Erin Baines

We draw on two decades of research in the aftermaths of war in Acholi to explore these claims and as resistance to the coloniality of knowing.

By acknowledging the palimpsestic nature of stories, where narratives intersect and build upon one another, research as witnessing reveals multifaceted, partial, and resilient ways of interpreting war, memory, loss, and the meanings of being alive.

Through wer, individuals and communities convey complex emotions, experiences, and ideas, and create new meanings and interpretations of their reality.

Research as witnessing requires a profound attentiveness to and transformation by the difficult surroundings in which individuals and communities navigate their realities through creative modalities such as song, dance, and storytelling.

Research as witnessing: on wer, living archives and knowing war Research as witnessing requires a profound attentiveness to and transformation by the difficult surroundings in which individuals and communities navigate their realities through creative modalitie...

Research as witnessing: on wer, living archives and knowing war - Boniface Ojok and I wrote this reflecting on what is knowledge in artistic creation and sites of violence. With thanks to the inspiration of Otoniya Okot Bitek.

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Congratulations to Otoniya Okot Bitek for Long List of We the Kindling! OMG!

Telling Stories of International Relations Abstract. This is a lightly edited version of the presidential address I delivered at the sixty-fifth annual convention of the International Studies Associ

Just found out - via an email from a colleague 🙃 - that my 2024 ISA presidential address has finally been published in @isq-jrnl.bsky.social. It brings together many strands of enquiry and reflections spanning nearly two decades of my career. Oh, and it's open access academic.oup.com/isq/article/...

“Any federal actions designed to terrorize and separate farm worker communities is an attack on Californians and a dangerous waste of resources….
We call on every level of government to take every possible measure to protect immigrant workers and their families.

Transformative Memory: Ways of Being Together in the Afterlives of Political Violence ABSTRACT. As a global collective of artists, activists and scholars, the Transformative Memory International Network explores memory as a transformative fo

Pilar and I published! We explore memory as a transformative force attentive to the complexities of power and justice regimes, and to the exclusions and silences that enter the historical record and institutionally curated representations of political violence. academic.oup.com/ijtj/advance...

Thank you! A friend sent it over. Solved.

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I am slightly aghast my uni library doesn’t have the journal Peacebuilding, and that I owe hundreds in fines and so cannot ask for interlibrary loans (I know). Could anyone help me with A. Lederach’s Youth Provoking Peace: An Intersectional Approach from 2018? Please? Heh heh.

Amazing Transformative Memory International Network launch of the Vancouver Exhibit in collaboration with Butterflies in Spirit, a dance group raising awareness of violence against Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada. Include "Disappeared" by Irene MacWilliam @conflicttextiles.bsky.social

Photo of thousands of people with placards and flags packing Parliament Square. Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

Erin Baines @erinbaines.bsky.social and Ketty Anyeko analyse the memory practices of families whose loved ones went missing during periods of political violence, and point to a more emancipatory potential for localization. 12/

6️⃣ In “Difficult Stories that Haunt,” Ulrike Lühe and @erinbaines.bsky.social challenge Western empirical social science approaches that transform narratives of harm and abuse into “clean” and “manageable” data for research analysis.

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Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC and the Vancouver Public Library - Pancouver Okot Bitek lived in the Vancouver area for more than 20 years before becoming an assistant professor at Queen's University in Kingston.

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek will speak about her much-anticipated novel, We, the Kindling, at UBC's Liu Institute and the Vancouver Public Library. More info in this @pancouver.bsky.social article: pancouver.ca/otoniya-j-ok...

To everyone fighting to make feminism a radical force for change again & fighting for radical change again: wishing you a furious, fabulous & feminist #IWD!

I began to write this article 6 yrs before Musk's Hitler salute and AfD's electoral success. It's about why coming to terms with the past should be a perpetual process touching every aspect of life so that we stop, in Adorno's words, fascist tendencies within (not just against) democracy.

YouTube video by LIB Jason Ranti - 421 Official Video

youtu.be/xbyHD5GqKfs please watch this beautiful video collaboration on love for a grandfather and hope for a new generation by J Stevy and Farid Ranti. Indonesia 65 @ 60

Great article Onur and just so important today. An honour to be in this SI with you.

Volume 19 Issue 1 | International Journal of Transitional Justice | Oxford Academic Publishes high quality, refereed articles in the rapidly growing field of transitional justice. Topics covered include truth commissions, universal jurisdiction, post-conflict social reconciliation, v...

Here is the link to the special issue academic.oup.com/ijtj/issue/1... with @kellyzvobgo.bsky.social @geoffdancy.bsky.social @erinbaines.bsky.social @ulrike-luehe.bsky.social and many other wonderful colleagues.

March 14, join us for panel discussion on zoom; Youth Protests, Gender Equality and Political Transitions: Insights from Bangladesh @rn-wps

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“Difficult stories that haunt: towards a research otherwise in Transitional Justice”. Luhe and I look at how difficult stories refuse, demand, restore and make claims of us, calling for other ways of seeing, being and doing research in settings of mass violence. OA

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Could two followers please copy and re-post this tweet to show that someone is always there?

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Those cat memes though…