Penny Edmonds

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Welcome to the Republic of Gilead ...

The Polish revolutionary and theorist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919 after a failed uprising in Berlin.

She was killed by members of a far-right thugs , who directed by right-wing Social Democratic Party.
Here's Tony Cliff on her life and thought:

www.marxists.org/archive/clif...

Book talk in London next week.

A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Brilliant article ...

History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life

Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...

History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life

@rosariolopez.bsky.social in Aeon: '[For J.G.A. Pocock] a degree of disagreement and pluralism is integral to both the historian’s craft and the citizen’s experience.. There was no history without politics, and no politics without a contested political identity'
aeon.co/essays/histo...

Almost there. Hang in.

If you just ignore existing state and federal laws, the cost of nuclear waste, water use, decommissioning costs, rising construction costs, building a new industry from scratch, the falling cost of renewables and the fact that Dutton’s figures are blatantly cooked, his plan is actually reasonable.

Exposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational Network Residential school denialism may have its origins in Canada, but it is increasingly circulating and being used around the world as part of a wider matrix of imperial apologetics – a transnational n…

New essay out today (with @alanlester.bsky.social @adeleperry.bsky.social Omeasoo Wahpasiw) exposing residential school denialism’s transnational network, or how denialism in Canada is being used globally to defend empire and colonialism: activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...

That's great

Perfect #platypus - you can see how they change from swimming to waddling to slithering depending on how deep the water is.
#MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz

I feel sad for the students ...

This and the toxic mess that is Utas is why I voted myself off the island 5 years ago!

That and the mess that is Utas is why I voted myself amd my family off the island!

We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata “Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...

THIS! ⬇️
"Science and the humanities aren’t rivals, but partners committed to interpreting the cosmos": Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman
e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata “Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...

A great defence of the humanities by Māori scholar Pounamu Jade Aikman:

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...

Haaa haa

If you’re in Montreal on Monday and interested in the history & politics of colonialism, do come along?

I now miss "the Can" - teenage parlance for the place I wanted to escape from in the 80s ;)

Friday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia In 1881, a Pacific Islander woman brought here to work on a sugar cane plantation ran away. She was violently retrieved by her employer. Her story sheds moving light on a dark history of exploitation.

And another:
theconversation.com/friday-essay...

I'm new, so a few papers: #BLM in Sydney and travelling memory
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hey thanks Megan, Same back x 100!

Thanks!

Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent

Group of students waiting to be allowed to enter a Sydney University classroom under the institution's proposed new 'civility rules'