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Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope* Abstract. As the Cape of Good Hope was integrated into early modern colonial world-making projects, it came to be regarded as ‘the western part of the East

New on advance access: "Colonial world-making and global knowledges at the early modern Cape of Good Hope"

by @gianamar97.bsky.social‬ (@uvahumanities.bsky.social)

#OpenAccess

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Love that when outlets like the Atlantic or the NYT finally get around to writing a long piece on Sudan, they never, ever, ever, EVER, get a Sudanese person to write it. Despite Sudanese ppl pitching them 1000x over the last few years. And oh, let’s play ‘How to Write About Sudan’ bingo…

An aerial view of what the Gaza City area looked like this week. Taken from a Jordanian military aircraft, by our colleague Heidi Levine.

The emphasis on gold and diamonds understates just how much the Oppenheimer's company Anglo American once controlled.

Alongside mines, it owned banks, breweries, newspapers, car makers, sugar estates, construction firms, maize farms and Europe's largest packaging manufacturer.

Hey @nytimespr.bsky.social get fucked. This is monstrous trash and the same rhetoric used by Nazis to explain why many people died in their concentration camps (those sickly Jews, etc). You’re laundering genocide to the world and you’re complicit in mass murder.

Arms Embargo Now! Canada’s secret arms trade with Israel, exposed: This hard-hitting report exposes the damning data—hundreds of shipments, hundreds of thousands of bullets—and the Canadian government’s web of lies tha...

Canada claims it's stopped sending weapons to Israel. But much like Canada's claims of peacekeeping & multiculturalism & reconciliation, it's all LIES.

There's a continuous, massive pipeline of Canadian weapons flowing directly to Israel. Including 421,070 bullets.

armsembargonow.ca/report/

Gaza Freedom Flotilla has released statement that Black labour leader Chris Smalls (Amazon Labour Union) faced violence that no one else on Handala did. He has been severely beaten in Israeli custody.

Smalls follows in legacy of Black radical tradition for Palestine. Labour must stand for Smalls.

The Edge of Space-Time by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein: 9780593701683 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A fresh, charming, socially conscious tour of the mysteries of space-time, from the award-winning author of The Disordered Cosmos In her highly acclaimed debut, distinguished cosmologist and particle...

I hope that readers of #EdgeOfSpaceTime will walk away knowing that we need cosmology, just like we need poetry

Because cosmic science and poetry are part of how we create ourselves

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...

Gerald Horne in Vancouver to give the keynote for the anniversary of the Cuban Revolution.

“if anybody should be awarded for excellence in journalism, it is all of those Palestinian journalists in Gaza who have risked their lives to live stream a genocide”

– @dianabuttu.bsky.social on journalists like @Anas al-Sharif covering Israel’s genocide in Gaza

Full report ▶️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.

The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.

America in a nutshell.

Author Response to Murray, “The troubled legacies of gold mining in South Africa” Published in Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines (Ahead of Print, 2025)

CJAS kindly allowed me to write a response to Martin Murray’s lazy, mansplainy, mischaracterization of my book. OA

In "Water, Race and Power," Kristin Brig-Ortiz analyzes the intersections among these dynamics in the context of British water management in South Africa. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...

ChatGPT's Impact On Our Brains According to an MIT Study The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

'ChatGPT users had the lowest brain engagement and “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.”...ChatGPT users got lazier with each subsequent essay, often resorting to copy-and-paste by the end of the study.'
time.com/7295195/ai-c...

Useful reminder that Israel is believed to have 90 nuclear weapons. Also, Israel is not party to the nuclear non proliferation treaty, and has not accepted IAEA safeguards on some of its principle nuclear activities.

But yes, only Iran is the rogue state...

MEMOIR: The Making of a Rebel, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, 1980 | Black Agenda Report “We cannot write in foreign languages unspoken and unknown by peasants and workers in our communities and pretend that we are writing for…those peasants and workers.”

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

The Making of a Rebel

1980

www.blackagendareport.com/memoir-makin...

Palestine before the Nakba, in 100 photos A glimpse into the places, people and daily life of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.

A glimpse into the places, people and daily life of Palestine before the 1948 Nakba.

Join us for a fascinating lecture exploring the extraordinary life of Crispina Peres, the most powerful trader in Cacheu, a major West African slave port in the 17th century. The talk will be given by historian Toby Green.

For more info: ow.ly/ErZm50VBtPh

@unibonn.bsky.social @dfg.de

Harvard’s position is that they will be anti-Palestinian on their own terms. Remember that.

😂

Bravo @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social !

US Senate overwhelmingly votes to uphold US arms transfers to Israel The show of support for the Israeli genocide in Gaza coincided with an announcement by Trump stating that Netanyahu will return to the US capital 'in the not-so-distant future'

The US empire is the biggest abomination in the world.
That empire needs to fall

thecradle.co/articles/us-...

The Political Earthquake Rocking Universities | The Tyee As star scholars flee Ivy League posts for Canada, Poilievre vows to end ‘woke’ research. How did we get here?

This is easily the best thing I've encountered on the crisis in higher education. Please take the time to read. The kind of serious analysis we need right now.🔥🙏

The Political Earthquake Rocking Universities via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Photo Essay: Breaking the ice Lewis Glacier, Mount Kenya's most studied, has lost over 90% of its mass since 1934. This dramatic loss is driven by rising temperatures and declining rainfall, both tied to climate change.

Photo Essay: Lewis Glacier, Mount Kenya's most studied, has lost over 90% of its mass since 1934. This dramatic loss is driven by rising temperatures and declining rainfall, both tied to climate change.

Entire staff at federal agency that funds libraries and museums put on leave The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

JUST IN: The staff of the Institute of Museum and Library Services was placed on administrative leave this morning, following a meeting between IMLS leadership and DOGE staff.

YouTube video by Democracy Now! Elon Musk's Family History in South Africa Reveals Ties to Apartheid & Neo-Nazi Movements

youtube.com/watch?v=Ahv3...

Universities should be providing legal aid to all international students and preparing habeas corpus documents in anticipation of the inevitable.

Israeli Settler Mob Attacks “No Other Land” Co-Director Hamdan Ballal Israeli soldiers blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him.

A mob of Israeli settlers has attacked Palestinian filmmaker and activist Hamdan Ballal just three weeks after he won an Oscar. Israeli soldiers then blocked the ambulance transporting Ballal after the attack and detained him. His current condition and location is unknown.