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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

4 months

A nauseating review: Israel has killed 30,000 Gazans, at least 12,000 of whom are children, some targeted by snipers, others dying of enforced starvation, as Israel denies humanitarian aid (which 68% of Israelis support: ), all funded by the US...

Gaza children searching for food to keep families alive

As aid reaching the territory dwindles, reports of widespread malnutrition are increasing.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

Scholars can do our small part to support the students by withholding our engagement w/ Columbia

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

I have declined an invite to speak @WEAI_Columbia b/c @Columbia has shamefully banned @jvplive + @ColumbiaSJP b/c they are mobilizing against Gaza's annihilation. I acknowledge that my withdrawal is hardly some big loss for CU, but as more scholars do the same, it will be...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

I have declined an invite to speak @WEAI_Columbia b/c @Columbia has shamefully banned @jvplive + @ColumbiaSJP b/c they are mobilizing against Gaza's annihilation. I acknowledge that my withdrawal is hardly some big loss for CU, but as more scholars do the same, it will be...

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

@StephenHet28137 @lukewyoung @yazzarf Well no, but it’s not instrumentalizing of the horror Rafah is experiencing to note how reactions to it (such as ZS’s) reveal much about contours of current knowledge production machine - making it more susceptible, maybe(?), to dismantling.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

Obligatory author-with-book photo. A bit cringe, yes, please forgive. Thanks to @AnthroGoodale and Dylan Kyung-lim White @stanfordpress for their hard work chaperoning this to existence

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

Dave Mathieson is notoriously realist - just six months ago he was laughing at NUG propaganda that the SAC would soon fall. #Operation1027 has changed his mind: "the Sac is finished"

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

15 days

'“I don’t suspect that they would have asserted this kind of control had the piece been about Tibet, Kashmir, Puerto Rico, or other contested political sites," Katherine Franke @ProfKFranke , a professor, told The Intercept.'

Natasha Lennard

@natashalennard

15 days

Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website... latest from @prem_thakker and me @theintercept , & latest stifling of Rabea Eghbariah's crucial scholarship on "Nakba as a legal concept"

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

Nuance is not another word for antipolitical equivocation and moral cowardice. Hope that helps.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

11 months

"Setting up young scholars to cross a picket line to get ahead in their careers may be an accurate lesson about the academy, but are the association’s leaders sure that they want to teach it so openly?" 💀💀💀

Alyssa Battistoni

@alybatt

11 months

"It is a shame that APSA is refusing to leverage its considerable weight to help the workers win the strike...But solidarity takes courage. And then there is its opposite: cowardice." Must read from @alexnpress :

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

@MaxAbrahms @DavidKlion You gonna address the fact that you’re slandering students - with despicable accusations, by ventriloquizing horrific slurs - without any evidence?

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

anyone investing faith in ICJ should consult their Rohingya friends about how effective that has been for Rohingya desires to return to their homeland. Or for that matter, ask Nicaragua, who in 1984 won against USA, only for USA to ignore and then veto the ruling

ashok kumar 🇵🇸

@broseph_stalin

5 months

Algeria🇩🇿 is the 18 country to back South Africa🇿🇦 ICJ case against Israel today Libya 🇱🇾 Colombia 🇨🇴 Brazil 🇧🇷 Turkey 🇹🇷 Indonesia 🇮🇩 Malaysia 🇲🇾 Bolivia 🇧🇴 Nicaragua 🇳🇮 Maldives 🇲🇻 Venezuela 🇻🇪 Namibia 🇳🇦 Morocco 🇲🇦 Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Pakistan 🇵🇰 Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦 Iran 🇮🇷 Jordan 🇯🇴

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

4 months

Continuing my popular Twitter series “infrastructure that US doesn’t have bc it’s basically a failed state that spends all its money on guns and lawn care”: currently on a train from Jakarta to Bandung that is going 244km/hr.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

A haiku for the militarized university

darryl li

@dcli

1 month

Over the past decade, Johns Hopkins has received nearly twice as much money from the Pentagon as it has from tuition

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

many ppl currently observing that unis are endowments with vestigial teaching ops. @furstfrancois had this banger back in 2020 where he called the uni "a tax shelter for the endowment" (when @JohnsHopkins cut retirement rather than dip into endowment)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

We promised a Massive Party and it was delivered! Thanks everyone for coming and to Papa NUS for the gracious material support.

