Currently enjoying finding out about what trams in Brussels have to do with colonialism for my paper for this year's ASMCF conference. My fav book on trains is still Todd Presner's Mobile Modernity, but fellow public-transport nerds/imperial historians, what are you reading?

Excited about the forthcoming English translation of Max Czollek’s important book 💪🏽👇🏽

best books on reading colonial archives besides trouillot and stoler?

You’ll find much more eloquent writing about racism in the “reunified” German federal republic than my hastily assembled tweets. But from #RostockLichtenhagen to #Hanau and #Halle via the murders of the NSU: right-wing violence and terrorism in Germany is thriving.

'Perhaps the answer is to shame the public into action over its gluttony.' No! We need to disentangle veganism for animals and the planet from diet culture. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Interrupting my Twitter break for noting that nothing says London than two young foxes staring at you and the dog from a rooftop.

Ich war heute früh im Gespräch mit WDR 5. Es ging um den 16-jährigen Mouhamed Dramé, der in Dortmund von 11 Polizisten umzingelt und mit einer Maschinenpistole erschossen wurde. Anwesend beim Gespräch war auch ein Polizeigewerkschafter. Aber hört selbst:

www1.wdr.de/mediathek/audi…

The Alliance Hubert Curien Programme is a joint initiative between the governments of France and the UK, it aims to encourage reciprocal mobility and joint collaboration between early career researchers:

britishcouncil.fr/en/education/r…

Taking a little break from this, please use my work email if you’d like to get in touch. Will announce another Zoom Theory Reading Group session for those who are interested, probably something on memory or affect. Stay safe in the heat everyone 🌞

I’d say who is benefiting from “migration studies”? It’s not those in the diaspora exhausted but advocacy and transnational repression who get these funds for “migration studies.”

And I haven’t seen these studies doing anything to actually help our ppl build political power.

The Global Crisis in Memory is an MLO special collection that explores how we remember the twenty-first century when new political formations have opted to embrace memory politics, rather than reject them. Read full collection online #OpenAccess ➡️bit.ly/mlomemory #History

Job alert; provenance researcher MAS Museum Antwerp/herkomstonderzoeker Congolese MAS-collectie #twitterstorians #museumjobs ) job.antwerpen.be/job/Projectco%…

there are definitely texts I've thought about teaching and then realised I couldn't get through hours of seminar discussion on them without having a bad time

Pls stop posting or retweeting screenshots of this cursed article, pls.

Dortmund: Schwarzer Jugendlicher stirbt mit 5 Treffer am ganzen Körper. 11 Polizisten anwesend. Aus Neutralitätsgründen ermittelt Polizei Recklinghausen. Ein Tag zuvor stirbt in Recklinghausen ein Mann bei Polizeieinsatz. Aus Neutralitätsgründen ermittelt Polizei Dortmund.
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Ein Schwarzer 16 jähriger Junge stirbt während eines Polizeieinsatzes. Insgesamt sind es nun 4 Tote in 6 Tagen.

Jahrelang wird propagiert, dass #Taser brenzlige Situationen deeskalieren würden. Dortmund zeigt, dass das nicht stimmen muss. Ein Thread zum #Polizeiproblem (1/6)

I know it’s fun to think of librarians and archivists as either democracy-defending superheroes or vengeful guardians of the historic record…but librarians and archivists are also overworked, underpaid, and being expected to solve problems without being given adequate resources.