Please join us in person or online to hear @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social and @hmberents.bsky.social discuss their research collaboration about images of childhood as technologies of governance. Wed 22 April, 5-6pm Brisbane time (UTC+10), 39a/501. Zoom Rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/upcomin...
Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities
This piece is disturbing because it reads like a press release that had to include a bit of journalism in it. There’s virtually no critical analysis of the danger of what’s happening. The only mention of the word “law” is a UN quote.
Gee, ya think.
Postdoc alert! I'm looking to appoint a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Relations (2 years) to work on my historically focused ARC project, “Humane Exclusion: How States Justify Excluding Refugees." Please share widely. jobs.anu.edu.au/cw/en/job/56...
Join us in person or online for our new @visualpolitics.bsky.social events to hear about new research from @mtrotem.bsky.social (Manchester), Saffron O'Neill (Exeter), @jmarshallbeier.bsky.social (McMaster) and @hmberents.bsky.social (Griffith). Zoom rego: www.rolandbleiker.com/news/new-vis...
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese defended the decision to invite Israel's President Isaac Herzog to Australia, saying, "When the Jewish community asked for their head of state to visit, I think it is appropriate that people be allowed to mourn."
Look I am not a fan of this arrangement but isn't their head of state King Charles www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
A few months later as the genocide reached 200 days, I wrote about Hind’s murder, my fury at the endless tiny deaths, and feminist reimagining of a world otherwise.
2 yrs later it remains urgent we collectively keep insisting & building an alternative. Together.
hmberents.com/2024/04/25/i...
It’s been two years since Hind Rajab was murdered. The car she was in hit over 300 times with bullets.
This week the IOF recognised the Gazan Health Ministry’s official death toll. 70,000+.
70,000 Hinds. All of whom lived lives. All of whom should still be alive.
I am recruiting! Two 4-year postdoc fellow positions for 'Technology and the (future) Human in War: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/36e1adc2...
#jobs #academicjob
And just in case being an IR scholar who also bakes isn’t enough, here’s one that adds in my interest in the politics of childhoods/childing…
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Oh here’s another one
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When I wanted my interests in global politics and baking to intersect, I didn’t mean it to happen like this!
Unfortunately can now imagine an article called something like:
Add a pinch of capitalist imperialism and stir: performative baking and the re-emergence of global fascism
For the past 25 years there has never been a national security law that has done anything other than to give more power to cops and spooks and to ministers to stifle anyone who disagrees with the status quo.
What's Ahead for YPS in 2026: No Quick Fix
Marking two years of writing the YPS Observer (and my 3rd annual year-ahead post) here is what I'll be watching on #youth4peace.
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All of this and not a single cent of funding towards community based deradicalisation programs, support groups for families of radicalised people, harm reduction, anti-racist and respectful relationships programs in schools etc. State oppression is apparently the only answer.
Absolutely wild. Australia already hugely uncompetitive globally for research funding environment. This just seems destined to dig the hole deeper
TMC again with the words. So well put.
“The Adelaide Festival’s decision to dump Palestinian academic Randa Abdel-Fattah gives us a grim foretaste of the Australian cultural landscape in 2026.”
David Brophy on “ambient antisemitism” and the institutional mechanisms for curtailing protest and political expression.
You do not need to be a fan of Maduro to think that this is both morally abhorrent and world-historically fucking stupid.
I lived in Venezuela, was lucky to learn Spanish and taste my first empanadas there. I grew up for several years within its crowded, chaotic, green, humid valley. Managing despots within, attacks from without; mi corazón está con la gente que nunca pidió esto.
Caracas is a densely populated capital city of millions of Caraqueños just trying to live their life. This is a horrific attack on a civilian centre with no warning and violating law. Remember when the geopolitics-crowd get going w their hot takes that once again it’s innocent ppl who bear the brunt
14 two-year postdocs for academics of any nationality who cannot continue their research due to US politics. Do share if you know of such.
"If I could ask one question of the Prime Minister right now, I would like to understand his definition of “hate preachers that promote violence”, because signing missiles that fall on children and hanging out with a genocidal army would absolutely fit the bill if he was of any other religion. "
Thank goodness for journalists like @davemilbo.bsky.social who will actually critically think and offer us ways of making sense of the world, rather than most Aussie journos this week regurgitating right wing, Zionist talking points that make hay out of tragedy and do not help anyone understand.
Also worth noting all of this is to stop teenagers being radicalised apparently. Once again the always-already-delinquent-youth is invoked as the justification, regardless of how non existent the evidence is that would support any of these actions to help ‘deradicalisation‘.
This is a chilling effort of silencing dissent and will have pernicious and damaging effects across schooling, higher ed, creative industries and more. To push this through by capitalising on a tragedy while families, friends, and broader society are grieving is ghoulish opportunism
For some, I know, the tracker doesn't work bc it feels panopticon-y or just increases anxiety about all things. Don't use it if that is the case!
But in a neoliberalised academy, where you have never 'done enough', I strongly encourage tracking hours as way of taking control & caring for yourself
We've been using the tracker (@ expanding/ updating it) since 2019. It's been such a key tool in managing my workload, learning my work habits, & resisting overwork (as much as possible).
Tracking my work helps me SEE where my time goes so I can make informed decisions about what I am doing.