Rebecca Galemba

@RebeccaGalemba

7 months

Fun book party #AAACASCA special thanks to @_e_pf_ for your generosity in creating a shared celebration space w/ Lisa Bhungalia, Bruce Whitehouse, @brookebocast @NeenaMahadev @stanfordpress

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

Love this courage, a model for others (note she’s not tenured but still out here)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

10 months

So, that cover. Designed by Myanmar artist Dr May Myanmar, that's not a Russian matryoshka doll, but a Burmese pyit-taing-htaung [ပစ်တိုင်းထောင်] toy, which means "every time it's thrown / takes a hit, it stands up again"; it's become an emblem of the current anti-coup uprising.

Stanford Press

@stanfordpress

10 months

Rights Refused is out now! In this book, Elliott Prasse-Freeman ( @_e_pf_ ) documents grassroots political activists who advocate for workers and peasants across Burma and shows how Burmese subaltern politics compel us to reconsider how rights frameworks operate everywhere #ReadUP

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

10 months

this thread is brilliant. Lumpen proletarian debt collectors as the nexus of a lot: financial capitalism's colonization of our life-world / the law as operating in exception + violence just beneath it / difficulty in building even inter-class solidarity within cap, etc. etc.

Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK

@doctorow

10 months

The vast majority of America's debt collection targets $500-2,000 credit card debts. It is a filthy business, operated by lawless firms who hire unskilled workers drawn from the same economic background as their targets, who routinely and grotesquely flout the law. 1/

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

again [see: ], the political potency of a protest depends on the demand. "Stop using my tax/tuition $ to fund genocide" is different than "we should know about the conflict in Tigray." Insisting otherwise is either ignorance or reactionary cynicism

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

Say what you will about Jodi Dean’s essay, but its point (that liberals can only see Palestinians as victims / rejects them as soon as they are political agents) was perfectly proven by the fact that she’s been suspended from teaching for writing it

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

The jokes write themselves

Chasing Aphrodite

@ChasingAphrodit

3 months

The British Museum is suing its former senior curator Peter Higgs, alleging he stole or damaged at least 1,800 objects and sold them over 10 years to 45 buyers around the world over eBay, the BBC reports.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

Important advice from the current anthro job market: don’t listen to journal editors.

Lab of Spec still masking!

@LabSpecEth

2 months

Important advice from Laurence Ralph: finish your dissertation before you try to chunk out a journal article.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

psyched that @Rgnhardliner was asked to share this statement from Myanmar’s Progressive Muslim Youth Association among others. It’s a full-throated, unconditional call for solidarity with students on strike for Palestine in the US. Long live international solidarity!

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

9 months

Hey #AnthroTwitter , if coming to AAAs in Toronto, join @RebeccaGalemba , @NeenaMahadev , @brookebocast , @BridgesFromBKO , Lisa Bhungalia, and myself for a book launch party at Pint Public House: from 9pm on Fri 17th All are welcome! It will be MASSIVE

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

Second Nakba announced in Jerusalem Post, staking out parameters of possibility. Is this the extreme position? or the “reasonable”one, given Netanyahoo’s Amalek rhetoric. The article’s tone suggests latter - ethnic cleansing as humanitarian final solution

Max Fox

@mxwfx

7 months

Confirming previous reports of these plans, the Israeli Intelligence minister publishes an op ed calling for total expulsion of Palestinian residents from Gaza

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

sometimes it's hard to teach ACAB to my kids - to explain that police exist to protect capital rather than people. One trip thru the timeline changed that tho 7 year-old: "The kids are getting arrested? But they don't look mean, Dada. Why? Just b/c the ppl with the $ said so?"

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

"What would it mean for our solidarity to rest not on notional liberal values, but on a materialist commitment to Palestinian life and endurance, justice and liberation?" @Rgnhardliner @qubaiova @N_Salahaldeen & @klaudiawieser in @ayca_cu at al's series:

Testimonial 15: In defense of Palestine solidarity

This testimonial was written on 14 December 2023. At universities in Vienna, and in Vienna and Austria more broadly, an acute atmosphere of repression prevails regarding almost any kind of Palest...

www.versobooks.com

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

I reviewed several books on Rohingya life in northern Rakhine state and beyond (chin, Thailand, KSA, Malaysia, etc) - focusing on books written by Rohingya authors themselves + revealing details that go beyond typical two dimensional tales of suffering

