Anthropology Prof @GVAGrad @GVAGrad_ANSO // Urban Studies Prof @kse_ua // Infrastructure -- Construction / Humanitarianism / Critical Global Health
Vienna & Kyiv via Geneva
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New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.
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It’s interesting the extent to which an ostensible socialist like Marcetic relies on right-wing think tankers at Quincy, American Conservative, and Defense Priorities (also Koch funded) to cobble together his analysis here.
He’s not the only one, either. ⬇️
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Yesterday Russian rockets destroyed a school in the city of Sumy. Our @kse_ua vice rector for international affairs graduated from this school in 1999, and his kids studied there before they moved to Kyiv.
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It’s still hard to believe the lever of dehumanization of our lives. When I heard the hit I just continued lying in my bed, shaking, reading updates on the number of injured, how I felt joy to the headline “no bodies were found under rubble”. What makes me happy these days 🫠.
#Kharkiv city update September 28, 2026. #Russia bombed an apartment building at 4:00 injuring 38 people in their sleep. Munition is new, to be confirmed by investigators yet.
Photos by Yevhen Tytarenko.
#RussianWarCrimes
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Denys Kurvatov, Ukraine's deputy minister of Education and Science, published this call:
"I call on the international scientific community to isolate and block Russian institutions and individuals involved in and supporting this war by every legitimate means available in international scientific cooperation, academic exchanges, conferences, publications, research projects and other areas of scientific activity. Russian aggression must not be normalised in the global scientific community. European Commission, CERN etc. Today, a Russian jet-powered UAV #russiaisaterroriststate struck the building of the Presidium of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. People have been killed and injured. My sincere condolences to their families and loved ones. There are no words that can explain or justify this terror"
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A Russian drone is still outside my window. And air-defense machine guns are working a hundred yards away.
This night Russia attacked Kyiv again.
For the first time, our university KSE, was hit.
One staff member was injured. No one in our community was killed, thank God. 1/
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I’ve been reading Eyal Weizman’s book Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide. I of course expected it to be very good. It is. But I have been haunted by the difference between the images of total urban destruction that characterises some savage wars and the idea of
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The amount of gloating I see on social media about Dubai being targeted by hundreds of Iranian missiles and drones is frankly disgusting.
People, it’s not just influencers and crypto bros in Dubai. Have some respect.
It’s a huge city with a diverse population from literally all over the world, including Iran. Families with children shrieking in fear have to seek shelter at night.
Dubai is a global magnet for educated people seeking professional opportunities, stability and happiness. Opportunities that — if you happen to be a doctor from Egypt or an engineer from Uzbekistan — are not easily available to you in Europe or the U.S.
After all these barrages, Dubai has remained resilient. It’s a real place. It will get through this.
Written by leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism from Below? forcefully illustrates that these humanitarian actors do not merely represent grassroots initiatives but have altered humanitarianism at large, involving alternative economies and politics.
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The current moment is almost comical: everyone discussing our entry into nihilism without daring to mention the place where the collapse of order became final, obvious and inescapable
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I wrote a personal essay on what it has meant for me witnessing events in Gaza since October 2023. I would be grateful if you help spread it. These were painful, disturbing conclusions to reach. But inescapable…
Shush! How silence is destroying European universities from within - Allegra Lab allegralaboratory.net/shush-…
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I am excited to share with you my new article, co-authored with superb @mostowlansky!
If you are interested in Global China and want to know how Chinese companies behave in Central Asia, this article may be relevant for you.
It's an open access! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Commentary with Asel Doolotkeldieva on how Chinese mining companies in Kyrgyzstan have worked to adapt to a state court system in which compliance as such is an impossibility.
carnegieendowment.org/posts/…
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Terrific new paper from @ADoolotkeldieva and @mostowlansky in our #CarnegieAsia project #ChinaLocalGlobal. Negative public perception has profoundly shaped Chinese business practices in Kyrgyzstan by pressuring such firms to adhere and adapt to local laws. carnegieendowment.org/posts/…