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Sarah Bellows-Blakely
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Historian at Freie Universität Berlin | 📕 Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi (U of Chicago Press, 2025) | Global historian of Africa, Europe, gender, knowledge, the UN, and institutional processes of erasure
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My book is out! Official publication date is May 6th, but hard copies are already shipping. Thanks to Abosede George and Lynn Thomas for graciously writing blurbs for the back cover. The acknowledgments section is four pages long for a reason! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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“Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!”

Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.

My latest for Zeteo:
Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
zeteo.com
January 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Extractive Capitalism, @lalehkhalili.bsky.social argues, is the system by which commodities (oil, ore, bauxite, coal, sand) are excavated, transported, processed and sold at markups that funnel profits to a narrow investor class while externalising costs on to workers, communities & the environment.
Laleh Khalili’s Extractive Capitalism: A beautiful map of the entangled global economy
The University of Exeter academic's book exposes how essential commodities, data and labour exploitation fuel wealth that is increasingly concentrated in the hands of an elite
www.middleeasteye.net
December 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I had an interesting exchange with the chatbot issued to students by my university about the advisability of using it—at a university. It thought this was a terrible idea.
December 16, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Had the pleasure of hosting a manuscript workshop for Disha Karnad Jani’s exciting work on the League Against Imperialism. Thank you to @tsasson.bsky.social, Masha Kirasirova, and Judith Surkis for your brilliant comments and generosity. I look forward to this book being out in the world!
December 22, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥

👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN

💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal.

#Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation
December 18, 2025 at 9:10 AM
It was such a pleasure to give this keynote at the History & Political Economy Project conference in Boston. Great group of scholars doing ethically important work on neoliberal development planning and more. Thank you to the HPE Project organizers for inviting me!
We were thrilled to have Sarah Bellows-Blakely (@bellowsblakely.bsky.social, Freie Universität Berlin) deliver our conference's first keynote presentation, based on her book Girl Power? A History of Girl-Focused Development from Nairobi: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
December 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Everybody is talking about culture – and nobody agrees on what it means. If you want to think about why, you can check out my book published this week. “The Politics of Culture“ is about how three political movements used the concept of culture in France between the late 1960s and the early 1980s:
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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We are excited to announce our new lecture series starting tomorrow. Corey Ross (Basel) will be presenting on "Liquid Empire." Zoom Link: recentglobe.uni-leipzig.de/veranstaltun...
October 28, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Does anybody know of a translation company in Germany that provides translations of academic books from English into German? I have funds available to pay for a professional translation of my book into German, but it needs to be a company that is registered in Germany. Thanks in advance!
October 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Save the date! Really looking forward to this:
October 15, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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New article out! Read all about how Norwegian children engaged with communist internationalism in the 1920s and 1930s through letters, travels to the Soviet Union, and campaigning for international causes at home.🌍🚩🚢
Project MUSE - Working-Class Internationalism through Children's Eyes: The International Experiences of Norwegian Young Pioneers in the Interwar Period
muse.jhu.edu
April 22, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Our next Global History Colloquium includes @historyned.bsky.social, @laetitialenel.bsky.social, @doravargha.bsky.social, @hamremar.bsky.social, @kilderbenhauser.bsky.social, @blenormand.bsky.social, Denis Cogneau, Romain Tiquet, and Elise Dermineur. All welcome @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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A great thread applicable to scholars outside the US. Much of the work that historians do is not strictly what they’re paid for. Being able to do it depends on historians being stably employed, with access to resources, and with flexibility built in their schedules. All of those things are at risk.
Something I’ve been thinking about:

History as a profession has long relied on affiliation.

Your university or museum pays your salary, and in return, you give time to edit journals, peer review articles, write book reviews, consult on exhibits, and volunteer for institutional support. 1/
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Check out this new book on the history of fascism. I had the privilege of working with Martin when he was a doctoral candidate. His book is ethically engaged, well researched, smart, and timely.
My monograph "Fascists of the World, Unite? A History of Fascist Internationalism in the 1930s" has been published by @degruyterbrill.bsky.social this summer!
If you are curious, please order the book here or ask your favorite library to purchase it for you

www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
September 1, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
Project MUSE - Journal of Women's History-Volume 36, Number 1, Spring 2024
muse.jhu.edu
August 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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This is me either (a) waiting to hear from a journal or (b) writing my (significantly delayed) referee report:
August 7, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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📢 Are you a ECR/PhD candidate doing research on gender, sexuality, equality & justice? Then, consider joining the LEX Events Team! We need a person or 2 to:
✳️Help maintain & post to the LEX website
✳️LEX detail: lexnetwork.org
✳️Enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org @genderandjustice.bsky.social
LEX Research Network – Law Gender & Sexuality
lexnetwork.org
July 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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We are seeking enthusiastic and committed team members to fill a variety of roles that help to shape the intellectual and social life of our postgraduate community.

The roles we are recruiting for are...🖊️💻📲💼🖼️⚔️🏛️
July 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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If you do research in #girlhood studies then I have written an Oxford Bibliographies entry that will likely be of use! 93 entries sorted into 11 sub-fields, each subsection has its own overview of the field and each individual entry has an overview of the work's intervention

doi.org/10.1093/obo/...
Girlhood Studies
"Girlhood Studies" published on by null.
doi.org
July 25, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Excited to have been named a finalist for the Women’s Impact Award from the Falling Walls Foundation, @elsfoundation.bsky.social, and @volkswagenstiftung.de. This award is meant to support researchers whose work advances gender equality and creates tangible societal impact.
July 25, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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"Hast auch Du [...] die Erfahrung gemacht, dass der Austausch in einem Seminar, bei einer Konferenz [...] nicht gelungen ist?" - dann zur Veranstaltung "Geschichtswissenschaft - Raum für Dialog?!" anmelden am 12.9.2025 an der #UniBern:
www.gendercampus.ch/de/aktuelles...
Veranstaltungen
Gender Campus ist die Plattform für Gender Studies, Equality und Diversity im Schweizer Hochschulraum. Die Redaktion informiert über Aktivitäten und Neuigkeiten zu diesen Themen und vernetzt Personen ...
www.gendercampus.ch
July 15, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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Academics!

Have you written about or used the work of the late #JamesFerguson? Special issue of a journal dedicated to his memory/legacy edited by me (and 2 others).

Abstracts due by 31 Oct 2025; full papers by April 2026.

Happy to answer questions!

think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...
Thinking Through the Legacy of James Ferguson
think.taylorandfrancis.com
July 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM