How did you waste your holidays? I tried to spoon feed decolonial economics to a white journalist for an interview - hours of my life I will never get back.

My childhood home is listed as an unusual attraction in Pohang 🤯

Christmas reading shipment arrived.

Proud to see my employer on the State of Florida boycott list. www.conflingo.com/news/2025-12...

"Lola" is harvesting apples in Washington State. "We need to buy our own scissors and bag to do the job. The scissors cost $35 and the bag costs $90. Right now it's peak season and the trees are full of apples. If we work fast we can make around $140 in 8 hours. " #WeFeedYou

We have a new Challenging Nordic Innocence podcast out with Oda-Kange Midtvaage Diallo talking about her text "Theorising from our lives: A Black Nordic Feminist approach". Oda-Kange is a post-doctoral researcher at the International Institute of Social Studies at Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Football fever has taken over Stavanger. The first championship in 34 years is within reach. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Norwegian oil wealth speculation and accumulation in real time.

First day of our Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea research collective workshop began today with public presentations. Great discussions afterwards in the closed session.

I had great fun talking about imperial, colonial, and decolonial economics together with @agnetevienberg.bsky.social and a group of enthusiastic participants in this season of Økonomiskolen organized by Rethinking Economics Denmark and Gode penge.

Israel has violated the US-brokered Gaza ceasefire at least 497 times in 44 days, killing at least 342 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. 🔗: aje.io/65ptdp| #Infograph

A new UN published report, “Gaza Genocide: a collective crime,” exposes the complicity of states in enabling Israel’s livestreamed genocide against Palestinians. Here are 4 key takeaways from the report and 4 key ways you can escalate BDS now➡️ loom.ly/a8XrDPI Read the report ➡️ loom.ly/oPFEWAU

In Bergen to discuss futures beyond oil.

Of course they are. The smaller the man , the bigger the statue. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...?

10 days left to apply for this course! Many amazing scholars will contribute to this course, including @untamed.bsky.social, @dudleymarianna.bsky.social, Abigail Harrison Moore, Alice Owen, and @andersriel.bsky.social! #envhist #energyhistory #envhum

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will. Our work is not done! Read more: loom.ly/TsJOHwo

"...for Black Americans, none of it felt extraordinary. It felt remembered. Generational experience has taught us what happens when the state builds a weapon for someone else: Sooner or later, it finds a way back to us."

Global Sumud Flotilla is live as Israel threatens to stop them from breaking the starvation siege of Gaza. A reminder that they are not entering Israeli waters, but Palestinian waters. Israel intends to violate international law once again. www.youtube.com/live/uEN2bWF...

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 [1/4] ● Raz Segal, "Settler Colonial Genocide" (doi.org/10.1080/0308...)

Statues of 70 “commoners” from Norway, Sápmi & the Faroes were placed in Fredensborg Palace gardens in the 18th century. What do they say about absolute monarchy, empire, and the rise of science? And how have they been reinterpreted over time? New podcast episode with Professor Mathias Danbolt:

Organise!

“The spirit of ‘white people food’ is that it’s supposed to be NOT enjoyable,” I can relate so much having lived a good share of my life in the epicentre of white people food (aka the North Sea Region).

Spanish PM Expresses pride in La Vuelta pro-palestinian demonstrations. "Spain today shines as an example and as a source of pride, an example to an international community where it sees Spain taking a step forward in the defence of human rights," www.barrons.com/news/spain-p...

Universities around the world cut ties with Israeli academia over Gaza war

Sign says red plums?

New podcast and this is also BANGING! Check it out!!!

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New episode of our Challenging Nordic Innocence Podcast is out today. This time @sebmergence.bsky.social and I are joined by Anne Nørkjær Bang to talk about her PhD dissertation "Dissolving the Pill: Imagining the #birthcontrol pill in contemporary #Denmark. nettop.guru/wordpress/di...

"... surviving Doghmosh family members have more hope in divine justice than human courts. Fayza remembers standing by her house when they brought the bodies of her two sons to her. Of Raab, she says: “Even if I forgive him, God will not.”

Norske rikinger har gitt over 70 millioner til blå blokk og kjørt en usmakelig desinformasjonskampanje om formueskatten, men velgere i Norge er klokere end rikingene tenkte. e24.no/norsk-oekono...

I still can't get my Op-ed published in Korean English language newspapers, but now the Korean translation made it to the frontpage of Pressian. I will link to the original English version in the comments. Adoptee voices should not be ignored! m.pressian.com/m/pages/arti...

Pride march in Stavanger.

Three empires (USA, Russia and China) are paving the road to planetary destruction. Anti-imperial and peace movements are as important now as during the so-called cold war (which was very hot in many places - just like today).

We still have a few spots available so submit your abstract by Sepember 15.

I first got an op-ed accepted, and then suddenly rejected by a Korean newspaper because the editorial team felt it could be uncomfortable for their Korean readers. Well guess what. Shipping almost 200.000 children overseas to make money is an uncomfortable story. I will not stop spreading discomfort

Check out this guest lecture at U. of Stavanger this Friday with Professor Mathias Danbolt from Copenhagen U. "Monumental Expectations: Notes on Queer, Feminist, and Antiracist Public Memoralization in Norway." @sebmergence.bsky.social and I will have a podcast interview with him soon as well.

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

Honoured to be invited to speak at the local Stand Up For Climate and Nature demonstration today in Stavanger in anticipation of the upcoming national elections in Norway. Thanks to the organizers and participants.

So seeking redress for harm is cause for visa denial. UN needs to move from the US.

5 days left to send your abstracts! #envhum #petrocultures #histtech #oceanhist

Another racist murder yesterday in Norway. 34 year old Tamima Nibras Juhar was murdere while at work yesterday by an 18 year old right wing extremist. www.nrk.no/norge/tamima...

...eller 46% af danskerne mangler helt basal medmenneskelighed.

Dozens of Palestinians rallied in Gaza City on Thursday, waving flags and holding signs denouncing the war. Men, women, and children chanted above the ruins and tents, demanding an end to the war and rejecting the forced displacement of Gaza’s residents. By Ahmed Ahmed

The far right "Progress Party" is now the biggest party in the south-western region of Norway. This is also by far the richest region in Norway challenging the story that far right radicalisation is linked to economic hardships. Radicalization is more likely linked to "fight to keep our privileges".

This article on South Korea's export-oriented and fossil fuel dependent heavy industrial sectors resonates well with my ongoing research on exiting the petroleumscape in Norway and South Korea. Can South-East Korea and South-West Norway transform their industries to a post-petroleum future?

80 years since the Korean peninsula was liberated from the Japanese empire. In the south liberation what followed was 80 years as a vassal state to US empire, more than 40 years of authoritarian rule, and almost 40 years of struggling with democracy. 1/2

Open lecture with art history professor Mathias Danbolt where he questions the expectations attached to public memorials today. Join the lecture on September 5 if you are in Stavanger.

David Suzuki is now close to 90, but his message is crystal clear. We need to stop the growth madness. www.cbc.ca/radio/frontb...

Abstract submission deadline is approaching (Sep. 1) for our Ghost of Empire in the North Sea workshop. Read more below or on our website where you also find a submission link (You have to scroll down below the introduction text on the website). www.uis.no/en/research/...