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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 1d

"The City and the City and the City"
by Ayham Dalal

A mapping workshop with refugees from Homs, Syria, illuminates the complexity of rebuilding after war.

Read more: placesjournal.org/article/mapping-homs-syria-rebuilding-after-war/

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

I had a moving, heartbreaking, powerful discussion with 2 Israelis who lost family members to Hamas on Oct. 7th, 2 years ago today, on the power of 'radical forgiveness' & on standing up to the Israeli government that abandoned their family members.

Full interview: zeteo.com/p/israel-gaz...

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 2d

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 2d

Requesting academics and scholars to amplify this. Please sign the petition.

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 2d

Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!

✍️Sign and share now!

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 7d

🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

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IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 2d

Every signature matters. We’re at 2,775 — let’s reach 3,000 together!

✍️Sign and share now!

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

IOB - Institute of Development Policy @iobua.bsky.social · 7d

🌍 1,555 voices for IOB — but we need more! Every day counts: sign the petition and share it widely so our message to policymakers grows stronger. 💙
👉 https://chng.it/8DhtrFSBpm

#SaveIOB #StandWithIOB #IOBCommunity #GlobalEducation #GlobalSolidarity

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · 3d

Karachi?

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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 4d

This extremely alarming assertion needs verification.

Alt text: "They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her as a warning to others." Statement: Ersin Celik @anadoluajansicom.bsky.social

Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 4d

Absolutely heinous.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

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Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 5

Such a striking cover (Lana gave me an advance copy last night 💚) — and such glowing reviews!

dorothyproject.com/book/the-aut...

Book cover: top half: bright - almost fluorescent red - with the title: "The Autobiography (in script) of H. Lan Thao Lam (in sans serif); bottom half: a photo of Lan Thao standing in the doorway to the left, and Lana at her desk to the right

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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 7d

What an amazing woman, at last honoured for her work.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured

Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 6d

@delugecast.bsky.social @johnamcmahon.bsky.social @emilykcrandall.bsky.social
There is an established migration flow from Bangladesh to Venice. I read that passage as a nod from Stephen Markley to @amitav.bsky.social's climate novel 'Gun island', where it features a good deal in the plot.

Gun Island

Bundook. Gun. A common word, but one which turns Deen Datta's world upside down. A dealer of rare books, Deen is used to a quiet life spent indoors, but a...

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 7d

Photographs are often seen as transparent stand-ins for whatever they depict. A new series in Places aims to draw attention to images + other 2-D representations as visual artifacts in and of themselves.

In short, visually driven essays, authors consider a single image with a strong sense of place.

In a Picture

In these short, visually driven essays, authors consider a single image that depicts or suggests a strong sense of place.

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 8d

I'm a historian. Sewage systems have saved more lives than any medical intervention. Vaccines are second and antibiotics third.

Prior to the 1880s, the urban annual death rate was ~25%; it dropped to ~0.5% in under a generation.

Support your sewage system. Dispose of bodies responsibly.

NE Ohio Regional Sewer District @neorsd.org · 8d

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social
I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy.

Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social
I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 7d

So being against racism and fascism and standing with one’s community for self-defense is now considered a crime? Shame on UNC.

This is Dwayne Dixon. I know Dwayne and the students testifying to how great of a professor he is in the comments on Instagram are as shocked as I am.

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Decolonial Conference @decolonialconf.bsky.social · 11d

Submissions to our call for proposals are due October 3, 2025!

On April 6-7 2026, we will have the in-person conference and on April 8 it will be entirely online. Online attendees will have access to some in-person sessions, pending presenters' consent to being recorded.

#decolonialconference

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 12d

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

Peter Foster @pmdfoster.bsky.social · 12d

Brutal new MRP poll out today showing Reform at 311 and Labour support collapsing.

Worth reading steaming @financialtimes.com column on Starmer by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

“Starmer can’t afford to wait for reckless Reform to implode”

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 13d

🎙️“This government structure never really took young people, especially the Gen Z people, as serious political or non-political actors. And they were considered, stereotypically, as an unserious generation,” say climate activist Tashi Lhazom from #Nepal

GenZ hopes for an inclusive new Nepal: State of Southasia #32

All eyes have been on Nepal since last week when a large but loosely organised protest by young people in Kathmandu turned into a revolution that brought down the government. On September 8th, many…

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 22d

SEASON 2 ARRIVING 17 SEPTEMBER: In May, Himal and #KarwaneMohabbat released the first season of Partitions of the Heart with #HarshMander, in which we looked at the Muslim experience in #India. Revisit episode 12 with Zeyad Masroor Khan now

Zeyad Masroor Khan & Harsh Mander on riots, Muslim ghettos, boycotts and expulsions

Zeyad Masroor Khan grew up in a Muslim ghetto in Aligarh, a place he says is still “caught in time” and one he describes as still a slice of “India as it was envisioned by Nehru and Gandhi” with…

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 27d

There is a struggle today over the meaning of "the porch." For the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Places curated a library of nearly 800 books on the topic. In the Reading List below, we’ve selected nine that are especially useful in defining what the porch means to us.

Reading List | Porch Thinking

A public reading list on Places Journal by Editors.

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Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 27d

The List

“Citizen” (Claudia Rankine)
“Between the World and Me” (Ta-Nehisi Coates)
“Shade” (Sam Bloch)
“Home Ground” (Lopez/Gwartney)
“How to Do Nothing” (Jenny Odell)
“The Sum of Us” (Heather McGhee)
“One Place After Another” (Miwon Kwon)
“House” (Tracy Kidder)
“Triumph of Injustice” (Saez/Zucman)

Places Journal @placesjournal.bsky.social · 27d

There is a struggle today over the meaning of "the porch." For the U.S. Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, Places curated a library of nearly 800 books on the topic. In the Reading List below, we’ve selected nine that are especially useful in defining what the porch means to us.

Reading List | Porch Thinking

A public reading list on Places Journal by Editors.

placesjournal.org

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Himal Southasian @himalmag.bsky.social · 26d

The full chronicle of the week that transformed #Nepal, with #GenZprotests ripping down the old order and delivering an interim government under Sushila Karki. Writes @inkthink

Nepal’s staggering journey from Gen Z protests to new government

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · Aug 10

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · Jul 10

If you are in the #Netherlands, try not to miss Sundar Sarukkai"s talk on #Science and the #Decolonial Imagination on the 15th of July at 15:30 P.M. The event is, unfortunately, in-person. The registration link 👇🏿
www.un-ihe.org/events/scien...

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · Jul 6

"While the West sees #BRICS as an anti-western bloc quixotically dedollarizing, the bloc is now held together less by repulsion to an old order than by attraction to the remaking of the material basis of a new sovereignty in a new era of #globalization."
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

BRICS in 2025 | The Polycrisis

Nations meet in Brasilia for the 2025 BRICS Summit. China's rise and US chaos shape the opportunities and challenges for the group.

www.phenomenalworld.org

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amitangshu @amitangshu.bsky.social · Jul 4

"The production of a #decolonial imagination might be the first step in producing a #science that is not merely democratic & inclusive, but also conceptually & imaginatively different." Register & join us for Sundar Sarukkai's public keynote at #Delft #Netherlands
www.un-ihe.org/events/scien...

Science and the Decolonial Imagination - a seminar by Sundar Sarukkai

We welcome you to a public keynote by Professor Sundar Saruk

www.un-ihe.org

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