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Jacobin Magazin @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social · Aug 21

»Während die Bundestagsparteien sich öffentlichkeitswirksam im zaghaften Kurswechsel zur Gaza-Frage üben, läuft die Maschinerie der Repression weiter«, schreiben @michaelbarenboim.bsky.social‬, Sabine Broeck, Robin Jaspert und Ramis Örlü.

Glaubwürdigkeit verlangt Aufarbeitung

SPD, Grüne und Union vollziehen eine vorsichtige Kehrtwende in der Israel-Politik. Glaubwürdig ist das nur, wenn sie jetzt Verantwortung für ihre Repression der Palästina-Solidarität übernehmen.

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Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social · Aug 13

Die Rede von der Kamera als Waffe ist so alt wie die Fotografie selbst. Über Dokumentation und visuelle Gewalt im Kontext des Kriegs im Gazastreifen schreibt Annette Vowinckel: www.blaetter.de/ausgabe/2024...

Gewalttätige Bilder

Bilder aus Israel und Gaza werden zu Waffen im Kampf um Meinungen und Emotionen. Medien sollten versuchen, mit ihrer Berichterstattung nicht zum Teil dieses Kampfes zu werden.

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Aug 7

Spoiler: Working children want more support in tackling climate change, terrorism and the organization needs lasting support from bigger donors!

Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Aug 7

We have a new (short) article out!
In November 2024, the African Movement of Working Children and Youth met in the halls of the African Union in Addis Ababa - Ina Gankam Tambo and I discuss the state of the movement and its current political claims.

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“The Resilience of Groups of Children and Youth in a Multicrisis Context”. A report on the continental meeting of the African Movement of Working Children and Youth in Addis Ababa | Zeitschrift für internationale Bildungsforschung und Entwicklungspädagogik

“The Resilience of Groups of Children and Youth in a Multicrisis Context”. A report on the continental meeting of the African Movement of Working Children and Youth in Addis Ababa

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Tobias Albrecht @tobiasalbrecht.bsky.social · Aug 1

Das klingt rather cool:

Vinzenz Hediger @vinzenzhediger.bsky.social · Jul 18

Twelve PhD positions (E13, 65%, 48 months) in our new interdisciplinary @dfg.de research training program "Aesthetics of Democracy" @goetheuni.bsky.social in Frankfurt. Application deadline November 14, 2025. Program start April 1, 2026. Drop me a note if you need further info.

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 25

This is particularly important for norm scholars, as it allows them to account for agency within norm dynamics while simultaneously attending to the limiting effects of colonial, ageist, and capitalist power hierarchies.

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 25

I understand tactical and strategic practices in De Certeau's theory as interrelated; in this way, we can see how weaker actors appropriate ‘forces alien to them’ in their everyday lives. Through these appropriations, they construct narratives that form the basis of their political agency.

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 25

Using the concept of "everyday practices" by De Certeau, I argue that organized working children in Bolivia (re)create their subjectivity through everyday practices interacting with institutional, material, and social structures which in turn are embedded within broader narrative frameworks.

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 25

💫Already published a while ago, but I have written on the governed agency of organized Bolivian working children in the ERIS SI on decolonizing perspectives in norms research brill.com/view/journal...

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 25

Using the concept of "everyday practices" by De Certeau, I argue that organized working children in Bolivia (re)create their subjectivity through everyday practices interacting with institutional, material, and social structures which in turn are embedded within broader narrative frameworks.

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🌍⚖️ Sébastien Duyck @duycks.bsky.social · Jul 23

🔥 ⚖️ 🌐HAPPENING NOW: Historic #ClimateJustice Ruling being delivered by the 🇺🇳 🧑‍⚖️ International Court of Justice.
🚨This ruling could signal a new dawn for climate law & accountability
📝 🧵 Live thread below with context, summary & analysis 👇
#ClimateJusticeAO #AOLetsGo

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jul 8

www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-ag...
„In some cases, the pressure comes from right-wing parties, (..). Germany, the world’s second-largest donor(..) austerity drive led by the coalition government composed of progressive, green, and center-right parties in 2024.“

The End of the Age of NGOs?

How civil society lost its post–Cold War power.

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Jannis J Grimm @jannisgrimm.bsky.social · Jun 18

Join us next week at FU Berlin, Thielallee 67, 6pm!

More info @interactfu.bsky.social: share.google/Wn1JCgBQi7h5...

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Seebrücke Frankfurt @seebruecke-frankfurt.de · Jun 10

🔴 TODAY! 🟡 NEW WARNING:

• TO THE GAMBIA
• ON 10/06/25 FROM FRANKFURT AT 20:30

A new charter deportation to The #Gambia is planned on 10. June 2025. The departure is supposed to be at 20:30 from #Frankfurt am Main Airport.

#StopDeportation #EndDeportations #NoMoreCharterFlights

NEW DEPORTATION WARNING

TODAY 15 APRIL 2025

CHARTER DEPORTATION TO / DÉPORTATION COLLECTIVE VERS/SAMMELABSCHIEBUNG NACH

THE GAMBIA

DEPARTURE FROM/DÉPART DE / ABFLUG VON
20:35 FRANKFURT AM MAIN AIRPORT

Exact flight schedule still unknown. Updates will follow.

LINKTR.EE/DEPORTATIONALARM

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jun 9

Accounts in which civilians particularly children and teens actually express themselves are too rare! New book by among others Manfred Liebel on Palestinian Youth experiences (in German but open access and with a lot of visual content ⬇️)

www.dampfboot-verlag.de/de/buecher/p...

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Neil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · Jun 5

This is an insane chart

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German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) @giga-hamburg.de · May 16

#ChildLabour Policies in the Americas: Business interest groups push for legalisation; working children’s organisations seek regulation; the ILO calls for prohibition.
#GIGA's @johannapieper.bsky.social analyses this matter in the new #GIGAFocus.

➡️ Read here: www.giga-hamburg.de/en/publicati...

Child Labour Policies in the Americas: Why Progress Has Become Uncertain

Across the Americas, child labour policies vary. Business interest groups push for legalisation; working children’s organisations seek regulation to secure worker protections; the ILO calls for prohib...

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eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social · May 13

soon.

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Lisa Zehnter @tiondelisa.bsky.social · May 11

"Noch weiter links?" Die SPD hat sich mit ihrem Wahlprogramm 2025 sowohl sozio-kulturell als auch sozio-ökonomisch deutlich weiter rechts als vor vier Jahren positioniert.

In dieser Grafik ist eine Vierfeldertafel zur Positionierung der deutschen Parteien bei der Bundestagswahl 2025 im Vergleich zu 2021 abgebildet. Die beiden Achsen stellen die sozio-kulturelle sowie die sozio-ökonomische Dimension des Parteienwettbewerbs dar. Die SPD ist auf beiden Dimensionen nach rechts gerückt. Die FDP ist auf der sozio-ökonomischen Dimension ebenfalls klar nach rechts gerückt. Die Positionen der anderen Parteien (AfD, Grünen, Linke und CDU/CSU) haben sich im Vergleich zu 2021 nur minimal verändert.

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medico international @medico.de · May 11

Weil die Diskussion über die #Antisemitismus-Definition der IHRA infolge des Linken-Parteitags gerade wiederbelebt wird, hier der Hinweis auf das mit der @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social beauftragte Gutachten von @textrecycling.bsky.social über die Problematik der Definition:

Gutachten - Zur Definition von Antisemitismus - medico international

Im Auftrag von medico international und der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung hat Peter Ullrich ein wissenschaftliches Gutachten zur „Arbeitsdefinition Antisemitismus“ erarbeitet.

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Joseph Cotterill @jsphctrl.ft.com · May 4

I post this every May 4th, but - Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary. mobunited.wordpress.com/2016/12/28/l...

Leia Organa: A Critical Obituary

Leia Organa, the politician and revolutionary who led the defeat of the Galactic Empire, died after a short illness. She was 60 years old. Hers was a life laced with controversy concerning everythi…

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Mar 29

We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Mar 29

We now have an issue "The Politics of Child and Youth Representation in Global Governance: Confronting International Institutions" tandfonline.com/toc/rglo20/2... . Look at novel contributions on #youth as governance tool, #children's exclusion from politics and #activism strategies 👇

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interactFU.bsky.social @interactfu.bsky.social · Feb 6

The research group “Transnational Conflicts” is hosting a workshop on “reparative research” on February 27. Please get in touch (by February 9) if you’re interested in participating or presenting your work!

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Nadine Benedix @nadibenedix.bsky.social · Jan 12

Please check out our new article (w Ajda Hedžet) in the upcoming Globalization SI on the politics of child and youth representation!