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In awe and so, so proud of our students. @virginia_tech should recognize their unprecedented leadership, courage, and moral clarity. In the midst of so much heartbreak, they have moved from their hearts & center, always with a strategy & endless courage. They show us the way.

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Page proof stage is here! A book marks but a moment in our evolving research, but I’m glad to see this one out soon. It tells the stories of urban indigenous, maroon & favela resistances in Brazil’s most industrialized region & develops the notion of dependent settler capitalism.

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Solidarity with Gaza encampment at Virginia Tech! All supporters called! Join us to support our students by 7pm tonight.

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The very timely @routledgebooks Handbook of #Postcolonial #Politics will be launched on 26 April in #London ! Congratulations to @RobbieShilliam and @o_rutazibwa on this fantastic job!

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In Blacksburg, today! #CeasefireInGazaNOW

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All eyes on Palestine. 🇵🇸

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5 years

Spent a morning w/ brilliant colleagues @ #ISA2019 discussing how settler colonialism reshapes how we think #InternationalRelations & what it means to engage in #decolonial work in/with the communities with which we walk

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2 years

No words to describe this year’s @MYBISA ! Thank you to @BisaCpd for organizing so many generative and critical spaces. So great to see @InterpolAber grads and many other brilliant colleagues. Leaving energized, inspired, and a little bit hung over!

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Blacksburg folks, join us on Jan 27 6-8pm for this year’s first teach-in on Palestine, part of a series of events. Speakers include organizers of the Palestinian Youth Movement and some of our own students and faculty @ Virginia Tech.

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6 years

This weekend I returned to São Paulo to report on my PhD defense to the #indigenous #university #students at @pucsp 's Pindorama scholarship program, with whom I worked for the the PhD | Esse fds eu voltei a #S ãoPaulo pra dar a devolutiva da defesa pros alunos indígenas da PUC-SP

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Virginia Tech and ASPECT PhD program representing @ the historic national march in DC. This is praxis. #FreePalaestine #CeasefireForGazaNOW

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4 years

@DrSamiSchalk It’s like “Women, Race and Class”, “Sister Outsider”, “This Bridge Called My Back” never happened. Wow. I guess that’s the power of liberalism - to dismtantle anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggles through a shallow veneer of seeming “progressiveness”, here women’s rights

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5 years

“ #Race , #Gender , and #Culture in #IR ” edited by @AlinaSajed & Randolph Persaud has been *incredible* as a textbook for my Intro to World Politics class - I’m so glad my students are starting off their studies being exposed to such critical work!

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10 months

A whole new version of Maré from the Inside is being exhibited @ #Edinburgh #FringeFestival ! Artists include Maré’s Museum of Itinerant Images (MIIM), Night of the Stars, & more! Stop by 11am-1pm & 3-5pm @ Minto House

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5 years

It’s the last day of #LASA2019 - so many connections with wonderful colleagues were continued, begun, and cared for, and so much sharing & thinking together has taken place! I’m inspired by the learning and unlearning with my favorite crowd of academics. Obrigada!

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4 years

Join us today (sept 30) for a teach-in and conversation about Abolitionism at Virginia Tech - 2-3.30pm Register here: @VTBlackCaucus @ElCentroVT @vt_natives @VT_CCC

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6 years

Oh my God!!! Of course she is!!! Congratulations to Lucy @InterpolAber

Meg Hatfield

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6 years

Also on our shortlist for Personal Tutor of the Year is Lucy Taylor from @InterpolAber . Llongyfarchiadau | Congratulations Lucy! #AberSUCelebrates

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3 years

After years of witnessing & thinking about the toré dance ritual, practiced by Indigenous nations throughout #Brazil 's Northeast, I finally put pen to paper to reflect on how it articulates citizenship, settler colonialism AND Indigenous sovereignty 1/3

Citizenship and settler colonialism in Brazil: The toré ritual as a decolonial indigenous practice...

This article argues that settler colonialism structures Indigenous rights in Brazil and shows how Indigenous peoples have also engaged Indigenous rights to interrupt settler colonialism. To this en...

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7 months

So proud of those who spoke out in one of the most hostile of environments in Europe. We stand with you. We stand with Palestine. We stand for national liberation.

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7 months

Berlin stands with Gaza

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4 years

This article has been a labor of love. It discusses how the #Mar é Favela Complex's community museum already pushes toward de-militarized presents & futures through a politics of life & a refusal of necropolitical epistemologies, metholodogies & practices.

