Apparently, my blog recent post blog has already upset some people at the Kakuma UNHCR office (mission accomplished). Essentially, I point out how their work, lives, and policies are devoid of any refugee voices, and their outlook is very colonial.
Read it here:
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Everyday State & Democracy in Africa, ed. Wale Adebanwi, now open access. Includes my chapter 'Disputing Democracy & Challenging the State in Mozambique' based on fieldwork around the 2013-16 insurgency.
(Bluesky crops the pic as per 'bottom-up case studies'.)
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Ready-to-assemble humanitarianism, will they serve meat balls at food distribution? Unlikely, but let get business tycoons in who will retain a top-down neocolonial strategy. What happened to letting "refugees lead"? www.ft.com/content/915a...
The paper forms a part of a wider paper cluster with Tabea Scharrer @tabeascharrer.bsky.social, Laura Lambert, Mert Peksen, and Ville Laakkonen @vvlaakkonen.bsky.social where we explore the dynamics of future-making in containment.
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My article on communal future-makibg and their corresponding logics of containment is finally out! The paper explores the various logics of containment at play in Kakuma Refugee Camp during the covid pandemic. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
This is a truly remarkable outcome - a rare act of collective action within our workplace. Considering that the petition was only live for two weeks, and that it has faced repeated suppression when circulated via university mailing lists:
We also symbolically delivered the petition in person at Porthania. Each of your signatures was delivered as a slip of (reused) green, red, black and white paper - 740 in total. Here is a short video documenting the delivery of the petition slips: blogs.helsinki.fi/researchersf...
On Tuesday, we at the University of Helsinki group "Researchers for Palestine" emailed the Rector, Board and Chancellor with the signed petition. A physical copy was also delivered to and registered with Kirjaamoo.
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Out now!
'Hard Work' by @tutam.bsky.social explores human-environmental relations, value production, and state formation in the context of large-scale natural resource extraction in #PapuaNewGuinea.
The book is available in #openaccess at: doi.org/10.33134/HUP-29
#anthropology #ethnography🏺
New article 'Resettlement as a temporal border: infrastructural promises and future-making among migrants and officials in Niger' by Laura Lambert in our paper cluster 'Future-making in Situations of Containment' edited by Laura, @stefanmillar.bsky.social, Mert PekĹźen, @vvlaakkonen.bsky.social & me
Unfortunately, the techniques established by Kitson are still at use by many former British colonies today to target political dissidents. In Kenya, the Brits continued to train Kenyan security after independence. If you’re interested, I wrote a paper on it: www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/Op...
Kenya: "Following recent aid freezes and budget cuts for humanitarian assistance... the impact on our country's ability to host refugees and asylum seekers which number over 800,000 people, has been sudden and severe," the CS [Cabinet Sec] noted."
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Looks great. I'm gonna give it a read today!
Kenyan police has shot and wounded peaceful protestors outside the #UNHCR compound in #Kakuma. I have also received reports that some protestors have been forcefully disappeared over night.
We've got 5 days before paper abstracts are due for the Finnish Anthropological Society's Conference in June 2025 - Check out our and others' call for papers: blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...
The new edited volume “Forced Migration: Exiles and Refugees in the UK and the British Empire, 1815–1949”, co-edited by @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social, @yiannicart.bsky.social and myself, is out in April and now has a website/cover. Pre-order available soon!
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Deadline for paper submissions extended to 20th Dec. Please consider submitting to our panel 'The flipside of disinformation in the Afropean: Information suppression in African autocracies and their diasporas' in the 'Politics and International Relations' stream.
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The gold rush at the heart of a civil war: Famine and ethnic cleansing stalk Sudan. Yet the gold trade is booming, enriching generals and propelling the fight, reports The New York Times. Uganda is a key player…”a country widely seen as a major hub for smuggled African gold”…/A
Last month, Majok Lam Thoan and I presented our ongoing collaborative paper 'Mimicry in the Migration Regime' at MacEwan University. We explore how #resettlement creates a neo #colonial relationship between refugees and the governing agencies.
Here at the African Studies meeting we stopped by the Indiana University Press booth. Always so great to see your book for sale and hear people say good things about it!
After suppressing the Kenya Land and Freedom Army (1952–1960) British Military tactics and officers were brought "home" to suppress Irish Republican Army (1960 - 1998) in Northern Ireland. But Sakai notes, the brutality was less severe, but made cladestine.
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We invite papers that critically engage with these dynamics, to tease apart the paradox of comparison: how idealized imaginaries and lived realities are constructed and contested.
This panel seeks to engage in a critical dialogue on the role of comparison in shaping our understanding of resettlement and integration.
We explore the gap between the fantasies of resettlment and the everyday struggles of being resettlement that expose
the paradox of diversity (Bannerji 2016) where non-White newcomers are positioned as peripheral contributors to the imagined community of white multiculturalism (Hage 2000).
@jennlong3.bsky.social and I have a panel at the next Finnish Anthropological Society’s conference titled: Imagining Resettlement: Disillusionment and the Paradox of Comparison. The call for papers closes on 15th January 2025. blogs.helsinki.fi/fasconferenc...
The “but it might work for us” meme from Arrested Development.
Ireland’s smaller centre-left parties contemplate going into government with Fianna Fáil and/or Fine Gael. #GE24
Glen Moore, who got slapped around by the kids in St. Aidans in Dublin West has amassed a whopping 3% of the vote. Back under your rock, lad...
#ge24
#speirgorm
Irish Times exit poll shows immigration was the most important issue for six per cent of voters, climate most important for four per cent. Two issues within the margin of error of each other, but one received a disproportionate amount of coverage while the other was barely mentioned. #ge24
Really proud of our #SouthSudanese brother Joesph Lual Ajak after his graduation in mechanical engineering from University of Alberta @ualberta.bsky.social. Back in 2018 when I had first met Joesph, he had just received a scholarship from Windle Trust while living in #Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya.
So glad to see this important article published!