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

9 months

big Friday (15 september) coming up, with two talks about my recently published @stanfordpress book, one in Chiang Mai at 10:30am and one in Bangkok at 7pm. Chiang Mai (RCSD): Bangkok (FCCT): (scroll) book copies from @CAP_Ltd

RCSD Chiang Mai

@rcsd_cmu

10 months

Join us for book launch and discussion with @_e_pf_ author of "Rights Refused: Grassroots activist and state violence in Myanmar," Friday, 15 September, 10:30 to 12:30, 4F meeting room, operations bldg, Faculty of Social Sciences, CMU

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

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1 month

@melnickjeffrey1 in 2010 I took Asad's 2007 joint on a plane ... kinda intentionally. but no one noticed / cared. I did get strip searched in Tel Aviv tho after I told them my purpose for visiting was to witness apartheid in action.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

@ZachWritesStuff @BigMeanInternet Uganda in the mix too! (6th Z-ist conf, 1903)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

8 months

Interview with Tareq Baconi @thedigradio is excellent and, yes, nuanced: . Screenshot below is from Baconi's book, an insight into reality for Gazan children.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

“U not a colleague you a colonizer” Name something that could be heard in a diss track or at a faculty meeting.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

@corinneblalock interesting article in N+1 the other day on the police breaking free from institutional capture (qua coercive arm of capitalist class), becoming free to act on their own libidinal desires (libidinal desire language is mine, tbf)

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

10 days

Jason Read @Unemployedneg talks about his new book

‎New Books in Critical Theory: Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of...

‎Show New Books in Critical Theory, Ep Jason Read, "The Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work" (Verso, 2024) - Jun 8, 2024

podcasts.apple.com

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

10-yr-old: dada, i'm so hored. me: excuse me? she: oh, it's a combination of "hungry" and bored." just came up with it. I also call it "bungry." me: oh, i like that one better. go with that.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

@rinewithoutacat @LouBegaVEVO Jason Read did not enjoy this same privilege:

Jason Read

@Unemployedneg

2 months

I tried to make this argument at one of my first jobs. I just wanted to go into the alley and stare at the dumpster like my smoking coworkers. My boss said if I wanted a smoke break I would have to take up smoking.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

9 months

I eschew LinkedIn style faux humility, and so when I say I'm humbled to be a part of @GCcunyAnthro 's colloq, it's truth. I started out in the anthro game, a refugee from dev econ (!), attending 2012 Friday sessions - saw Asad, Balibar, Mbembe, met Coronil before he passed.🥹

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

8 months

Here in London today for book launch hosted by @steinmuller and the LSE Saw Swee Hock SEA Centre @LSESEAC at noon.

LSE Anthropology

@LSEAnthropology

8 months

New event with @steinmuller next week. For more information please visit

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

Talal Asad holding the gun

Geoffrey Hughes

@geofffhughes

3 months

"So new atheism is just Christianity with more racism"?

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

27 days

RIP the shared governance canard

The Harvard Crimson

@thecrimson

27 days

BREAKING: The Harvard Corporation rejected an effort by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to confer degrees on 13 seniors facing disciplinary charges for participating in the pro-Palestine encampment. @HaidarEmma and @cam_kettles report.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

No shade to @emanabdelhadi , she’s abs right, only to add that “free speech” is not the ground of struggle. The ground is *political* - upending material Palestine oppression - rather than to secure apolitical liberal foundations (speech) subject always anyway to the exception.

Eman Abdelhadi

@emanabdelhadi

2 months

The current position of America's liberal elites is: you should have absolute free speech if you were invited by an elite institution and are handed a microphone and a podium. Everyone else deserves police batons.

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@_e_pf_

10 days

I guess it’s not screams without words when it happens to Palestinians. The screams have words. But they are apparently boring words, not worthy of a headline, barely worth a mention at the end of the piece

Alec Karakatsanis

@equalityAlec

12 days

The New York Times reports Israeli military is torturing people by impaling them with hot metal rods in their rectums and tying them to electric chairs. This information is buried at the end of a single article where these details are unmentioned in the headline or subheadline.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

8 months

I will be talking about my recently published book on Burmese activism , with reflections on current global resistance/refusal, in: Amsterdam, London, Oxford, New Haven, Ithaca, New York, Toronto, Madison, Seattle, and Vancouver .