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7 months

This is the street where my sister lives, it is systematically over-policed and criminalized. Shame on you Germany for failing your historical responsibility to stand against genocide and for failing to defend a people struggling for national liberation. Shame on you.

Ash

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I live in Berlin. The police are literally camped at Sonnenallee, which is a neighborhood with a v big Palestinian population. They're arresting brown ppl left and right.

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6 years

" #Decolonization is not a framework, but a practice - even in the smallest moments of our lives." Pushing at the limits of the decolonial move at #decolonizing18 conference, "Decolonizong our learning spaces" plenary #ciars2018

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5 years

We just published a special issue for @Aidthinktank on #Bolsonaro and #democracy in #Brazil I wrote on #militarization and settler colonialism in Brazil. Check it out:

Issues - A-id

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4 years

Thank you to our thoughtful speakers and translators. They drew often unrecognized connections between Rio de Janeiro & Appalachia on race, arts, drug policy, harm reduction, environmental justice, gender...this is why we do this work. 💪 @VTBlackCaucus @ElCentroVT @VTPSCI @IPGCCC

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3 years

6 years ago, we gathered to debate & demand the rights of urban #Indigenous ppls in São Paulo. Today, Ind. ppls protest in Brasília & around #Brazil against #Bolsonaro 's anti-Indigenous & genocidal agenda. Here's some context on all that's going on #PL490Nao 1/10

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5 years

Our workshop on #IndigenousUrbanisationInLatinAmerica starts today!

Philipp Horn

@Philipp__Horn

5 years

Excited to host a workshop on 'Indigenous Urbanisation in Latin America' () this Thursday in Sheffield. Looking forward to papers by @DesireePoets @dr_kate99 @SPeterWade and many more! Thanks to @ILAS_SAS @PSA_poco & @USPSheffield for funding the event!

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@rhys_machold @sasa_ghada ✊🇵🇸 on my way to DC! We stand together across the pond!

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4 years

New article out! I look at the mobilizations of #quilombo Sacopã and the #indigenous movement Aldeia Maracanã in #Rio to show that #Brazil is a settler colony *and* how such groups unsettle colonialism. @SCS_Journal

Settler colonialism and/in (urban) Brazil: black and indigenous resistances to the logic of...

How does elimination work in Brazil? After a brief history of miscegenation as assimilation/elimination, this article addresses this question through the experiences of one urban indigenous group (...

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2 years

Students may not know how much their warmly written notes of thanks & their persistent, sincere engagement w/ our classrooms nurture us and our work, too. So often, it is the teaching relationship and not just the content that becomes pedagogical. And it goes both ways.

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7 months

This was our local polling place today for #VirginiaElections . Anyone coming to vote would be influenced by this sign, which indicates an official endorsement. We have filed and will follow up with a formal complaint. This was intentional and illegal.

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4 years

We didn’t know this course was going to be so timely... can’t wait to share the space with my brilliant colleagues and make sure our classroom contributes to the community!

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5 years

Arturo Escobar discusses different understandings of territory in Latin America #LASA2019

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1 month

Blacksburg and VT community, we must pick a side: human rights or genocide. We invite and welcome you all to come and learn & build with this generation. They make this world a better place, for all the struggles and peoples interconnected with Palestine. Come to GLC lawn today!

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3 months

Every Friday is Fridays for Palestine in Blacksburg. And every Friday, more and more people have been coming out. This shows: Our hearts are breaking with grief but we will not cease until a ceasefire and a Free Palestine.

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3 months

This Saturday, we will be learning collectively from the victories of UC Davis SJP's mobilization for BDS! See you there! #FreePalestine

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4 months

Blacksburg folks, after an amazing teach-in last Saturday with the Palestinian Youth Movement, join us for the first “Fridays for Palestine” film screening & action! #CEASEFIRE_NOW

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3 years

We are hiring!!! At Associate or Full Professor level to serve as Director of the incredible interdisciplinary ASPECT PhD Program, w/ tenure in *any* department of @VT_LiberalArts . Come work with us! @DannaAgmon @BrettShadle @realDrcabbie @Le_Maure

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2 years

ASPECT in the house! @VTPSCI

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6 years

#IWD2018 I want to thank & show my admiration to the amazing women who inspire & support other women, often having to add extra work to their busy schedules to do so. For my PhD, I was supervised/mentored by two incredible women (Lucy & @BeBedeGe ) & they lifted me up throughout!

