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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · 1d

This is happening tomorrow at 3pm.

RSVP at [email protected] for a timely discussion of one of the most salient topics of organized crime and public health in the United States, with broader transnational implications.

Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 4d

Join us this Tuesday 10/07 at 3pm for the presentation of this new volume at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Featuring Jonathan Rosen, @adamisacson.com and Deborah Koetzle, the authors will analyze the complex ecosystem behind the ongoing opiod crisis in the 🇺🇸.

RSVP at [email protected]

Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · 4d

This is happening next week 10/07 at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bildnercenter.bsky.social.

Join us for a timely conversation around a problem combining organized crime, public health, and the trasnational supply chain that feeds this powerful illicit market.

RSVP at [email protected]

Bildner Center, CUNY @bildnercenter.bsky.social · 4d

Join us this Tuesday 10/07 at 3pm for the presentation of this new volume at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social. Featuring Jonathan Rosen, @adamisacson.com and Deborah Koetzle, the authors will analyze the complex ecosystem behind the ongoing opiod crisis in the 🇺🇸.

RSVP at [email protected]

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · 6d

I'm pleased to invite you tomorrow 10/02 at 4pm for a terrific conference entitled "Punitive Populism and Autocratic Restoration in El Salvador" by Jose Miguel Cruz at the @bildnercenter.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social.

RSVP: [email protected].

Looking forward to seeing you.

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REPSAL @repsal.bsky.social · Jun 26

👇🏽👇🏽 #Agendar ¡Abrimos también convocatoria para estudiantes de posgrado 📢!

Panel especial dentro del III Seminario Internacional "Política Subnacional en América Latina🌎"

📅Fecha límite para postulaciones📋: 14 de julio

30-31/10/2025 en Salto, Uruguay

Links y más info👇🏽🧵

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · May 17

Me da el gusto de invitarles el próximo martes 20 de mayo esta conferencia que dictaré en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana sobre la militarización verde y el crimen organizado en los países amazónicos, con énfasis en Colombia, Perú y Brasil.

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · May 7

Look at this terrific TA I got for grading the final exams of Introduction to Politics. Gracias Alma.

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Apr 21

Join us on 04/24 for a terrific @bildnercenter.bsky.social
event at @baruch.cuny.edu with @romainlecour.bsky.social & colleagues about Haiti, a country experiencing a deepening security crisis as gang alliances expand their control over Port-au-Prince & other places of 🇭🇹

RSVP: [email protected]

Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Apr 21

Please join us to the book talk of Professor @amoterocleves.bsky.social at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social tomorroow (04/22) at 5pm. The event is organized by the #ColombianStudiesGroup and co-sponsored by @bildnercenter.bsky.social @claclsgc.bsky.social Department of History.

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Rocío Salas-Lewin @rsalaslewin.bsky.social · Apr 1

Feliz de contarles que salió publicado nuestro capítulo junto a @anriasantiago.bsky.social y Ken Roberts, en el libro La Era del Hartazgo editado por Gabriel Kessler y Vommaro. Un tomo que reúne miradas de increíbles académicos sobre la polarización y el descontento en América Latina. Un honor!

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Apr 13

www.nuso.org/articulo/la-...

Recomendado análisis crítico sobre el candidato con mayor probalidades de ser presidente hoy en Ecuador. Temas clave: declaración de conflicto armado, militarización, poca rendición de cuentas y desprecio por las víctimas.

La «guerra interna» de Daniel Noboa en Ecuador | Nueva Sociedad

Ecuador se encamina a la segunda vuelta electoral, el 13 de abril, en el marco de una deriva militarista por parte del gobierno nacional. El asesinato de cuatro adolescentes afrodescendientes de Guaya...

www.nuso.org

Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Mar 15

I highly recommend reading this beautiful review by @phillegitimate.bsky.social on Fuiji's last, unfinished book.

On what complicity might mean for scholars of violence
lareviewofbooks.org/article/taki...

Taking Note of Violence | Los Angeles Review of Books

Philip Luke Johnson explores the late Lee Ann Fujii’s revolutionary — and uncomfortable — theories of public violence.

lareviewofbooks.org

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Perspectives on Politics @poppublicsphere.bsky.social · Jan 13

Reminder: Perspectives on Politics Call for Papers

POLITICAL SCIENCE & THE UNIVERSITY

Guest Editors: @anjaneundorf.bsky.social , Robert Pape, & Nicholas Tampio

Deadline: August 1, 2025

More info here: https://buff.ly/3Wfo0Cq

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Lisa Lin Doh @lisalindo.bsky.social · Feb 23

Feeling these words deeply tonight...

