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Nicola Palmer
@nicolapalmer.bsky.social
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Legal academic at the University of Cape Town - an ethnographer at heart, writing on international criminal law, borders, refugees & migration in central Africa.
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Jun 2
What an incredible 2 days @uctlaw.bsky.social with Tendayi Achiume discussing corporate borders & decolonial migration with Noura Erakat, Fatima Khan, John Reynolds @catbriddick.bsky.social, @mfbosworth.bsky.social, Lufuno Sadiki, Nomfundo Ramalekana & @htuhairwe.bsky.social @bordercrim.bsky.social
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 2d
🔥 These things got us talking at our annual workshop: creatively disrupting hostile border systems; navigating abolition; borderless empires vs bordered reparations.

Watch to find out more! 👇

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 6d
My essay on stupidology (originally published in N+1) is in today's Guardian www.theguardian.com/news/2025/oc...
A critique of pure stupidity: understanding Trump 2.0
If the first term of Donald Trump provoked anxiety over the fate of objective knowledge, the second has led to claims we live in a world-historical age of stupid, accelerated by big tech. But might th...
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 5d
Ziyanda Stuurman & Irvin Kinnes in conversation with Justice Edwin Cameron, Rebecca Gore & Sohela Surajpal discussing reform and abolitionist possibilities in South African prisons @uctlaw.bsky.social
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 9d
The best of @uctlaw.bsky.social with @pierredevos.bsky.social & Nomfundo Ramalekana hosting Chriscy Blouws and Khuliso Managa from the Women’s Legal Centre talking about their role in making the decriminalisation of sex work in South Africa a real political & legal possibility.

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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 9d
The Public Law Conference @uctlaw.bsky.social 1-4 July 2026.

With Justice Steven Majiedt & Dr Nomfundo Ramalekana on the organising committee race, reparation & resistance to authoritarianism are firmly on the agenda.

law.uct.ac.za/publiclawcon...

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 11d
There's going to be attention to whether there are/were issues with Roberts's visa and imo it's important to not let that stuff matter. The fight shouldn't be 'only deportations where the paperwork is correct!' it should be against deportations and ICE per se

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Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts detained by ICE agents
The superintendent of the largest school district in Iowa has been detained by federal immigration officials. Superintendent Ian Roberts of Des Moines Public Schools was arrested Friday after fleeing ...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12d
‘A distinctive set of proto-Trumpian sentiments began to seep into the American public sphere no sooner than the rubble of the Berlin Wall had been tidied away.’

@will-davies.bsky.social on how the political scene in the 1990s sowed the seeds for Trumpism: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA
To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...
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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 20d
Dr. Nomfundo Ramalekana on racial redress in post-apartheid South Africa:

"Whether from looking at reparations, remedial measures, or redistributive justice, the exclusion of the (noncitizen) 'black African other' is illegitimate, and we need to decolonise this form of remedy"

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 20d
Our afternoon panel on Law and the Courts starts with Dr Nicola Palmer.

"we're seeing an extension, both of the sentencing and also of the notion of dangerousness" on immigration cases in the US

#BorderCrim2025

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Border Criminologies @bordercrim.bsky.social · 20d
Good morning from Clare College, Cambridge!

We kick off the first day of our annual #BorderCrim2025 workshop this morning with a fantastic panel from our Border Policing and Emotions thematic group.

Find the whole program here: www.law.ox.ac.uk/content/even...
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Centre for Applied Legal Studies @calsza.bsky.social · 26d
Reminder: CALS is looking for candidate legal practitioners to join our team in January 2026

The closing date for applications is 19 September 2025
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Centre for Applied Legal Studies @calsza.bsky.social · Sep 3
📢 We're hiring!

CALS is looking for candidate legal practitioners to join our team in January 2026. Please share widely!

Find the full requirements and apply here: irec.wits.ac.za/OA_HTML/OA.j...
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 6
The Weekly Read is "Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion," edited by Ananya Roy & Veronika Zablotsky. This collection examines how the liberal democracies of the West rarely grant sanctuary and refuge. Read the entire book now for free.
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Cover of Beyond Sanctuary: The Humanism of a World in Motion, edited by Ananya Roy and Veronika Zablotsky. The cover features a photo of a small concrete building painted with red polka dots, set in an arid landscape under a clear blue sky. The house is part of an art installation by Álvaro Enciso, "La Casa de los Puntos Rojos." The image is placed against a black background with minimalist white and pale blue text. Small red dots accent the corners of the design.
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Monica Hakimi @monicahakimi.bsky.social · Sep 8
I am excited that this special issue of the @ajil.bsky.social —on reparations in international law—is now out! 1/
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AJIL and AJIL Unbound @ajil.bsky.social · Sep 5
AJIL's Special Issue on Reparations in International Law is now available online featuring a stunning line up of authors and topics related to reparations. These articles will be freely available for all to read for a limited time. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Sep 1
Full text of the International Association of Genocide Scholars Resolution on the Situation in Gaza:

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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · Aug 20
A story about D, his mother S, and the dehumanising denialism of genocide apologists tinyurl.com/2xpa9cgv
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 30
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South Africans sail with largest civilian flotilla to Gaza
The convoy is carrying baby formula, antibiotics, bandages and staple foods and will test whether Israel’s blockade will again choke civilian access to the Strip
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Adil Haque @adhaque.bsky.social · Aug 22
"As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed."

"The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading."

"Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality."
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The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification @theipcinfo.bsky.social · Aug 22
Famine Review Committee Alert❗

The FRC has determined that #Famine is currently occurring in Gaza Governorate. Furthermore, the FRC projects Famine thresholds to be crossed in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis Governorates in the coming weeks.

Read more: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
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Harlan G. Cohen @harlangcohen.bsky.social · Aug 21
Whether international law can help repair past harms is one of field's most difficult questions-doctrinally, technically, normatively. Answers may determine how you feel about IL as a whole. Over next month, @ajil.bsky.social will explore these Qs in print+online1/:
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What Might International Law Repair?
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · Aug 19
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 21
with a link that works thedigradio.com/podcast/stua...
Stuart Hall’s Marxism w/ Michael Denning
Featuring Michael Denning on Stuart Hall’s Marxism—a Marxism without guarantees. This is a comprehensive introduction to Marxism as a method to analyze historically specific, complex and contradictory...
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Pierre de Vos @pierredevos.bsky.social · Aug 18
Happening on Wednesday, 20 August 2025, 12pm–1pm SAST. You can register for free here: shorturl.at/RgheG
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 18
The Call for Papers for the 2026 Public Law Conference is open.

Theme: "Public Law & the Future of Constitutional Democracy"

1-4 July 2026 at the University of Cape Town.

Submit an abstract by 14 Nov 2025:

app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79382...

Details ⬇️

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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 16
‘Baseline communism happens wherever ‘no accounts are taken’…giving a stranger directions, buying someone a pint, offering food to a guest...Graeber finds this ‘raw material of sociality’ everywhere, usually working alongside more hierarchical and contractual relations.’
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · Aug 16
‘Graeber is at his most speculative, and engaging, as a theorist-practitioner of fun.’

@leninology.bsky.social reads David Graeber’s essays: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Richard Seymour · Baseline Communism: David Graeber’s Innovations
In his critique of economics, as in his philippic against ‘bullshit jobs’, Graeber stresses the political decisions...
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Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social · Aug 14
A very useful update to this post given the relevance to the UK-France deal
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Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · Aug 14
New from Free Movement: Briefing: the inadmissibility process in asylum claims | Katherine Soroya freemovement.org.uk/briefing-ina...
Briefing: the inadmissibility process in asylum claims - Free Movement
The inadmissibility process is what the UK has used in recent years to exclude a person's asylum claim from being considered and decided in the UK, so that
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Nicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · Aug 6
Working my way through the back catalogue of @thedigradio.bsky.social on my drive to @uctlaw.bsky.social.

This episode on Stuart Hall’s Marxist methodology is a remarkable example of a podcast as an act of public education.

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