Ian Merkel
@historianmerkel
Assistant Prof @univgroningen. Formerly @FU_Berlin. Human Being, Girl Dad, Polyglot, Kennismigrant. Aún aprendo. Book: Terms of Exchange/Termos de Troca
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Eraldo Souza dos Santos
Writing a global history of civil disobedience | And an autobiography of my mother | PhDing at the Sorbonne | Words in @WashingtonPost, @JacobinBrasil, etc.
Paulo Drinot
Historiador; peruanista y peruano (en ese orden). Profesor de historia latinoamericana en University College London. Marxista-Lennonista.
Christy Thornton
Author, Revolution in Development (@UCPress 2021) / Co-director, HPE Project / #PellGrant professor / @NACLA siempre / #NoMoreDrugWar(s)
William A. Booth
Lecturer in Latin American History, UCL. Pale and male though hopefully not entirely stale.
Juan José Ponce Vázquez
Historian, sevillano & USian. Spain, LatAm, Caribe, Atlantic. Opinions, my own. Author of Islanders and Empire. He/Him/Él. Also @ Threads & Blu3Sky. Find me.
'The rise of Brazil as a world agricultural powerhouse is one of the most important developments in modern world history.'
That's how Herbert Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna open their 'Feeding the World' (Cambridge University Press). Big claim!
I finally read Pablo Palomino (Pablo Palomino)'s critique of the 'Global South' as a category of analysis.
Definitely worth questioning your use of the term, even if you keep it. 'On the Disadvantages of “Global South” for Latin American Studies.'
scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/in…
I happily purchased my copy of Jake Blanc's newest and requested that my library do the same.
Turns out, it is open access. Enjoy!
library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.…
Next week University of Groningen
Looking forward to opening spring term with a talk by Joshua Mentanko (@LeidenHum)
''Allá en Europa: Solidarity, indigeneity, and the quest for postcolonial justice.'
rug.nl/research/icog/…
A big thanks to Rodrigo Turin. @rturin.bsky.social and Beatriz Vieira for a fantastic conversation yesterday at Uerj Oficial.