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

The mandala stays relevant

Dominique Lefebvre

@ddlefebvre

2 months

Territorial "control" is an awful way of conceptualising ways dif. armed groups are active in Myanmar: how they are present in areas, local nuances of everyday conflict & mediation btw. groups. Result is: maps of control, gov. etc mostly of limited use & often just simply wrong

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

6 months

@gabrielwinant As for love, for organizing, and really they are similar aren’t they?: “Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.” Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

@zunguzungu In a way, it’s stunning that this is being relitigated again. The Israeli negotiator himself admitted: “Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well."

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@_e_pf_

11 days

@weiss_hadas that's when you hate yourself tbf

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@_e_pf_

1 month

What’s the opposite of “my apologies, I wasn’t familiar with your game”?

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

19 days

@Rgnhardliner recently daughter 2 asked about "that really bad guy, i can't remember his name, i think it was Hitlin." me: "do you mean Hitler?" d2: "yeah! George Hitler!" me: "Adolph, actually" [d2, horrified]: OLAF?!

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

I must be reading this wrong but the report @HolocaustMuseum just released about risk of new or continuing mass killings of civilians in 2024 mentions neither “Israel” nor “Palestine”. The 8,000 gazan children simply do not exist?

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

Today in ethnic cleansing: MNDAA permitting neither Bama people nor non-Kokang speakers to return to their homes in Laukkaing is not great: "ကိုးကန့်စကားမပြောနိုင်ရင် ဝင်ခွင့်မရသေးဘူး" and "ဒါအပြင် ဗမာလူမျိုးမှတ်ပုံတင်ကိုင်ဆောင်ထားသူတွေ ဝင်ခွင့်မရဘူး"

လောက်ကိုင်ကိုပြန်ချင်သူတွေ - BBC News မြန်မာ

ကိုးကန့်တပ် - MNDAA က လောက်ကိုင်ကိုသိမ်းပိုက်ထိန်းချုပ်ပြီးကိုးကန့်ဒေသအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးယန္တရားလည်ပတ်နေပြီလို့ကြေညာလိုက်တဲ့နောက် လောက်ကိုင်မြို့ကိုစွန့်ခွာတိမ်းရှောင်ခဲ့တဲ့မြို့ခံလူထုလည်း ပြန်လည်ဝင်ရောက်...

www.bbc.com

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

Rumor is that Orcas in the audience planning direct action

Andrew Ahern

@PoliticOfNature

7 months

Yall. I wish this was a joke but it's not. There will be a "Responsible Yachting" panel at #COP28 . This is the shit that puts me in despair.

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@_e_pf_

7 months

Some of my favorite folks chatting here. Very excited to hear @vichitram book is so close to existing. By using comics it shows rather than tells in a way that makes normal ethnographic writing seem like the sound has been turned down.

Sneha Annavarapu

@SnehaAnnavarapu

7 months

In our latest episode for the @EthnoMargin podcast, Alex & I talked with the ever-insightful @vichitram about ethnographic approaches to coastlines, climate change, and comics. Do tune in @NewBooksNetwork

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@_e_pf_

2 months

The sign to be tapped for the next 7 months right here

Aamer Rahman

@aamer_rahman

2 months

"You want Trump to come back?"

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@_e_pf_

5 months

@BigMeanInternet I think about that Gibbs line if not weekly than at least monthly. The obscene smugness? Or the dismissiveness through nonsense? It’s breathtaking

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@_e_pf_

6 months

Went through a minor operation last night (c’mon appendix!), and my report: it hurts to be cut into. Can’t stop thinking of the ppl in Gaza getting treated without pain medication. Nauseating to ponder

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

For those interested in the #Rohingya community's life after genocide, join me for a talk at @UWaterloo on 14 Nov @ 4pm. I will also touch on my recently published @stanfordpress book, Rights Refused, which has a chapter devoted to the Rohingya in Myanmar.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

9 months

Thanks to those who came out to hear about the book @FCCThai and @rcsd_cmu yesterday, and for the chats about the diffuse uprisings occurring now. Special thanks to Dave Mathieson and Jennifer Leehey for their kind introductions. And @CAP_Ltd managed to get books to CM b4 event!

