#Colonial

Youth for Social Justice T&T

Y4SJ_TT

Welcome back to #Y4SJBookClubToday we are going through Chapter 1 of "Sexing the Caribbean" by Kerala KempadooPlease share widely and contribute your own thoughts about the chapter.The convention is:No brackets

Aliette de Bodard

aliettedb

Sigh I see we are having the conversation about how the future should be secular again and SF should downplay religion (not going to link to the tweet because I

Nick Bernards

BernardsNick

Neoliberal approaches to development are generally premised (explicitly or implicitly) on a denial of colonial legacies.One example is the 'financial repression' thesis -- a big part of the basis for

Keith Zhai

QiZHAI

THREAD: I would like to talk about the issue of HK from the aspect of power. People who used to the Western democratic system always find the Communist Party is

Dr Fish Philosopher Todd (Dr FPT)🐟

ZoeSTodd

1. Many uni researchers/ethics centre Indigenous governments (ie: Band Councils) or groups that claim to represent grassroots/traditions (but are still exclusive/opaque)& say ‘ok, we’ve consulted community’ . Nope. You consulted

Karter Deedman

just_a_leftist

Happy day of celebrating colonisation and genocide! Quick reminder to all my fellow revolutionaries from the West Coast the lower main land is on unceded land. And it’s not Coast

Teni T. 😷

aloinett

Today I'm thinking about culture - A long time ago I was cooking with a French friend and we made fried yams. While we were cleaning up, I noticed him

Jeffrey Schiffer, PhD

jeffschiffer

When Europeans first stumbled upon Turtle Island there were 40 Million #Indigenous peoples speaking 1800 different languages. These societies had complex systems of mathematics, science, health & economy, all grounded

سرگردان 🇦🇫🇹🇯🇮🇷🇹🇲🇺🇿

Sirgardan

I have seen the issue of Afghanistan's Eastern Border also Durand line on time line again. This is not an real issue but made up issue by nationalists to take

Daniel William

sayitfrenchy

I studied history in undergrad and Poli sci in grad school & I don't find this to be a helpful explanation either (though nowhere near as grotesque & tone deaf

Mohamed Yusuf

epi_afro

1/ - Colonial Postcards from Somalia.For the past few weeks, I have been collecting these antique British, Italian & French colonial postcards depicting Somalis & life in Somalia.I will be

J. Moufawad-Paul

MLM_Mayhem

There are a lot of tweets about Orwell being an "anti-fascist" showing up on my timeline because of his journalistic work in Homage To Catalonia, and I find this bothersome…

Dónal Hassett

donalhassett1

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the #Kilcmichael Ambush. I’ve long been struck by the parallels between it and a key event in Algerian War, the Palestro Ambush of May

The Other from Within

WithinOther

In #Haimendorf’s obituary for #DNMajumdar He discussed the negative popular perception of anthropology as a ‘colonial discipline’ that associated Indian anthropological studies to ‘colonial’ attitudes to ‘Australian aborigines a

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

In 1952, the government of Guatemala passed a land reform law which redistributed any unused land greater than 90 hectares in area from colonial settlers to poor landless natives, compensating

Jimmy Sweet

JimmySkuya

Day 172 of reading an article on Očhéthi Šakówiŋ Studies everyday:Steven Sabol, “Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization: The ‘Touch of Civilisation’ on the Sioux and Kazakhs.” Western Historical Quarterly

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