Sarah Bellows-Blakely

Thank you to Anna Adima and H-Africa/ H-Net Reviews for this lovely review of my book!

Read History Workshop Journal's 100th Issue.

History Workshop Journal just published its 100th issue—a landmark celebration of critical, community-driven history!

From archival recoveries to new interpretations of protest, gender, & empire, HWJ reshapes how we think about the past: oxford.ly/46iUcd2 @historyworkshop.org.uk

Join us for the 4th Rethinking Internationalisms conference, 19-20 March, the line up is brilliant. The @rshc.bsky.social memorial lecture will be delivered as part of the proceedings by Prof. Sandrine Kott (link in thread) and there will be an ECR event on 18 (1/3)

www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

Rolling with the Economic Tides | Vanessa Ogle Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel follows the lifespan of one barge, from bunkhouse to floating prison to barracks and back, as it traces the shadowy outer limits of the maritime economy.

For @nybooks.com, I wrote about the transformation of the world economy since the 80’s, as beautifully told in Ian Kumekawa’s Empty Vessel (with a very brief shoutout to the city where I grew up) www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space This open access book advances knowledge of anti-gender mobilizations and offers helpful insights for academics, researchers, and policymakers alike.

Download it today 4 free: Anti-Gender Mobilizations in the Post-Yugoslav Space. Hidden Connection, ed. by Roman Kuhar & Adriana Zaharijevic!

Bragging rights: endorsements by Judith Butler, @ericfassin.bsky.social, Ruth Wodak & @kslootmaeckers.bsky.social :)

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026 It’s going to be another banner year (in the words of lying African governments, a “bumper harvest”) for books from authors on the Continent and in its Diaspora! Here’s your list, sorted by month, with all kinds of genres included (including children’s books, at the end of the post). There’s no way I could list every book that’s coming, but here’s what I think is notable—as always, a work in progress, subject to updates.

Books from African authors and authors of African descent to look forward to in 2026

Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite

Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.

I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.

Had the pleasure of hosting a manuscript workshop for Disha Karnad Jani’s exciting work on the League Against Imperialism. Thank you to @tsasson.bsky.social, Masha Kirasirova, and Judith Surkis for your brilliant comments and generosity. I look forward to this book being out in the world!

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

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💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

It was such a pleasure to give this keynote at the History & Political Economy Project conference in Boston. Great group of scholars doing ethically important work on neoliberal development planning and more. Thank you to the HPE Project organizers for inviting me!

Congratulations, Christian!!! This is very exciting. I hope you are celebrating well!

Cover of "The Politics of Culture". It shows the title of the book, the author's name, and a cassette by Radio Assifa.

Everybody is talking about culture – and nobody agrees on what it means. If you want to think about why, you can check out my book published this week. “The Politics of Culture“ is about how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s:

We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...

Thank you!

Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!

Save the date! Really looking forward to this:

New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin - The Berliner Three Cameroonian Berliners from a century ago were key figures in Berlin's black history, remembered for their fight for self-determination.

Remembering the black history of Weimar Berlin: www.the-berliner.com/politics/bla...

Nov 3: Romain Tiquet (Centre Marc Bloch) Thinking Through Cases: A Political and Social History of West Africa Through Psychiatric Records Nov 17: Matt Fitzpatrick (Flinders University) The Diplomacy of Colonial Cruelty: German Samoa and the Treatment of Chinese Labourers Nov 24: Dora Vargha (Humboldt Universität Berlin) Communist M*A*S*H: The Making of Socialist International in a North Korean Field Hospital Dec 1: Denis Cogneau (Paris School of Economics) joint event with the Frankreich-Zentrum Empire on the Cheap: An Economic History of French Colonialism, 1830–1962 Dec 8: Elise Dermineur Reuterswärd (Stockholm University) A History of the Moral Economy: Community, Institutions, and Social Norm Jan 12: Martin Hamre (Freie Universität Berlin) Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Interna-tionalism in the 1930s Jan 19: Ned Richardson-Little (ZZF, Potsdam) The Mutating Menace: The Global Politics of Narcotics Trafficking in Germany, 1880 to the Present Feb 3: Brigitte Le Normand (Maastricht University) A Global History of Socialist Rijeka: How a Port Con-nected Yugoslavia to the World Feb 9: Laetitia Lenel (Universität Duisburg-Essen) Decline: On the Circulation of Narratives of Decline in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Politics

Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.

Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.

🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077

This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:

📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
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✳️Enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org @genderandjustice.bsky.social

We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.

The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️

If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention

doi.org/10.1093/obo/...

Thank you to the @berlinualliance.bsky.social for nominating me and to my colleagues at the @mvbzfuberlin.bsky.social and the MA Global History Program at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social for providing my research group with community and an intellectual home. Onward!

There is currently backlash against gender studies in many parts of the world, which has gone hand-in-hand with political repression and violence. It is both timely and urgent to create spaces where scientific inquiry about gender and its intersecting dimensions can thrive.

Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.