Maria Martin de Almagro

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Brussels today.

Almost a quarter of a million people on the streets marching for Palestine, calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

This footage was captured by freelance photojournalist, Wahaj Bani Moufleh 👏

oh no! safe travels and see you in Krakow!

The real story isn’t young men supposedly voting far right. It’s what young women are up to There is an opportunity staring centre-left parties in the face – if they reject the male gaze distorting our politics, says political scientist Cas Mudde

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Cover of The Funambulist 59 with violet bush and yellow skies and a brown mountain peak in front of which stands a man covered in green bush with two yellow faces peeking from the left.

💥 Our new issue "Black Indigeneities" is out!

It's urgent to follow this issue’s contributors when they note that very notions of Blackness and Indigeneity emerge from an epistemological framework focusing on European settler colonialism (more particularly in North Atlantic, but not exclusively).

African Climate Change Human Rights Advisory Opinion – A Shift in creating Afrocentric climate change jurisprudence African Lawyers Seek Landmark Advisory Opinion from African Court on States’ Climate Change Obligations FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Natural Justice, the Environmental Lawyers Collective for Africa, and the ...

A Historic Legal Milestone for Climate Justice in Africa ⚖️
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Today, on #InternationalWorkersDay, I've given two teachouts - on academic mobility, borders and the hostile environment, and on reading workload models, as part of our @ducu.bsky.social #NoToCuts strike week. A few thoughts: 👇

BREAKING: Early this moring in Ypsi, Michigan the FBI/police raided the homes of Univ. of Mich. Pro-palestinian protestors, including a
@CommunityMvt
Builders member. They refused to show warrants, seized electronics & personal items. Temporarily holding 8 people. Updates to come

Trans women are women, trans men are men. I’m sorry so many smother their hearts with hate and won’t let you be. As though life isn’t hard enough.

For the first time since WWII an extreme right party is #1 in the German polls. Anti-fascist economic policy is urgently needed.

Instead the new coalition agenda entails:
- cut profit tax
- end 8 hr workday
- open tap for defense, austerity for the rest
- weaken social security

This is a big deal: the most prestigious prize in Germany for junior scholars across fields & a sign that the German research establishment is ready to acknowledge the importance of feminist philosophy

The prize is for Manon Garcia's "philosophical studies with high social and political relevance"

Anarchism or Socialism (A Nonsensical Question) <p>Offshoot Journal presents Anarchism or Socialism (A Nonsensical Question). Though plenty of educational materials address the history recounted in this short zine, it felt necessary to create. Many...

Debates about anarchism versus socialism reveal that many people are unaware of the history of the socialist movement. At Offshoot, we made a zine explaining how this nonsensical binary shows a need for more political education on these terms people misrepresent. offshootjournal.org/anarchism-or...

African Futurity as Forgotten History On the unimagined possibilities of Blackness

Universities are often quick to "celebrate" BHM. Yet that "celebration" is often not backed by concrete intellectual engagement with what may be possible if all of humanity is centred in knowledge creation. Then "decolonisation" and EDI are easy to turn back on.
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I & Pol Bargues will be representing the @jisb.bsky.social team @isanet.bsky.social Annual Conference. If you have an idea for a SI or an article, get in touch so that we can discuss.

This morning, M23 entered #Bukavu and took control of key locations including the governor’s residence and Ruzizi 1 border crossing. Amidst broader confusion, M23 entry had been erroneously reported since Friday night owing to inconclusive videos circulating on social media.

Shame on you @isanet.bsky.social

There in unfortunately not a quick answer. However, although mineral extraction and economic interests play a role, it is not the main reason. it is much, much more complicated than that. Here an excellent piece: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

The world cannot keep looking away. After 30 years, it is enough. Strength and solidarity to all those resisting and surviving in Bukavu.

This isn’t a distant conflict—it’s a geopolitical crisis with real human consequences which also impact our friends, neighbours, other parents at our kids' school, our colleagues who live in Belgium, but whose families and loved ones are in eastern DRC.

My thoughts are with Bukavu, where friends, colleagues and all civilians are bracing for a new cycle of violence, with the M23 advancing to the city.

🎭🪇 ONE WEEK 🎨🥁

Join us for the 12th EWIS #Krakow, @europeanisa.bsky.social
2-4 July 2025💫

@drmmartind.bsky.social and I are very happy to invite submissions for our workshop on #Feminist #Visual Methodologies 🎨

✨Submit here::: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub...

✨Deadline: Feb. 11, 2025

Ah, le bon vieux patriarcat blanc. #capue

💫Join us for the 12th @europeanisa.bsky.social #EWIS2025 in Krakow, Jagiellonian University, 2-4 July 2025

💫With @drmmartind.bsky.social we are very happy to invite you to submit your proposals for our workshop on Feminist Visual Methodologies

💫Deadline: 11.02.2025💫
eisa-net.org/workshops-ew...

wow, you surely have deserves your end of the year rest. Congrats on all of these achievements!

Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas - María Martín de Almagro, Julia Margaret Zulver, Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Nancy R. Tapias Torrado, Marie Be... This piece offers a space for critical debate and reflection on the methodological and epistemological foundations that underpin feminist research on conflict, ...

📝New online from us on SAGE, @jzulver.bsky.social, @drmmartind.bsky.social, @priscyll.bsky.social, @marieberry.bsky.social and Nancy Tapias Torrado explore dilemmas in conducting feminist research on conflict, violence, and peace. Read the article here ⤵️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#OutNow Our contribution in #Conjonctures, with Prof. @emerymudinga1.bsky.social, examines how decentralized land governance in South Kivu reconfigures power dynamics, challenges both customary and state authorities, and influences local conflicts and prospects for peace... in eastern Congo #DRC

The Political Economy of the Bukumu chiefdom The Bukumu chiefdom is located in the Nyiragongo territory, named after its active volcano, in North Kivu province, Democratic Republic of Congo. This report examines Bukumu’s key social, political, g...

Just out: ILS report no. 23 which analyses the Bukumu Chiefdom in eastern DRC ! It looks at the different border dynamics, processes of urbanization, and associated tensions around identity and authority that shape the chiefdom’s political economy.

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How do we understand the dissonance of teaching &writing on feminist approaches to conflict&violence in today's world?

Reflecting w @drmmartind.bsky.social @priscyll.bsky.social @marieberry.bsky.social Nancy @millennjournal.bsky.social was a cathartic exercise!

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Doing Feminist Research on Conflict, Violence and Peace: Ethical and Methodological Dilemmas - María Martín de Almagro, Julia Margaret Zulver, Priscyll Anctil Avoine, Nancy R. Tapias Torrado, Marie Be... This piece offers a space for critical debate and reflection on the methodological and epistemological foundations that underpin feminist research on conflict, ...

🚨 What does it mean to undertake feminist research on conflict, violence & peace? We reflect on dilemmas and how to make friends w/ uncertainty in @millennjournal.bsky.social

🚺 @drmmartind.bsky.social @priscyll.bsky.social @marieberry.bsky.social NancyTapias

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Women faculty feel ‘pushed’ from academia by poor workplace climate The gender gap in faculty attrition worsens after tenure, according to a new study

"Women full professors are 19% more likely than men at the same career stage to leave academia, as compared with 6% for women assistant professors and 10% for associates."