Cultural activism, environmental (in)justice, and Indigenous (dis)possession: contesting mobilisations of heritage on a resource frontier in Peninsular Malaysia The Indigenous Orang Seletar of Kampung Sungai Temon in Johor Bahru, Peninsular Malaysia, has long faced the escalating impacts of climate change. Since the 2000s, neoliberal processes resource ext...

#SundayRead | Based on ethnographic work with the Orang Seletar seafaring community, and using settler colonialism as a lens, Cai (2025) examines how #CulturalHeritage is mobilised in environmental and cultural struggles over rights and access to Indigenous territories.

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GBs Sunday Read: "'Jealousy' rules the road and MTV," by Jeff Spevak (Democrat and Chronicle 4/21/1994).

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Actor Timothée Chalamet’s dismissive take on ballet and opera proves Paul Chan’s point: Aart is our only defense against being conned. #SundayRead

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Ocean Literacy for Ocean Sustainability: Reflections From Australia | Article | Ocean and Society Rachel Kelly, Prue Francis, Rebecca J. Shellock, Stefan Andrews, Benjamin Arthur, Charlotte A. Birkmanis, Harry Breidahl, Lucy Buxton, Jasmine Chambers, Emma Church, Corrine Condie, Freya Croft, Cátia Freitas, Shannon Hurley, Emily Jateff, Brianna Le Busque, Justin Marshall, Allyson O’Brien, Gretta T. Pecl, Laura Torre-Williams, Sophia Volzke, Yolanda Waters

#SundayRead | Kelly et al (2025) explore examples of #OceanLiteracy research and practice in Australia, to develop prospective thinking on collaborative goals and approaches for advancing ocean literacy under sustainability objectives.

A philosophical chart of four archetypes: The Enjoyer, The Fearful, The Observer, and The Shy One, set against a parchment background. From Stories of Jivavarta by Shon Mehta.

Who are you when the road gets long and the mind grows empty?

"The Crossroads of Vakshi" explores the line between habit and heart. Meet the 4 archetypes in a landscape where boredom invites cruelty.

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The multispecies shipwreck In an era of species extinction, ecological destruction and uncertain futures, the separation of nature and culture within conceptualisations of heritage has become increasingly untenable. Although...

#SundayRead | Pearson (2024) shows how attending to the long submerged life of shipwrecks reveals them as multispecies assemblages rather than static archaeological objects, challenging fixed ontologies of heritage and the nature-culture binary.

This #InternationalWomensDay, we look to the women of Iran. Our #SundayRead dives into the history of women’s activism in Nikki R. Keddie’s “Women in Iran since 1979” (2000), which traces a legacy of resilience & the ongoing fight for status & rights.
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Honor Frost - Pioneering maritime archaeologist | Ocean Decade Heritage Network This International Women's Day, we’re shining a light on Honor Frost, one of the pioneers of underwater archaeology. Born in Cyprus in 1917, Frost began her career as an artist before discovering div...

#SundayRead | This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating Honor Frost, a pioneer in the field of underwater archaeology, and highlighting ongoing conversations about women in the field.

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Explore Chantal Mouffe’s “Deliberative Democracy or Agonistic Pluralism?” as she critiques the "deliberative democracy" paradigm.

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#SundayRead: In the latest 'Toronto History Curiosities', I cover Toronto's hotel history...oh, and Mr. Dressup. 📺

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“Ze kijkt niet natuurwetenschappelijk naar het ontstaan van de wereld, maar #relationeel. Bestaan betekent voor haar: #verbonden zijn. Mens, dier, plant en element delen in dezelfde dragende werkelijkheid.” #sundayread

New Museum Director Springs Into Santa Fe Marisa Sage, the incoming executive director of the New Mexico Museum of Art and the Vladem Contemporary, fields about her career and life.

Our new executive director, Marisa Sage fields questions from Pasatiempo on her love of art and what she enjoys outside of work. https://f.mtr.cool/mjpulsnlro

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New publication - Satellite Monitoring of Underwater Cultural Heritage - Honor Frost Foundation New publication - Satellite Monitoring of Underwater Cultural Heritage The Honor Frost Foundation is pleased to announce the publication of a new White Paper, Satellite Monitoring of Underwater Cultural Heritage, produced by the Maritime Archaeology Sea Trust (MAST) with the

#SundayRead | This Sunday, explore how satellite technologies and large-scale digital datasets can be used to monitor and protect underwater cultural heritage (#UCH).

