Belinda Dodson

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS | Early career researchers from the Horn of Africa working on policy-oriented social science or humanities research on climate change, conflict or displacement are invited to apply for a British Academy funded writing programme.

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Seems pretty risky for foreign students to study at American universities. Even if you don't get thrown in a detention center, it's not at all certain you'll be able to stay long enough to get a degree.

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines Volume 59, Issue 1 of Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines

One of my professional roles is Editor of CJAS. Our latest issue just came out, with an interesting lineup of research articles, commentaries and reviews. Take a look!
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rcas20/c...

A painting of a bird next to the words "some of us actually learn something when we fuck up"

Just voted, in an over-50, female, highly educated, middle-class kind of way.
#elxn45 🇨🇦

One of the things that keeps me going back there is SA Twitter. How can we get them to migrate?

Image caption: Untitled, painting by Abdullah Rahmani, 2020. Reproduced with the permission of the artist. Alt-text: Painting of a group of migrants disembarking a raft in the ocean, in waist deep water close to shore. The sky is paiting with sunset colours and cloud, in the foreground is a very young man with a tyre intertube around his neck and one shoulder, walking towards us. Behind him is another man in an orange life best, and a group of people still in the raft.

FMR’s next issue on 'Dangerous Journeys’ is due out in May & then we’ll be working toward our October issue on a #ClimateChange -related theme.

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#Displacement

While the chaos generator distracts us, let's not forget this.

And build warships.
Carney seems to be upping his comms game on this too, based on his NL and NS campaign stops.

Yes! That makes me feel ancient.

No-one more surprised than me to find myself on the front page of a Swedish daily newspaper.
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Thanks Mats! No-one more surprised than me. And the journalist and photographer were super friendly.
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Try South Africa in winter (their summer).

We should issue a blanket travel advisory that warns people not to go to countries that don't respect the rule of law, including the United States.

Not sure @stevenguilbeault.bsky.social is the right man (!) for the Women and Gender Equality job, although he posted on X today that it remains a government priority. Let's keep the pressure on.

I'm hoping for more attention and clarification during the campaign. Getting more men aged 18-34 to vote Liberal might make it worth it.
Not justifying, simply trying to understand their strategy!

Although to be fair, a lot of the feminist stuff in the Trudeau government seemed largely performative.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Another case on how quickly anyone can end up, without charge, deep in America's sprawling system of private detention camps.

I purchased image rights to original artwork for a movie poster of the 1964 film ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire’. I’ve adapted it into a photomontage featuring Trump, Musk, Vance and the rest of the wrecking crew.

4 fully-funded PhD positions to work on climate resilience among at-risk populations in #Uganda and #Mozambique (smallholders & refugees) at @w-u-r.bsky.social
and @erasmusuniversity.bsky.social: climares.nl/vacancies/

As a Canadian (and South African), I say absolutely yes. To me it's become like the academic boycott against apartheid South Africa: a moral stance against a cruel and repressive government. American and other geographers are welcome to come to the CAG.

Keep an eye on Canada while you're at it. And if you need to do a runner!

Well, since you put it like that. Divisible Crown's embodied monarch caught between different UK and Canadian national interests.

The King refusing Starmer's request would have put the UK in a bit of a bind. As you know, the King does what his government requests. It's less metaphysical, more constitutional.
The invitation itself is what offends.

Except the King of Canada didn't write it. It was the King of the UK, as requested by the Prime Minister of the UK. Canada's Prime Minister can ask the King of Canada to express his support for Canadian sovereignty.

Who will be the first to write the history of that short-lived period that began in 1989 and ended in 2025? So much hope and opportunity, so much short-sighted and incompetent leadership on all sides, and such an ugly, tragic ending.

White House using misleading fentanyl data to justify tariffs Some fentanyl seizures attributed to the ‘northern border’ had nothing to do with Canada and were traced to Mexico

Trump has based his ENTIRE tariff attack on Canada on the claim that 43 pounds of fentanyl, of the 4,500 that entered the United States last year, came through the northern border. This investigation found that the actual figure is closer to zero

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Although to the authors, "world" appears to mean just Europe. There are more potential allies for Canada around the world than European ones. This seems to be a blind spot in Canadian foreign policy as well.

New vacancy: LSE Geography recruiting Assistant Prof in Urban Environmental Geography w/ expertise in any of the following: urban political ecology; climate urbanism; Black geographies/ecologies; and/or environmental inequalities and justice. Details here: jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

You do not need to pre-register to vote in Ontario. You need a piece of ID with your address on it or a piece of ID and a bill with your address on it, prepare that now. Check your polling station for tomorrow, here: www.elections.on.ca/en.html
#onpoli