Christian Jacobs
@christianjacobs.bsky.social
Historian interested in social movements and ideas, colonial histories, and transimperial histories in the 19th and 20th century | Book: "The Politics of Culture. Far-right, Feminist, and “Immigrant” Movements in France, ca. 1965 to 1985" | He/him
By the end of the decade, activists had become disillusioned with developments on the continent, and Africa was no longer seen as a place of hope (as depicted in Sans Frontière, 1979). These changing perceptions had implications for activism on the ground in France.
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
By the end of the decade, activists had become disillusioned with developments on the continent, and Africa was no longer seen as a place of hope (as depicted in Sans Frontière, 1979). These changing perceptions had implications for activism on the ground in France.
My argument in two images: In the early 1970s, activists portrayed African anti-imperialists as the avant-garde of an imminent world revolution (see Révolution Africa's poster of Amílcar Cabral).
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My argument in two images: In the early 1970s, activists portrayed African anti-imperialists as the avant-garde of an imminent world revolution (see Révolution Africa's poster of Amílcar Cabral).
I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.
November 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm excited to see that @routledgehistory.bsky.social has published an expanded version of the special issue, 'The Cold War of Labour Migrants'. In it, my article, 'From anti-imperialism to multiculturalism' explores the global intellectual history of migrant activists in 1970s France.
Check out this very interesting CfP on "InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice" if you are interested in "how queer and intersectional approaches can help us to interpret the past in a fuller and more complex manner."
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October 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Check out this very interesting CfP on "InterQueer: Crossing Queer and Intersectional Lenses in Historical Practice" if you are interested in "how queer and intersectional approaches can help us to interpret the past in a fuller and more complex manner."
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Grußformel für euren Alltag: "In der Hoffnung, dass es Euer Hochwohlgeboren gelungen wird, diese Angelegenheit endlich zu einem mir günstigen Abschluss bringen zu können, verbleibe ich mit viele Grüßen"
Hier gehts natürlich darum, dass jemand sein Geld zurück haben will.
Hier gehts natürlich darum, dass jemand sein Geld zurück haben will.
September 30, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Grußformel für euren Alltag: "In der Hoffnung, dass es Euer Hochwohlgeboren gelungen wird, diese Angelegenheit endlich zu einem mir günstigen Abschluss bringen zu können, verbleibe ich mit viele Grüßen"
Hier gehts natürlich darum, dass jemand sein Geld zurück haben will.
Hier gehts natürlich darum, dass jemand sein Geld zurück haben will.
I found this photo of Charles Atangana on wiki commons, without any date. Does anybody here know a way to date and contextualize this photo? Maybe through the uniforms (are they German or French)?
from wikicommons: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
from wikicommons: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I found this photo of Charles Atangana on wiki commons, without any date. Does anybody here know a way to date and contextualize this photo? Maybe through the uniforms (are they German or French)?
from wikicommons: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
from wikicommons: commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
I am biased because he was a great colleague at grad school but I do think @hamremar.bsky.social "Fascists of the World, Unite?" is a very important contribution to debates about fascism internationalism in history and politics today. Do check it out and order it in your libraries.
September 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I am biased because he was a great colleague at grad school but I do think @hamremar.bsky.social "Fascists of the World, Unite?" is a very important contribution to debates about fascism internationalism in history and politics today. Do check it out and order it in your libraries.
Still loving the first days in a new archive.
August 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Still loving the first days in a new archive.
ANOM has the cutest images that tell you what not to do in the archive.
August 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
ANOM has the cutest images that tell you what not to do in the archive.
I am very excited to spend the next weeks in new archives working on something new.
Ps: Let me know if you are around Aix/Marseille.
Ps: Let me know if you are around Aix/Marseille.
July 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I am very excited to spend the next weeks in new archives working on something new.
Ps: Let me know if you are around Aix/Marseille.
Ps: Let me know if you are around Aix/Marseille.
Reminds me of this old Foucault meme..
June 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reminds me of this old Foucault meme..
One of the things that surprised me the most during my PhD research were the many political readings of Bob Marley in French activist periodicals when he died in 1981. For Sans Frontière, the "magazine of immigration," the issue after "the son of Jah died" was their most sold issue.
May 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
One of the things that surprised me the most during my PhD research were the many political readings of Bob Marley in French activist periodicals when he died in 1981. For Sans Frontière, the "magazine of immigration," the issue after "the son of Jah died" was their most sold issue.
Today was the first session of a seminar I teach in Potsdam on "France and Migration in the 20th Century" in this very potsdamy building. Architecture-wise differently a change of scenery in comparison to the brutalist beauties at FU.
April 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Today was the first session of a seminar I teach in Potsdam on "France and Migration in the 20th Century" in this very potsdamy building. Architecture-wise differently a change of scenery in comparison to the brutalist beauties at FU.
A good day to browse through the papers.
April 1, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A good day to browse through the papers.
Ich freue mich schon sehr nächste Woche auf diese spannende Konferenz @fzh-hamburg.bsky.social. Kommt vorbei, wenn ihr euch für die extreme Rechte und Räume interessiert und in Hamburg seid: zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de/veranstaltun...
March 6, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Ich freue mich schon sehr nächste Woche auf diese spannende Konferenz @fzh-hamburg.bsky.social. Kommt vorbei, wenn ihr euch für die extreme Rechte und Räume interessiert und in Hamburg seid: zeitgeschichte-hamburg.de/veranstaltun...
German citizenship question 4:
February 11, 2025 at 11:03 AM
German citizenship question 4:
what a week, huh? Berlin, it's thursday*!
January 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
what a week, huh? Berlin, it's thursday*!
Still library-hopping
January 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Still library-hopping
Library-hopping in Barcelona
January 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Library-hopping in Barcelona
Foucault: Irgendeine chinesische Enzyklopädie teilt Tiere ein in die, die „a) dem Kaiser gehören, b) einbalsamiert sind, c) zahm sind, d) Spanferkel sind, e) Sirenen sind, f) fabelhaft sind, g) streunende Hunde sind, h) in der gegenwärtigen Klassifizierung sind, i) sich wie verrückt benehmen (...)
December 4, 2024 at 10:50 AM
Foucault: Irgendeine chinesische Enzyklopädie teilt Tiere ein in die, die „a) dem Kaiser gehören, b) einbalsamiert sind, c) zahm sind, d) Spanferkel sind, e) Sirenen sind, f) fabelhaft sind, g) streunende Hunde sind, h) in der gegenwärtigen Klassifizierung sind, i) sich wie verrückt benehmen (...)
November 29, 2024 at 9:27 AM
In the German national archives you can now get assistance from an AI tool to read and transcribe hand writings for the colonial records and rapidly search for people and locations. Wondering what this means for our methods.
November 28, 2024 at 12:47 PM
In the German national archives you can now get assistance from an AI tool to read and transcribe hand writings for the colonial records and rapidly search for people and locations. Wondering what this means for our methods.