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Justin Pearce

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https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5 Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social Vegan

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · May 8

Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography | Thula

The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 1d

Everyday State & Democracy in Africa, ed. Wale Adebanwi, now open access. Includes my chapter 'Disputing Democracy & Challenging the State in Mozambique' based on fieldwork around the 2013-16 insurgency.
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/39/

Everyday State and Democracy in Africa : Ethnographic Encounters

Bottom-up case studies, drawn from the perspective of ordinary Africans’ experiences with state bureaucracies, structures, and services, reveal how citizens and states define each other.This volume ex...

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Robert Kowalenko @rob-kowa.bsky.social · 1d

This, common sense could have told us in academia with out a study.
When will common sense about AI return to universities?

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 1d

'Despite AI’s widespread use, 62% of the students said it has had a negative impact on their skills and development at school, while one in four of the students agreed that AI “makes it too easy for me to find the answers without doing the work myself”.' 1/2

Pupils fear AI is eroding their ability to study, research finds

One in four students say AI ‘makes it too easy’ for them to find answers

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 2d

"Tapirs are often thought to be meek and gentle
animals, however their behaviour can be very
unpredictable and they have been known to
attack without warning. Keepers should not trust
the animal to be tame. Tapir attacks can result in
serious wounds, the loss of fingers, or even death."

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 2d

😯

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Radical Online Archives @radonlinearchives.bsky.social · 4d

Hello BlueSky! Starting this account to showcase the ever growing list of radical online archives and collections. Nearly 1000 collections from the around the world are listed at the link below.

Please follow for updates and collection highlights!

hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

radical online collections and archives

I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…

hatfulofhistory.com

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 6d

I honestly thought this was an Onion headline the first time I saw it.

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 10d

I know. I was just making a very poor joke based on Moldova's best-known musical hit.

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 10d

My reaction to the Moldova election results: Maia who?
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Share your reaction to the Moldova election results

We would like to hear from people in Moldova and what they think about Maia Sandu’s Action and Solidarity party (PAS) winning the election

www.theguardian.com

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11d

I don't really polisci post much anymore because it's like "Hi, political scientist here. I'm a big brain expert who ran 5 trillion lines of code in R and read 900 books and I'm here to tell you it's bad when masked stormtroopers kidnap your baby. Don't forget to like and follow."

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 14d

Munching almonds and dates as I type.

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eff. @fabjx.bsky.social · 15d

can't wait for kids 20 years from now to create carefully handcrafted visual media that looks like creepy AI slop and call it 2020s aesthetics

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 15d

It's amazing, isn't it? Sometimes I get a better signal at the airport than in my own university building.

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 16d

Post a banger that's not in English.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6wl...

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HALLOWIAN (IanMoore3000) @ianmoore3000.bsky.social · 16d

It is the feast day of St. Jerome, who had a pet lion.

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a severe-looking man with a beard and a halo wears long robes as he sits in a room cluttered with books while a sad lion sits beside him as he removes a thorn from the lion's paw.

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 17d

Reading Zille's response to this, I'm struck by how she digs herself ever further into her delusional sub-Trumpian reading of South African politics.
www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025...

A DA saga — the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane

In this extract from James Selfe’s memoir, he charts the rise and fall of Mmusi Maimane in the Democratic Alliance and the role of Helen Zille.

www.dailymaverick.co.za

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 20d

Makes sense - I recognise there are likely ulterior motives for the issue being raised at this particular moment in UK politics, which may justify the concerns, even if as @davidturnbull.bsky.social points out the majority of Brits are not anti-ID. And interesting RefUK voters are most anti-ID.

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 20d

I like how English 'mere' = German 'See' and English 'sea' = German 'Meer'.
Also the gender changes: French 'la mer' (f), Portuguese 'o mar' (m), German 'das Meer' (n).

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 20d

The more interesting question to discuss is why British people on the whole are so averse to ID cards, which co-exist with democracy and freedom in many other countries.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20d

Compulsory ID cards are an expensive threat to democracy and freedom.

Discussing that on @bbc5live.bsky.social at 9am

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 22d

It's taken him this long to realise?

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 28d

Yes, me too - a real person in the room can hold my attention in a way that a recording, or an online meeting, cannot.

Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 28d

Not weird at all. I cannot imagine listening to a podcast nor to an audiobook. Radio is like that annoying person who talks too much.

Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 28d

My weird secret, I don't like podcasts. I never listened to radio, I don't like background noise. I don't even listen to music much, though I enjoy it when I am focused on it. When I commuted I used bird song to drown out other people's conversations

Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 28d

Wait, do normal people not commute, do housework, pop to the post office, cook dinner etc? That’s c.3-4 hours podcast time every day for me.

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · Sep 13

As a vegan I understand. I recently ate fake meat for the first time in ages (it was the only vegan thing on the menu) & regretted it for the rest of the day. Processed fake food is not the way to promote veganism.

www.theguardian.com/food/2025/se...

Vegan burgers are losing the US culture war over meat: ‘It’s not our moment’

Once seen as a climate fix, vegan burgers now languish at 1% of the US market amid rising meat culture

www.theguardian.com

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · Sep 11

Epstein possibly heard 'miners' and thought 'minors'?

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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · Sep 11

'für Captain Kirk das gab ein großes Feuerwerk' #toosoon