Latest posts tagged with #decolonization on Bluesky
We can't vote away colonialism.
Elections won't dismantle economic structures designed for extraction. Stop demanding better management of the colonial system. Start demanding its complete demolition. Real democracy requires structural #decolonization first. #revolution #learnMMT #eachoneteachone
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Economist @fadhelkaboub.bsky.social explains why the Global South cannot thrive without first achieving structural economic #decolonization – and why #MMT is essential, but not sufficient, for the task.
Host: @austerityismurder.bsky.social
There were the lies of Christianity, which infected western culture with the lies of colonization, which infected naturalists' minds with the lies of intellectual superiority, which infected modern scientists with the lies of scientific colonialism, all of which hid the fact that all along, many […]
Quote card: "Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
This video report by independent journalist Richard Medhurst discusses the 2026 political transition in Iran following the assassination of Supreme Leader Sayyid Ali #Khamenei. Medhurst argues that the subsequent election of Mojtaba Khamenei as successor demonstrates the resilience of Iran's […]
🌍✊📚#EAZArchive: EAZ 16 (4) 1975
Using Tanganyika as a case study, this article examines the role of unions in the liberation movements. doi.org/10.54799/EQK...
#Africa #History #Research #Decolonization #Archaeology #EAZ
theliberum.com/lessons-from...
#robertpowell #trump #ukraine #vietnam #madeleinestowe #anthonyquinn #kevincostner #cityonthehill #timothybottoms #lisabount#horror #sciencefiction #nielmarhsall #thedescent #democracy #civilization #imperialism #strategichamlets #decolonization #anthropology
Watches, passports, flags, gloves, artworks or big monuments: Objects shape our everyday lives. They play a role in history, and it's not always the one people thought they would. Objects also make the past visible in the present, they shape our memory of […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
1/ 2 Our conference 18–20 March 2026 explores how objects moving between “the West” and “the Rest” shaped #decolonization and our memory of #colonialism.
Here, @kpo.bsky.social + @rheinze.myatproto.social introduce the conference and the questions it raises.
#materialturn #Africa #memorystudies
Quote card: "For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Is "Russia" being decolonized?
open.substack.com/pub/kot3news...
#russia #decolonization
For nearly a century, the territory was known as the Gold Coast Colony, a British possession rich in resources but denied self-determination. The struggle was led by Kwame Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party. #Decolonization #Ghana
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Theo Williams @theo-williams.bsky.social argues for Black activism in Britain to be viewed through a more global lens.
#activism #anti-colonialism #anti-racism #BlackLiberationFront #BlackPower #decolonization #neocolonialism #Pan-Africanism
Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
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Chloë Mayoux demonstrates how international affairs uniquely crystallized interactions between domestic and regional politics in decolonizing states.
#Nigeria #diplomacy #nuclear #decolonization #Africanpolitics #ColdWar
Read Open Access here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
TIL:
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A #RumpState is the remnant of a once much larger state that was reduced in the wake of #annexation, #occupation, #secession, #decolonization, a successful #CoupD'état or #revolution on part of its #FormerTerritory.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rump_st...
Native CA poppy seeds and Asclepias Fascicularis and Eriocarpa native milkweed seeds sandwiched in water-soaked napkins, inside plastic ziploc bags, with handwritten labels.
So. CA Zone 10 Native Seed cultivation. Raccoons tore up a lot of Asclepias fascicularis last year presumably in search of grubs (after I saw four monarch butterfly caterpillars get big tho). #Gardening #decolonization
King Ahmed Fuad I of Egypt, circa 1922. Photograph: Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images
Even with those limitations, February 28, 1922 marked a significant shift. The protectorate officially ended, Egyptian political life expanded, and nationalist leaders gained a stronger role in shaping the state.
#Egypt #WorldHistory #Decolonization #MiddleEastHistory #Independence
#OnThisDay 27 February 1960: An armored train of the 4th Company, 587e Bataillon du Train in Menerville (modern-day Thénia), Algeria. The unit was responsible for the security of 250km of tracks along the Algiers-Constantine railway.
#Algeria #France #MilitaryHistory #ColdWar #Decolonization
Visual with #FridayReads under a blue background with a picture of Villa Salviati (home to the EUI History department)
Trying to make a fresh start
Read the 🔐 #OpenAccess article by our Alumnus Giovanni Tonolo on Dahomean politicians rethinking oil palm development in the late colonial period (1957-1960) 👉 loom.ly/8XDvOyw
📚 #Fridayreads #ColonialHistory #Decolonization
Quote card: "Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
"Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Join us for Prof. Noura Erakat’s masterclass “Confronting Zionism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew” at UAntwerp on 1 April 2026.
🔗 More information & registration: https://loom.ly/z0-rA-A
#LawAndDevelopment #Decolonization #GlobalStudies
#OnThisDay 26 February 1960: The "Morice Line" on the Algeria-Tunisia border; 460km of electric fences and minefields meant to cut off the FLN from foreign support, which continued to claim victims long after the war.
#Algeria #Tunisia #MilitaryHistory #France #ColdWar #Decolonization #OTD
Penelope Anthias, co-editor of TERRITORIES OF LIFE, has made two open access documentary films about struggles over territories of life, which can be viewed here:
https://bit.ly/4ae7rgk
About the book: https://bit.ly/4qXUhew
#PoliticalEcology #Ethnography #Geography #Collectives #Decolonization
Most of us learned philosophy as a Western story. Ever wonder why other voices are missing from the conversation? I came across Ramose's essay which argues it wasn't an accident. I wrote up my reading of it.
ronaldraadsen.substack.com/p/outside-th... #Philosophy #AfricanPhilosophy #Decolonization
Quote card: "For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961).
"For a colonized people the most essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity." — Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1961) · #fanon #decolonization
Über 40 Schweizer NGOs lancieren heute ihr Manifest für eine lokal verankerte internationale Zusammenarbeit. Es ist ein Aufruf zum gemeinsamen Handeln für gleichberechtigte Partnerschaften. #locallyled #decolonization #timetoactisnow #equitablepartnerships
#OnThisDay 21 February 1960: Pro-French militiamen in or near Beni Douala in Tizi Ouzou province, Kabylia. Patrol around a village and protection of road workers. [2/2]
#Algeria #MilitaryHistory #France #ColdWar #Decolonization #OTD
#OnThisDay 21 February 1960: Pro-French militiamen in Kabylia receive training from the 2nd Company of the 159e Régiment d'Infanterie Alpine (RIA). In or near Beni Douala in Tizi Ouzou province. [1/2]
#Algeria #MilitaryHistory #France #ColdWar #Decolonization #OTD
Latest from our Ola's Kool Kitchen Central Asia’s arts scene talks decolonization but Russian still anchors grants exhibitions and cross border cultural exchange https://ow.ly/yNx150YiYwZ #CentralAsia #Arts #Language #Decolonization
