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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

@carolinehossein.bsky.social
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Mum, #Cooperator, #feminist & Author of 8 books. #NYC 🍎 born and bred in #Toronto 🇨🇦 to #Caribbean immigrants. Founder of #DISE collective 🇹🇹 🇬🇾 🇬🇩 🇭🇹 🇯🇲 share my work on #feministEconomics www.africanaeconomics.com

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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A very compelling lecture by writer @susanabulhawa.bsky.social at the #OxfordUnion debate. A must watch for folks that hang @redemmas.org youtu.be/c2Y-aycEqs0?...
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Susan Abulhawa | This House Believes Israel is an Apartheid State Responsible for Genocide | 7/8
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Stories of Institutional Violence
Writing in honour of Professor Jason Arday
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Solidarity Social @solidarity.social · 11/10/2026
@carolinehossein.bsky.social Thanks for creating this awesome Black Social Economy starter pack ! We are humbled and thrilled to be included; Abolish ICE ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 solidar.app/starter-pack...
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Thanks Haroon.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Make Cornell lose money. app.chilli.club/a/659b273f-3...
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chilli | cornell must face consequences
Ask Cornell's donors to redirect their donations
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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Polyester is up 40%.Factories are shutting down, mass layoffs combined with huge price inflation. Trump's war is destroying lives and the impact will be felt for a long time. www.dtnext.in/news/nationa...
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West Asia war impact: LPG crunch forces shutdowns across textile units, lakhs of workers in limbo
CHENNAI: India’s textile industry is reeling from a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) shortage triggered by the war in West Asia, with major hubs from Surat to Karu
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CLLCTIVLY @cllctivly.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What the Black Social Economy Teaches Philanthropy About Collective Care - nonprofitquarterly.org/what-the-bla...
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What the Black Social Economy Teaches Philanthropy About Collective Care | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
A look at the Black Social Economy as infrastructure and the lessons this model provides on stewardship, regeneration, and collective care to improve philanthropic practices and create meaningful syst...
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Feminist Killjoy @saranahmed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Get a No Out so that Others can follow!
No is Not a Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Complaining is out in paperback today!
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
HELLO #WINNIPEG! I am headed to Winnipeg to give a talk about informal institutions, based on empirical evidence with hundreds of chief Banker Ladies in six countries. @umartsfaculty.bsky.social
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I love u M.
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI
Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears
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jess @jessamess.blacksky.app · 01/01/2026
Starting 2026 off right with @thestorygraph.com's January Pages Challenge and @ruha9.bsky.social ✨ #BookSky
An image of the book cover for Imagination: A Manifesto by Ruha Benjamin. Features an image of a black femme with a beautiful braided hairstyle adorned with flowers.
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Via Worlding Feminist Political Economy: Making the Case for Banker Ladies on: 🔗radicalecologicaldemocracy.org #BankerLadies #CommunityFinance
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ha. Very good questions.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the #DISECollective. This year we all led a global symposium on #informal #coop institutions funded at U of T. WE ARE PROUD FWMINIST ECONOMISTS. @iaffe.bsky.social #coops #SSE Find out more at www.africanaeconomics.com @africanaeconomics.bsky.social
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
What the heck is going on in #Lithuania with reverse discrimination? I will not be going to places like this, ever. Read this story about an anti-white law suit against, a Black woman named #KamishaMenns living there: www.blackcurrentnews.co.uk/p/lithuania-...
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Revealed | Black woman faces jail in Lithuania for ‘mocking white people’
Kamisha Menns faces possible jail time in Lithuania after a ski resort refund dispute escalated into a criminal hate speech case over comments about “white woman’s tears”
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My favorite artist 🇹🇹 Natalie Wood in Toronto has a show on #Marronage and Refusal at the Paul Petro Modern Gallery. A must-see.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FEMINISTS ARE NOT DEAD. We at The DISE Collective and @iaffe.bsky.social agree with you on this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
FEMINISTS ARE NOT DEAD. We at The DISE Collective and @iaffe.bsky.social agree with you on this @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meet the special guests who will be speaking at #FightingTechnoFascism in Chicago on 9/19 💥 @naomiaklein.bsky.social 💥 @astra.bsky.social 💥 @safiyanoble.bsky.social 💥 @gilduran.com 💥 Delia Ramirez 💥 Caren Tepp Register to join them & 100s of organizers in Chicago: bit.ly/fighttechnofascism
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Some good news: MediaJustice is putting on a sequel to that excellent gathering on September 19th in Chicago: #FightingTechnoFascism. We’ve made it a stop on the End Times Fascism book tour - come if you can! givebutter.com/fighting-tec... @mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social
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Fighting Technofascism: Power, Surveillance, and Resistance
Join us in Chicago, IL on September 19th
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
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Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Anand Giridharadas @anandwrites.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
New interview: I talked to NYC mayoral hopeful @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social about making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC 2028, if he'd fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again. the.ink/p/watch-zohr...
