Trump just finally interred the entire Rule-Based Order. I think the UN needs to close shop now.

My co-authored chapter with Prof Jonathan Chimakonam on "A Case for Inclusive Global Governance for Regenerative Medicine" has just been published by Springer. Feedbacks are most welcome.
Thank you.
trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/...

Show me a society in which the people aren't ready to die in defence of their dignity, and I'll show you a society in which many people will eventually die without any dignity.

Happy to share that my article, "Whose cosmopolitanism is it, anyway?: Western museums, looted artifacts, postcolonial identities and restitution in Africa", has been published by the South African Journal of Philosophy.
doi.org/10.1080/0258...
#NelsonMandelaUniversity
#Museums
#artifacts
#Africa

From a poetry collection by Mary Oliver, where after a hundred poems showcasing gentle observations on nature and animals, she hits you with this

First they came for the immigrants, and I spoke out, because I’ve read the damn poem before and I know how it ends.

Fossil fuel companies

Have @nytimes.com or any other corporate media outlets bothered to report that a migrant teen boy was stabbed to death in the city after he was reportedly asked if he spoke English? www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Relevant to some of the orientalist discourse reacting to the fall of Assad 👇

"From discourse to practice: Orientalism, western policy and the Arab uprisings": academic.oup.com/ia/article/9...

🔴🟡🟢 Amílcar Cabral, the famed revolutionary leader of the people of Guinea-Bissau & the Cape Verde Islands, lives on!

Celebrate Cabral's centenary with this extraordinary book display put together by our MPhil, Neo, on in the Library to January 17th.

Click the 🔗 in our bio to read more!

When you see any society or people look back at their years of famine with nostalgia, then know that they have been struck by a pestilence
#Nigeria

Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!

go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q

'This process includes the replacement of all first-rate talents, regardless of their political loyalties, with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is the best guarantee of their loyalty.' (The Origins of Totalitarianism, renewed version, A Harvest Book New York, 1976, 339)

The United Nations says Israel let only one aid mission into besieged north Gaza this month and attacked the shelters the supplies were distributed at shortly afterwards.

The sky is blue. Good to be here.