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Vicki Squire
@vickisquire.bsky.social

Prof of International Politics, borders and migration, humanitarian data, sanctuary and solidarity activism - and other stuff too, she/her, Uni of Warwick but views my own

Political science 47%
Sociology 37%

Please do join us for our myth busting and activism panels if you are in or around Uni of Warwick/Coventry on Tuesday 11/11!!
Event announcement! 🔔

Join us for this event, as part of our Global Teach In/Out initiative 🌎 where we will partake in meaningful discussions and stand in solidarity with refugees and migrants everywhere. See poster for all details!
Event announcement! 🔔

Join us for this event, as part of our Global Teach In/Out initiative 🌎 where we will partake in meaningful discussions and stand in solidarity with refugees and migrants everywhere. See poster for all details!
Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...
Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning
Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
slate.com

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📢 @justpolitics-blog.bsky.social & @vickisquire.bsky.social from wicidwarwick.bsky.social‬ explore how dynamics of certainty and ignorance play out in humanitarian reasoning.

Their new article dives into certainty and ignorance in data-driven humanitarianism:
https://buff.ly/obUCw
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Congratulations Dr Banerjee!! :)

Why humanitarian data processes need dismantling - a piece I published in the Conversation based on my recent talk at University of Ibadan. theconversation.com/humanitarian...

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PAIS PhD Candidate Raymond Hyma and Professor Briony Jones have co-authored a new article in Development in Practice together with five Cambodian colleagues.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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🔍 Ever wondered where migration research is taking place?

➡️ 75% of migration research centres in Europe & N. America

Lorenzo Piccoli shares insights from a new tool that maps migration research & explores what this imbalance means for policy and future studies.

📌 lnkd.in/dnUX4QZk
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Professor Vicki Squire is giving a lecture at University of Ibadan, Nigeria on the impacts of defunding for humanitarian data. @vickisquire.bluesky.social

We already know enough - on humanitarian knowledge/non-knowledge and epistemic violence, with Briony Jones, and with thanks to the SI editors Claudia Aradau and Lucrezia Canzutti, from the Data and Displacement project www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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I did a tally of this today and currently there’s over 650 collections of online and open access radical historical documents now listed.

And there’s a bunch more to add!

hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/radical-onli...
radical online collections and archives
I am very interested in the growing amount of radical literature from around the world that is being scanned and digitised. As there are so many and from many different places, I thought it would b…
hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com

Brilliant 😂😂😂

Sincere condolences

Proud to be part of team who has been working on this: “Palestine: Spaces and Politics”. An introductory curriculum to Palestine in context, using a spatial lens.

Most resources are open access, prioritizing Palestinian authors.

#menasky, #geosky

palestine.araburbanism.com
Palestine: Spaces and Politics
Introductory Curriculum
palestine.araburbanism.com

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New ePODstemology episode!
@AnimKSam from @PAISWarwick
is on to talk about his work on democratic consolidation in Africa, especially the role of institutions like the National Peace Council in Ghana.

t.co/F7LHkh3LnA
How to achieve democratic consolidation in Africa - ePODstemology
While Kim Jong Un might disagreed, democracy is widely regarded as a universal value – it is a system of political organisation that enshrines the right to self-determination. Recent centuries have ...
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