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Martin Shaw @martinshaw.bsky.social · 5d

Copies of *The New Age of Genocide: Intellectual and Political Challenges after Gaza* have arrived!
Full details, with 30 per cent discount offer, here: tinyurl.com/mry8864j.
Many thanks to @franceskalbs.bsky.social and @dirkmoses.bsky.social for their generous comments (see linked page).

The New Age of Genocide

With recent events in Gaza, Martin Shaw seeks to restore the idea of genocide to its central place in thinking about mass atrocities, to apply it to neglected cases, and ultimately to settle the quest...

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5d

Here's an insightful piece about Lorde confronting Germany's silences, drawing from the archive and painting some resonances with today.

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How Audre Lorde Studied Berlin’s Warnings and Silences

Less than four decades later, the same forces that frustrated the African-American feminist poet continue to dominate German politics

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Caleb Ward @calebw.bsky.social · 5d

Today is German Unity Day, celebrating reunification of East & West. In 1992, Audre Lorde co-wrote a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl, decrying how unification is used to reinforce the ideal of "Germany for Germans," producing racist violence. Apt today, with police cadets chanting "Ausländer raus!"

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Journal of Genocide Research @journalgenocide.bsky.social · 12d

Starting today, the journal will publish on Substack. This new platform allows our authors to share short articles inspired by their work in the journal. Our debut post features Dr Anne Irfan’s piece.
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Israel’s Displacement/Immobility Nexus in Palestine

This post is authored by Dr. Anne Irfan, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Race, Gender, and Postcolonial Studies at UCL and the author of 'A Short History of the Gaza Strip'.

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · 12d

Great 🧵

Similar developments were taking place in the Latin American frontiers as the "Indian Wars" ended in the US.

Mexico was immersed in a "war" with the Yaquis in the Northwest.

Mazocoba is the most famous "battle".

January 1900.

Like Wounded Knee, it was also a massacre amidst a genocide.

Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 12d

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/

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Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 19d

a criminal complaint was filed against numerous German politicians today by several NGOs for abetting genocide in Gaza – and as far as I can tell it was entirely ignored by German media
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The Time for Accountability is Now: Criminal Complaint against German Government Officials for Aiding and Abetting Israel’s Genocide in Gaza - The European Legal Support Center (ELSC) %

Berlin, September 19, 2025 - A criminal complaint against German Government officials and arms trade executives was filed today by a collective of lawyers in Berlin with the support of the European Le...

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International Association of Genocide Scholars @genocidescholars.bsky.social · 20d

Grateful for this show of solidarity by our academic colleagues at GHSCN.

Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

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Michael Rothberg @mrothberg.bsky.social · 20d

Statement in Solidarity with the Intern. Assoc. of Genocide Scholars by the Genocide & Holocaust Studies Crisis Network:

We condemn attacks on the IAGS Gaza genocide resolution & abhor the denialism & bad faith that persist among some in the fields of Holocaust & Genocide Studies.

IAGS Solidarity Statement 9-18-25.pdf

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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 22d

Germany knew - every step of the way.

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Politics & Gender @politicsgenderj.bsky.social · 28d

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣

For our an upcoming Critical Perspectives on UNSCR 1325, Philipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis consider where men and masculinities fit into the women peace and security agenda in their article "Pieces of the Same Puzzle."

#gendersky #polisky

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Critical perspectives article: "Pieces of the Same Puzzle: Men, Masculinities, and the Women, Peace, and Security Agenda" by
Philipp Schulz and Chloé Lewis.
Article begins: As we mark 25 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS), the place of this landmark agenda on the global political stage has never been more fragile, nor more fraught. In the same breath, the importance of paying careful and critical attention to men, masculinities, and their positioning in and relationship to the WPS agenda — and peace and security writ large — has never been more apparent, nor more urgent. By calling attention to women’s diverse roles in and experiences of armed conflict within the world’s paramount security body, the unanimous adoption of UNSCR 1325 by the Security Council was groundbreaking.

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · 29d

"There is too much invested in maintaining that this is not what it is. There’s too much at stake to admit, fully, that this is what it is. And that’s still assuming that those who wield power in this world even care."

🖋️ Sana Saeed

One Day, Not Everyone Will Be Against This - Rolling Stone MENA

Gaza will bury the idea that we all eventually come to be against the great Evils of our time.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · Sep 8

"The academic career is framed as a privileged but high-risk venture that ppl knowingly choose to embark on so they must endure the consequences or find a way to cope, thus obscuring deliberate adoption of biz models that [deprioritize] investment in staff + render large sections of the workforce 🗑️"

‘You just have to learn to play the game’: survival, resentment and resignation in women academics’ narratives of precarity

This paper discusses precarious academic labour and its implications for gender and interrelated inequalities, drawing on narrative interviews with temporarily employed UK women academics. It ident...

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 7

If a proposed rare-earth minerals mine goes forward in northern Sweden, it could ruin the lives of Sami Indigenous herders whose reindeer have roamed this land for thousands of years.

