Jonas Fossli Gjersø
@jonasgjerso.bsky.social
Associate Professor of History, University of Stavanger & Current Debates Editor, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social. PhD International History, LSE @lsehy.bsky.social.
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What role did Australian police forces play in generating Aboriginal cultural artefacts for museums?
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Disarming the Resistance: Police Collecting of Indigenous Australian Cultural Property for Museums
This article examines the history, legality and modern implications of police collecting of Indigenous Ancestral Remains and cultural property, and the role of museums and governments in encouragin...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
What role did Australian police forces play in generating Aboriginal cultural artefacts for museums?
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Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...
Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide
My talk (given by video-link) at the symposium, "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide", at Stavanger, Norway, 12 November. (Pictured with Maha Abdallah, University of Antwerp.)
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November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Thank you for delivering such a brilliant talk at yesterday's symposium entitled "Freedom of Expression in the New Age of Genocide" @martinshaw.bsky.social! open.substack.com/pub/martinsh...
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled: "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide" Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET.
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
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Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
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November 8, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled: "Freedom of Expression in a Time of Genocide" Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET.
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
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Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
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In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law
Amid Israel's war of annihilation in Gaza, which began in 2023, this article interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. By indistinction, I refer to the transgression...
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November 7, 2025 at 11:30 AM
In our latest @jich.bsky.social Current Debates essay entitled "Between Anti-Colonial Resistance and Colonial Genocide: Gaza at the Limits of International Law", Nicola Perugini interrogates the tension between anticolonial and colonial indistinction. #OpenAccess www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET.
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
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November 4, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET.
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah and Martin Shaw (@martinshaw.bsky.social).
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Immensely excited that we will soon be offering this venerable programme. Huge thanks to the excellent @jonasgjerso.bsky.social for initiating PPE!
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Immensely excited that we will soon be offering this venerable programme. Huge thanks to the excellent @jonasgjerso.bsky.social for initiating PPE!
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The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
The Greenhouse @unistavanger.bsky.social is launching an international Masters Program in Public Environmental Humanities from fall 2026! Taught in English.
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please share with all your students, #envhist #envhum colleagues!
Learn more about the program here: www.uis.no/en/studies/t...
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Scholars include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw.
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November 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Please join us for a hybrid symposium entitled "Freedom in a Time of Genocide" next Wednesday 12th November 17:00-19:30 CET. Scholars include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw.
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It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo
November 3, 2025 at 7:57 AM
It's the 15th anniversary of my first ever archival trip - I ran into @jonasgjerso.bsky.social, who took this (candid!) photo
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We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
We are proud to share that JICH has received over 58k downloads in 2025's 3rd quarter - a 76% increase from this time last year! Well done to our editorial team and all our supporters - @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social @evansmithhist.bsky.social @jonasgjerso.bsky.social @yiannicart.bsky.social
Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social
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‘Neutral in Matters of Party Politics’?: The Uneasy Place of The Mormon Church within Commonwealth Politics
This current debate historicises and scrutinises the claim of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, more commonly known as the Mormon Church, in regards to its stance of ‘political neutr...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Our latest Current Debates essay is now out! In 'Neutral in Matters of Party Politics'? Brenton Griffin explores the role of the Mormon Church in Commonwealth politics. @jich.bsky.social
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New book review published at @jich.bsky.social
@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'
@versobooks.bsky.social
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@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'
@versobooks.bsky.social
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Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century
Published in The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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October 24, 2025 at 11:01 PM
New book review published at @jich.bsky.social
@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'
@versobooks.bsky.social
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@joeredmayne.bsky.social reviews Ravi Ahuja's 'Shipping Lords and Coolie Stokers: Class, Race, and Maritime Capitalism in the Early Twentieth Century'
@versobooks.bsky.social
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?' by Sibylle Scheipers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck is best known as commander of the Schutztruppe in German East Africa during the First World War. His previous career as a colonial officer with deployments in the Boxer Rebe...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, check out 'Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck’s Career as a Colonial Officer: Learning the ‘Colonial Way of War’?' by Sibylle Scheipers: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
Franklin Rudolf Ankersmit. Representation: The Birth of Historical Reality from the Death of the Past.
Historians should have no more trustworthy a philosophical companion than Frank Ankersmit. For the past five decades, he has been the historicist’s philo
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October 22, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I reviewed Frank Ankersmit's new book for the AHR academic.oup.com/ahr/article-... @historians.org
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
+ brilliant defence of historicism and how individual representations of historical reality contribute to the growth of historical knowledge
- bogged down in the mysteries of the Leibnizian system
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Excited to read this new article by @johnmunro.bsky.social that thinks about Palestine and “the problem of urban automobility” together and shows how “the Big Ride for Palestine illuminates integral connections between environment and empire at our present conjuncture.”
