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Lucy Bryant, Sam Hardon and Alice Wolfle (Office for National Statistics 🇬🇧) will present a study on using targeted monetary #incentives in the Opinions and Lifestyle #Survey.
Moving Beyond Imperialist Frameworks: The False Equivalence Between Palestine and Xinjiang Walaa Alqaisiya Read this article Share Back to Top Abstract This article challenges the ‘Palestinization’ framework equating Palestinian anti-colonial resistance with Uyghur separatism in China. Drawing on historical materialism, it demonstrates that this comparison removes anti-imperialist analysis by abstracting the Palestinian struggle from its material context—resistance to Zionist settler colonialism backed by US imperialism—and imposing these decontextualized categories onto China’s socialist development. Both Palestinization discourse and settler-colonial theory erase imperialism as an analytical category, enabling equivalences that serve US hegemonic interests. By examining sponsorship networks, the analysis reveals how Zionism and Uyghur separatism work as complementary instruments of Western imperialism: the former fragmenting Arab unity in West Asia, the latter aiming to contain China through peripheral destabilization. Both weaponize Holocaust memory—deploying its moral value to manufacture ‘genocide’ claims against China while providing cover for Israel’s crimes, including the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Western academic infrastructure, controlled by a donor class linking pro-Israel and anti-China funding networks, structurally rewards scholarship inverting Palestine and Xinjiang’s relationship to imperialism.
this is very unfortunate, especially for someone who supposedly works on decolonial queer feminism
In Global China Lab's monthly digest, there's a round-up of many brilliant articles on China's ethnic politics published in @madeinchinajournal.com and other venues. If you haven't already check this out
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on the "AI and lit review" debate that's somewhat circulating around
I think the question is not about whether AI can generate a literature review but what do we need literature reviews for. many, many human-written literature reviews have glaring errors & misrepresentation;
Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025. In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.
📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026
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I wonder if comparative pol people have tested this hypothesis: no country (post 1945) has successfully and peacefully democratized while being treated as a military-strategic adversary of the US
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There Is No Religious Revival.
Trend stories about rising religiosity are not supported by evidence
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When more people in Sweden can name the Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York than the Prime Minister of neighbouring Finland…maybe — just maybe — there’s a little too much coverage of US politics in Europe.
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New paper out in @sociologicalsci.bsky.social with @marckeuschnigg.bsky.social and Peter Hedström! We identify a social-influence mechanism that widens individuals' behavioral repertoires and breaks the link between individuals' initial preferences and the collective outcomes they bring about.
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At Deer Park, New Delhi, I saw a Mama with her little naughty monkey.
新德里鹿野苑的猴子。
has anybody seen coverage of this on Chinese social media? most of his (unidentified) victims were in China, and he's also obviously the scion of some well-off family
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The introductory chapter (Kappa in Swedish) of my doctoral dissertation, Unrealized Potential: Overqualification and its Consequences among the Children of Immigrants Born in Sweden, is available online (3/3): su.diva-portal.org/smash/record...
Exciting discussion @rrluthra.bsky.social @wooseongkim.bsky.social
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