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Kanchana N Ruwanpura
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Feminist. Professor. Sri Lanka. Scotland. Sweden.
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As it's Christmas... a welcome friend awaits on the postbox at Boot, Eskdale in Cumbria. #PostboxSaturday
December 21, 2024 at 8:24 AM
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A Happy Winter Solstice to you all. Time to celebrate It’s the shortest day of the year and from tomorrow the days get longer, enjoy your extra minute of daylight
a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
ALT: a happy winter solstice greeting card with a tree
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December 21, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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I felt this…besides…it’s Saturday…
December 21, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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!!!! you encounter this creature. what do you do
December 21, 2024 at 8:31 PM
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Good morning-let’s hope for more days like this ….taken on the banks of Loch Lomond
December 21, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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THIS makes me think
December 21, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Check out this starter pack on people and journals that have dealth with financialization, assetization and the colonization of the lifeworld by finance at large in their work. Leave me a note if you want to join.
go.bsky.app/BAvY9c9
November 16, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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The latest publication from the group, led by talented early career researchers Carmen Petitjean and Xin Yang @xinyang6699.bsky.social on the performance of BOADICEA/CanRisk for breast cancer risk prediction in UKBiobank out now in JNCI.

Paper: doi.org/10.1093/jnci...

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December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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My recent work on Economics of the #CommonGood offers a reframing of economics to focus as much on the ‘how’ as the ‘what’.

I recently organised an event at the Vatican to discuss this approach with PM Mia Mottley & @pontifexeng.bsky.social

Watch the full film here: youtu.be/Ev3SOKNNtF
December 16, 2024 at 7:13 PM
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Congratulations Oxfam GB for the new discussion paper on regional feminist perspectives on moving beyond GDP, with inputs from Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. So important to have these perspectives from the Global South!
#degrowth
#postgrowth
#GlobalSouth
Beyond GDP: A compendium of regional feminist perspectives - Oxfam Policy & Practice
In this publication, leading feminist thinkers from Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, share perspectives on why we must move beyond gross domestic ...
policy-practice.oxfam.org
December 16, 2024 at 7:12 PM
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A few days to go for PhD students and postdocs interested in the geography of economic ideas to apply for workshop travel stipends. This invitational workshop will be hosted at UBC, June 2025. Funded by EPA: Economy & Space

blogs.ubc.ca/peck/researc...
Ideational geographies workshop
blogs.ubc.ca
December 16, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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I'm reading it. I'm teaching it. Let's read it together
December 14, 2024 at 4:40 AM
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I didn’t think it was possible to be more disappointed in Labour than I already was but here we are.
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.

More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):

1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇

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December 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

~Kurt Vonnegut
December 18, 2024 at 7:56 AM
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when your plan is to get BlackRock to rebuild Britain, even the FT is to your left.
December 19, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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In awe of Gisèle Pelicot.

Thinking of her and all survivors today.
December 19, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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Learning Disobedience in African Studies...Excellent talk by Keynote by Patricia Daley. You may also wanna check out the rich archive of the Cluster "AfricaMultiple" on youtube (www.youtube.com/@africamulti...). #geosky #geo #geography #socialtheory #afripolsky
www.youtube.com/watch?v=36mR...
Annual Cluster Conference "Spatialities": Keynote - Patricia Daley
YouTube video by Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
—Sylvia Plath—
December 19, 2024 at 5:20 PM
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I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain.

Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.
Teamsters Union Launches 'Largest Strike Against Amazon in US History' | Common Dreams
The Teamsters launched "the largest strike against Amazon in U.S. history" on Thursday morning to protest the e-commerce giant's unlawful refusal to bargain with organized drivers and warehouse…
www.commondreams.org
December 20, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Elon Musk is a clown, a descendant of racist white people that colonized South Africa. If you drive his cars, buy his garbage, you are part of the problem. All of us need to mock his dumbass early and often.
The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.
December 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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And so it continues. Musk could bankroll the entire European far-right to power and not see a dent in his fortunes. We have birthed a monster.
December 20, 2024 at 12:53 PM
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Join us!
📌 Join us on January 7th at @soasuni.bsky.social for a talk by Professor Sari Hanafi, chaired by Gilbert Achcar.

📍SOAS, Khalili Lecture Theatre & Zoom
📅 January 7th at 5pm GMT

Info and registration➡️: shorturl.at/BVKaa
@naomihossain.bsky.social @laurahammond.bsky.social @carlosoya.bsky.social
December 21, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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I swear...this talk was given BEFORE the Musk takeover of DOGE/valley takeover of the White House.
December 21, 2024 at 4:06 PM
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Had the chance to teach the Banker Ladies film earlier this semester. Students loved thinking about mutualist and grassroots forms of community finance. Thrilled there is now this wonderful book! Congrats @carolinehossein.bsky.social #solidarityeconomy #communityfinance
Caroline Shenaz H. on LinkedIn: #solidarity #feminist #utpress
My new book 2024 The Banker Ladies is on the #Solidarity Economy and its out. Historian and Prof Afua Cooper, PhD wrote the Foreword - so grounded and…
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December 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM