about the use of #decolonization in therapy and shifting the focus to healing. Both of these are super accessible and would be great classroom additions! 1/
The podcast is a compelling story about intergenerational trauma in a Cambodian community in San José. Episode is titled "Therapy Ghostbusters" on NPR's Invisibilia Podcast. Link here: npr.org/2022/09/20/112… 2/
The article is a great follow-up to the podcast episode and features some of Dr. Beltrán's story and scholarship. Article is titled "How some therapists are helping patients heal by tackling structural racism" on NPR's website. Link here: 3/
#decolonization
Chechen separatist leader Dudayev had powerful ideas on Chechnya's (current budget 80-85% dependent on transfers, like Dagestan and Ingushetia) economic prospects after independence. (h/t @shanggyangg).
Chechen separatist leader Dudayev had powerful ideas on Chechnya's (current budget 80-85% dependent on transfers, like Dagestan and Ingushetia) economic prospects after independence. (h/t @shanggyangg).
"All the oil hasn't been prospected; even Kuwait doesn't hold a candle to us there. They have no water or forests. We will sell spring water and drink camel milk. Arabia has many camels, we can acclimatize them to Chechnya."
PS. Many Eastern Euro states have statues to this guy.
PS. Many Eastern Euro states have statues to this guy.
"Chechen intellectuals will be trained all over the world and will steadily displace the Jews. Jews are a capable nation, but Chechens will dominate through courage. We will become the main intellectual force in the world."
Powerful.
Powerful.
#Decolonization is working well when the ilk of @sagarikaghose start writing stuff like "India should move past the decolonisation debate".
Who wants to go first to destroy her narrative?
@IndiGenBharat @Sushmita4Rights @Birdie4canary
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/bloody-m…
Who wants to go first to destroy her narrative?
@IndiGenBharat @Sushmita4Rights @Birdie4canary
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/bloody-m…
@IndiGenBharat @Sushmita4Rights @Birdie4canary Who wants to go first to destroy her narrative?
#Decolonisation is just beginning in India. The Raj is still not dead in colonized minds in India. There is no debating that decolonisation is the need of the hour. English language is not a measure of intelligence.
#Decolonisation is just beginning in India. The Raj is still not dead in colonized minds in India. There is no debating that decolonisation is the need of the hour. English language is not a measure of intelligence.
PG Wodehouse, Shakespeare are not taught in Britain. Why are they taught in India? Britain’s imperial desires #Racist #Literature wanted to influence Indian social life style, culture and literature of Indian subcontinent. #Decolonize
1/ My new book “Postcolonial People” is out with @cambUP_History! A study of #decolonization & #migration, it looks at the history & memory of ‘retornados,’ i.e., settlers returning from Portugal’s African colonies after the 1974 Carnation Revolution. tinyurl.com/ycktaf6k
2/ Here is the blurb:
3/ I am stoked to have received endorsements from four outstanding historians, all of whom I have learned from immensely. They express so elegantly what the book is about:
📢New publication: "Globalization of Environmental Justice: A Framework for Comparative Research," which compares Indigenous Peoples' struggles in the United States & India. @OUPAcademic Handbook of Comparative Env Politics Ed. by Jeannie Sowers, @StacyDVanDeveer & Erika Weinthal
I build on the @Ostrom_Workshop IAD framework to compare the struggles of Apache activists opposed to proposed copper mining in Oak Flats (Tonto National Forest, Arizona) w/ the resistance of state-led mining in central India by Gond Indigenous Adivasis. #IndigenousPeoples 2/n
How do Indigenous Peoples' struggles in different sociopolitical & institutional context differ from one another? What can we learning from studying these movements comparatively? I adopt a comparative contextualization approach to broach the type of Qs that come up freqntly 3/n
Here is the long-awaited & years-in-the-making paper on #ClimateColoniality! It was my plenary lecture for @Pol_Geog_Jl at the 2022 @theAAG conference.
Access the text here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1evla_Lupus%…
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization
Access the text here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1evla_Lupus%…
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Coloniality #Decolonization
I intertwine theories, empirics & storytelling to ground theorizations of climate coloniality in lived experiences. I demonstrated how such theorization are legitimate sites of geopolitical knowledge & counterbalances to hegemonic framings, epistemic violences & structural forces
I demonstrate the pathways through which colonialism haunts the past, present & future through climate. Climate coloniality is perpetuated through neoliberalism, racial capitalism, development interventions, education, training & the media.
