🦁 Congratulations to Iris Mwanza on the publication of her new novel “The Lions Den,” and thank you to New York City for the sublime launch event weather! 🌆 ✈️ In conversation with Blessing Omakwu, Iris described why she likes to write on planes and how she manages to avoid the temptations of airplane movies. 🗞️ Her inspiration for this thriller about a human rights lawyer in Zambia defending a young, queer client arrested by corrupt police came from a news story she read a decade ago. 📚 Nine years in the making, Iris’s book is “an evocative, touching, and--in multiple senses--moving portrait of Zambian life and politics at a moment of great transformation. And in the tradition of Zambian storytelling, it shows us, it teaches us, how ordinary people, in extraordinary circumstances and under persistent forces of oppression, can neverthless extend and bend the arc of justice,” according to Namwali Serpell, author of The Furrows: An Elegy. ⚖️ Yes, ordinary people can extend justice under persistent forces of oppression, and if you need reinforcement at this point in our time and history, check out “The Lion’s Den.”
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On the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery, learn more about the agency of fugitive enslaved women in the journal article 'Fugitivity and Enslaved Women's Agency in the Age of Revolution' by Karen Cook Bell. You can find this article and other related materials by conducting a search in the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) https://buff.ly/3L7a33B
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In advance of parental alienation awareness day on April 25: Check out this conversation with Donna Maria Bradley about deconstructing the history, misinformation, and some critiques of parental alienation. See link here: https://lnkd.in/e9J2PZ2H
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💫Recent Editorial - 9 JULY 2024 💫 National symbols, Notional respect Why in News? The effort to regulate citizens' behavior regarding national symbols aims not to foster 'a love for the people-nation', but rather to cultivate an instinctive reverence for the nation-state. Visit https://lnkd.in/gQX-RwJM to read full article
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❓ How to explain escalation waves in ethnic conflicts? ➡ We introduce the "forest-fire model of cultural identity conflict escalation" (FFM) ➡ We need to consider collective emotions, triggering events & the non-linear character of ethnic upheavals 📄 Find our new paper in 'Aggression and Violent Behavior' here: https://lnkd.in/eqAV5cZx
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This piece has some very interesting thoughts on the word "Indigenous"
“'Indigenous'” and 'settler' are not identities or awards or punishments—they’re labels describing relationships within positionalities of power.“ Essential read, from Daniel Delgado published by Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg https://lnkd.in/gQEj7gqV
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I admire her articulate articulation of the white experience. Check out the insightful explanation here: https://lnkd.in/eF7ZVi2P #sitatthetable #culturalexchange
African Stream on Instagram: "SOUTH AFRICA NO ‘RAINBOW NATION’ In this clip from South Africa’s ‘Big Debate,’ social justice advocate Lovelyn Nwadeyi broke down why apartheid ended, poking holes in the notion that South Africa is a ‘rainbow nation.’ She also distinguished that white South Africans can remove themselves from the struggle that continued after apartheid ended in the early 1990s. Mean
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💫Recent Editorial - 9 JULY 2024 💫 National symbols, Notional respect Why in News? The effort to regulate citizens' behavior regarding national symbols aims not to foster 'a love for the people-nation', but rather to cultivate an instinctive reverence for the nation-state. Visit https://lnkd.in/d3jPt55m to read full article
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Find out the motivations, scope and outcomes of our latest January special section on Latin American voices in IR in the words of the guest-editors! 📝 Read here: https://lnkd.in/gbQH7dAd
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Today, we commemorate the 42nd anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American. The perpetrators targeted him during a wave of anti-Japanese sentiment. His murder, and the continued injustice that followed, sparked not only outrage but fueled a movement throughout the Nation to advance the civil rights of the AANHPI community. We know that though justice is often imperfect, it cannot be a passive endeavor. Our work towards justice requires constant engagement, unrelenting focus, and compassion. NAPABA carries on that legacy. To learn more about Vincent Chin and the movement that followed, please visit: https://lnkd.in/gRYmJP_6
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Dr. Haing S. Ngor was a Cambodian-American physician, actor, and author best known for his Academy Award-winning performance in "The Killing Fields." His life is a testament to resilience and courage as he survived the horrors of the Cambodian genocide and served as an advocate for human rights. Read more about Dr. Haing Ngor's amazing life on our blog: addus.com/dr-haing-ngor/
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2wWhat a fun evening! Thank you Christy ❤️🙏🏽