I wrote something about #StopDeKindermoord
Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine
With a focus on how anticolonial social movements can pose solutions to multiple contemporary problems, this essay takes up the Big Ride for Palestine. The principal argument – that the Big Ride co...
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October 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Excited to read this new article by @johnmunro.bsky.social that thinks about Palestine and “the problem of urban automobility” together and shows how “the Big Ride for Palestine illuminates integral connections between environment and empire at our present conjuncture.”
Our latest 'Current Debates' essay in @jich.bsky.social is now out! In 'Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine' @johnmunro.bsky.social highlights the connections between decolonial activism with environmentalist mobility justice. #OpenAccess
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Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine
With a focus on how anticolonial social movements can pose solutions to multiple contemporary problems, this essay takes up the Big Ride for Palestine. The principal argument – that the Big Ride co...
www.tandfonline.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Our latest 'Current Debates' essay in @jich.bsky.social is now out! In 'Mobility Justice and the Big Ride for Palestine' @johnmunro.bsky.social highlights the connections between decolonial activism with environmentalist mobility justice. #OpenAccess
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Just released & #OpenAccess, check out 'Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa' by Rotem Giladi: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa
This article focusses on the whip and the body to examine an imperial variety of Jewish assimilation. Empire, the article argues, not only provided Jews more diverse opportunities for social mobili...
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October 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Just released & #OpenAccess, check out 'Flogging Jack Nafte: Corporal Punishment, Imperial Assimilation, and Jewish Whiteness in Pre-Apartheid South Africa' by Rotem Giladi: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak’s dark environmental past is coming to light.
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
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#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
A snapshot of Kodak's history includes cameras, military contracts, and a legacy of environmental damage in the communities it is a part of.
grist.org/accountabili...
#Environment #Nature #Photography #Military
Buoyed by a retro revival, Kodak's dark environmental past is coming to light
A snapshot of Kodak’s long history includes cameras, military contracts, and decades of pollution and environmental degradation.
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October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“The history of this material comes through poison gas, and it comes through the atomic bomb, and it comes through all of these materials that are really part of the history of the 20th and now 21st century.” #envhist
📅 Save the date!
The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:
Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide
🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw
More details to follow.
The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:
Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide
🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw
More details to follow.
October 9, 2025 at 7:22 AM
📅 Save the date!
The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:
Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide
🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw
More details to follow.
The University of Stavanger, invites you to a symposium entitled:
Freedom of Expression in Times of Genocide
🗓 Wed. Nov 12, 5–7:30 pm | Sølvberget, Stavanger & online
Speakers include: Sindre Bangstad, Raz Segal, Zoé Samudzi, Maha Abdallah & Martin Shaw
More details to follow.
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Just published! Check out 'Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment' by Brian Smith: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment
This paper seeks to extend Morgan Godwyn’s bibliography by bringing to light two of his early-career letters that have not received as much attention as they deserve. While these texts have been in...
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October 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Just published! Check out 'Expanding Morgan Godwyn’s Corpus: Rethinking the Evolution of Early Modern Anti-Slavery Sentiment' by Brian Smith: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post).
"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."
"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."
The Rise of Poetry Therapy in Eleventh Century China
How did literati manage their mental health in middle period China? Melancholy, depression, and down moods were as common among them as among us today. In the absence of antidepressants and therapists...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Medieval techniques to preserve mental health? Sage advice here (and a wonderfully written post).
"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."
"Tao seemed forever struggling with the dilemma between living freely but poorly and working in the government but unhappily. Besides resorting to alcohol, Tao dealt with such struggles with poetry."
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Also looking for a reviewer for this new book for the @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested!
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
October 4, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Also looking for a reviewer for this new book for the @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested!
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700640737/
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This book is slightly older, but still keen for a reviewer for this book for @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested!
www.mqup.ca/civilization...
www.mqup.ca/civilization...
October 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
This book is slightly older, but still keen for a reviewer for this book for @jich.bsky.social. DM me if interested!
www.mqup.ca/civilization...
www.mqup.ca/civilization...
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British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park
Following the revelation in 2011 that the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office was sitting on the migrated archives of dozens of colonial governments, almost 20,000 files were transferred from s...
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October 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
British colonial officials destroyed countless files before decolonisation. But one colony has been neglected by the literature: Hong Kong. My latest paper in @jich.bsky.social examines the past, present and future of Hong Kong colonial government migrated archives: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Gaza is free to read, share and download until the end of September 2025. #OpenAccess @jich.bsky.social
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
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● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)
Israeli Settler Colonial Genocide
The article examines the combined violence of settler colonialism in Israel and the US in two parts. The first part discusses the Jewish supremacism at the heart of Israeli settler colonialism, foc...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Our series of essays and commentary relating to the ongoing genocide in Palestine is free to read, share and download until tomorrow, 30 September 2025. @jich.bsky.social #FreeAccess