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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 13h

📆 Abstract submissions are due November 1!📆 If you do any form of global social science within a GPE framework, this conference is for you!! #globalization #sociology #politicaleconomy #inequality #globalenvironmentalchange #climatechange #development #labor #governance #migration #health #conflict

Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 1d

Approximately 8% of US cocaine comes through the eastern Caribbean (and virtually none of it involves fentanyl). Conversely, about 74% of US cocaine comes up the Pacific coast from Ecuador and Colombia. Trump’s objectives in Venezuela aren’t about drugs.

Why Blowing Up Venezuelan Boats Won’t Stop the Flow of Drugs (Gift Article)

President Trump says striking drug traffickers from Venezuela will prevent deadly drugs from reaching the United States. But the major smuggling routes are elsewhere.

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Andrew Jorgenson @akjorgenson.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨Conference Alert! Abstract Submissions Due Soon!🚨🚨 “Globalizing Political Economy: Launching the Global Political Economy Network", Happening July 2026, University of British Columbia. Open to all Topics Within a GPE Framework. Lots of Travel Funding Available. Details: tinyurl.com/2nv8st73

Climate & Society Lab - Call for Papers: Globalizing Political Economy

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada July 21 – July 23, 2026 With financial support from the World Society Foundation (Zurich, Switzerland) and the Climate & Society Lab at the Universi...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 2d

Vielen Dank euch für die Initiative, die Einladung und die tolle Zusammenarbeit! 🤗

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 3d

Neues @mittelweg36.bsky.social -Heft mit spannenden Beiträgen zum Oberthema "Pluralisierung der Aufklärung"!

Leon Wolff @wolffle.bsky.social · 3d

www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

Zur Pluralisierung der Aufklärung

»Wie soll man sich also eine plurale Aufklärung vorstellen? Die kurze und deshalb abstrakte Antwort: als eine eng verwobene Praxis, die gleichermaßen irritiert wie erhellt, affiziert wie analysiert – ...

www.hamburger-edition.de

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Leon Wolff @wolffle.bsky.social · 3d

www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

Zur Pluralisierung der Aufklärung

»Wie soll man sich also eine plurale Aufklärung vorstellen? Die kurze und deshalb abstrakte Antwort: als eine eng verwobene Praxis, die gleichermaßen irritiert wie erhellt, affiziert wie analysiert – ...

www.hamburger-edition.de

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 8d

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Sky News @news.sky.com · 8d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 8d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 8d

Fantastisch, herzlichen Glückwunsch!

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Henning Melber @he-mel.bsky.social · 8d

Ausgerechnet heute dazu erschienen
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Der lange Schatten des deutschen Kolonialismus – UNRAST VERLAG

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Kai Koddenbrock @kaikodden.bsky.social · 13d

So glad this finally happened. It took us too long and I hope this is only the beginning. 100.000 in the streets of Berlin to end Germany's complicity in the Gaza genocide. Thank you to the wonderful and courageous organizers, @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social and all the others!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 17d

Nicht als Metapher für die Migrationspolitik missverstehen! 😎
www.n-tv.de/der_tag/Deut...

Deutschland erwartet beste Kartoffelernte seit 25 Jahren

Der Tag

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 17d

As the further details note, the 'sugar trade' referenced here was 'built on slavery'.

Call it by its name.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 18d

Happy to present new research on the investment migration industry at REMESO, Linköpings universitet's Institute for Research on Migration, Ethnicity and Society to scholars of migration with whom I have long been in dialogue. All welcome!
liu.se/en/event/man...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 20d

That rare treat of finding your own book on a shelf at a Cărturești store.
P.S. Look, @granttharward.bsky.social , our books are neighbors again - in Bucharest this time!

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · 27d

Yikes, needs a trigger warning!

Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 10

Cool recap of little-known facts that the brilliant team of the Uncommon Sense podcast unveils in dialogue with sociologists. Listen to the ones discussed here, but even better to all of them! Find mine, on Europe and its Caribbean borders, here: thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/unc...

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 9

Many thanks for the warm reception and the exceptionally rich discussion!

Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 9

We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.

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Concurrences at Linnaeus University @lnuccon.bsky.social · Sep 9

We very happily welcomed @manuelaboatca.bsky.social to #Concurrences today, for a rousing seminar on Romani Europeans and the Challenge of Unthinkable Histories, underlining the necessity to understand the persistence of coloniality within Europe.

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today at Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies in Växjö and on zoom! 👇
lnu.se/.../events/2...

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · Sep 6

Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday

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Manuela Boatcă @manuelaboatca.bsky.social · Sep 4

A great, bone-chilling (pardon the pun!) report on the treatment of Romanian workers in Dutch meat plants by Dia Radu, Anna Milovanovic, Job Doornhof. So many implications for #unequalEuropes, migrant racialization in West & East, and the divide & rule of fragmenting labor struggles!!

balkandesk.bsky.social @balkandesk.bsky.social · Sep 3

Treated Like Meat: Romanians Suffer Violence, Broken Promises in Dutch Industry

Romanian migrants recruited by employment agencies often end up in some of the toughest and lowest-paid jobs in the Netherlands, most notably in the meat industry.

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