Global Language Advocacy Day is coming up in just over a week, on February 22nd. Here comes a thread with a sample of some the events that will be taking place. Pls visit our website and follow @GlobLangRights for more information #GLAD22
Some of the Gaza commentary you're reading and sharing is created by people who are serial genocide deniers and atrocity minimizers. Don't support them. Here are two simple tests you can run to vet your sources, followed by examples. A 🧵
First, who are the people I'm talking about? They're known as pseudo-antimperialists. I'll call them pseuds for short. They look vaguely leftist but support authoritarian regimes in the name of anti-imperialism. You can spot them in two steps. positionspolitics.org/gerald-roche-r…
Step one: the denial test.
On Twitter, search the person's feed for Xinjiang. Pseuds support authoritarian regimes like China because they only recognize one bad state: USA. So, pseuds deny & minimize atrocities in Xinjiang as US propaganda.
It's @UN Intl' Day of Commemoration & Dignity of the Victims of the Crime of Genocide & Prevention of this Crime. Let's check in on the genocide research centres of the world to see how they're reacting to the genocide currently unfolding in Gaza 🧵
The Stanley Burton Centre for Holocaust & Genocide Studies (@UoLSBC) at University of Leicester (@uniofleicester) has nothing to say about Gaza.
@UoLSBC @uniofleicester The Center for Human Rights and Genocide Studies (@Center_HRGS) in Yerevan, Armenia, has nothing to say about genocide in Gaza.
I'm currently getting ready to teach a new semester at La Trobe University. Every semester, I start with an acknowledgment of country & when I do that I also talk about the role played by the uni's namesake, Charles La Trobe, in colonization. Here's what I tell students 🧵
Charles La Trobe arrived in Melbourne in September 1839, and departed in May 1854. He held the position of both Superintendent of Port Philip District (1839 - 1850) and Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1851- 1854). Key achievements include:
1⃣ Charles La Trobe the chief government official of the region during a period of genocidal violence.
Publication day! My article ‘The Necropolitics of Language Oppression’ has just been published in Annual Review of Anthropology (thanks @AnnualReviews!). In this thread I’ll walk you through the main argument & the sections of the article. 1/11 doi.org/10.1146/annure…
@AnnualReviews The article explores how the coerced loss of language (language oppression) contributes to physical, bodily death. To put it another way, when the state forces some people to stop using certain languages, those people are slowly killed. 2/11
@AnnualReviews This is a problem of global significance. We are living through an era of mass destruction of linguistic diversity. This is also the mass destruction of bodies and lives. 3/11