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6 years

On #friendship , #Welsh #settler #colonialism and the #BritishEmpire in #Patagonia by Lucy Taylor. #Cymru #Wales #Argentina

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Why is this encampment happening? First, to stand in solidarity with Palestinians who have been under attack in Gaza for almost 8 months. Second, to demand that VT disclose all endowments & investments & DIVEST from corporations & institutions that fund Israel’s apartheid regime.

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2 years

Returning from São Paulo with a full heart—and full of new ideas—after an amazing Postgrad Seminar of the Brazilian IR Association. So much incredible political work & thinking happening in Brazil. I leave w/ hope and in awe, and so grateful to have been in such amazing company!

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4 years

Students in our #ASPECT Politics of Memory class, led by Dr Jessica Taylor, curated an exhibition on the Monacan Indian Nation, currently fighting to Save their historic capital Rassawek. Check it out & see how we can all help. @virginia_tech @VT_History

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6 years

A beautifully written essay... #IndigenousFuturism #Afrofuturism SFF and the end of the world

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3 years

Registration for our Decoloniality/Decolonization/Entangled Ontologies Symposium at Virginia Tech is still open! Can't wait! @VT_CCC @VTPSCI @VTIPG

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5 years

#GlobalClimateStrike @virginia_tech powerful speeches by our students and local high & middle schoolers!

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Fourth, to demand that VT DECLARE the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as indefensible and explicitly condemn Israel’s genocidal violence (as the UN and ICJ have reported) in accordance with VT’s principles of community & global land-grant mission.

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4 years

What happened wasn’t just about individual decisions - it was about policies, procedures, structures. Words of our very own Brandy Faulkner talking to the #Exonerated5 / #CentralPark5 for #VTMLK

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2 months

It is so, so urgent that we pressure the US gov to push for a ceasefire. Famine is imminent in Gaza as health infrastructure has been systematically targeted. So join us this Friday! After a movie screening & discussion, we head to our rally @ Henderson Lawn, 6pm. #FreePalesine

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6 months

How much longer are we to endure our hearts breaking every day. This is not the world I want to live in, not the world I want the next generation to inherit. Palestinians show us that another world is possible, but we cannot fail them. Ceasefire now. Rest in power Refaat.

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

6 months

Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world. He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids...

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5 years

You can’t see them but here we have Raquel Rolnik & Arturo Escobar holding a presidential session for #LASA2019 on thinking territory in Latin America

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5 years

Here we go #BISA2019 ! So excited to see dear collaborators, friends & colleagues from the International Studies community - who always give so much!

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4 years

Such a pleasure to see this collaboration come to fruition. @katarina_kusic and I have been thinking about #fieldwork together since our time leading @InterpolAber 's Global Development/Politics Research Group. Here's to more collective thinking and knowledge cultivation!

KatK @katkusic.bsky.social

@KatKusic

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1/4 Our (with Jakub Záhora) Fieldwork as Failure is officially out w/ @E_IR ! You can access the free PDF (also available in bookstores): We hope to unsettle the silence that surrounds fieldwork failure in both methods training and academic publications.

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6 years

Here's to my new home #Virginia and its stunning autumn colors

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Third, to demand that VT DEFEND its Palestinian students & allies against anti-Palestinian racism & censorship, which they have faced as they have mobilized on our campus in the past 8 months.

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7 months

#FreePalestine in #Philadelphia today during marathon weekend! We stand together against genocide and for a free Gaza

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5 years

Been enjoying all this talk about the #urban and/as/in the #international at #BISA2019

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5 years

watching #CrazyRichAsians the most shocking part of the movie is that the main character is a young economics professor & goes on a holiday for more than a long weekend *without her laptop* & doesn’t spend every single moment either worrying or talking about writing! As if!

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6 years

Borrowed from @FyegGender #ValentinesDay

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*This thread*

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4 years

Today on #JUNETEENTH2020 I am thinking of all those in Brazil and here in the US who are struggling to survive and thrive under #COVID19 and ongoing police anti-Black violence. We stand with those building abolitionist presents & futures in/beyond this environment of precarity.

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@mghacademic A feminist analysis demands an intersectional lens so that the category of woman and the system of oppression patriarchy isn’t separated from its co-constitutive (material & symbolic) power relations (e.g. capitalism, race, settler colonialism).

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5 years

Someone is happy about the end of exams...

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2 years

In this new Special Issue, we show how different Latin American contemporary societies are settler colonies, which helps us better understand the characteristics/nature of colonialism and therefore the task of decolonization in LA. Thoughts welcome!