FCCThai

@FCCThai

9 months

Join us tonight at 7 pm for a captivating talk with Elliott Prasse-Freeman as he delves into the complex world of Burmese grassroots political activism, challenging conventional notions of rights and justice

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@_e_pf_

7 months

@ZeeshanAleem @pbuck @ChaseMadar There are quite a few posts providing context re the owners ties to IDF. Here’s one:

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

The pop psych claim that ppl are exercised by Gaza bc it satisfies a psychological need for certainty amidst a postmodern blur of relativism, rather than bc ppl feel revulsion and responsibility for the sociopathic vengeance funded by their tax $, is peak cynical galaxy brain

David Roberts

@drvolts

3 months

It's difficult to find anything in the modern, complex, interconnected, cacophonous world that fits the bill. Lots of people have found that moral certainty in the Gaza situation & have become addicted to it, in a way that no long has much to do with the actual welfare of Gazans.

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@_e_pf_

22 days

@dee_of_e Dance like no one is watching dorm room wall decal

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@_e_pf_

12 days

Look, if you want to just be a museum for the Holocaust that's fine, but don't pretend to be about "never again" and "confronting genocide" if you have nothing to say about Palestine rn (checking @HolocaustMuseum 's website and feed: they have nothing to say rn)

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

I must be reading this wrong but the report @HolocaustMuseum just released about risk of new or continuing mass killings of civilians in 2024 mentions neither “Israel” nor “Palestine”. The 8,000 gazan children simply do not exist?

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@_e_pf_

7 months

A reminder that this is happening tomorrow night. Come thirsty

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

9 months

Hey #AnthroTwitter , if coming to AAAs in Toronto, join @RebeccaGalemba , @NeenaMahadev , @brookebocast , @BridgesFromBKO , Lisa Bhungalia, and myself for a book launch party at Pint Public House: from 9pm on Fri 17th All are welcome! It will be MASSIVE

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

5 months

@LabSpecEth quick plug that @Anthro_Theory is starting up a books reviews section at ATC, it's short-form space. One objective is for anthros to review books of theory (from lit, philosophy, critical theory, etc) that aren't technically "anthro" but may have imp anthro applications.

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@_e_pf_

4 months

@esdsantos I see Wilderson, sharpe, and Sexton as non dialectical Afro P whereas Spillers, Moten, Hartmann admit the possibility of dialectical movement (if not resolution) of anti blackness through political praxis. All are challenging thinkers

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@_e_pf_

1 month

I hear a rumor there’s an account keeping track of Shafik’s employment status and I’m very here for it.

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@_e_pf_

2 months

I’m not sure we (humanity) have yet earned this kind of resuturing, and so his assessment feels like a promise to live up to, to continue to try to realize

Max Fox

@mxwfx

2 months

Think about this. This person in Gaza is identifying the political function of genocide as severing a people from human existence and saying this moment of international solidarity is even more powerful than that

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Enjoyed @leftofphil ’s podcast on Kant and the nuttiness of deriving a political system from his normative presuppositions . esp liked when @lilcicerch reminds hosts that you have to take Kant seriously enuf to really appreciate liberalism’s craziness.

‎What's Left of Philosophy: 82 | The State and Right: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals on Apple Podcasts

‎Show What's Left of Philosophy, Ep 82 | The State and Right: Kant's Metaphysics of Morals - Feb 7, 2024

podcasts.apple.com

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@_e_pf_

5 months

Caption this (For the uninitiated, this is coup leader and civilian butcher MAL paying obeisance to a skeptical ogress, a pretty desperate move)

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Podcast on a Burmese revolutionary committed to non-violence. When confronted w the suggestion that non-vio is inefficacious against the regime, he responds “[w]e are preparing for the long journey. For me, it is not just about a coup, but a 70-year-long institution.”

Insight Myanmar Podcast

@InsightMyanmar

1 month

Beyond the Barricades

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

2 months

there is now a sign-on sheet for scholars to pledge to boycott @Columbia events: .

Sign-on: no guest speakers on campuses that ban or suspend nonviolent pro-Palestine student orgs

***To seek approval of an on- or off-campus event with a guest speaker, email [email protected].*** We write as students at Columbia and Barnard who are alarmed and disturbed by attempts to...

docs.google.com

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

I have declined an invite to speak @WEAI_Columbia b/c @Columbia has shamefully banned @jvplive + @ColumbiaSJP b/c they are mobilizing against Gaza's annihilation. I acknowledge that my withdrawal is hardly some big loss for CU, but as more scholars do the same, it will be...