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WATCH: Zohran wants a new New York
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani on making New York livable again, balancing safety and justice, Cuomo after #MeToo, AOC in 2028, how he would fight ICE raids, and whether he will rap again
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
No lie. When I was supposed to co-teach, the other professor emailed asking me to remove this book because it was "full of errors." Imagine that a required PhD course NEVER had **this classic** as required reading in their global development syllabus until 2022!
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Artists at the Royal #Danish Academy of Art showcased visual manifestations of collective economies based on #cooperatives and the solidarity economy research. Funded by the Canada Research Chair @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca in #Africana #Development & Feminist Political Economy. Curator Anouska Kobus.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
An international panel on #Inequality is urgently needed. Prof Stiglitz and Prof Jayati Ghosh #IAFFE with others are leading this @josephestiglitz.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Why we need an International Panel on Inequality
Disparities in income and wealth are growing. A scientific assessment process can give governments the information they need to tackle them.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a beautiful tribute to a scholar I truly admired and learned a lot from, Prof Fantu Cheru. He showed me how to be the kind of scholar who was guided by homegrown values. I will miss you dear Fantu. 🇪🇹 🇪🇹 ❤️ www.thereporterethiopia.com/51463/
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The Passing Of A Shepherd Of Ideas And A Servant Of Humanity | The Reporter Ethiopia
With profound sorrow and deep gratitude, I mourn the passing of my dear friend and brother, Professor Fantu Cheru — an extraordinary Ethiopian and African
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
RIP dear professor Fantu Cheru. I will remember my time working and learning from you at Bahir Dar University in 2018 on my sabbatical year. What I will always hold close is that you were always so fierce with your values - and hates the elitism in universities. ❤️
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is the #DISE collective. We write together and support each other. @africanaeconomics.bsky.social A few of us led a global symposium on informal institutions this year. #weareNOTmonrylaunders
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Agree 💯
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Maria BOO!stillos @mariabustillos.com · 02/09/2026
By far the most incisive and urgent writing I have read on the Arday case, and on the global crisis in higher ed more generally. Breathtaking.
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 01/09/2026
A 20-year-old Haitian immigrant died in Springfield, Ohio, in what his family believes was a suicide following months of distress over losing his deportation protections and being fitted with an ICE ankle monitor. "He felt like he was treated like an animal."
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JD Vance under siege after Haitian student's death: 'Not enough Hail Marys in the world'
A 20-year-old Haitian immigrant died in Springfield, Ohio, in what his family believes was a suicide following months of distress over losing his deportation protections and being fitted with an ICE ankle monitor.Pierre Damas Bel had pulled his vehicle onto the shoulder before 8:45 a.m. and walked i...
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This story about Pierre is just so heart breaking. The cruelty going on is unthinkable. abcnews.com/US/haitian-g...
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Haitian who just graduated high school dies by suicide after losing TPS status, advocacy group says
A 20-year-old Haitian who had just graduated high school and had recently lost temporary protected status died by suicide on Monday, according to an advocacy group.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Word! Dr Rinaldo Walcott has really laid out how elitist the Canadian university is. And how #EDI is self-serving to those obsessed with the status quo. Bravo for publishing this paper @canadiandimension.bsky.social
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Congrats!
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rooted in working-class values and first-generation scholarship, the DISE Collective is is focused on shifting academic culture and challenging institutional barriers. Join @carolinehossein.bsky.social , Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina, and Dr. Sharon Wright Austin at WCPS2026! #AcademicSky #PoliSky
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
"These money pools cultivate a deep sense of care... enabling members to resist socio-economic exclusion and free themselves." Read this review of @carolinehossein.bsky.social The Banker Ladies, by Arpita Biswas (UManitoba) out in the Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy! 🔗 doi.org/10.1007/s419...