Settler Colonial Studies

Settler Colonialism and Latin America. Volume 11, Issue 3 of Settler Colonial Studies

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5 years

No @beagainvisivel com os quilombos urbanos de #belohorizonte || with Miriam Aprigio from Quilombo dos Luízes at the @beagainvisivel [Invisible Belo Horizonte] tv program on urban quilombos in Belo Horizonte

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6 years

@kelseybew_ These two tweets one after the other.

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5 years

“Our answer to lean-in #feminism is kick-back feminism” - can’t wait to assign this the “Feminism for the 99% - A Manifesto” to my Intro to World Politics class!

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3 years

So excited to speak w/ fellow thinker & collaborator Andreza Jorge (we’ll be missing @Nick_Barnes81 ) about “Maré from the Inside,” coming to @VTLibraries soon w/ accompanying book @VirginiaTechPub ! Join us to hear more about community art, political change & int’l collaborations

HAPP at Queen's

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📣 WEBINAR discuss the exhibit and book Maré from the Inside: Art, Culture, and Politics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, an international collaboration between Brazilian and US-American academics, activists, and artists! Register through this link by 23 March:

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4 years

See here for more info and background on the Save Rassawek, on the story of the Monacan Indian Nation, exhibit Dr. Jessica Taylor @VT_History led in our Politics of Memory Class at the ASPECT PhD Program @VTPSCI @VT_LiberalArts

‘The Land Speaks’ exhibit transformed into virtual experience

The main goal of the exhibit is to spread the story of the Monacan Indian Nation. This federally recognized tribe includes more than 2,300 members and has a continuous, thousand-year-old history and...

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Global Groundings - a symposium on Walter Rodney ends at the amazing @redemmas ... it’s been so nourishing; intellectually, spiritually, politically! @arrighicenter @RobbieShilliam @RodneyProject

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5 years

We have two jobs at Political Science at Virginia Tech @VTPSCI 1. Comparative European Politics: 2. Comparative MENA Region Politics:

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Fri Feb 21, @redesdamare activists & educators Andreza Jorge & Henrique Gomes + Dr. Brandy Faulkner & Dr Jordan Laney discuss race, gender, the arts, public health & community change in Rio and Appalachia. El Centro (Squires), 4.30-6pm @VTBlackCaucus @ElCentroVT @VTPSCI @IPGCCC

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The violences & challenges faced today by Ind ppls are strikingly similar to what they faced in the 1960s and 70s. Bolsonaro himself is aware of and exploits his association w/ that past, celebrating and defending the Military Dictatorship in his ideological discourse. 9/10

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8 years

So excited about @RobbieShilliam 's keynote at #milconf2016

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Since 1976, Palestinians have organized on Land Day to protest the systematic confiscation of their lands by Israel as part of settlement plans. Today, we protest once again in defense of Palestinian national liberation and against genocide. We meet @ 4.30pm, Henderson Lawn!

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Repassando mensagem do Quilombo Sacopã: O #Quilombo #Sacop ã pede socorro! Por conta das chuvas fenomenais no #RiodeJaneiro o Quilombo está bastante destruído e até o momento, o Incra não apareceu para dar apoio. 1/3

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Birthday and Thanksgiving Day on the ranch... the dogs are in heaven!

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Dr Caraccioli and Dr Wigen open our workshop on Interlingual Relations @isanet so excited to talk about & share experiences on #translation & IR #ISA2019

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Powerful statement by Kayapó leader Raoni Metuktire's: "We, the peoples of the Amazon, are full of fear. Soon you will be too"

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"Foucault can be in line, but he'll have to be way at the back of the line [of theorising]." E. Henderson's energetic delivery #milconf2016

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But the 70s was also the decade when the national Ind movement emerged in Brazil, a period of renewed political organizing & radical dreaming. Then, and now, opposition & the construction of radical alternatives intensify. This, to me, is what the protests signify. 10/10

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...and numerous Bills that try to undo the rights they fought for & won in the 1988 Constitution. Bill 490/2007, for example, is an umbrella Bill that would de facto stop the demarcation of Ind lands & facilitate extractivist & economic activities in them. Hence: #PL490Nao 4/10

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Thinking of my mother, a health worker in Brazil, who is nowhere close to getting a vaccine, where a settler capitalist nation-state under Bolsonaro goes out of its way to remain complicit with North-South global inequalities.