Ever wondered what #book you should take with you on your next trip to #Egypt?📚🤔

Well, we have the answer!

@cgraves88.bsky.social has shared his top #travel reads for first-time visitors to Egypt in our #ExperienceEgypt zone this month!

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Today’s #SundayRead honors enslaved women subjected to experimental gynecological surgeries without anesthesia or consent in the 1840s.

A monument in AL now recognizes the true “Mothers of Gynecology.” Telling the full history of reproductive healthcare matters – read more @ the link in our bio.

The Awakening The Awakening - Kindle edition by Lyttleton, Joseph. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Awakening.

Need a #SundayRead?

Pick up The Awakening on the Kindle:
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This is #litfic with a speculative twist and a lot of dark humor.

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Exploring ocean literacy at the French Mediterranean coast: Information seeking, knowledge, awareness and concern about threats among residents and visitors in Port-Cros National Park | ERDKUNDE

#SundayRead | New ERDKUNDE study explores #OceanLiteracy at Port-Cros National Park, comparing how residents and visitors understand marine threats and access information, with implications for education and conservation in marine protected areas (#MPAs).

Dive into the world of Latin American power dynamics with James Petras’s “Class Structure and Its Effects on Political Development.” This #SundayRead explores how shifting class structures & internal friction shape political development & future prospects across the region.

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Official illustration for the short story 'Unrequited Love' by Shon Mehta. The line-art depicts a young man, Byron, viewing a romanticized, 19th-century version of himself in a mirror—complete with a cravat and a dramatic, mournful expression. While he is absorbed in his own reflection, a young woman sits at a desk in the foreground, diligently writing in her own notebook and ignoring his theatrical display. The image captures the satirical theme of artistic vanity explored in Mehta's work.

A poet seeks heartbreak for the sake of his art—and misjudges reality.
Unrequited Love 🖋️

Ambition & Vanity

A satirical short story about artistic ego and romantic ambition.

By Shon Mehta

#SundayRead #LiteraryFiction

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#SundayRead #LiteraryFiction #Satire

Underwater Cultural Heritage at Risk? Global Insights into Deep-Sea Mining and Trawling Impacts Deep-sea mining for technology-critical minerals and expanding bottom-contact fishing threaten underwater cultural heritage (UCH). This study evaluates global exposure of UCH to these activities by...

#SundayRead | Quinn et al (2026) evaluate global exposure of #UCH to deep-sea mining and trawling impacts. Read now in the Journal of Nautical Archaeology 👇

#SundayRead: Elkin & Delaere’s Underwater and Coastal Archaeology in Latin America (2023) highlights the richness and complexity of submerged and coastal heritage across Latin America and the Caribbean, setting an important benchmark for current and future scholarship.
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Why has society normalized the "carceral state"?

In preparation for our upcoming “Abolition” issue, this #SundayRead revisits Lawrence D.
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For #SundayRead we are sharing an image of this hieratic funerary papyrus from Thebes. It belonged to the songstress of Amun-Re Tja-ty and can be dated to Dynasty 21.

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Scientists find an interstellar 'tunnel' that connects our solar system to other stars Astronomers found an interstellar "tunnel" - a cosmic channel that connects our solar system to distant stars, according to a recent study.

#SpaceTalk #SundayRead - After years of careful mapping, scientists' new analysis reveals what appears to be a channel of hot, low-density plasma stretching out from our solar system toward distant constellations.🤔
- via The Torontonian Magazine 🇨🇦🍁
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What Happens When Democracy Loses Its Instruction What happens to a country when its citizens inherit the responsibilities of democracy without the instructions?

What happens when people inherit the responsibilities of democracy — but not the instructions for how it works?

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This #SundayRead delves into Kian Tajbakhsh's “What Are Iranians Dreaming About Today?” which explores rival forces 40 years after the revolution: the ruling "Velayi" theocrats, marginalized Islamic reformers, and secular modernists.
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A timely article on how deep sea mining threatens New Zealand’s underwater cultural heritage #UCH, highlighting urgent policy gaps and calling for greater investment in maritime archaeology and public education before irreversible loss occurs.

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With Venezuela dominating the headlines this weekend, for today’s #SundayRead we offer “Crowds and Popular Power: Reading Elias Canetti in Caracas” by Robert Samet, examining the country’s progressive Bolivarian Revolution and its ultimate failure.

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The Clooney Conundrum Why ‘Jay Kelly’ intrigues but doesn’t resonate

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While watching #JayKelly, I found myself appreciating the craft while remaining uninvested in the story or character. My exploration of why.
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