When in the course of human events

the declaration of independence was signed by 8 immigrants on a scroll

ALT: the declaration of independence was signed by 8 immigrants on a scroll

media.tenor.com

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Feb 21

This is just amazing. What is the book's title?

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Fondation de l'Écologie politique @fondationecolo.bsky.social · Feb 20

🎥 La conférence de @picharbonnier.bsky.social est disponible en replay !
Organisée par Le Lierre et la fondation et animée par Céline Marty, elle porte sur son dernier livre “Vers l’écologie de guerre”.
A retrouver sur la chaîne de @academieduclimat.bsky.social : www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEBx...

Photo conférence Le Lierre FEP, présentation de Simon Audebert

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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · Jan 29

“When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, ‘I am going to produce a work of art.’ I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.”
— George Orwell

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The News & Observer @newsobserver.com · Jan 24

Schools and colleges are no longer considered “sensitive” spaces protected from immigration officials, under a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security.

www.newsobserver.com/news/local/e...

UNC-Chapel Hill will ‘comply’ if ICE seeks students on campus, chancellor says

Schools and colleges are no longer considered “sensitive” spaces protected from immigration officials, under a new directive from the Department of Homeland Security.

www.newsobserver.com

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Jan 15

"We no longer have universal rules and as the view of the world where domestic political interest and the so-called security concerns are above everything else. This is not a world of globalization, but of parceled regionalisms and even nationalism"

braveneweurope.com/branko-milan...

Branko Milanović - How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles - Brave New Europe

As neoliberal principles are abandoned, so is any conception of a set of global economic rules which serves everyone. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His ne...

braveneweurope.com

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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · Jan 9

Désolé pour l'auto-promo mais...

Avec ce livre vous comprendrez pourquoi l'âge des fossiles n'a offert qu'une diversion temporaire face à la géopolitique

Pourquoi la crise climatique peut raviver les angoisses malthusiennes et les prises de terre

Pourquoi on parle d'empires...et du Groenland.

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Antônio Sampaio @antoniosamp.bsky.social · Nov 21

New report shows how transnational organised crime has affected governance and security in cities on tri-border area of Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Analysis by our Amazon Basin Observatory of Illicit Economies. globalinitiative.net/analysis/ill...

Illicit frontiers: Criminal governance in the Amazon's tri-border region

Transnational organized crime has turned cities of the Amazon region like Leticia (Colombia) and Tabatinga(Brazil) into strategic hubs for criminal governance. Historically used as logistical stopover...

globalinitiative.net

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · Nov 24

UMass/Amherst (left) and Wesleyan University are both warning their international students to be on American soil before noon on Jan 20 -- Inauguration Day.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Nov 18

President Biden pledged new financial help to protect the Amazon, the planet’s largest tropical rainforest, during a visit to Brazil on Sunday, making one final push to combat climate change before President-elect Donald Trump returns to power in January.

Biden Visits Amazon, Vowing Help to Fight Climate Change

The president toured the rainforest and promised Brazil funds for environmental initiatives, even as the incoming Trump administration appears poised to roll them back.

www.nytimes.com

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Nov 16

june jordan teaching at city college in new york, 1960s/1970s. photo via wendys subway.

june jordan stands in center commanding a classroom full of eager questions. behind her there is a chalk board full of curiosities that can barely be made out in the black and white photo.

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Juan Corredor-Garcia @corredorjuan.bsky.social · Nov 17

Wow, se ve increíble. Éxitos en el workshop, Juan!

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Tim Ruback @profruback.bsky.social · Sep 21

I've started a list of PoliSky Sub-feeds. If you know of one (or started one) that should be added, please re-skeet the feed announcement and @profruback.bsky.social when you do. I'll add it ASAP.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

(@maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social, @profmusgrave.bsky.social )

PoliSky Sub-Feed List

Sheet1 PoliSky Sub-Feed List (list maintained by @profruback.bsky.social -- @ me with a reskeet of the feed announcement and I'll add it ASAP) Topic / Subfield / Speciality,Feed Name (click to view),...

docs.google.com

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