World Health Organization (WHO)

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"More than 39 million doses of vaccine have now been administered in at least 49 higher-income countries. Just 25 doses have been given in one lowest-income country. Not 25 million; not 25 thousand; 25"- @DrTedros #EB148 #COVID19 #ACTogether

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No words for how much I miss caqui, the sweetest fruit of Rio’s #carnaval . Grateful for this fieldwork trip!

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8 years

My latest recent article published on BLAR added to @academia , about the struggle of Rio's Urban #Quilombo Sacopã:

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6 years

Just reading this fantastic article by my brilliant future colleague @VTPSCI Cara Daggett. What important and timely work on #fossilfuel , #gender and #authoritarianism !

Millennium Journal

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Now online: 'Petro-masculinity: Fossil Fuels and Authoritarian Desire' by Cara Daggett. Forthcoming in Vol. 47 (1):

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Congratulations to both! Amazing!!! 🍾🎉

International Politics, Aberystwyth

@InterpolAber

6 years

First @InterpolAber award! Best post graduate supervision award to @BeBedeGe & @Kurki_m . Congratulations! Llongyfarchiadau!

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This is TODAY! Today is also Indigenous Peoples' Day, and @vt_natives has lots of incredible celebrations & awareness events happening - including a 4pm celebration on the Drillfield & Apsáalooke rapper Supaman @ the Lyric Theater at 7pm.

Desirée Poets

@DesireePoets

5 years

This coming Monday (Oct 14), as part of the Hispanic-Latinx Heritage Month, we're excited to welcome VT faculty & students to discuss the #environment & #Latinx communities across the Americas. @virginia_tech @VTPSCI @ElCentroVT

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@mghacademic There’s a clear misunderstanding of what intersectionality is here. It’s a methodology that helps analyze how power structures are co-produced and therefore need to be tackled in their entanglements. This is precisely how it’s useful for activism.

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3 years

Part of its "package" of laws is the "temporal mark" thesis, which allows only for the demarcation of lands that were in the possession of Ind. ppls in 1988, which totally ignores the complex realities of Ind. identities & their relationship with the land and... 5/10

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Blacksburg and Virginia Tech community, this is today! We are demanding a ceasefire. You can support the call by joining us and by speaking to our representatives through this link: #CeasefireForGazaNOW

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5 years

Join us next Tuesday for a teach-in on #DACA as the Supreme Court #dacahearing unfolds. DACA allows young people who were brought to the United States without documentation, or #DREAMERS , to remain in the country. @ElCentroVT @VTBlackCaucus @vt_natives

Teach-in to Protect DACA

Causes event in Blacksburg, VA by New River Valley Virginia Organizing and El Centro of Virginia Tech on Tuesday, November 19 2019

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3 years

In the past years, Ind. peoples have faced a record of forest fires, violent & armed land invasions; murders; criminalization of Ind. leaders; the dismantling & militarization of the National Indian Foundation; a COVID-19 response that propagated the virus among Ind ppls... 3/10

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4 years

New post on -- @DanaBrablec & Sibylla Warrington write (in Spanish) up the collective conclusions of their conference on indigeneity in urban contexts around the world, discussing mobility, intersectional & state violence & rights!

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3 years

The protests in Brasília started in opposition to this Bill & sparked mobilizations all over the country. But Bolsonaro & the Bill are not radically new. They build on hundreds of years of Ind elimination & dispossession in a country that remains a settler colony & that.. 7/10

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5 years

Shannon Speed opens the most exciting panel of this #LASA2019 conference - the ��Indigenous Matters: A Critical Hemispheric Dialogue by Native Women” presidential session

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@DesireePoets

3 years

...is only in its more recent phase under the wave of right-wing movements, that are more explicit about their exterminationist & pro-capitalist agendas. Bolsonaro is in continuity w/ previous decades, esp the Military Dictatorship (1964-85) that has parallels with today. 8/10

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3 years

Bolsonaro's fascist government is trying to open up Indigenous lands to all sorts of exploitation (mining, agribusiness, energy, etc.) & has committed or supported acts of violence against Ind. peoples in Brazil, disrespecting their sovereignty & self-determination. 2/10

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5 years

Prof @SPeterWade starts our #IndigenousUrbanisationInLatinAmerica workshop with his keynote “Is Black to Indigenous as Race is to Ethnicity?” @ILAS_SAS @PSA_poco @USPSheffield

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@DesireePoets

8 years

"Men of International Politics" sabotage for #InternationalWomensDay @InterpolAber #IWD2016 @AberUni

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