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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉

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Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Nov 21

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal
w/ #OpenAccess.

It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda

The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 10d

Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita

How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 17d

Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism.

By Françoise Vergès

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 23d

Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 24d

How river thinks?

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · 24d

Sunday reading on capitalism

‘Vulture capitalism’ by @graceblakeley.substack.com

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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · Aug 26

Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!

Konstanz Methods Excellence Workshops @komex.bsky.social · Aug 18

Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026

✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights.
In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex

Learn from top scholars in:
🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more

🗓️ Feb 2026

🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Aug 13

Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...

Gender - Dr Xianan Jin, Lecturer in African and Gender Politics

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Prof. Catriona Pennell @teachlearnwar.bsky.social · Aug 5

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...

Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies

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Frederick Harry Pitts @fhpitts.bsky.social · Aug 5

'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.

At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.

Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jun 8

I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA

Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jun 8

open.substack.com/pub/xiananji... I write personal stuff here…

Cuddle Cuddle Cuddle

At the end of the term, my colleague kindly gave me a ride home from campus.

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Apr 21

Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...

On bathrooms

I am writing this from a bath tub in my house, more precisely it’s my partner’s private property on legal terms.

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Apr 13

my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here.

There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...

There is nothing public in the US

This would be my first substack article. This is also my first visit in the US.

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Mar 17

Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Mar 14

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Mar 14

VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

African Studies Centre Leiden @ascleiden.bsky.social · Mar 12

📢 Join us 3 April for a seminar with Dr Xianan Jin @exeter.ac.uk, on Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis.
📅 3 April, 16:00-17:30
📍 Herta Mohr building, Leiden
👉🏾 Register: www.ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
#Rwanda #GenderEquality #PoliticalAnalysis #FeministStudies #ASCLSeminar

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Mar 13

My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.

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Catherine Owen @catherineowen.bsky.social · Mar 10

Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Feb 17

Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jan 22

Abigail Larson @abigaillarson.com · Jan 21

Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)

photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jan 22

Excited to go to Belfast in June ✊🏼

Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · Jan 20

been writing a lot about the politics I don't agree, really excited to finally work on something inspirational with @xiananj.bsky.social

email screenshot: "We are delighted to inform you that your paper, titled Beyond empire and the nation: intersectional struggles and grassroots organizing of transnational Chinese feminist and queer activists has been accepted onto the BISA 2025 conference programme as part of a panel, titled Solidarities and revolutions: Queer, feminist and other forms of resistance organising."

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jan 16

just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.

Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jan 12

Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies

Abstract. Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populi

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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉 @xiananj.bsky.social · Jan 12

Thank you so much!!! Would be interested to know what other readings you have chose to put in the same week :)

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