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@_e_pf_

6 months

A must read here on post-coup political imaginaries by @HtetMinlwin and @thwaung . Dovetails nicely with recent discussions of မင်မဲ့စရိုက် (anarchism) in Anya (အညာ)

Thiha Wint Aung

@thwaung

6 months

In this piece, we argue against those obsessed with “political fragmentation”. We argue why it is wrong for international policy community to insist @NUGMyanmar to create a central command, and offer an alternative. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

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@_e_pf_

2 months

“the blood and soil nationalism that motivates [apparently all (!) of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations] bears little resemblance to the Enlightenment values that are the pillars of the American republic” Oof @cmc_mikehaack .

U.S. 'nonlethal' aid for Myanmar's ethnic armies likely to backfire

Increased violence would be costly for all parties

asia.nikkei.com

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@_e_pf_

2 months

Get to Vienna to listen to the radical and principled @ayca_cu - see here: (and below, for @Rgnhardliner ‘s elaboration)

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@_e_pf_

8 months

A challenge for many academics is they can't be in solidarity w/out centering their own putative smarts. It's either stfu completely or give long takes of what Pals should do. (I hope i'm not recapitulating same thing now with advice on how to be quiet/supportive but not silent)

Nora Jaber - نورة جابر

@noratjaber

8 months

Very hard being a Palestinian anywhere right now, let alone in the West in liberal academic spaces where the silence of some is deafening and the statements of others are devastating.

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@_e_pf_

4 months

@tjoendy What about chilis tho

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@_e_pf_

20 days

the invocation to “get educated” is a threat to stay ignorant, a demand to stay away. It insists that there’s a truth that yet escapes you, one that would transform the obvious violence into peace, while implying that the amount of knowledge is so great as to forever evade you.

rome

@ymorbeauty

20 days

I genuinely love how Zionists continue to tell people to get educated, and people become anti-Zionists from said education.

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@_e_pf_

5 months

Hi Singapore, come on over to NUS tomorrow evening to hear a bit about my recently published book w/ Dr Moe and @Stephen_Soe + a special bonus discussion of ongoing အရေးတော်ပုံ. Zoom is also available at

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@_e_pf_

3 months

For those interested in temporarality and social movements, esp how engagements play out over long durations, check this article

Zali Fung

@zalifung

1 year

Thanks @PolGeoIag ! Article co-authored with @DrVanessa_Lamb & available open access @antipodeonline

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@_e_pf_

10 months

I hate to agree with Mausert but this is indeed pathetic. One wonders if it’s cynical (as in they know they are FOS and acting “as if”) or if NLD truly believe they were blameless. (All this said, it was sit-tat not NLD or Facebook or etc) who was responsible for killings.

🍉 Kirt Mausert

@KirtMausert

10 months

This isn’t an apology. It’s classic Burmese side-stepping of responsibility, blaming the failure on circumstances. A real apology acknowledges responsibility, @NUGMyanmar . This is pathetic and insulting to every #Rohingya survivor of Myanmar’s genocide.

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@_e_pf_

7 months

I want this to be true (and wrote an article on it w lots of visuals: ). It seems at very least that Myan’s active revolutionaries are not waiting for intl cavalry, which bestows degraded recognition, rarely real solidarity, only on perfect victims.

Bullets and Boomerangs: Proleptic Uses of Failure in Myanmar's Anti-coup Uprising

Abstract. Through digital ethnography of the mass uprising against Myanmar's early-2021 military coup, this article considers appeals to “the international community,” in which activists maneuver the...

read.dukeupress.edu

Hsan

@HsanLoatheCoup

7 months

Mymanmar ppl are truly not concerned about getting the int'l community help or not. We are way over it and learned how to be sustainable and fight the fascist regime by being united. This is a home grown organic revolution that will be learned in the history book in the future.

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@_e_pf_

1 month

and wasn't he in ceasefire with this "brutal military regime" for quite a while postcoup? ...

🍉 Kirt Mausert

@KirtMausert

1 month

Creating a separate safe zone for your people is "very unpatriotic" says leader of an armed group fighting for...a separate safe zone for his people. 🤡🤡🤡

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@_e_pf_

5 months

It is undeniable that we are dancing at the rave outside of the prison colony

Lake Eater

@lakeeater

5 months

been repeating this stupid line until im hoarse and it's useless but if you live where i live or somewhere like it, how do you not understand that you're on a golden island in a sea of corpses, of blood, of actual breathing human beings ground up into nothing daily FOR YOU!!