Sweden's plans to mine rare-earth minerals could ruin the lives of Indigenous Sami reindeer herders

An expanding iron-ore mine and a deposit of rare-earth minerals are fragmenting the land in northern Sweden and altering ancient reindeer migration routes.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · Sep 7

This is who the Labour gov is arresting.

This is who the Labour government calls terrorists.

Hundreds more of them.

www.instagram.com/reel/DORapkR...

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Felix Anderl @felixanderl.bsky.social · Aug 27

We're really thrilled to share the program of our upcoming @trace-center.de conference on slow violence @zfk-mr.bsky.social including keynotes by Eyal Weizman and Rachel Pain. Check it out and register here:
www.trace-center.de/en/events/an...

TraCe: 2025: Beyond the Spectacle

The fourth TraCe annual conference ‘Beyond the Spectacle: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Slow Violence and Political Harm’ from November 19 until 21, 2025 in Marburg, aims to expand research on vi...

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Sep 6

Ask yourself, who will be on the right side of history: these people protesting against genocide or the government enabling it and who is passing laws to intimidate and arrest those who protest

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‘Police would like this to go away’: disabled man arrested at Palestine Action event defends protest

Mike Higgins, who is 62, blind and uses a wheelchair, was one of 532 arrested at largest demo since group proscribed

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Sep 4

Brazilian politics, cara! Joia!

This is easily one of the BEST podcasts I've ever heard. Impecable edition. Freaking brilliant, acid analysis.

Medo e Delírio em Brasília @medoedeliriobr.bsky.social · Aug 23

🎶ESSE É O BOLDO BOM🎶

Taí o terceiro episódio da semana

II – 2025.54 – “VTNC SEU INGRATO DO C@R@LH0”

Texto de Pedro Daltro e edição de Cristiano Botafogo, os episódios tão na Central3 ; )https://www.central3.com.br/ii-2025-54-vtnc-seu-ingrato-do-crlh0/

II - 2025.54 - "VTNC SEU INGRATO DO C@R@LH0" - Central 3

“Muita, mas muita coisa”

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Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · Sep 3

#OpenAccess throughout September.

Jonas Fossli Gjersø @jonasgjerso.bsky.social · Aug 3

Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social

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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide

The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Sep 4

"There is no government that is cooperating with us more than the government of Mexico, than the government of the president of Mexico."

Reuters @reuters.com · Sep 3

Mexico emphasizes sovereignty, good ties during Rubio visit reut.rs/468sajr

Mexico emphasizes sovereignty, good ties during Rubio visit

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday that security cooperation with Mexico was closer than it had ever been, during a visit to the country as the Trump administration pursues a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration and drug cartels.

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Kim A. Wagner @kimatiwagner.bsky.social · Sep 4

This post inadvertently reveals exactly why war studies is a marginalised and often parochial academic field. Just imagine a historian studying genocide in order to learn how to do it better - and lacking the self-awareness to realise that this is what they're doing...

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why is it so hard to study war seriously in American academia? From Clausewitz to West Point’s new major, I dive into the fragmentation, disappearance, and possible revival of war as a subject of tactical, operational, and political thought. My Latest⬇️

The "War Studies" Problem

The Challenges of a Disciplinary Approach to a Multidisciplinary Problem

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Sep 3

Someone is playing tough in the "backyard"...

There is a strict procedure before firing: 1) multiple warnings; 2) targeting only the engine with a small special missile and processing an inspection.

If not, it points to a massacre of civilians, thus a crime.

What's Rubio's game in Latin America?

CNN @cnn.com · Sep 2

The US military "conducted a lethal strike" against an alleged "drug vessel" in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

US military ‘conducted a lethal strike’ on alleged ‘drug vessel’ in southern Caribbean, Rubio says | CNN Politics

The United States “conducted a lethal strike” against an alleged “drug vessel” in the southern Caribbean, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday.

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Iva Vukušić @vukusiciva.bsky.social · Sep 3

The morning #Genocide read. I agree that they "could be", but I don't think they will. The courts struggle even with much more straightforward cases than complicity of third states...Not to mention the politics of it. #ICC #ICJ #Accountability www.populismstudies.org/professor-sc...

Professor Schabas: US, Germany, and Others Could Be Held Liable as Accomplices to Genocide in Gaza - ECPS

In an extensive interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor William Schabas—one of the world’s foremost authorities on

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Sep 2

And I'm afraid he's just warming up...

The Associated Press @apnews.com · Sep 2

BREAKING: President Trump says the U.S. military strike on a vessel in the southern Caribbean targeted Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang and killed 11 people.

Trump says US strike on vessel in Caribbean targeted Venezuela's Tren de Aragua gang, killed 11

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela that was operated by the Tren de Aragua gang.

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Dirk Moses @dirkmoses.bsky.social · Sep 2

An essay I’ve written that reflects on Adorno‘s famous „Education after Auschwitz“ today, esp for Germans. blnreview.de/en/ausgaben/...

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Ana Velasco @anavelasco.bsky.social · Sep 2

Emphasis on "even the last experts in the back".

Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · Sep 2

citing an absence of one's own expertise to determine whether Israel is committing genocide in Gaza when even the last experts in the back have called it, is what we'd ordinarily call a conspiracy theory

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