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@UTCREEES professor • 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 • founder, The February 24th Archive • @AAUP • podcasts @NewBooksEEuro • Buffalonian • @ModEuroHistColl @H__Ukraine
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Mar 24, 2022 6 tweets 22 min read
For @NewFascSyllabus, I wrote about The February 24th Archive. On wars and pain; digital curses and universes; spaces and time; drafts of history. It's been a round-the-clock gathering. I'm hopeful. Thanks to everyone for adding your strong, urgent voices. newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/… @JenniferVEvans @brianjgriffith @ankahajkova @irgarner @geogvma @CEE_Feminisms @jpaulgoode @StellaGhervas @ykomska @BorisDralyuk @ksvarnon @FaithCHillis @SmolkinVictoria @ani_kokobobo @EmilKerenji @alinaobykova @InclusiveLucie @ElizabethCDunn @MNeumannUEA @PKewes @colmmoor
Mar 4, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
READ THIS LETTER FROM A UKRAINIAN ACADEMIC FROM KHARKIV 🧵 The Russian army cleans Ukrainian cities off the face of the earth. Destroying key infrastructure so that there is no water, light, heat. Rescuers can't dismantle the debris under the shelling. The Russian army is squeezing the civilians out of the cities so that they can then...
Sep 21, 2018 16 tweets 5 min read
THREAD #Russia 14 POINTS #Maps+ critical #Geography #Geopolitics. Here is my hot take on “Understanding Russia,” a new book by Marlene Laruelle (@PONARS) and Jean Radvanyi (2018). I hardly agree w/ all "French Eurasia" & "anti-Russophobe" arguments; it IS worth a CLOSE read. 1/16 1. (1814/5-2014) Talleyrand 1814-5 & Keynes 1919 argument, & vs. Obama’s “regional” neo-containment (2008-14): Defeated Russia’s greatpowerness (derzhavnost’) is NOT avoidable. Sidelining a mil-nuclear & gas-rich power is dangerous. (Merkel: re: Putin in “another world.”) 2/16