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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨Our website for “Forging Urban Citizenship” is now live.🚨 A collaborative art & research project with sixteen artists from Nairobi, Harare, Bulawayo, Lilongwe and Blantyre. It features poetry, theatre, collages, music, paintings, installations and much more. Enjoy & share! forgingcitizenship.com

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New review of my book out in International Migration Review by Neil Crawford. “Its real achievement is to make the policing infrastructure of refuge impossible to read past.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

🚨Publication alert🚨 Check out my new chapter on HUMANITARIAN AID in the Palgrave Handbook on Decolonizing International Affairs. It’s OPEN ACCESS: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The UNHCR archives in Geneva are at risk; reading room already closed - and there's a much broader 'humanitarian archive emergency' ongoing with aid budget cuts. www.aretenews.com/unhcr-refuge...

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As aid funds shrink, archivists warn of risks to the humanitarian record

UNHCR's archives are a test case for humanitarians struggling to preserve institutional memory in an era of retrenchment.

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

At least one million women and girls have lost access to humanitarian and other critical support over the past 18 months, according to a United Nations agency, after “the steepest annual decline” in foreign aid on record.

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One million women lost access to humanitarian support in past 18 months, UN report says

‘Organizations that have kept women and girls alive through the world’s worst crises risk becoming another casualty of war’ a UN Women chief says

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

8 July was the most meaningful book launch: I discussed OCCUPIED REFUGE with researchers from Kakuma refugee camp at the Refugee-Led Research Hub (RLRH) in Kakuma 2. Question & discussion were incredible and I learnt a lot in the process. Glad the book resonates with so many folks! A huge honour❤️🙏

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

It was great finally being able to launch OCCUPIED REFUGE in Nairobi yesterday at Soma Nami books. Many thanks to everyone who joined, and especially to my three wonderful panellists and friends: Wangui Kimari, Sanaa Alimia and Victor Nyamori! Asanteni! www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you’re in Nairobi, please come and join my book launch at Soma Nami! FREE ENTRY, all welcome! Details below:

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

If you’re in Nairobi, please come and join my book launch at Soma Nami! FREE ENTRY, all welcome! Details below:

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Come see our exhibition ‘Forging Urban Citizenship’ in Nairobi 23-30 June. Together with sixteen artists from Nairobi - Harare - Blantyre - Lilongwe we are reimagining what political claims-making through art might look like in four African cities. Funded by @glasgow.ac.uk GCID

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A pleasure to host you, and discuss a provocative & well-researched book. (You have modestly neglected to mention the publisher's discounted price of £15.39 with coupon code E26BRNKM: mngbookshop.co.uk/9781478033134/occupied-refuge)

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Occupied Refuge

In a world shaped by war, climate disaster, and displacement, refugee camps are imagined as indispensable safe havens for millions of people fleeing crises. ...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Thanks to the Northeast Africa Forum & @oxfordgeography.bsky.social for inviting me to re-launch OCCUPIED REFUGE at Oxford. Thanks to the online & in-person audience for a really engaged discussion! Thx also to discussant Loren Landau & to hosts @jasonmosley.bsky.social & @mwangimwaura.bsky.social

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Lighthouse Reports @lighthousereports.com · 29/05/2026

Most European citizens will likely never have heard of VFS Global. But across much of Africa, Asia + the Middle East, the visa giant has become notorious Our investigation finds VFS has made huge profits by exploiting people with 'weak' passports

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The Visa Empire: Borders as a Business

Outsourcing giant VFS Global has made huge profits by exploiting people around the world whose ‘weak’ passports require them to apply for visas to travel

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Jason Mosley @jasonmosley.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Please join the Northeast Africa Forum on 2 June for a book launch & discussion: 'Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya' w/author Hanno Brankamp (Glasgow) & discussant Loren Landau (Oxford) *Hybrid event* Details & webinar registration: events.ox.ac.uk/oxford_event...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Sometimes research means hanging out with amazing hip hop artists during rehearsal✨🔥 Photo: MC Sharon and her crew

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I don’t know about you guys but my own enthusiasm for the Moon mission is slightly dampened by the genocidal fascists who are funding and celebrating it as an achievement for…*checks notes*…humanity?

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Extraordinary photo essay by Edwin Ndeke on the Dandora dumpsite in Nairobi, Kenya. It’s a fascinating place that you can see and smell from a long distance. The dirty underbelly of global commodity chains under racial capitalism.

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Life on Kenya’s largest dump: the invisible workers sorting the world’s rubbish

Plastic, textiles, e-waste and more end up at the vast Dandora site, where waste pickers spend all hours sifting through toxic debris looking for recyclables

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thanks to everyone who came to the Glasgow launch of my book! Humbled by the generous and sharp witted reflections from @obsqueer.bsky.social, @kamauwairuri.bsky.social & Kate Botterill—such an honour! 🙌 Upcoming events in Oxford, London, Nairobi, Bristol & North America to be announced very soon!

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

UK Govt once again showing its talent for utter bullsh*t that contradicts any migration research in the last decades. As if the punitive, underfunded and crumbling UK asylum system is a “pull factor” that attracts people to come here. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Area @areajournal.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

New in Area - 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐬 'Alligator Alcatraz and the production of environmental carcerality in the Everglades' by Caitlin Jones et al. This paper explores the weaponising of animals & landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear in the U.S. doi.org/10.1111/area...