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Yohanan Demeke: Why Canada must recognize mutual-aid savings as legitimate policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/afri...
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Why Canada must recognize mutual-aid savings as legitimate
Diaspora mutual-aid finance helps build stability, but Canadian banks still treat it as suspicious and exclude borrowers.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Dr. Ruth Marshall is still kicking against the pricks @wtfis2bdone.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
‘Viewpoint diversity hires’ are a jobs program for mediocre white men who can no longer compete against the women and POC who clawed their way into the academy over the past 50 years. Cofnas’ case is part of a concerted campaign to legimate misogyny and racism. 👇 bylinetimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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The Peter Thiel-Linked Race Science Network that Penetrated Cambridge University and Targeted Jason Arday
The media's coverage of the academic's life was fuelled by the campaign of an established far-right network
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
What the Black Social Economy Teaches Philanthropy About Collective Care - nonprofitquarterly.org/what-the-bla...
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What the Black Social Economy Teaches Philanthropy About Collective Care | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
A look at the Black Social Economy as infrastructure and the lessons this model provides on stewardship, regeneration, and collective care to improve philanthropic practices and create meaningful syst...
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"Wake Up World: ROSCAs are Part of the Co-op Family!" 🌍 We're proud to share a brilliant new article in the GEO Journal. The writers argue that formal co-ops must recognize ROSCAs as peers, not outliers. Read the full article here! ⬇️ geo.coop/articles/wak...
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need to show rightwing newspapers that actions have consequences. Add your name: goodlawproject.org/s/abb8a1
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Jason Arday: Demand a public inquiry now | Good Law Project
Commission an immediate public inquiry into how to ensure a responsible press given its contribution to Dr Arday’s tragic death.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
NEW BOOK Review by leading microfinance scholar J. MORDUCH Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks by Caroline Shenaz Hossein academic.oup.com/psq/article-...
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The Banker Ladies: Vanguards of Solidarity Economics and Community-Based Banks by Caroline Shenaz Hossein
Historically, financial systems have excelled at making the rich richer. Bankers have tripped over themselves seeking to serve the wealthiest customers whi
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Some good people are out there. Read this story on Grady White Boats. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/b...
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Sell the Company for $400 Million? He’s Giving It Away Instead.
After his sole heir died, Eddie Smith, the owner of Grady-White Boats, looked for a way to pass on his legacy. He was inspired by Patagonia to pledge future profits to charity.
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The Media Lynched Jason Arday theemancipator.org/2026/08/15/i... Thank you @ibramxk.bsky.social for writing this.
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The Media Lynched Jason Arday
The death Friday of Jason Arday, a 41-year-old Black scholar who resigned from the University of Cambridge after waves of attacks over the last few weeks, hits close to home. His death left me so deva...
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Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 @carolinehossein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
RIP Prof Jason Arday. Shame on #Cambridge www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Jason Arday: Former Cambridge university professor found dead
His family said it was "in shock to have lost this amazing father, partner, brother, uncle and son" after the academic was found dead in London on Friday.
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Excited to announce the 2026 Visiting Research Fellow at U of T: Dr. Bidisha Ray (SFU). Working with CRC @carolinehossein.bsky.social, Dr. Ray will examine women's earnings & microcredit history in 20th century rural Bengal/Bangladesh. Welcome, Dr. Ray! #Microfinance #UofT #Researchfellow
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
How do we build a humane cooperative economy? Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein's latest work grounds economic transformation in the activism, labor, and homegrown values of Black diaspora women. Essential reading for students, activists, and scholars. @carolinehossein.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/9780...
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The Global Black Social Economy as World-Making
Abstract. Africana feminist political economy is academic research that ties politics and economics together and is focused on creating a more inclusive ec
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AfricanaEconomics @africanaeconomics.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We are proud to see @carolinehossein.bsky.social sharing her research on the solidarity economy at UNAL-Sede Caribe in San Andrés!🇨🇴Thank you to the National University of Colombia for hosting her and fostering vital conversations on community-led economic futures. #SolidarityEconomy #UNAL #SanAndres
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