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Penny Edmonds
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Professor of history, empire, colonialism/postcolonialism. Australia/Pacific. Feminist. Lazy Buddhist. On unceded Kaurna land | Author: Settler Colonialism and Reconciliation https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137304544
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I kind of want to go
April 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Welcome to the Republic of Gilead ...
March 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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The Polish revolutionary and theorist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919 after a failed uprising in Berlin.

She was killed by members of a far-right thugs , who directed by right-wing Social Democratic Party.
Here's Tony Cliff on her life and thought:

www.marxists.org/archive/clif...
January 15, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Book talk in London next week.
January 15, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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Brilliant article ...
December 24, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...
History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
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December 20, 2024 at 12:54 PM
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@rosariolopez.bsky.social in Aeon: '[For J.G.A. Pocock] a degree of disagreement and pluralism is integral to both the historian’s craft and the citizen’s experience.. There was no history without politics, and no politics without a contested political identity'
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History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
aeon.co
December 23, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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Almost there. Hang in.
December 23, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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If you just ignore existing state and federal laws, the cost of nuclear waste, water use, decommissioning costs, rising construction costs, building a new industry from scratch, the falling cost of renewables and the fact that Dutton’s figures are blatantly cooked, his plan is actually reasonable.
December 13, 2024 at 1:27 AM
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New essay out today (with @alanlester.bsky.social @adeleperry.bsky.social Omeasoo Wahpasiw) exposing residential school denialism’s transnational network, or how denialism in Canada is being used globally to defend empire and colonialism: activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...
Exposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational Network
Residential school denialism may have its origins in Canada, but it is increasingly circulating and being used around the world as part of a wider matrix of imperial apologetics – a transnational n…
activehistory.ca
December 10, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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That's great
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Dec 9
It’s been great to revive the book reviews section of @jich.bsky.social and we currently have over 40 book reviews commissioned for 2025.

If you want to review a recently published book on British imperial or Commonwealth history, do get in touch!

evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au
jich.bsky.social The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History @jich.bsky.social · Oct 20
Dr Evan Smith @evansmithhist.bsky.social has recently taken up the role as book reviews editor. If you are interested in reviewing a recently published book on British colonial and imperial history (broadly defined), please contact him at evan dot smith at adelaide dot edu dot au.
December 10, 2024 at 1:16 AM
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Perfect #platypus - you can see how they change from swimming to waddling to slithering depending on how deep the water is.
#MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz
December 9, 2024 at 8:22 AM
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THIS! ⬇️
"Science and the humanities aren’t rivals, but partners committed to interpreting the cosmos": Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman
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We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata
“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...
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December 7, 2024 at 7:22 PM
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A great defence of the humanities by Māori scholar Pounamu Jade Aikman:

e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata
“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...
e-tangata.co.nz
December 8, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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If you’re in Montreal on Monday and interested in the history & politics of colonialism, do come along?
December 7, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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And another:
theconversation.com/friday-essay...
Friday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia
In 1881, a Pacific Islander woman brought here to work on a sugar cane plantation ran away. She was violently retrieved by her employer. Her story sheds moving light on a dark history of exploitation.
theconversation.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:51 AM
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I'm new, so a few papers: #BLM in Sydney and travelling memory
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 5, 2024 at 2:48 AM
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Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent
Photograph featuring an embroidery hoop on a pale wooden surface with an image of a figure in black thread sewn on tbe cream material the figure a young woman is shown braiding her long hair with thread that produdesqq from the image and wears a striped top
December 4, 2024 at 7:26 AM
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Group of students waiting to be allowed to enter a Sydney University classroom under the institution's proposed new 'civility rules'
b&w photo from 1930 of prisoners in face-covering hoods, black suits, and wooden clogs waiting to enter a room in Fresnes prison, south of Paris
November 28, 2024 at 12:12 AM
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A degree from Sydney Uni soon won't be worth as much as it used to be
Sydney Uni students allowed to use AI in radical reversal of cheating policy
The plan, to be phased in next year, will mean students won’t be banned from using AI on homework or assignments.
www.smh.com.au
November 28, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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Delighted to share a new project that @KTeaiwa and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog
A New History of Oceania ~ Sixty Thousand Years
A Bloomsbury Cultural History of Australia and the Pacific
culturalhistoryofoceania.blog
November 9, 2024 at 5:04 PM