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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 1d

I should totally write a memoir--because being a long-term resident foreigner slowly but totally changes everything about one's perspective and sense of self, & since I keep diaries, I have the raw data from which I could narrate this (if I had available work hours.)

#immigrant #expatsky #expats

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 1d

I think I did!

Reposted by Mallory James

That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not doing Amazon, definitely not today or tomorrow. Find local/alternate suppliers for what you want.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 1d

I no longer have an Amazon account. Everything I need can be (a) bought from its manufacturer, (b) swapped for a similar product that does not use Amazon as a distributor, or (c) left behind in my past as an unnecessary form of consumption ✨️🌟✨️🌟 #klima

That Preppy Black Girl @tmwillia.bsky.social · 1d

We’re not doing Amazon, definitely not today or tomorrow. Find local/alternate suppliers for what you want.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 1d

I actually know what this means now (ehemalig=former) after having repeatedly looked up, then forgotten, the first word

#languagelearning #expats #expatsky #immigrant

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 2d

B1 Prüfung (test) in 4 days!!! Aaaaaaa!!! 😨 .... nah I think I can pass this .... I have faced my limitations since January and continuously studied my 🇩🇪 language.... 💪🏼📖 .... I want a vacation, but I think that has to wait a while 🌎

#immigrant #expat #expatsky

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 3d

You're welcome. Your blog entry is really solid--actually in some ways closer to relevant ethnographic detail and historical/legal info than the article linked above. Hope the presentation went well!

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 3d

@avmoraru.bsky.social Welcome to BlueSky! 💐 I read a paper this weekend that reminded me of your work: doi.org/10.1177/0308...

‘We work for the Devil’: Oil extraction, kinship and the fantasy of time on the offshore frontier - Pauline Destrée, 2023

In the offshore oil industry of Takoradi, Ghana, white expatriate workers describe oil extraction as both ‘the work of the Devil’ and a ‘labour of love’. While ...

doi.org

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 9d

Image titled 'The Manifesto Manifesto' by Kim Mok 😆

Source: open.substack.com/pub/womenare...

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 9d

I can't wait until my historical paper is published in @engrstudies.bsky.social journal! Any day now, it might go online🕯

🕯I literally worked from 2013-2024 😳 on my archival investigation of Australian engineering ethics codes.🕯

Finally I have almost brought the results to light!🕯🔥

#AcademicSky

A folder and three black and white printouts sit on a table. Two are titled "Code of Ethics" and all have extensive handwritten annotations and marginalia.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 9d

....but the IT Staff have offered good news that my Lehrbeauftragte status currently runs until January 2027 🙏🏼💛

#LMU is a cool University 🥰

Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 9d

🙏🏼 Thank the Universe 🌏 for small mercies 🙏🏼 I thought my LMU email address might turn off tomorrow, which would have been awkward since I am just about to publish two important things 📃📃 with that address as corresponding author....

#AcademicSky

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 11d

#StrongWomen ♀️ have come so far and done so much since my grandmother's birth in 1898, yet we still find ourselves in the same place:

living on the margins at the whim of men and property-owners regarding whether and how we ever take up a paid role with dignity in the center of public life.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 11d

I am grateful I inherited Gillian's family's talent for languages, helping my #EU #integration.

Gillian's mother was Nancy Naylor Mallory Willett, who taught French and Spanish after a brief career in military intelligence and passed away in 2006. Nancy never learned to drive.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 11d

I have to admit that's not really going so well....Yet, ideals and narratives about the inclusive society somehow outlast their own nondelivery in practice.

30 years of educational self-distinction have left me exhausted at the starting line of the yet-further rounds of obligatory competition. 😞⚔️

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 11d

My mother, Gillian Mallory Bruce (1954-2010): Valued education, was very ambitious for me 😭

Gillian wanted me to be able to transcend my working-class origins through education.

A proud-looking lady, about 25 and with a huge mass of mid-chest-length brown hair slightly highlighted by the son, crouches in a pumpkin patch over a gigantic pumpkin she grew. She has a lilac tank top and a small beaded necklace. Pumpkin leaves loom over her, suggesting abundance.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 14d

I am sorry 😞

Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

"getting from crude to the multitude of fuel and petrochemical products, which by design were marketed to become so ubiquitous in everyday life that their oily origins became invisible, even as oil profits were hidden, concentrated and contested (chap. 7)." (4/4)

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

"by anti-colonial movements of the 1950s and 1960s, ultimately producing the 1970s oil crisis and neoliberal turn (chap. 6, 8). Unlike many accounts of oil, this book focuses less on extraction than the downstream – "(3/4)

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

"What makes Crude Capitalism distinctive is Hanieh’s interweaving of two historical trajectories – (a) how US multi-nationals, with Washington’s backing, established petro-colonial dominance in oil-producing countries (chap. 2-3), and (b) how this hierarchy came under challenge" (2/4)

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

Via upcoming Discussant Sandy Smith-Nonini:

"Hanieh’s book is a highly readable critical account of the relationship between oil and capitalist power, particularly in the post-World War II period. He notes that three-quarters of the post-1850s surge in carbon emissions took place since 1950." (1/4)

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

Even if you cannot read all the suggested chapters, you are welcome to attend. We will use the last five minutes of our call to vote on the next texts. We meet approximately every six weeks during the academic year.

Looking forward to a good reading group! 💬🗨️
#anthropology #STS #Energy

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

Discussant: Sandy Smith-Nonini
Moderator: Lee Towers
Reading selection: We recommend focusing on the Introduction (or at least pp. 8-14 & 18-26), Chapter 6 on Anti-Colonial Revolt & OPEC, Chapter 7 on Petrochemicals, and the Conclusion, from www.versobooks.com/products/276...

Crude Capitalism

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Cr...

www.versobooks.com

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 22d

📖 On 26 September our #Anthropology, #Energy, and #Economy reading group will convene to discuss selections from Adam Hanieh's @versobooks.bsky.social book Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market. 📚 Time: September 26, 2025, 14:00-15:30. 📚 Zoom link upon request.

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Mallory James @secondordersocialresearch.com · 28d

I am also wearing my mother's 🐢 earrings. If she were still here, she would have been proud of my language progress:

Yes, I did things slowly, but I still did them, and I didn't give up! 💪 And I asked for help and people helped me! 🥰

#strongwomen #Inspire #MentalHealthMatters #expats #expatsky

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