Happy publication day to this pivotal contribution on Egypt's 2011 revolution!
"Revolutionary Anxieties...illuminates the fears and uncertainties of Cairo's liberal elite, socialites and cultural actors who opposed the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood."
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526187666/
Mole poblano con arroz rojo.
Country #110 of my Cooking Round the World challenge is MEXICO 🇲🇽
Mole Poblano is chicken smothered in a sauce of chocolate, chili peppers, nuts, dried fruits, corn tortillas & bread, onions, garlic, & tomatoes. Served with Arroz Rojo, which is rice made with onions, tomatoes, peas, & jalapeño.
Oh yeah I'm sure Finland got it via Scandinavia. Like most things.
Grits are also corn, no? But very similar, yes.
captcha box with swedish text "verifiera att du är människa" and checkbox "jag är inte en robot"
Trying to look up stuff on the Swedish National Archives catalogue and, uh, if I asked someone to verify that they're human and they responded "well, I'm not a robot" that would sound suspicious as hell.
hello can I introduce you to my friend mr foucault
Okay this is the first time I've heard of manna porridge outside Finland and now I want to know which countries share the concept (as a breakfast food, rather than semolina pudding for dessert).
Peter Thiel just wanna be like
I've developed a bit of a side interest in (SE Asian) rubber production during my transimperial forestry project and got to say, these look pretty cool.
It does feel like they're not really in a great bargaining position to ask for more from reviewers.
book cover, it reads: Eleonora Paklons, Kristof Smeyers, Kurt Vanhoutte, Hannah Welslau (eds) PERFORMING MAGNETISM The theatrics of persuasion in the long nineteenth century the cover shows a man in a tuxedo staring straight at you, his skin is green and his eyes are yellow
Good morning all! For those who can't wait any longer: our book PERFORMING MAGNETISM is already available in open access, with huge thanks to @leuvenup.bsky.social
Read it here:
openresearchlibrary.org/content/d7d0...
Or here: www.jstor.org/content/oa_b...
Government inaction isn't surprising as such but wild that I don't think I've heard any leading politicians even acknowledge the AMOC stuff? All well and good setting ephemeral net-zero targets decades in the future but actually staving off approaching societal collapse would also be nice.
Also do check out the wonderful 'Neighbourhods and the Colonial City' special issue in its entirety, expertly put together by Avner Ofrath and @aselmeyer.bsky.social. Pleasure to be a part of it.
An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia Mikko Toivanen Abstract: This article examines the development of colonial public culture in Batavia, the capital of the Dutch East Indies, over the second half of the nineteenth century, focusing on two moments of extended colonial ceremony: the city’s 250th anniversary in 1869 and the inauguration of Queen Wilhelmina in 1898. The analysis shows that over the course of the century, colonial ceremonial increasingly sought to assimilate facets of local cultural practices, while also expanding spatially into a more diverse set of neighbourhoods. Nevertheless, this new and superficially more representative order still maintained a strict internal hierarchy embedded in spatial and socio-cultural boundaries.
Oh hello, the latest issue of @urbanhistory.bsky.social is out, containing my article 'An invitation to a party? Staging urban proximity and the colonial public in nineteenth-century Batavia'. Check it out if interested in colonial uses of ceremonials, history of Jakarta etc: doi.org/10.1017/S096...
currently feeling this in a big way
Not that I'm jealous but fair to say some projects have more luck than others in the contemporary relevance lottery...
he wasn't wrong you know
Permanently confused at Americans going DEI this and DEI that and I'm like, the Dutch East Indies what what?
Grant proposal reviews are always like "but I don't see how this is going to revolutionise the field" while article peer reviews are always like "stop saying that you're going to revolutionise the field".
There are two wolves inside me and neither is revolutionising the field
Grant proposal reviews are always like "but I don't see how this is going to revolutionise the field" while article peer reviews are always like "stop saying that you're going to revolutionise the field".
It's more that since I'm... not actually Dutch this raises some existential disquiet.
Not sure what to make of an anonymous reviewer pointing out the Dutchisms in my English.
Thrilled to see this fine article on the Girl Guide movement in late colonial HK by Tracy Leung, @hongkonghistory.bsky.social PhD researcher, published by the Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Can't remember the last time I felt this excited about an election in a country I was actually living in at the time. It *could* have been the 2023 Polish ones but I had just moved away.
highly relatable
That's the classic Magneto problem from the comics.
Congratulations!
man with long hair looking hip in a huge purple coat with a loosely tied grey scarf, outdoors in the sun
Someone took a photo of me in my partner's grandmother's coat when I wasn't looking and suddenly I have ascended to hipster nirvana.
JOB ALERT: Two 4.5 year postdoctoral positions to work on my Wellcome-funded project 'Conserving Global Health: Biodiversity Protection and the Prehistory of Planetary Health'. Please share widely!
CLOSING DATE: 23 April (the date on Jobs.ac.uk is apparently incorrect)