Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
@xiananj.bsky.social
Academic at University of Exeter (Cornwall). Gender & Class | Transnational Feminist Solidarity | Africa and E-Asia | Decolonisation. Book MS in progress: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda.
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Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
@xiananj.bsky.social
· Nov 21
Land dispossession as continuum of violence: women’s political agency in post-genocide Rwanda
The article investigates how gender and class shape women’s political empowerment in post-genocide Rwanda, where access to land creates gendered networks for women to exercise their political agenc...
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My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal
w/ #OpenAccess.
It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
w/ #OpenAccess.
It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167
Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026!
Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?
Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻♀️🗻
Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻♀️
Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?
Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻♀️🗻
Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻♀️
Interested in authoritarian, post-conflict, or surveilled settings?
📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social.
Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
📍 Join “Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts” #KOMEX2026 online course by @catherineowen.bsky.social & @xiananj.bsky.social.
Learn creative, experimental, and decolonial ethnogr. methods: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/microcred...
October 17, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026!
Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?
Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻♀️🗻
Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻♀️
Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively?
Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻♀️🗻
Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻♀️
Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita
How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
September 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita
How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?
Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism.
By Françoise Vergès
By Françoise Vergès
September 21, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism.
By Françoise Vergès
By Françoise Vergès
Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
September 15, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social
How river thinks?
September 14, 2025 at 5:26 PM
How river thinks?
September 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Reposted by Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!
Registration is NOW OPEN for #KOMEX2026
✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights.
In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex
Learn from top scholars in:
🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more
🗓️ Feb 2026
🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...
@methodsnet.bsky.social
✨ Excellence. Affordability. No flights.
In-person @uni-konstanz.de or online via #ekomex
Learn from top scholars in:
🧠 R, Python, NVivo, QCA, Process Tracing, ML, SNA & more
🗓️ Feb 2026
🔗 Join: afww.uni-konstanz.de/en/komex/kon...
@methodsnet.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!
Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...
Gender - Dr Xianan Jin, Lecturer in African and Gender Politics
YouTube video by University of Exeter
youtube.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...
Reposted by Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
Forgetting - Professor Catriona Pennell, Professor in Modern History and Memory Studies
YouTube video by University of Exeter
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August 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...
Reposted by Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
Reindustrialisation - Dr Frederick Harry Pitts, Senior Lecturer in Politics
YouTube video by University of Exeter
youtu.be
August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum.
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability.
Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos:
youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...
I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Sanders warns of authoritarianism after Trump deploys national guard to LA
Senator says the future of the US ‘rests with a small number of Republicans in the House and Senate who know better’
www.theguardian.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
open.substack.com/pub/xiananji... I write personal stuff here…
Cuddle Cuddle Cuddle
At the end of the term, my colleague kindly gave me a ride home from campus.
open.substack.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
open.substack.com/pub/xiananji... I write personal stuff here…
Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
On bathrooms
I am writing this from a bath tub in my house, more precisely it’s my partner’s private property on legal terms.
open.substack.com
April 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here.
There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
There is nothing public in the US
This would be my first substack article. This is also my first visit in the US.
open.substack.com
April 13, 2025 at 7:04 AM
my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here.
There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...
Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹
March 17, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹
VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social
📢 Join us 3 April for a seminar with Dr Xianan Jin @exeter.ac.uk, on Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis.
📅 3 April, 16:00-17:30
📍 Herta Mohr building, Leiden
👉🏾 Register: www.ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
#Rwanda #GenderEquality #PoliticalAnalysis #FeministStudies #ASCLSeminar
📅 3 April, 16:00-17:30
📍 Herta Mohr building, Leiden
👉🏾 Register: www.ascleiden.nl/news/ascl-se...
#Rwanda #GenderEquality #PoliticalAnalysis #FeministStudies #ASCLSeminar
March 14, 2025 at 10:30 AM
VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social
My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.
March 13, 2025 at 4:40 PM
My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.
Reposted by Dr Xianan Jin 🍉
Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂
March 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂
Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!
February 17, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
January 22, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Excited to go to Belfast in June ✊🏼
been writing a lot about the politics I don't agree, really excited to finally work on something inspirational with @xiananj.bsky.social
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Excited to go to Belfast in June ✊🏼
just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.
January 16, 2025 at 4:30 PM
just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.
Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
The Misogyny of Authoritarians in Contemporary Democracies
Abstract. Contemporary democracy in multiple countries has been under assault from what has been variously called right-wing populism, authoritarian populi
academic.oup.com
January 12, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...
It gives me goosebumps to see how Trumpist authoritarianism under the cover of democracy travels to other late democracies like South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Why supporters of South Korea’s impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol are flying US flags
The prominence of the US flag at conservative rallies reflects a complex intersection of religion, politics and identity that defines South Korea’s far-right movement
www.theguardian.com
January 4, 2025 at 11:36 AM
It gives me goosebumps to see how Trumpist authoritarianism under the cover of democracy travels to other late democracies like South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...