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🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work.
This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public.
Please spread the word.
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🌍This Thursday at 5pm!
Are Global Value Chains really benefiting us?
Join Benjamin Selwyn ( @sussexfss.bsky.social) chaired by @lorena-lombardozzi.bsky.social, at @soasuni.bsky.social to find out.
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But which are the two major parties now?
More of this kind of MP please
I spoke with @doughenwood.bsky.social about the Bangladesh elections and a bit about the tragic history of the two big political families.
Thank you!
My thoughts on the Bangladesh election counterpointbd.com/almost-every...
Thank you Peter, that's great to know!
Join us for a book launch with Guy Standing, as he explores how education has been reshaped by market logics and what it would take to revive it for the common good
🗓17 Feb
🕕6pm
📍SOAS BGLT
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I spent the month in pre-election Dhaka, and heard a lot of conspiracy theories
Is there any point posting about the Bangladesh elections on this site?
**Only £75 remain** to secure my children’s education after a period of interruption.💔
Your support, helps them feel safe and gives them a real chance to continue their education this month.❤️
I sincerely thank everyone who has supported us, stood by us, or shared our message.
📌Join us this Thursday, 5:30pm at @soasuni.bsky.social
SWLT!!!
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Many hours (years), desk rejects (World Development does not publish articles about famine?) and some brilliant (ie crushingly cruel) reviewers later, this is finally published. My effort towards theorizing the politics of famine. Many thanks, Disasters!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
The SOAS Global Development Seminar Series is back!
Join us for a great lineup of speakers and talks designed to spark conversations on GD.
Register here: shorturl.at/An9HU (scroll down for seminar details)
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Dear god
On the politics of memory in Bangladesh
substack.com/@naomihossai...
What explains the global wave of so-called Gen Z protests? Some answers here from Gen X (and a few Boomers)
youtu.be/QMakQ7lj6-0?...
Join us for Jawied Nawabi on how state power and early battles with landed elites shape long-term development. Chaired by @carlosoya.bsky.social
📅27 Jan, 18:00 GMT
📍SWLT & Zoom
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Check out Giuseppina Siciliano’s latest analysis exploring the social and environmental ramifications of large and megadams for hydropower.
Read the full analysis here ➡️ fwr.org/the-great-hy...
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Gosh, what a sentence
Fola Aina on @deutschewellerss.newsmast.social.ap.brid.gy News Africa explains why Nigeria’s security challenges need both reform and strategic innovation. Listen here⬇️
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Enjoyed, if that is the right word, having this convo with @danbanik.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Join us this Thursday for @terminalias.bsky.social's book launch!
Buildings of Refuge and the Postcoloniality of Asylum Infrastructure
📅30 Oct, 5pm, SWLT
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Ridiculous comparison
The failed effort by a handful of London Awami Leaguers to disrupt a talk @soasuni.bsky.social last Friday triggered further thoughts about the poor state of Bangladesh Studies more generally. 🇧🇩
en.prothomalo.com/opinion/w6ke...
What would that be?
The Revolution Will Not Be - my mini-review of an excellent short new book about the Bangladesh uprisings
open.substack.com/pub/naomihos...
