www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n... the more oil we get from the sea, the costal line will eat us sooner one day 🔫🔫🔫

Cannot wait to run this gig again in Feb 2026! Methods are literately 🔑 for solid data collection. How to do ethnography ethically and creatively? Happy to share my fieldwork in Rwanda & new thoughts on creative art approach as I am still on the learning curve 🧗🏻‍♀️🗻 Msg if you got any questions 🙋🏻‍♀️

Looking forward to tomorrow’s gig on Citizen Marx by @brunoleipold.com. @cais-exeter.bsky.social @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

Sunday read: Written out - The Silence of Regina Gelana Twala. By Joel Cabrita How do we write about marginalised people when they are erased from histories?

Sunday reading: Making the World Clean - wasted lives, wasted environment, and racial capitalism. By Françoise Vergès

Cannot believe it starts again 🙀Freshers in law, politics, history, and environment humanities in Penryn today. @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

How river thinks?

Sunday reading on capitalism ‘Vulture capitalism’ by @graceblakeley.substack.com

Excited to be offering our bespoke fieldwork methods course "Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts" with @xiananj.bsky.social for @komex.bsky.social next February, alongside a truly fantastic line-up of courses - with something for every methodological persuasion!

Think gender is just theory or women's issues? Think again. 🌊 Study Gender Studies in Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social and explore how the personal is political and how the unspoken norms shape our lives. Watch our video: youtu.be/dZQJ-TFCNT0?...

History is as much about remembering as forgetting. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social historians explore the intentional forgetting that reveal more about society's political choices than any moment of collective remembering. Find out more via our new ‘Research Shorts’: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCjj...

'Reindustrialisation’ is now a buzzword across the political spectrum. At @hass-cornwall.bsky.social we are surrounded by resurgent industries rooted in place and strategically pivotal to security & sustainability. Hear more in our new 'Research Shorts' series of videos: youtu.be/oPIDKPX7jcc?...

I like Sanders but authoritarianism did not start with Trump. Slavery happened there decades ago www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

open.substack.com/pub/xiananji... I write personal stuff here…

Some bath-time thoughts on female-only spaces and sexuality: open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...

my first Substack article driven by the repulsion against the absence of public infrastructure in the US during my first visit here. There is nothing public in the US open.substack.com/pub/xiananji...

Feeling so lucky to work in a university - free books! Good finds this morning with my guest lecturer Hannah Levene today at the Exeter&Falmouth library. Hannah talked on Yiddish language, anarchism and queerness 🙌 second last week of the term: feels rewarding this time 🥹

VERY excited to go to Leiden to give this talk 👇 Hope to see you there or online 👋 @hass-cornwall.bsky.social @uniofexeternews.bsky.social @cais-exeter.bsky.social

My friend’s film Spirits of Land is on for the Joburg film Festival. Don’t miss it - real good cinematographic footage of the land struggles of black people in South Africa. Cannot remember how many times I have recommended to my friends and colleagues.

Dinner with these two awesome scholars @xiananj.bsky.social and @zhengli-huang.bsky.social after Zhengli’s incredibly rich and thought-provoking talk on Chinese infrastructure development in Africa at HaSS Cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social Cheers! 🥂

Been in bed for 5 days fighting a flu. Got out of bed today and got into my first social conversation in a pub now. Such disorientation! once people start about football, I was like: omg I am in England! Again!

Excited to go to Belfast in June ✊🏼

just read a student essay and suspected done by an AI. it took me so long to read it and understand it. I guess it is because an AI essay has a lot of content but no coherence at all.

Judith Butler noted, “It's unclear whether Trump is watching Netanyahu and Erdoğan, whether anyone is watching Bolsonaro, whether Bolsonaro is watching Putin, but I think there are some contagious effects.' academic.oup.com/isr/article/...

It gives me goosebumps to see how Trumpist authoritarianism under the cover of democracy travels to other late democracies like South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Cannot wait to teach this course and meet a new cohort of participants 🎶 register now for the early bird fee 🤓

An utterly damning and horrific image.

Over the past few years, the media has extensively reported on a new form of trafficking in persons that has emerged in the context of the online scam industry—a phenomenon that is now frequently referred to as ‘cyber slavery’. @madeinchinajournal.com globalchinapulse.net/global-china...

feminist/queer political economy starter pack is here - let me know who else I need to add

‘I have lost everything’: southern Africa battles hunger amid historic drought #Climate

A ‘cash-cow’ awareness is rising from these statistics: ‘Chinese students make up 1/4 of all international students and the £2.3bn fees they pay every year’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

instead of spending 10.8 billion dollars on this maybe the city could fund libraries and a functioning subway?

‘According to the 2021 population census, Ghana has a population of 31 million, with 35% aged 0 to 14 years old and 38% young people between 15 and 35 years old.’ The youth will be the determinant demography for this election. www.africanews.com/2024/12/06/t...

Our paper is out on International Affairs👇 doi.org/10.1093/ia/i... We use #intersectionality as an analytical tool to expose women’s interlocked subjectivity beyond assumed womanhood & group solidarity in peace negotiations from interviews w/ ☮️ practitioners.‼️Adding women ≠ more peace ‼️

That after-work walk in Cornwall yesterday.

It was a very rewarding experience teaching this course last year with some really brilliant ethnographer students/participants of the course, and my two inspiring colleagues Cat and Suraj. 🥰Come and join us in February 2025 online if you are doing or planning to do ethnographic fieldwork 🏄🏻‍♀️

Working from home today 🍵 Saw our cat in the neighbour’s garden and doubted he was up for anything good 😹

Monday on the Penryn campus in #Cornwall.

Working on the Penryn campus today. #cornwall @hass-cornwall.bsky.social

My first single-authored paper is out in @Peasant_Journal w/ #OpenAccess. It explores how land shapes women's agency across intersecting identities after the genocide in #Rwanda, and theorises the nexus between land dispossession and gendered violence👇https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2024.2407167

We're excited to be bringing Tayo Aluko's highly acclaimed performance of Just An Ordinary Lawyer to Penryn Campus on Friday 22 November. Open to all staff, students, and members of the public. Reserve your free ticket on Eventbrite to secure your spot: www.eventbrite.co.uk/.../just-an-....

The Exeter South Asia Centre is delighted to co-host the annual 'Writing from a Position of Anger' lecture, which will be delivered by leading postcolonial scholar Rahul Rao on Dec 2 at 12PM in Peter Lanyon Lecture 5 on Penryn campus.

The Center of Advanced International Studies, which brings together the IR crowed at @uniofexeter.bsky.social, has its own account @cais-exeter.bsky.social . Do follow us, we are an eclectic bunch!