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 04/03/2022 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2022/04/03/dai…
Joe Weisenthal on Twitter and ThreadReader
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#eCashAct, #CentralBank, #DigitalCurrencies
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#eCashAct, #CentralBank, #DigitalCurrencies
Fusion tech is set to unlock near-limitless ultra-deep geothermal energy
newatlas.com/energy/quaise-…
#GeothermalEnergy, #MITSpinoff, #FusionTechnology
newatlas.com/energy/quaise-…
#GeothermalEnergy, #MITSpinoff, #FusionTechnology
I'm live-tweeting today and tomorrow from the #SustainabilityFrontiers conference. Follow for insights on where #SustainabilityScience is now, gaps, and how we create just nature-society relations.
Hosts: @LUCSUS_LU & @SEIresearch, inspiration: @theNASEM, annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Hosts: @LUCSUS_LU & @SEIresearch, inspiration: @theNASEM, annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…
Don't miss the graphic recording of the #SustainabilityFrontiers conference here: behance.net/gallery/137130…
The conference is NOT being recorded-- welcome to follow and engage live! 2/
The conference is NOT being recorded-- welcome to follow and engage live! 2/
Sustainability science is still defining itself, argues Vasna Ramsar. Concepts like #foodsovereignty drawn from Indigenous knowledge are gaining ground as part of #decolonizing the field. #SustainabilityFrontiers /3
Thread: friends, for 4 yrs I've been preaching the gospel of #decolonization, #wealth redistribution & healing in the space of #philanthropy & beyond. Has it been effective? Yeah - we (@DecolonizWealth) redistributed and influenced > $500M to BIPOC communities last yr.
@DecolonizWealth Now, I'm seeing our work begin to influence the distribution of resources/money globally - in the humanitarian aid space. This is exciting, but also a HEAVY lift. The colonial dynamics at play in this space are deep and pervasive.
While I celebrated the movement, the progress - due in large part to social movements and the pandemic, which have resulted in (often one-time) increased investment in our communities - I've seen and experienced a lot in #philanthropy recently that deeply concerns me.
#decolonizedecember #18dicembre #Giornatainternazionaledeimigranti #InternationalMigrantsDay
#Violenza, #tortura #razzismo e #morte,
La politica di difesa dei confini dell'UE è razzista e rafforza le strutture di potere coloniali e capitaliste. Frontex e il sistema che rappre-
#Violenza, #tortura #razzismo e #morte,
La politica di difesa dei confini dell'UE è razzista e rafforza le strutture di potere coloniali e capitaliste. Frontex e il sistema che rappre-
#decolonizeyourmind #decolonization #antiracist #antifascist #blm #blacklivesmatter #endwhitesupremacy #dismantlewhitesupremacy #blackpower #bipoc #intersectional #socialjustice #racism #nojusticenopeace #whitesilenceisviolence #endopression #indigenous #fanon #postcolonial
senta devono essere aboliti ADESSO. La politica militarizzata di fortezza UE ha ucciso oltre 44.764 persone dal 1993.
Annegati nel Mediterraneo; uccisi al confine; morti per suicidio in carcere, torturati e uccisi dopo l'espulsione - l'UE ha le mani sporche di sangue.
Frontex è
Annegati nel Mediterraneo; uccisi al confine; morti per suicidio in carcere, torturati e uccisi dopo l'espulsione - l'UE ha le mani sporche di sangue.
Frontex è
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 05/30/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/dai…
Solar Storms Are Back, Threatening Power Grids and Satellites
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#SolarStorms #PowerGrids #satellites #consequences
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
#SolarStorms #PowerGrids #satellites #consequences
As Covid dissipates in the U.S., cold and flu viruses may return with a vengeance
statnews.com/2021/05/27/as-…
#COVID19 #colds #flu #CaseCounts #estimates
statnews.com/2021/05/27/as-…
#COVID19 #colds #flu #CaseCounts #estimates
A few days back I held a @joinClubhouse conversation with an interesting gathering of #mathematics teachers and other #educators, and I did talk about #ethnomathematics.
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction
The conversation generated a heated debate among them.
A thread #Culture #Maths #KnowledgeProduction
In the discussion, I also mentioned African Humanism as new enlightenment based on the endogenous & indigenous techniques and methods to generate knowledge in the #GlobalSouth.
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization
Someone was so upset and felt attacked by this.
Others by my expression #decolonize the #decolonization
My point was and still remains not necessarily to antagonize the Western way of knowledge production but put aside and to mainstream our traditional techniques that fallen in disuse and take into formal education as another way of producing knowledge.
The people of India most accessible to the Europeans were their domestic servants. Most newcomers to India commented on the large number of servants which even a modest European household contained.
#history #lessons #education #decolonization
#history #lessons #education #decolonization
Captain Thomas Williamson, the author of the first British guide book for India, The East Indian Vade Mecum, London, 1810, explained a large number of servants largely due to “the division of Indians into sects, called by us castes.” #history #lessons #education #decolonization
Williamson lists 31 kinds of servants that a gentleman would need for his home and office, depending on his occupation and status. The servants described Willamson were divisible into an upper and lower category.
