Justin Pearce

Read the new #OpenAccess article by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez on the #Ovambo #Genocide in #Angola. #colonialism #Portugal #violence #famine

bit.ly/4rhHhQl

Rita Abrahamsen & Michael Williams are good on this - they posit the far right not as a scattered bunch of nationalists but as a global network linked by a common ideology. Abrahamsen is continuing to work on the specific position of the SA far right in this. online.ucpress.edu/currenthisto...

If I understand right, you're saying SA racists can't hide their racism behind a cloak of nativism the way European racists can. But the same is true for US or Canadian racists. Ultimately it is about white supremacy, wherever. I agree, particularly awkward for the Cape separatist bunch.

Picture of Jacob Zuma with headline: MK Party demands urgent debate in Parliament to tackle South Africa's water crisis.

Give us more fire pools!

The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star (Official Music Video) YouTube video by TheBugglesVEVO

'They took the credit for your second symphony
Rewritten by machine on new technology.'
Buggles prefigured AI in 1979.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...

An altered scene from the Tintin book, Cigars of the Pharaoh, with a row of hooded figures sitting along a table, with the logos of Trump's Board of Peace. A speech bubble from the central figure, saying in French: 'Brothers, I declare the inaugural meeting of the new Board of Peace open. We must alas remain masked, certain among us still being wanted for war crimes.'

She's gorgeous and that's all that matters.

‘Down with Racism!’ The MPLA’s Response to Dissidence in the Shadow of Apartheid The last years of the anti-colonial struggle in Angola by the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) were marked by internal battles in which challengers to the leadership of Agostin...

New article out from SA Historical Conference panel re-evaluating global anti-apartheid activism. I examine how MPLA in power in #Angola used its alignment against apartheid in order to conflate all its critics as imperialist & to silence internal debates re race. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mababe village in northern Botswana, Southern Africa, June 2024.

📢 New Article!

How can Botswana strengthen climate adaptation amid drought, erratic rainfall, and rising temperatures? Faimau and Basimane explore national frameworks, media, and Indigenous & Traditional Knowledge in building climate resilience.

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

To be fair, I had a postdoc in the 2010s in a very posh Cambridge college that prided itself on its many varieties of potato recipes. Some students even set up a potato knowledge quiz. johnsbuttery.soc.srcf.net/potatoes/

Allez les bleus?

Six Irish counties not on the list - pair them with candidate states or former members?

Thank you. That's where I am at the moment, and it's good to have the encouragement to look further.

Cecil Rhodes, 1895, as he tried to overthrow Kruger’s South African Republic government: “in order to save the … inhabitants of the UK from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands … The Empire … is a bread and butter question.”
See Saul Dubow’s chapter in amzn.eu/d/6zBAy2u

Afrikaans has not only oormôre but also naasoormôre (the day after the day after tomorrow). Dutch speakers, do you have an equivalent - something like 'naasovermorgen'?

Moving.

Photo of the inauguration of the Lisbon Metro in 1959. Lots of white men in suits and a Catholic priest.

With the sole exception of the Catholic priest, it's striking how similar the aesthetics of the 1950s/60s Estado Novo in Portugal were to those of the National Party in South Africa in the same period.

Judith Butler thought I was the photographer accompanying the student journalist who was interviewing her.

New article by @jimmy-pieterse.bsky.social.

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📢 New article! Campus radio in Pretoria emerged under apartheid-era restrictions, with the SABC dominating broadcasting. Tracing Radio Tuks from the late 1970s to democracy, this article reveals how UP students contested media power in a changing SA.

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Come to think of it, watching Waiting for Godot is the theatrical equivalent of watching cricket.

Sometimes people ask me why I persist with Bluesky and my answer is that it's because of this kind of completely unhinged wit based on a gratuitously obscure cultural reference.

😂 science fiction. We’re living in science fiction.
As a kid in the 1980s, I would have appreciated this as a sci-fi short story

Construction of Sasol One.

📢📢New article! How did apartheid South Africa weather the 1973–74 oil crisis? Despite sanctions, no oil reserves, and global recession, the immediate impact was limited. This article explores why, and how the crisis was turned into political capital.

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Dr Garikai Chaunza

Congratulations to Dr Garikai Chaunza, a postdoctoral fellow and part-time lecturer at Rhodes University, who has been awarded the Colin Murray Award for the project 'Silencing Gukurahundi Victims: State Repression and the Erosion of Peace Journalism in Zimbabwe’.

#jsas #colinmurray #gukurahundi

I'm old enough to remember when AI stood for Amnesty International.

There are eight political prisoners currently on hunger strike in the UK.

'What most people think academics do all summer.' Cartoon of a person sitting in the sun with a glass of wine saying 'Yay! No work!' 'What most academics actually do.' Same person sitting at a desk saying 'Yay! I can finally work!'.

Time again for this annual post.

"The Economist" magazine chooses Portugal as the "economy of the year" - PPulse For the fifth consecutive year, "The Economist" has compiled a ranking of the world's 36 wealthiest countries to identify the top-performing economy.

On-brand for The Economist to celebrate the plundering of Portugal as economic success. Try telling that to the Portuguese who can no longer afford to live in their own capital city.
www.portugalpulse.com/the-economis...

My politics may be a dialectic between Palatino and Futura.