🧵1) "...often, major social changes, from the end of Apartheid in South Africa to women's suffrage in the UK, have been driven by a combination of resistance and filigree bridgebuilding across difference. Yet history doesn’t always make visible this painstaking work."
For our main research series, we had the pleasure of hosting:
✨ Gwen Burnyeat from Univ. of Edingburgh @gwenburnyeat.bsky.social
✨ Graham Denyer Willis from Univ. of Cambrigde
Two amazing scholars pushing the boundaries of political ethnography!
✨ New article from Gwen Burnyeat, "Intimate Polarisation: Political Divisions within Everyday Family Relationships in Colombia" uses ethnographic storytelling to complement political science approaches to polarisation and invite a rethinking of the concept.
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THE GREEN HUMMINGBIRD Two women doing politics in Colombia fighting for peace amid the civil war. But their party splits, triggering Catalina’s fears that her boyfriend loves Laura, while a foreign narrator reveals her ties to one of the women #scotwriterpitch2025
THE GREEN HUMMINGBIRD Two women doing politics in Colombia to protect the peace process, their friendship threatened by political tensions, a love triangle, and their history growing up together during the war. Shamsie’s Best of Friends + Juan Gabriel Vásquez #scotwriterpitch2025
THE GREEN HUMMINGBIRD Best friends Catalina and Laura go into politics to protect the Colombian peace process. But Catalina fears her boyfriend is in love with Laura, they discover unexpected political differences, and a foreign narrator reveals her ties to one of the women #scotwriterpitch2025
Thank you!
THE GREEN HUMMINGBIRD Two women doing politics in Colombia to protect the peace process, their lifelong friendship trembles as political tensions mix with their personal history. Elena Ferrante meets Gabriel García Márquez + Yara Rodrigues Fowler’s There Are More Things. #scotwriterpitch2025
THE GREEN HUMMINGBIRD Best friends Catalina and Laura go into politics to fight for peace in Colombia. But their party splits, triggering Catalina’s fears that her boyfriend is in love with Laura, while the foreign narrator reveals her ties to one of the women #scotwriterpitch2025
Joined bluesky for #scotwriterpitch2025 - looking forward to pitching my novel and reading other pitches!