#history #lessons #education #decolonization
#history #lessons #education #decolonization
Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 12/22/2020 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2020/12/22/dai…
New model reveals previously unrecognized complexity of oceanic earthquake zones
phys.org/news/2020-12-r…
#zones #earthquake #complexity
phys.org/news/2020-12-r…
#zones #earthquake #complexity
Why should a language scholar from Finland care about decolonization? “All I wanna do is study languages, and Finland never had any colonies. Why should I care?” I’m glad you asked. #thread #coloniality #decolonization? #language #Finland/
Let’s start with the innocent-Finland discourse. Finland has participated in and benefited from the colonial enterprise in many ways, which other scholars have said more eloquently than me (eg Keskinen et al., 2009).../
yet the notion of Finland being “different”/“innocent” (aka Finnish exceptionalism, eg Rastas, 2012) is persistent. A starting point: raster.fi/2020/03/03/rac… /
We should ask ourselves what #Decolonization means to Muslims, Jews, Roma, Afro/ Asian Europeans, People of Colour, LGBTIQ community, CSO's, EU institutions, policy makers of #Europe.
We must decolonise our structures that drive discrimination to built an inclusive Europe.
We must decolonise our structures that drive discrimination to built an inclusive Europe.
#Decolonization is essential to address structural racism in EU Member States.
Toppling statues of criminals & racist colonialists is essential to make Europe future proof just as education on the real colonial history of Europe. #BlackLivesMattters
Toppling statues of criminals & racist colonialists is essential to make Europe future proof just as education on the real colonial history of Europe. #BlackLivesMattters
From #Roosevelt to #Churchill to #LeopoldII: they are visible monuments to the greatest crime in history: #Colonialism.
Therefore, we must prioritise #decolonization to topple the invisible monuments that make our society so structurally racist. #Europe
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
Therefore, we must prioritise #decolonization to topple the invisible monuments that make our society so structurally racist. #Europe
theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…
1/ How Black Lives Matter Is Changing the Church by @elizagriswold @NewYorker #Essential #SundayReading newyorker.com/news/on-religi…
2/ “I began my journey sincerely believing that if I could convince evangelical Christians that reconciliation was not some politically motivated agenda but a Biblical calling rooted in Scripture, they would pursue racial justice.” @RevDocBrenda @NewYorker #metoo
3/ In fact, white evangelical men explicitly trained me to talk about race “through the back door.”
“Don’t start with history. Don’t start with systems, structures and policies. You’ll lose people. Start with scripture,” they said.
We focused “cultural” partiality, not race.
“Don’t start with history. Don’t start with systems, structures and policies. You’ll lose people. Start with scripture,” they said.
We focused “cultural” partiality, not race.
How do we make sense of the fact that our present-day system of #offshore #taxhavens expanded significantly during the 1950s&60s, the main decades of decolonization? In this piece, I explore part of the answer to this question: a thread academic.oup.com/past/advance-a… #twitterstorians
European settlers, businessmen, officials had been invested in #empire in various ways, across different colonies and imperial contexts. Such entanglements only increased in the final years of European rule #twitterstorians #offshore #taxation
At the same time, we know that many investors, where possible depending on circumstances and the nature of their assets, sought to remove themselves and their funds from the decolonizing world when non-white rule appeared increasingly likely #twitterstorians
Thread warning: A long thread coming on the life and work of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, a world-renowned Kenyan writer, scholar, and social activist. His seminal work, "Decolonising the Mind" is a brilliant exposition of how integral language is to culture and identity.
#Literature
#Literature
Language is a central question in all of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's work. In his work, he proposes a "theory of language", in which "language exists as culture" & "language exists as communication". For him, a language carries the histories, values, and aesthetics of culture within it.
Born in Kamiriithu, near Limuru in Kiambu district, Kenya in 1938, he was soon baptized and given a name (James Ngugi). His first encounter with colonial institutions happened when he was sent to study in The Alliance High School (seen as a civilizing instrument for Africans).
I've reached the stage in my career where I'm receiving invitations to speak about #EDI #Indigenization #Decolonization from the same institutions that also declined to interview me for TT positions... umm, let's unpack/unwind this with a meandering🧵
I need to be clear, as a white/white-coded Métis and Cree scientist, I experience relatively little marginalization, certainly non-comparable to other BIPOC scholars (perhaps more for my gay and two-spirit identities, especially when younger)
I recognize the privilege/advantage being white and male has afforded my education (that's a whole thread on its own) -- But I also see how my work with #EDI and esp. #Decolonization and #Indigenization of botany/science is simultaneously desired yet undervalued for advancement
