As part of the Social Movements and Democracy in Latin America Lecture Series, FLACSO Mexico is hosting a hybrid seminar entitled:
'Democracy yes, dictatorship no”: Collective action and new right-wing parties in the face of indefinite re-election in Bolivia and Ecuador'
恭喜发财!
Last Friday, I shared my work on Countering Algorithmic (Mis)Management: Union Formation of Platform Delivery Workers in the Philippines in Camilo Tamayo Gomez' class as a guest lecturer at the University of Huddersfield.
Many thanks for this opportunity. 😊
Call For Applications!
2nd RC48 Summer School Retreat: Necropolitics, Migration, Social Justice, and Memory on August 27, 28, and 29, 2026 in Playas de Tijuana, Tijuana, México
Deadline for Applications is on March 15, 2026.
More details here: drive.google.com/file/d/1TsYp...
#Poetry: Sometimes, I'm worried I'll be gone
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The latest issue of Grassroots is out! In this issue, we have an interview with Dr. Gloria Nyambura Kenyatta to discuss her work on Kenya, RC48 Summer School on Social Movements and Sociologies of the Future, and so much more!
Access via the QR or this link: www.isa-sociology.org/uploads/imge...
"Looking back, it’s so easy to say I should have made better choices. And indeed, wisdom is about anticipating the contingencies of life. But all the anxieties I carried this year, trying to anticipate everything, left me paralyzed rather than at peace."
Link: open.substack.com/pub/yvanysma...
#CallForPapers
Alternative Futures and Popular Protest 2026
The 2026 conference will be held in Manchester on June 15-17, 2026.
More details: www.movements.manchester.ac.uk/afpp/
The Global Online Seminar on Social Movements, Collective Action, and Social Change presents:
Book Presentation and Conversation: '¿Eternamente jóvenes? Nómadas globales en tiempos de cambio’
Please click the link to access. Language is Spanish.
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Call for Papers! Necropolitics and Mass Violence: Power, Death, and Resistance in Global Perspective.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 December 2025
Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1cTjz...
But with hope, you walk through a valley of darkness and fear no evil. And there's something to be grateful for in that
In my conversation with my spiritual director, I realized that my resistance to gratitude is related to my complicated relationship with #hope.
Without hope, without the expectation of temporal and eternal salvation, how could we be grateful for the pain and failures of the present moment?
Last week's RDL was about #gratitude. It was straightforward until I got to the part asking if I was grateful for pain and failures. Naturally, I was not. How could anyone ever be thankful for that? I asked my spiritual director about the line between mindful gratitude and #self-delusion.
Finished with Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Read it for its philosophical content, but I was too much of a literalist to understand it unaided.
One thing I learned from #Arendt is that pluralism is a fact of life. People come from a multitude of perspectives, and this is unavoidable. To believe that we could somehow reach a monolithic view is a delusion. The way forward is to manage these differences without compromising action.
BOOK LAUNCH! The Palgrave Handbook on Decoloniality in Asia online and onsite.
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Demasiado cansado para dormir
Me: Recording online session, spends 40 minutes talking.
Also me: *forgets to press zoom record button.*
“As he thought about his life, he felt both tears and mockery welling up inside him. All that lay before him was madness or suicide. He walked down the darkening street alone, determined now to wait for the destiny that would come to annihilate him.”
- The Life of a Stupid Man, Akutagawa
This is especially relevant for the #Philippines, whose NGOs are built into the participatory mechanisms from national to local government.
In this podcast, Asst. Prof. Jennifer Hadden talks about the decline of #NGOs today. This is contrasted with their previous roles as purveyors of liberal democracy across the world.
open.spotify.com/episode/3dS0...
This week I learned about Jephthah’s daughter and the possibility that his father sacrificed her to God.
Grateful that there are scholars in the internet who willingly explain difficult stories like these.
www.thetorah.com/article/did-...
#CatholicSky
#CallforPapers Places of Struggle, Struggle for Places: On the Reconfiguration of Political Commitment in a World of Despair
More information: www.csa-scs.ca/files/www/Ne...
#AcademicSky #Sociology
Would you say this place is good for…quick dives? 😉
Took a longer path to avoid the rain.
Right now, my job is to find myself again because I could not pour from an empty cup. When that happens, I must trust that God will call me to His service again.
“However, the lesson here is more basic: Relax. Only God is in charge of world. Recognize when the Lord is especially with you, and drop your worries to make the most of that moment.”
Amen.
Source: www.acatholic.org/anxious-and-...
"Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing.”
I’ve always wondered what this meant and stumbled upon this reflection:
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#callforvolunteers Next System Teach-Ins
As the world collapses around us: Can we build the next system?
Volunteer to be an RC48 representative for this initiative by sending us a message or volunteer directly by visiting nextsystem.org
