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Ali Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social · Sep 5

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me

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Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state

Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Don’t miss this fantastic piece by Carla Coburger tracing the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperial money!

Just out in @ripejournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Imperial money and the making of currency hierarchies: evidence from Nigeria

The contemporary currency hierarchy is neither natural nor neutral: It’s an imperial construct. This paper traces the origins of today’s currency hierarchy back to the violent imposition of imperia...

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Christopher Choong @chrischoongww.bsky.social · May 28

Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour

This article, which I co-authored with Alya Sarah, delves into the gendered impacts of global trade and explores how women’s labor is positioned often precariously within shifting economic structures.

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Gendering Global Trade, Recentering Women’s Labour

Gender and trade, Women’s labor, Trade liberalization , Tariffs, Free Trade, Malaysia, Unpaid care work,

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Dr Mark | 北马克 |🍉🇦🇺🇲🇾🇹🇭 @ajaanmark.bsky.social · Apr 21

Until his last breath. 🇵🇸

Also: the Pope called the Catholic priest in Gaza every week to check in on him, the Palestinian people and the situation.

Article reporting the Pope's call for a ceasefire at his last public appearance yesterday.

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Christopher Choong @chrischoongww.bsky.social · Apr 11

Global South Forum has cross-posted my article on Trump's tariffs, giving it a stronger Global South framing. GSF has other articles on Trump (& other topics too). It's a great platform that centres Global South solidarity and perspectives, check them out!

www.globalsouthforum.org/article/read...

Reading Through Global South Lenses: Order Behind the Disorder in Trump’s Tariffs

Trump’s tariffs, Global South, US hegemony, trade policy, currency politics, economic nationalism

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Christopher Choong @chrischoongww.bsky.social · Apr 9

Some thoughts on Trump's tariffs

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Trump’s Tariffs: Order Behind the Disorder

Is there order behind Trump’s disorder? This article considers more systemic issues underlying the escalating trade war and delves deeper into the economic logic of the Trump camp.

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Columba Achilleos @columbaachilleos.bsky.social · Apr 6

Must read: 'Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People' onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... "Feminist resistance cannot be conditional. Silence is complicity, and complicity kills" 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

Feminist Silences in the Face of Israel's Genocide Against the Palestinian People: A Call for Decolonial Praxis Against Complicity

Click on the article title to read more.

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Mar 24

Christopher Choong Weng Wai's article in our latest issue won the BISA CPD working group early career researcher best paper prize. It's out now in issue 51(1)!

📄 👉 buff.ly/xRr14KS

@chrischoongww.bsky.social @MYBISA.bsky.social

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Meredith Weiss @merweiss.bsky.social · Mar 19

The latest Element in Politics & Society in SE Asia is out: Diana Kim's "Rethinking Colonial Legacies across SE Asia"! Kim explores the significance & legacies of Japan's WWII occupation of SE Asia for understanding colonial legacies. Download FREE through 2 April.
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Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia

Cambridge Core - Asian Studies - Rethinking Colonial Legacies across Southeast Asia

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SOAS Global Development @soasdevelopment.bsky.social · Mar 18

📌Join Alessandra Mezzadri, Shirin Rai & @sarastevano.bsky.social for a discussion on pluralising feminist readings of the world economy and social reproduction

📅 20 March 5.15pm
📍SOAS SALT & Zoom

Register➡️shorturl.at/djuB5
@surbhikesar.bsky.social @naomihossain.bsky.social
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Christopher Choong @chrischoongww.bsky.social · Mar 11

I guess this is apt as my first post here. Thanks @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @feministonmarx.bsky.social Ben Richardson, and Andreas Murr (who took the pic)!

Juanita Elias @juanitamarieelias.bsky.social · Mar 11

📣 Congratulations @chrischoongww.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today for the thesis 'The Everyday Political Economy of Raced Capitalism in Malaysia: Reinscribing Malay Women’s Lives, Labour, and Households'
@feministonmarx.bsky.social @lenarethel.bsky.social @warwickpais.bsky.social

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Mar 4

No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Not to be missed. Witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist. Oscar for BEST DOCUMENTARY.

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Veronica Barfucci @veronicabarfucci.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hi Bluesky friends! I am part of this research group at Warwick - we are very new to Bluesky so it would be really helpful if you could follow us and spread the word so more people get to know about us and what we do 💫

East Asia Study Group, University of Warwick @easgwarwick.bsky.social · Jan 28

Hello Bluesky people!

We are a University of Warwick research group and we organise regular research seminars on the politics and international relations of the East Asian region 🌏

Most of our seminars are in hybrid format so follow us to be up to date and participate in our research activities!

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Thant Myint-U @thantmyintu.bsky.social · Jan 27

52% of young people polled say UK better would be off if “strong leader was in charge who does not have to bother with parliament or elections”
www.thetimes.com/article/a7ce...

Gen Z doubts about democracy laid bare in ‘worrying’ survey

More than half believe the UK should be a dictatorship and there’s a stark gender divide over equality, research for Channel 4 shows

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Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · Jan 17

Antipode Volume 57, Number 1 -- our January 2025 issue -- is out now, with 18 of the 20 articles #OpenAccess antipodeonline.org/2025/01/17/v...

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · Jan 16

Our work is not done!

A ceasefire is only the most important first step to end the genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · Dec 27

The last hospital in North Gaza is burning. Its heroic doctors are missing, dead or displaced - along with their patients. Resigned to its complicity, the West is turning a blind eye. The genocide continues... www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

‘No contact’ with staff, patients as Israeli forces burn Gaza hospital

Gaza Health Ministry says contact lost with last north Gaza hospital, fate of roughly 75 patients there is unknown.

www.aljazeera.com

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Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven @ingridhk.bsky.social · Dec 18

The Association for Heterodox Economics Call for Papers/Panels just opened!

Bunch of really cool streams, ranging from feminist econ, imperialism & finance + subordination, to history of thought, quantitative PE, technology, ecology & Palestine 🔥

Deadline: Feb 14th!
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AHE 2025 Conference: Call for Papers

We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in Londo…

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Review of International Studies @risjnl.bsky.social · Dec 18

🎉 We're in the final stretch of celebrating 50 volumes! 🎉

Check out the 2019 most-cited article: "Feminist everyday political economy: Space, time, and violence" by Juanita Elias & Shirin M. Rai.

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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · Dec 11

"Syria after Assad" - On the coexistence of relief, uncertainty & fear, and Israel's (re)invasion of Syria.

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Syria after Assad

The Assad regime, which ruled over Syria for more than fifty years, has ended. The scenes of people being freed from some of the world’s most brutal and notorious torture prisons were deeply m…

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Dec 11

Video of a book launch and roundtable we did in Edinburgh early October
@adamdixon.bsky.social
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The Spectre of State Capitalism

YouTube video by Adam Smith's Panmure House

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Johannes Petry @johannespetry.bsky.social · Dec 6

Very excited! We just handed in the final manuscript for our edited volume on state, capitalism & finance in emerging markets /w @brisunipress.bsky.social
With fabulous contributions by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @ingridhk.bsky.social, @anninak.bsky.social, @c-westermeier.bsky.social & many others /1

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Andy Hom @therealisthom.bsky.social · Dec 3

Why enter @mybisa.bsky.social CPD ECR paper prize? 1. A great group of supportive scholars 2: Winners receive pre-submission mentorship @risjnl.bsky.social Here's what 2023 winner Christopher Choong Weng Wai had to say about it, with former EIC Martin Coward

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The BISA Colonial Postcolonial Decolonial Working Group Early Career Researcher Paper Prize

YouTube video by MyBISA

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