Historical case studies show us how #HumanRights have been too often conditional on a "standard of civilization." Some examples...

1. @daviderodogno1 shows this for the 19th C interventions in the Ottoman Empire (Against Massacre, 2012) 2. Danilyn Rutherford explores how images of #WestPapua and its people as a remnant of the “Stone Age” enabled the denial of Papuan human rights in the 1960s and since.

Meanwhile, West Papuans have asserted their own equal humanity in such campaigns as “we are not monkeys.”

I've been hired for 2 tenure track jobs and been on multiple committees, sent in more than 100 job applications, and done multiple interviews. Here is my thread 🛢
of job market advice for early career academics based on decades of experience:

1. Get lucky. 2. That's it, really.

The market is not a meritocracy, it is pure chance. The advice threads are well meaning and can help a limited few, but we need to explode this myth that job seekers are at fault and would be hired with a few improvements in their style. That myth harms.

This term, my university (for reasons I do not criticize) returned to “normal” classes. It has been a heck of term. w/ apologies for rambling, a thread.

Attendance in class this term has been shockingly low - I have never seen anything like it. Students are really struggling… 2. So are university employees at all levels. I worry that trying to do next term as “normal” again is going to be an even bigger struggle for students, teachers and staff. Profs & uni leaders can have enormous compassion & care for our students. But….

Today in 1965, a coup & counter-coup in #Indonesia led to one of the great bloodbaths of the later 20th century. Western governments encouraged mass killings.

Evidence from Canadian archives summarized: davidwebster.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/196…

#cdnfp @ForeignPoli_C In Flowers in the Wall, Baskara Wardaya provides an exploration of clashing historical narratives of 1965: the official narrative as a wall that blocks light and words, and efforts of non-government voices to break through that wall. Free download at prism.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/hand…

99 years ago, June 20, 1921, the Six Nations (Haudensosaunee or Iroquois) council met with Canadian govt officials to try to stop the erosion of their Grand River land base through Cdn channels. Canada stonewalled & the Six Nations took their appeal global. Thread on the meeting: 2. Chaired by local MP John Harrold, the meeting opened with a presentation of Canada's position by the architect of Canada's "Indian policy" Duncan Campbell Scott. The key issue was "enfranchisement." Many Six Nations members fought in WW1 as part of their alliance with Britain.

The historic Bandung Asian-African conference opened 65 years ago, April 18, 1955. It was one of the 20th C’s most important events.

This e-dossier tells the story of the #Bandung conference through the conference bulletin and additional documents.

historybeyondborders.ca/?p=142 This is an e-dossier of documents intended to be accessible for undergraduate students.

Leaders of the major independent Asian and African countries gathered at this Indonesian city from April 18-22, 1955. There, they first set in motion the concept of South-South solidarity.

Current #WestPapua protests are fueled by Indonesian racism against Papuans. asiatimes.com/2019/08/opinio… That #racism has a history, and it's one reason world powers agreed to hand West Papua to Indonesia in the first place back in the 1960s. Thread. 1960s: one Indonesian writer wanted to “free” Papuans from “stone age civilization” but noted their skills in music & sports; foreign minister wanted Papuans “down out of the trees even if we have to pull them down”; Indonesian president's audience wore blackface at a rally.

This year's textbook written by previous years' students - #Wikipedia articles in course on #memory, #truth & #reconciliation in global perspective, helped by @WikiEducation #transitionaljustice #cdnpse Wrote about this experience with students at @ubishops back in 2017 at wikiedu.org/blog/2017/05/0…