PROVISION GROUNDS
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reflections on slavery, it’s afterlives & the practices of maroonage/fugitivity deployed to resist historic and contemporary spatialisations of the plantation.
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Call for Papers: 'Rethinking the Ecological Imaginary: Decolonial Ecologies and Black Feminism' conference at the University of Edinburgh. Abstract to be sent by 14th Feb. More info in link below: iash.ed.ac.uk/news/call-pape…
12 Fully funded PhD scholarships for Black British Students availible at the University of Glasgow in Honour of James McCune Smith have been announced. Deadline is Jan 31st. Please shared widley. More info below: gla.ac.uk/scholarships/m…
Gordon Rohlehr, native son of Guyana, preeminent scholar of calypso and Caribbean popular culture, has joined the ancestors. Here he is in conversation with poet Christian Campbell for the University of the West Indies 8th annual Kamau Brathwaite lecture. facebook.com/watch/live/?re…
All solidarity to the movement to Stop Cop City / Defend ATL Forest in solidarity with the memory of Manuel 'Tortuguita' Teran who was slain by cops in Atlanta this past week (1/2) if you're just learning of the struggle & want some context: …nnialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/multiple-gramm…
We hope that you can join us at 7 pm EST tomorrow for a virtual screening of Al- Nisa: Black Muslim Women in Atlanta's Gay Mecca. Click the link below to register for the film (and Thursday’s Queer Black Islams panel): queensu.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Save the date: Tuesday 31 January Time: 17:00-19:00 GMT Venue: Twitter Spaces Speakers: To be announced soon “The State & Fate of Black Studies (and Scholars) in the UK 🇬🇧” It’s time to hold the failed promises to account…
Fully funded #PhD scholarship for UK #Black or mixed-Black heritage. We need more Black researchers to bring our voice into knowledge creation. Please share widely. southampton.ac.uk/study/fees-fun….
Come work with me! I have founded a Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (#CBESA) at @CarnegieMellon. We are currently advertising a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship on Black Europe and the Atlantic World. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37378731/p… Deadline is 03/30/23. #JoinIn🌟
Local followers ❗ Come along to @future_natures event 'Dark Agoras', Weds 18th Jan 7pm - 9pm J.T. Roane will introduce his book 'Dark Agoras', discussing collectivity and belonging associated with working-class Black life in 20th century Philadelphia eventbrite.co.uk/e/dark-agoras-…
Fully funded PhD opportunity for both UK & International Candidates: 'The Palm House and the Plantationocene: Kew’s role in the emergence of the global tropical commodity system and its legacies' chase.ac.uk/cdas/the-palm-…
Research is a care practice.
“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” ― Zora Neale Hurston, who was born #OTD in 1891
“The only cure will be a transformation of the whole society, & an entirely new knowledge order…It is through language that you & I…develop a mechanism to understand one another, do you see the immense potential there?! Language is entirely the point!” offshootjournal.org/what-will-be-t…
“ We weren't able to smuggle in entire meals. No. But we did smuggle in memories. Taste memories. Memories of freedom. Memories of the last time someone had tasted this vegetable or that.”
I once had an illicit vegetable garden in prison. We smuggled fresh veggies into the cell blocks. A thread...
Full video in thread 👇🏾
🍃In September we hosted a two hour long conversation with Kali Akuno from @cooperationjxn. You can watch the full video here- vimeo.com/781483697
Some Fanon, Plantation Futures McKittrick, Papers by J.T. Roane, Robert Connell, My life in the bush of Ghosts -Amos tutoula, Leornard Peltier, Suzanne and Aime cesaire, Maybe round off with the Cosmic Serpent, or bits of Freedom Dreams?
Anthropologists & Friends: In the spring, I am teaching my new course: Decolonizing Ecology (upper undergrad/graduate level). The enrollment for the course is mostly non-anthro students. What readings/materials would you recommend for an "Intro to Anthro" week?
“Although organized under the stern gaze of slaveholders, Christmas time has long held a distinct place in the history of freedom and resistance throughout slave societies in the African diaspora.” @Y__Barragan in @BlkPerspectives. #Blktwitterstorians aaihs.org/christmas-and-…
OPINION: Enslaved Africans often plotted escapes, acts of defiance, and violent insurrections during the holiday season. In many ways, it's America's oldest Christmas tradition. | Michael Harriott thegrio.com/2022/12/25/how…
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