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Daniel Maul
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Professor of History, University of Oslo| global social policy| working conditions| ILO |humanitarianism| Quaker relief| New book: The Politics of Service. American Quakers and international humanitarian relief 1917-1945 (2024)
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Das war alles eine ganz runde Sache! Mögen die Feierlichkeiten nicht enden!!
Es ist vollbracht! Heute habe ich erfolgreich meine Dissertation an der Universität zu Köln verteidigt. Ich bin sehr dankbar für alle, die mich auf dem Weg begleitet haben - vor allem auch meine sehr nette Prüfungskommission mit Ulrike Lindner, @ostrovdoktora.bsky.social und Michaela Pelican. ⭐️
Ja, und mit der Forschung zur Verkehrssicherheit im lässt sich getrost korrigieren: es muss heißen: MEHR Ideologie, WENIGER Sicherheit für alle. So einfach ist das. Grrrr. Es beleidigt einfach den Verstand! Ernsthafte Frage: wessen Interessen stehen dabei eigentlich im Vordergrund?
Wir erleben jetzt also nach den Testballons bei der Migration den Frontalangriff der Unionsparteien auf den Sozialstaat samt der Verweigerung einer Debatte um Steuererhöhungen für Besserverdienende. Lässt sich ein Programm zur Stärkung der #noafd eigentlich auf einen einfacheren Nenner bringen?
The latter one includes the nicest compliment I have ever received for my writing: "This well-researched, engaging and elegantly written book is hard to put down, capturing the reader's attention even at the expense of sleep." 😃 🤩 Totally blown away by that. From now on that's my yardstick!
Just discovered two fresh reviews of my Politics of Service book on Quaker humanitarianism by Allan Austin in Church History and Marina Pérez de Arcos in European History Quarterly.
journals.sagepub.com/.../10.1177/...
www.cambridge.org/.../0A091020....
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🕊In Memoriam: Wulf Kansteiner

With great sadness, the MSA shares the news that Wulf Kansteiner passed away on 8 August.

Read the full tribute on our website: bit.ly/3UZB0Lb
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Allein längere #Arbeitszeiten ≠ mehr Wirtschaftswachstum oder Produktivität.
Eher: Mehr Überlastung, erhöhte Fehlzeiten & #Burnout.

Besser:
➡️ Wahl-Arbeitszeiten
➡️ Verlängerung der Elterngeld-Partnermonate
➡️ Anerkennung und Wertschätzung von #Sorgearbeit

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Das ist zentral:

Die Rückabwicklung von Bürgerrechten geschieht zwar vor aller Augen, wird aber von den künftig selbst betroffenen Bürgern toleriert, da Politik die geplante Rückabwicklung stets an marginalisierten Bevölkerungsgruppen vornimmt.

Wer dazu schweigt, legt die Axt an eigene Rechte an.
The "contributions to this volume reveal the complexities, variations, and motivations behind the instrumentalization of famine by political actors and regimes, and how the politics of perpetrating hunger and the politics of relieving it have often been intertwined"
The volume takes fresh and timely historical perspectives into how "famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool."
It unites a great panel of scholars dealing with a broad range of cases as well as an afterword on "Famines and Power, Past and Present" by Alex de Waal. I was honored having been asked to contribute with a chapter on Quaker relief to Germany after the First World War.
For those who happen to be in the Trento region. On the 26 May I will present my book on Quaker humanitarianism at the University of Trento. eventi.unitn.it/it/american-...
This year's meeting is special because of the historical moment as the ILO is trying to maintain its relevance by entering a debate on a new labour standard on decent work in the platform economy. It was great to get a glimpse of it, share some historical knowledge and feel the engagement.
For the second time I had the chance to present the history of the #ILO to a group of trade unionists from the Nordic countries preparing to visit this year's #ilc. This Geneva school has a long tradition reaching back into the 1920s.
Thank you so much, Julia! It means a lot.
I greatly enjoyed reading Daniel Maul’s history of the American Friends Service Committee and its international humanitarian work. I highly recommend it!
What a wonderful surprise to learn about @juliairwin.bsky.social most generous review of my book on Quaker humanitarianism in Diplomatic History. academic.oup.com/dh/advance-a...

#Quakerhistory #humanitarian #skytorians #humanitarianaid #quaker #historians
For a lecture on the history of decolonization, I used the story of Sumé, a Greenlandic rockband from the 1970s. Gave me an opportunity to revisit the wonderful documentary "Sumé. The sound of a revolution" (2014) Highly recommended! www.thesoundofarevolution.com
SUMÉ - THE SOUND OF A REVOLUTION official website | Greenland's fight for independence began with a rock band
www.thesoundofarevolution.com
Diese Dinge drohen derzeit im allgemeinen Getöse unterzugehen. Die SPD muss hier in den Verhandlungen klare rote Linien ziehen. Was die Union betreibt verschiebt die Grenzen sonst immer weiter in Richtung einer Orbanisierung des politischen Diskurses. Es geht schlicht um Einschüchterung!
CDU jetzt mit kleiner Anfrage im AfD Stil, die mit Sprache rechtsextremer Verschwörungstheorien (original: „Deep State“ CDU Version: „Schattenstrukturen“) hantiert. Da sind einfach die letzten Hemmungen gefallen.
I do accordingly have my doubts whether such a government will be able to act as a factor of stabilization either for Germany or Europe. My fear is that instead we will see more of the politics of distraction, the anti-migration and culture war talk that has marked the campaign.
They will essentially be marked by indifference to the role that growing social inequality has had in the growth of the far right. It will offer as its main feature more cuts in social spending, which will only be exacerbated by the coming necessities of defense-spending.