Felix A. Jiménez Botta
@felixjimenezbotta.bsky.social
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Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
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My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
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Join me in Berlin on Wednesday November 5 at 6PM for a book talk on Capitalism: A Global History at Freie Universität Berlin | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (Raum A 127)
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Join me in Berlin on Wednesday November 5 at 6PM for a book talk on Capitalism: A Global History at Freie Universität Berlin | Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut (Raum A 127)
“The idea that a machine, an artificial intelligence, non-human, can do history is truly absurd.” Excellent short essay by Andrés Gattinoni exposing the fallacies in claims by the AI hype-cycle (looking at you Microsoft!) that we are to be replaced by their shoddy products. nuso.org/articulo/his...
Inteligencia artificial e historia: lo que no puede una máquina | Nueva Sociedad
Un reciente estudio de Microsoft Research incluyó a los historiadores entre los profesionales más reemplazables por la inteligencia artificial. Pero esa proyección desconoce lo esencial: la historia n...
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August 30, 2025 at 1:21 AM
“The idea that a machine, an artificial intelligence, non-human, can do history is truly absurd.” Excellent short essay by Andrés Gattinoni exposing the fallacies in claims by the AI hype-cycle (looking at you Microsoft!) that we are to be replaced by their shoddy products. nuso.org/articulo/his...
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Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.
The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation
This cutting-edge collection of essays analyses the pivotal year of 1989 and the transformation processes that resulted from a historical perspective. It takes the events of that momentous year as a p...
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August 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Excited to see The Routledge Handbook of 1989 and the Great Transformation hit the web www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... It should be out at the end of 2025.
Never Forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Picture credit: NARA, College Park MD.
August 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Never Forget Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Picture credit: NARA, College Park MD.
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: From the ICRC’s confidential report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, pp. 6–7: “Those victims who were in the immediate vicinity of the centre in the streets were completely burnt and unrecognizable...”
August 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Tomorrow is the 80th anniversary of the US nuclear bombing of Hiroshima: From the ICRC’s confidential report on the effects of the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, pp. 6–7: “Those victims who were in the immediate vicinity of the centre in the streets were completely burnt and unrecognizable...”
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I would like to announce the account of the journal I edit:
@journalgenocide.bsky.social
Please follow it for updates on our articles.
Thank you.
@journalgenocide.bsky.social
Please follow it for updates on our articles.
Thank you.
July 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I would like to announce the account of the journal I edit:
@journalgenocide.bsky.social
Please follow it for updates on our articles.
Thank you.
@journalgenocide.bsky.social
Please follow it for updates on our articles.
Thank you.
This is a brazen case of police brutality in Germany for the @humanistischeunion.bsky.social and @hrw.org to investigate.
July 24, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is a brazen case of police brutality in Germany for the @humanistischeunion.bsky.social and @hrw.org to investigate.
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The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)
July 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State. Available now as an Ebook! (print copies will start shipping in a month)
I keep hearing about the “total disregard for international law” (e.g. Volker Türk) which the situation in Gaza is supposed to showcase. But @dirkmoses.bsky.social shows that international law protects the right of states to wage war, even if they actively target civilians.
I’ve just published this comparison of the Vietnam and Gaza genocide debates. The former frames the latter. But the #ICJ has ways to escape the frame if it’s willing to think outside the box link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 16, 2025 at 3:05 AM
I keep hearing about the “total disregard for international law” (e.g. Volker Türk) which the situation in Gaza is supposed to showcase. But @dirkmoses.bsky.social shows that international law protects the right of states to wage war, even if they actively target civilians.
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Psst, I have a new discount code to save 30% on my new book "A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa." Or maybe ask your library to order a copy if it's still a stretch. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
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July 14, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Psst, I have a new discount code to save 30% on my new book "A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa." Or maybe ask your library to order a copy if it's still a stretch. fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/...
Setting the record straight about the GDR by @historyned.bsky.social
In 10 days, the e-book edition of The German Democratic Republic: The Rise and Fall of a Cold War State will be published! If you have pre-ordered a print version, it should start to ship out in five weeks.
It’s here!
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Setting the record straight about the GDR by @historyned.bsky.social
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Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 19, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Official release day for my newie 'A Pacific Power: Liberal Imperialism in German Samoa'. And I have copies!! Would love to see this in a few libraries. You can order it here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990
www.cambridge.org
June 20, 2025 at 8:09 AM
My book, Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990, is out this September!
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
Thanks to Devin Pendas, Quinn Slobodian, Lora Wildenthal, @historyned.bsky.social, @laurenstokes.bsky.social, and @willgray.bsky.social for their support!
www.cambridge.org/core/books/l...
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This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
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June 16, 2025 at 10:39 AM
This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
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Friedrich Merz fails to get his own CDU/CSU-SPD coalition to vote for him as Chancellor. 18 members of the government seem to have decided not to support him on the first ballot, which has failed. This has never happened in the history of the Federal Republic. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
Live-Analyse: Friedrich Merz scheitert im ersten Wahlgang
Politisches Erdbeben im Bundestag: Friedrich Merz hat bei der Wahl zum Kanzler im ersten Wahlgang die notwendige Mehrheit verfehlt. Nun kann er einen neuen Anlauf nehmen. Die Sitzung in der Live-Analy...
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May 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Friedrich Merz fails to get his own CDU/CSU-SPD coalition to vote for him as Chancellor. 18 members of the government seem to have decided not to support him on the first ballot, which has failed. This has never happened in the history of the Federal Republic. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...
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Join us tomorrow 2PM EDT for this online discussion.
For years, US advocates have accompanied Latin American human rights groups fighting enforced disappearance in their countries.
Now, it's the other way around.
Event: bit.ly/apr-30-disap...
Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons
For years, US advocates have accompanied Latin American human rights groups fighting enforced disappearance in their countries.
Now, it's the other way around.
Event: bit.ly/apr-30-disap...
Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons
April 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Join us tomorrow 2PM EDT for this online discussion.
For years, US advocates have accompanied Latin American human rights groups fighting enforced disappearance in their countries.
Now, it's the other way around.
Event: bit.ly/apr-30-disap...
Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons
For years, US advocates have accompanied Latin American human rights groups fighting enforced disappearance in their countries.
Now, it's the other way around.
Event: bit.ly/apr-30-disap...
Register: bit.ly/apr-30-lessons
The proofs for my book “Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990” are finally in. The book questions the scholarly portrayal of human rights as primarily a conservative and retrenched political and intellectual project.
April 28, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The proofs for my book “Latin America and Human Rights Politics in West Germany, 1973–1990” are finally in. The book questions the scholarly portrayal of human rights as primarily a conservative and retrenched political and intellectual project.
My introduction to the special issue “Human Rights in Postwar Germany,” all five articles by @willgray.bsky.social, Catriona Corke, Sarah Jacobson, Sarah Imani, Elise Pape and @historyned.bsky.social and Lora Wildenthal’s conclusion are now available online. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The Multiple Meanings of Human Rights in Germany: an Introduction - Felix A. Jiménez Botta, 2025
This special section probes the contested history of human rights in Germany by tracing several historical case studies ranging from migrant advocacy for housin...
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April 17, 2025 at 12:06 PM
My introduction to the special issue “Human Rights in Postwar Germany,” all five articles by @willgray.bsky.social, Catriona Corke, Sarah Jacobson, Sarah Imani, Elise Pape and @historyned.bsky.social and Lora Wildenthal’s conclusion are now available online. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Now rolling out in early online access: a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History edited by Felix Jiménez Botta on Human Rights in Postwar Germany. Lora Wildenthal and I wrote an epilogue for this wonderful collection that you can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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April 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Now rolling out in early online access: a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History edited by Felix Jiménez Botta on Human Rights in Postwar Germany. Lora Wildenthal and I wrote an epilogue for this wonderful collection that you can read here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Shocking that Columbia University refuses to legally defend itself from Trumpian attacks and accedes in policing its students for expressing their opinion.
Columbia University junior Yunseo Chung sued U.S. President Donald Trump, challenging "the government's shocking overreach in seeking to deport a college student... who is a lawful permanent resident of this country, because of her protected speech." www.commondreams.org/news/yunseo-...
Another Columbia Protester Targeted for Deportation Sues Trump | Common Dreams
Columbia University junior Yunseo Chung sued U.S. President Donald Trump and other top officials, challenging "the government's shocking overreach in seeking to deport a college student... who is a la...
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March 25, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Shocking that Columbia University refuses to legally defend itself from Trumpian attacks and accedes in policing its students for expressing their opinion.