Aidan Barlow
@aidanbarlow.bsky.social
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Bath. Researches the politics of digging things out of the ground.
Going through my research notes, one thing that stands out to me is that there is enormous praise and support for Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré throughout Zambia, from NGOs, business leaders and bureaucrats. All love him for 'getting shit done'.
July 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Going through my research notes, one thing that stands out to me is that there is enormous praise and support for Burkina Faso’s Ibrahim Traoré throughout Zambia, from NGOs, business leaders and bureaucrats. All love him for 'getting shit done'.
I'm not saying that British Airways online services are crap, but they emailed me my ticket for my flight last Saturday just now.
June 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I'm not saying that British Airways online services are crap, but they emailed me my ticket for my flight last Saturday just now.
Being a overall prick is not 'realism', torching all of your allies and fawning over your historical enemy is not 'realism', completely dismantling the entire world order that overwhelmingly benefits your country for 80 odd years is not 'realism'. Stop sanewashing Trump.
One reason the Trump administration “is so disorienting is that U.S. foreign policy has been guided for decades by the opposite of realism,” writes Farah Stockman, an editorial board member.
Opinion | Trump’s Foreign Policy May Be Crude, But It’s Realist
The president understands that the liberal international order was possible only because of U.S. might, and Americans don’t want to pay the bill anymore.
www.nytimes.com
March 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Being a overall prick is not 'realism', torching all of your allies and fawning over your historical enemy is not 'realism', completely dismantling the entire world order that overwhelmingly benefits your country for 80 odd years is not 'realism'. Stop sanewashing Trump.
Current writing mood @academic-chatter.bsky.social
February 13, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Current writing mood @academic-chatter.bsky.social
#stormeowyn update: a bit windy innit.
January 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
#stormeowyn update: a bit windy innit.
This is perhaps one of the last alerts one wants to see sat at an airport terminal, waiting to fly out.
December 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
This is perhaps one of the last alerts one wants to see sat at an airport terminal, waiting to fly out.
If anybody wants further evidence that the financial sector has a poor history of predictions, I'm currently reading a 2021 paper by Goldman Sachs saying that copper prices at $9k per tonne are too low, and they will be $15k by the middle of the decade. Today the LME price of copper is...$9k.
December 6, 2024 at 12:12 PM
If anybody wants further evidence that the financial sector has a poor history of predictions, I'm currently reading a 2021 paper by Goldman Sachs saying that copper prices at $9k per tonne are too low, and they will be $15k by the middle of the decade. Today the LME price of copper is...$9k.
I feel like Elsevier are deliberately mocking me with this email @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicchatter
November 29, 2024 at 10:37 AM
I feel like Elsevier are deliberately mocking me with this email @academic-chatter.bsky.social #academicchatter
Thanks to @jsas-journal.bsky.social for the Terrance Ranger Prize! I actually won it a few months ago, but I couldn't shout about it as much since I removed some of my other social media accounts. It's also my favorite paper I've written, so it's extra great to see that others enjoy it!
Since @aidanbarlow.bsky.social is here, let's give a boost to his article which recently won our annual Terence Ranger Prize for the best article by a first-time contributor to JSAS.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Piping Away Development: The Material Evolution of Resource Nationalism in Mtwara, Tanzania
The article explores the evolution of resource nationalism at a local level through the construction of infrastructure. It argues that, in Mtwara, resource nationalism was combined with local perce...
www.tandfonline.com
November 23, 2024 at 7:06 PM
Thanks to @jsas-journal.bsky.social for the Terrance Ranger Prize! I actually won it a few months ago, but I couldn't shout about it as much since I removed some of my other social media accounts. It's also my favorite paper I've written, so it's extra great to see that others enjoy it!
Reminder that the deadline for our panel, 'The Extractive Politics of Africa's Energy Transition: A New Dawn or more of the same?' at the DSA 2024 conference at SOAS is on the 23rd Jan! If you have any queries, message me or Gerald via email. #afripolsky #polsky
Call for Papers: DSA 2024
Deadline 23 January 2024
www.devstud.org.uk
January 15, 2024 at 5:55 AM
Reminder that the deadline for our panel, 'The Extractive Politics of Africa's Energy Transition: A New Dawn or more of the same?' at the DSA 2024 conference at SOAS is on the 23rd Jan! If you have any queries, message me or Gerald via email. #afripolsky #polsky
Call for papers on 'Mining Governance and Green Energy Transitions: Developmental Implications for the Global South' is out now.
Deadline is the 15th April 2024
Please share, and feel free to give me a shout if you wish to know more!
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-...
Polisky
Afripolsky
Deadline is the 15th April 2024
Please share, and feel free to give me a shout if you wish to know more!
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-...
Polisky
Afripolsky
Call for papers - The Extractive Industries and Society | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect
Read the latest articles of The Extractive Industries and Society at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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November 16, 2023 at 12:12 PM
Call for papers on 'Mining Governance and Green Energy Transitions: Developmental Implications for the Global South' is out now.
Deadline is the 15th April 2024
Please share, and feel free to give me a shout if you wish to know more!
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-...
Polisky
Afripolsky
Deadline is the 15th April 2024
Please share, and feel free to give me a shout if you wish to know more!
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/the-...
Polisky
Afripolsky
Testing Afripolsky feed by shamelessly promoting my most recent article about Tanzanian boom and bust in the natural gas sector www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The temporalities of extractive frontiers: The promises of booms and going bust in the Tanzanian gas...
Research on extraction in the global margins has often emphasised the transformative effects that occur during the process of becoming a ‘resource fro…
www.sciencedirect.com
September 21, 2023 at 10:12 AM
Testing Afripolsky feed by shamelessly promoting my most recent article about Tanzanian boom and bust in the natural gas sector www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Aidan Barlow
Hi everyone - I may have just created a curated feed for African Politics => Afripolsky Please help me check if it works by asking me to add you, liking the feed and posting cool stuff to it.
September 21, 2023 at 9:45 AM
Hi everyone - I may have just created a curated feed for African Politics => Afripolsky Please help me check if it works by asking me to add you, liking the feed and posting cool stuff to it.
Hey Polisky, I was wondering if there is anybody on here that researches the politics/political economy of mining, oil and gas etc? Especially in the global south!
September 21, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Hey Polisky, I was wondering if there is anybody on here that researches the politics/political economy of mining, oil and gas etc? Especially in the global south!
I've decided that for my first post on bluesky I'll give the people what they want: photos of my cat!
September 20, 2023 at 11:59 AM
I've decided that for my first post on bluesky I'll give the people what they want: photos of my cat!