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Shozab Raza

@shozabraza.bsky.social

prof. at University of Toronto | editor at jamhoor.org | politics, critical theory, worldly marxism | www.shozabraza.com

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My department is hiring for a TT position in Indigenous Studies. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions!

28.11.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For anyone heading to the #AAA2025 (@americananthro.bsky.social), we’re hosting a roundtable on Marxism and Anthropology β€” would love to see you there.

17.11.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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For anyone heading to the #AAA2025 (@americananthro.bsky.social), we’re hosting a roundtable on Marxism and Anthropology β€” would love to see you there.

17.11.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Home - Sudan Solidarity Collective Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...

The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate πŸ‘‡πŸΎ .

sudansolidarity.com

11.10.2025 09:17 β€” πŸ‘ 327    πŸ” 357    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 20
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Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg

09.10.2025 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@deathpanel.bsky.social
and Health Communism have been essential in shaping my understanding of sickness under capitalism. An honor to be able to talk about my book on this podcast!

01.10.2025 01:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

30.09.2025 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 46    πŸ” 17    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Kindly consider donating. Almost at our goal (with @jamhoor.org and @whbutt.bsky.social)

28.09.2025 14:29 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

24.09.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg

24.09.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

24.09.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The floods in Pakistan have devastated many parts of the country. But as always, the peripheries have fared worst, and faced patchy, inconsistent relief.

With some folks in Toronto, we're fundraising for aid in neglected areas like Buner & Jalalpur Pirwala:

gofund.me/e4af94dc5

18.09.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

We’re partnering with @noornetwork.bsky.social to mentor journalists from the global South in reporting on authoritarianism and other issues affecting the region.

If you’re eligible, do apply!

18.09.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@jamhoor.org's latest: a primer on Nepal's so-called Gen Z movement β€” its varied tendencies, unsettled future, and uncertain relation to the Left.

15.09.2025 17:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025

30.08.2025 16:11 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

With the Baloch-led Mehrgarh Research Institute, we @jamhoor.org are hosting a workshop on public writing for Baloch youth.

29.08.2025 16:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ NEW RELEASEπŸ“£

Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about β€œpost-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...

27.08.2025 17:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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People’s Media Against Monopoly Capital: A Conversation with P. Sainath β€” Jamhoor On fighting corporate media with journalism from below.

Today @versobooks.bsky.social republishes P. Sainath's classic Everybody Loves a Good Drought:

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

For a preview into his thinking and politics, check out our extensive interview with him:

www.jamhoor.org/read/peoples...

05.08.2025 18:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an β€˜education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the β€˜Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

"'Even within the broader landscape around Palestine in the university, it’s unprecedented,' said Chandni Desai, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of one of the scrapped articles.'"

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

22.07.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“’ANNOUNCEMENTπŸ“’: Jamhoor is launching a new blog space!

27.06.2025 18:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ NEW RELEASE πŸ“£ :

Sri Lanka condemns Israel’s military actions in Palestine while maintaining its own military control and settlement programs in Tamil territories -- Thiruni Kelegama

www.jamhoor.org/read/sri-lan...

25.06.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Not a deviation from standard policy, but the logical culmination of a decades-long consensus in Washington and Tel Aviv: that no independent power in the Middle East should be able to escape the architecture of subordination."

17.06.2025 14:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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With brutal torture and disappearances, the Pakistani state continues colonial strategies of collective punishment in Balochistan

Our latest from Hazaran Rahim Dad

10.06.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

"Only a popular programme of national consciousness, based on Pakistan’s diverse working masses, will have the strength to manoeuvre in the changing world-system...It is only such a socially- and geographically-attuned national consciousness that can form the basis of a concrete internationalism."

09.06.2025 16:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

New from @jamhoor.org: A joint statement by over 50 organizations condemning the Indian state's escalating violence against Indigenous Adivasi communities in Bastar.

@indinsaf.bsky.social
@indlabsol.bsky.social
@ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social

21.05.2025 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Jamhoor is co-sponsoring a series of online events on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Bastar, where the Indian state has intensified military operations against Indigenous (Adivasi) communities in pursuit of a β€œMaoist-free” India.

19.05.2025 15:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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University of Toronto faculty and librarians have passed a historic divestment motion, calling on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from companies profiting from war crimes in Palestine, Sudan, and beyond.

utfadivestmyupp.ca

10.05.2025 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The challenge is to critique Trumpian neofascism without defaulting to a celebratory embrace of Canadian (or other) liberalisms and their institutions, which have their own coercive logics.

07.04.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The very Munk School some now tout as a beacon of academic freedom also actively suppressed criticism of Munk and Barrick Gold on campus:

In 2008, as undergrads, we merely put up posters criticizing Munk’s Barrick Gold -- posters the university admin swiftly removed: thevarsity.ca/2008/02/14/u...

07.04.2025 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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