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Devon E. A. Curtis

@deacurtis.bsky.social

Global politics, peace and conflict studies, African politics, peace interventions, African Great Lakes. At POLIS, the Centre of African Studies and Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge

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Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge Smuts Research Fellow (Fixed Term) in the Centre of African Studies at the University of Cambridge.

Please circulate to anyone who might be interested. We are looking for a three year post-doc (starting Oct 2025) to work with us at the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge--in any discipline in the social sciences or humanities. It's a nice place to work! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49412/

05.12.2024 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Fara Dabhoiwala Β· A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

Fascinating! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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β€˜I cried, I cried. I had no one’: the brutal child kidnappings that shamed Belgian Congo Over 70 years ago, thousands of mixed-race boys and girls were torn from their mothers by order of the state. This week five survivors hope a court will censure Belgium for crimes against humanity

Kudos to these brave women, and to the people doing the research behind this case www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

01.12.2024 09:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Yolande Bouka #QueensuResearch | Queen's researcher Yolande Bouka, Canada Research Chair in Afrofeminist Thought and Political Transformation

Come work with me!
I am recruiting a PhD student who wants to work at the intersection of Afrofeminist Thought and International Relations.
www.queensu.ca/research/res...

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The Hierarchies and Exclusions of Changing Regional and Global Orders: The Rwenzururu Movement and its (In)Visibility at the United Nations

I really like this new blog post by Yusra Abdullahi - on her experiences in postcolonial archives, the silencing of minority rights, and the roles of the UN and states.

changingglobalorders.web.ox.ac.uk/article/hier...

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Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures In Residual Governance, Gabrielle Hecht dives into the wastes of gold and uranium mining in South Africa to explore how communities, experts, and artists f

Newskies! My book Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Future features 87 images & an unshrinking prose style. Not a happy story, but this is the 21st century after all.

The book examines the twinned residues of mining & racial capitalism in #SouthAfrica πŸ‡ΏπŸ‡¦

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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat review – superb study of how jazz got caught between the cold war and the CIA Johan Grimonprez’s fascinating documentary uses the assassination of DRC prime minister Patrice Lumumba to launch a dizzying look into the politics of jazz in the 1950s and 60s

I'm looking forward to watching this: www.theguardian.com/film/2024/no...

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Afrique XXI

Hello hello, Afrique XXI dΓ©barque sur Bluesky, faites-le savoir autour de vous ! Et retrouvez ici nos contenus Γ  mesure qu'ils sont publiΓ©s. Les centaines d'articles dΓ©jΓ  mis en ligne depuis 2019 vous attendent ici, bien classΓ©s par annΓ©e de publication afriquexxi.info/tout

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