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@_e_pf_

7 months

look carefully to notice this important event is now sponsored by @ceu . Why? Bc it was disgracefully canceled by @univienna (they don’t pick sides! And yet their PoliSci dept has statement w actual Israeli flags on it, smh ).

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@_e_pf_

5 months

Cotton doesn't understand this, b/c he's willfully ignorant, but insinuating a Singaporean is not just PRC but also CCP to boot is just hilarious, given Sg's brief po-co history is structured around the state's anti-Communist mobilization. But just asking questions, i guess!

Aparna Nair

@DisabilityStor1

5 months

Holy crap.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

20 days

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the timeline.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

Everybody competing for #2 on this one.

Assume a can opener - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

benjamin aldes wurgaft

@benwurgaft

3 months

What academic discipline has the worst déformation professionnelle? That is, whose practitioners just seem the most incapable, by dint of their training, of approaching the world as anything but a member of their discipline, which is to say, as totally whack?

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

Horrific arson of Rohingya villages in Buthidaung tsp

Nathan Ruser

@Nrg8000

1 month

Buthidaung is burning. Satellite detected fire hotspots show essentially the entire city is being burnt overnight. Critical this crime against humanity (and a predominantly Rohingya city) is held accountable, whether it is the junta destroying a town before they lose it, or

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@_e_pf_

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Adam McKay

@ZombiePanther2

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Aihwa Ong... contemporary SEA studies 🐐? Student pointed out today that 4wks of 12wk course were structured around Ong joints: industrialization [Spirits of Resistance]; religion + public sphere [State v Islam]; gender + migration [New Cartography]; biopolitics [Fungible Life]

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

Taps the sign - er, map. (And the 96% number kept Jerusalem out entirely, iirc)

Ryan Ruby

@_ryanruby_

1 month

There were three main issues on the table during Camp David: right of return, status of East Jerusalem, and territory. Here is the map that was rejected by Arafat: 22% of Mandate Palestine cut up into 4 non-contiguous zones. The 96% figure is one of the 21st century's great lies.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

7 months

I’m lucky enough to be comrades with @Dr_Atshan who will speak about his research on humanitariansim in the context of occupation in the OPT at AAA / CASCA on Thursday morning (see below for other panels on Palestine)

anthroboycott

@anthroboycott

7 months

We invite you to attend events and panels which include presentations on Palestine; you can find them here. 4/9

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@_e_pf_

9 months

I hope @DetroitPistons are paying attention. Couple ways they can get involved in similar strike fund support close to home…

TSSU

@TSSU

9 months

We are grateful to @TheNBPA and its members on the Toronto Raptors who have donated $10,000 to TSSU’s strike fund to stand in solidarity with us while they visit Vancouver.

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

4 months

pleased to see this review up of Waves of Upheaval, edited by Jenny Hedström and Elizabeth Olivius @EOlivius :

Review– Waves of Upheaval in Myanmar: Gendered Transformations and Political Transitions - Kyoto...

How do particular values of gender equality interface with traditional narratives of Burmese identity? These chapters pave the way for future exploration of such critical issues.

kyotoreview.org

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

8 months

To grasp living conditions under defacto occupation in Gaza (of the air, of the subsoil, of the water - what we might today call 'volumetric occupation'), check out Eyal Weizman's masterpiece:

Hollow Land

Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world, publishing one hundred books a year.

www.versobooks.com

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

1 month

What does bonk bonk sound like underwater? #bonkbonk

missymarxy ☭

@missymarxy

1 month

The yacht sinking orcas at back at it again. ☠️

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

8 months

thrilled to be at UCL tomorrow for this chat about Rights Refused published by @stanfordpress . Big thanks to @mirandasheild and @steinmuller for their hosting / engagement with the book.

miranda sheild johansson

@mirandasheild

8 months

Book launch this Thur 2nd of Nov @UCLanthropology 14 Taviton st, student common room 5.30-7pm Author: Elliott Prasse-Freeman (NUS) @_e_pf_ Discussant Hans Steinmüller (LSE) @steinmuller Chaired by me @mirandasheild All welcome!

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Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

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Another contestant for Atlantic's new tagline competition

Elliott Prasse-Freeman

@_e_pf_

3 months

Atlantic out here testing new taglines

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