Our take on the facile binaries of colonialism v anticolonialism through an exploration of the contradictions of anticolonial discourses among intellectuals in the early Turkish republic muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/articl...
Makerere University, where dream weavers are born. Tracing the footsteps of Ngugi wa Thiongo, Ali Mazrui, Mahmood Mamdani, Sylvia Tamale and many more.
Just published this article in which I show how an oscillation between the frames of legal ‘contraction’ (model contracts, textual forms) and ethnographic ‘expansion’ (‘the art of observation’) constituted colonial legal knowledge in Sumatra. For free access click www.tandfonline.com/eprint/9UQNG...
Good news: chatgpt does not understand the difference between Foucault’s archaeological and genealogical phase yet. Bad news: thanks to pure pedantry and my inability to let things go, I think I just taught it to.
Excellent points on how the mathematisation of economics as a discipline since the advent of neoliberalism hides its ideological work.
Becoming a “thank you for your service” guy for a car dealership is the logical endpoint of American conservatism
This one is pretty famous and has a nice collection on the topic: www.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
There’s a cohort of lib American podcasters desperate to be seen as intellectuals(incessantly referring to their ramblings as intellectual labour) but who display a first year undergrad’s grasp of theory (misappropriating concepts such as genealogy or cultural anthro) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/b...
Being ignorant about Marx’s writing while happily opining about it (and using it synonymously for whatever you happen to hate in contemporary culture) has become a virtue for many in the US. The Peterson-Zizek debate surely didn’t help.
If you’re being told for decades by the entire political mainstream that it cannot possibly be neoliberalism or the capitalist system that makes your life so difficult (and vilified if you dare suggest it might be) then ofc an imaginary past and alternative scapegoats fall on fertile ground.
Is this couch purposefully designed to make everyone sitting on it look really weird?
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
new phd post in my research program, please share!
Why put Trump in quotation marks? Does he consider his own existence fake news?
The term card is out for our Peace Histories Seminar Series! Students, colleagues, and anyone interested in the history of peace movements, please join us at @leidenhumanities.bsky.social for three amazing speakers AND a film screening! Details here: www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/events/serie...
One revelation in this book that blew my mind: the very idea of species extinction (chaos, radical change) was only made possible by the fervour of the French Revolution. That’s why Britons (Darwin, Lyell) panned the idea and insisted on gradual adaptation www.goodreads.com/book/show/17...
12 February (16-18h) at the Maastricht Centre for Law & Jurisprudence in @lawinmaastricht.bsky.social at @maastrichtu.bsky.social: Colloquium with Eva Bernet Kempers: (U of Antwerp). Title: Do rights of nature include animal rights?
On-site and online. Register here: aanmelder.nl/159956/subsc...
Great review of recent books on economism and how economics came to posture as an objective science: ‘When citizens and their representatives oppose received economic wisdom, they can count on being dismissed as ignorant, irrational, or silly.’ www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Marc Andreessen is the perfect representative of one of the most pernicious ideas capitalism has produced: taking an anthropology class in college is dangerous radicalism while believing in unfettered untaxed capitalism is apolitical human nature. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/m...
I wrote about classic Shanghainese western food for the FT! (Article will be in this weekend’s magazine) www.ft.com/content/20ab...
It's bonkers that successive governments have taken one thing the UK was genuinely very good at and simply trashed it, destroying thousands of livelihoods, weakening teaching, and gutting cultural life in the process, all out of self-destructive obedience to the paranoid fantasy of marketization
Same but I wouldn’t quote them in detail in a review just to chastise the author for conversing with the wrong/too many people.
I generally enjoy the anecdotal style of their reviews but in this case it was really distractive or even outright intrusive.
Call for Abstracts - Law & Marxism Spring School
😻 DEAR ACADEMIC ACTIVISTS/COMRADES 😻
The second edition of our Law & Marxism Spring School will be held at SOAS from 8 to 10 May 2025! Deadline 10/2!
We look forward to receiving your applications and cannot wait for the best days in May!
✊Help us to spread the word to reach all the comrades we can✊
is it just me or is Susan Pedersen’s close reading of @tsasson.bsky.social personal acknowledgements in The Solidarity Economy a bit creepy? Also, opening paragraphs rambling about her pet peeve, current conventions in titling books, are quite self-indulgent and tedious www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
The African Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 14th Annual Conference, to take place October 17-18, 2025, in Maputo. The theme is: "Africa, Culture, and International Law." The call is here 👇🏾
www.afsilsadi.org
Humbled to see many new followers here! Normally I am rather quiet but today I have exciting news:
Just signed the book contract for a Cambridge Handbook on the League of Nations and International Law (co-edited with Haakon Ikonomou and Morten Rasmussen).
Pls bear with us until early 2026..
Interested in writing a short paper on interdisciplinary legal studies? Centre for Interdisciplinary Legal Studies at HKU is creating a digital encyclopedia covering topics related to interdisciplinary legal studies. 👇 cils.law.hku.hk/law-and/
I recently saw Hall’s conversation with James on YouTube. Incredible to think Channel 4 in the 80s was happy to fill an hour of prime time TV with them discussing Trotsky’s account of the Russian revolution, Trinidadian labour leaders, and The Black Jacobins. www.nybooks.com/online/2024/...
