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Jane Cowan

@janekerincowan.bsky.social

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anthropologist, writer, singer, dancer, film enthusiast, with many adopted homelands: US, UK, Greece, Switzerland, Finland

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Jane Cowan @janekerincowan.bsky.social · Feb 28

Trump is a coward. Zelenskyy, respectfully and forcefully, stands up to Trump; the survival of his country is at stake. Trump bullies, berates and demeans. But we know who is the real weakling and coward here.

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Jane Cowan @janekerincowan.bsky.social · Feb 28

absolutely!! He is the only one to stand up to Trump's bullying.

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Jane Cowan @janekerincowan.bsky.social · Feb 26

One of the UK's most outstanding and courageous journalists. Fearless, astute, brilliant. What a shame that she has not been offered a contract with the new owners of the Guardian and Observer (which I read daily in paper form). Very disappointing and depressing.

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Press Gazette @pressgazette.co.uk · Feb 25

Star Observer writer @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
has had her contract ended by @tortoisemedia.bsky.social
ahead of take-over of the title on 20 April. NUJ expresses "serious concern" that her exit follows her making public criticism of deal.

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Carole Cadwalladr dropped by Tortoise ahead of Observer take-over

Long-serving Observer writer Carole Cadwalladr has been told by Tortoise Media that her contract his being ended.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Feb 24

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me.
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How to Survive the Broligarchy

Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.

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King's Arts & Humanities @kingsartshums.bsky.social · Jan 16

💡 Professor Louiza Odysseos draws on the work of King's alumna Sylvia Wynter to explore how rights naturalise a normatively white, Western bourgeois while negating other forms of being and subjectivity.

📆 12 February @ 4pm

Learn more about this #research seminar ⬇️

After rights, after Man? Sylvia Wynter, sociopoetic struggle and the “undared shape”

Professor Louiza Odysseos explores rights untethered from the figure of sovereign Man.

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Jens Theilen @jtheilen.bsky.social · Nov 18

And while I’m posting about recent publications: I loved this special issue on “After Rights”, edited by Louiza Odysseos & Bal Sokhi-Bulley

Lots of wonderful contributions critiquing and rethinking rights from many different directions. Very much recommended!

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The International Journal of Human Rights

After Rights? Politics, Ethics, Aesthetics. Volume 28, Issue 8-9 of The International Journal of Human Rights

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