#Colonial

D K Hari & Hema

Bharathgyan

INDIAN SHIP SIZESVasco da Gama’s RatificationThe ratification for this comes from Vasco da Gama’s logs.Vasco da Gama reached India sailing around Africa in 1497 and is credited with having found

jen

bookavid

About that active protagonist thing... i see lots of books with "ruthless no-nonsense" mcs who make active choices but read cartoonish bc theres no emotional depth. Bc if ud get

Edith Mirante

EdithMirante

1. This History Thread is about Tourism in Burma (Myanmar.) It includes some of the problems that have been associated with tourism (as well as some cool vintage posters.) Environmental

xarlí's lobotomy

vhopegender

the "nonbinarity is always transgender" white-led misinformation discourse rly did its round in setting us back on gender-sexual politics a whole decade right lol not all nonbinary ppl experience transphobia

IMEU

theIMEU

THREAD: The one-state solution is getting a lot of attention because of @PeterBeinart's recent columns. Here's a thread of some recent articles by Palestinians laying out the case for one-state:

Anne M. Carpenter

catholickungfu

I’ve seen a few posts about favorite things you’ve published this year. For me it’s definitely this article on Balthasar in Modern Theology. It’s one of the more important in

Alec Karakatsanis

equalityAlec

THREAD: @Harvard is offering a class where elite students can learn from ex-military about using "counterinsurgency methods" from Iraq and Afghanistan to "clean up" Black and Brown communities in Massachusetts.

Tamanisha J John

TamanishaJohn

“Agency” is something that factors into my dissertation a lot— and whether or not if other states who weren’t Canada, were given the same exact (or close to) opportunities as

🌸 rosie

eurosievision

okay, we’re getting on the racism discourse. as a lot of you probably know, i teach uni-level sociology in one of my day jobs, so i would like to hope

Falcon Malteser #FOFM

Falcon_Malteser

Paul Mason and Dalia Gebrial was a perfect moment in post-Corbynism last night on Novara. Mason is trying to explain how leftwing or Marxist politics can make themselves useful during

Dr. Matt, Buddhism stirred not shaken

mattdmilligan

Reading "The Buddha's Footprint" by Johan Elverskog with students this semester.https://www.amazon.com/Buddhas-Footprint-Environmental-History-Encounters/dp/0812251830/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+buddha%27s+footprint&

Dr. Faisal Moola

faisal_moola

I'm delighted @CBCNews drew attention to St. James Town in excellent feature on lack of greenspace in many neighbourhoods in Toronto (especially in lower income & racialized communities). My mom

Abdullah al Andalusi

AbdullaAndalusi

It's telling that a secular liberal can only see the Muslim world through the lens of the West and Western history. Any historian would laugh at such a comparison. The

vakibs

vakibs

In traditional Sanskrit scholarship, the works on grammar are a must for understanding word formation and meaning. So essentially, grammar replaces dictionary! In parallel, there will be descriptive word repositories

the last of my mercy

kaijidatingsim

Ok I finally have time and energy so...Let's talk about Lev tlou To only talk about how his narrative is transphobic is to overlook how it is at heart a

Natasha

natasha_faroogh

I find reading to be a stress reliever & I want a way to record my learning and share it - I realize reading/having the time to do so is

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