Screenshot of a paper abstract in Area by Caitlin Jones, Eliza Breder & Tyler McCreary (2026) entitled: 'Alligator Alcatraz and the Production of Environmental Carcerality in the Everglades' with a black banner at the top.

In June 2025, the state of Florida opened 'Alligator Alcatraz', a federal immigration detention centre, in the Florida Everglades, weaponising animals and landscapes to construct racialised geographies of fear and rationalise multispecies environmental injustice. In this paper, we examine the symbolic and material conditions of Alligator Alcatraz, pulling apart how what appears to be a novel use of landscape and species for immigration enforcement, is in fact, a deeply historical logic that draws on long-standing settler colonial tropes of emptiness, danger and disposability. We illustrate how both the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), and the Everglades itself, are conscripted into carceral geographies that reflect both ecological degradation and racialised state violence. The alligator becomes conscripted as a federal immigration officer, touted by federal and state officials as a mascot of environmental carcerality. Meanwhile, the Everglades is deployed as an empty, deterrent landscape, reviving a settler imaginary that has long justified its destruction and casts Indigenous land, life and knowledge and the more-than-human beings living within it as expendable. Alligator Alcatraz pushes us to consider what carceral geographies of US immigration policy reveal about the disposability of certain bodies—human, ecological and more than human. Ultimately, existing in this spectacle of the racialised past and present are the real human costs of detention development in the Everglades, which is damaging local ecologies and Indigenous and migrant lives.

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MNG - University Presses @mngupbooks.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Join Dr Hanno Brankamp in their Glasgow book launch on March 6th. They will be giving a talk on their book, Occupied Refuge, followed by a panel discussion. 🎟️ Reserve your spot here: buff.ly/dVpssC0 @dukepress.bsky.social @UofGlasgow @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Bibi redux

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Right-wingers are always hypocritical.

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

My thoughts are with the people of Iran 💔

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

If you are in Glasgow or Scotland generally on Friday 6 March, please come to the launch of my book OCCUPIED REFUGE. Open to the public and free. Details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-la...

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GLASGOW LAUNCH: Occupied Refuge

Join us for the Glasgow launch of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp (University of Glasgow)

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Interesting how in the BBC’s politics reporting voters are always EITHER Muslim or working class but never both🤔

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Felicity Callard @felicitycallard.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

The details of this “socio-economic death sentence”inflicted on a journalist are truly horrifying. EU and Germany moving in deadly lockstep electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-ab...

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EU sanctions German journalist in shocking first over Gaza reporting

"Socio-economic death sentence" makes it illegal to receive even food or medicine from a third party.

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

🚨Another publication dropped🚨 For a special issue on Critical Camp Studies in the journal Population, Space and Place I have written the afterword entitled “Epilogue: Towards an Abolitionist Camp Studies”. It’s open access, please check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

🚨It’s publication day!🚨 My book OCCUPIED REFUGE is officially OUT today with Duke University Press. Available to order from all book shops! Upcoming book launches in Glasgow, Oxford, Nairobi and—perhaps—a city near you! Read the introduction for free online: www.dukeupress.edu/occupied-ref...

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Polly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

A much anticipated book!

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 10/02/2026

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Justice for Sheryl Adhiambo! This awful sentence really says it all about policing in Kenya. “Security agencies later moved in to restore calm and shot in the air to be able to remove the body from the scene.” Restore. Calm.

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Protests as 21-year-old KMTC student is fatally shot in Huruma, Nairobi

Sheryl Adhiambo was hit by a stray bullet as police pursued a suspected thug in Huruma Ngei I, Nairobi.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Save 30% on #NewBook "Occupied Refuge" by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social, which shows how humanitarian missions often function as militarized occupations that treat camp inhabitants as new colonized subjects. buff.ly/HAgl1ii

Cover of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp. The cover features a black-and-white photograph of a refugee camp with small structures that have corrugated metal roofs. In the foreground, a dirt ground stretches across the image with people walking, sitting, and standing near a vehicle. A vertical yellow line runs from top to bottom, dividing the composition. The title and subtitle appear in white text on the left side of the cover, with the author's name at the bottom right.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Today our blog introduces our terrific new books coming out this February, among which is “Occupied Refuge,” by @hannobrankamp.bsky.social. Check out the full list! buff.ly/yFB1kAQ

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

BBC Global News podcast just used the phrase “ethnic rebels” and it made me wonder if they think that other rebels don’t have an ethnicity?

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Zecharias Zelalem @zekuzelalem.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

3.5 years after a ceasefire ended a brutal Ethiopian civil war that killed hundreds of thousands in two years...Ethiopian forces and Tigrayan rebels clashed on Thursday, marking the most serious fighting since the war ended. Ethiopian Airlines has suspended all flights to Tigray.

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Clashes between government troops and Tigrayan forces erupt in Ethiopia

'Deteriorating' situation causes suspension of flights, security and diplomatic sources say.

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Pambazuka News @pambazukanews.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

📅Countdown: 3 Days!!! 📢Join #Pambazuka's 𝗚𝗹𝗼𝗯𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗛𝗮𝗹𝗹 on Sunday, 1 February 2026 at 1700hrs GMT for a conversation on #Venezuela, imperial decline & more. 🎧Zoom: bit.ly/4r7FLVK YouTube: youtube.com/@pambazukane... ℹ️More Details: tinyurl.com/Pambazuka-To... @hannobrankamp.bsky.social

Flyer with information on the upcoming Pambazuka Global Town Hall on Venezuela and recklessness in the period of the decline of imperialism

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Scotland folk! Join me for the launch of my book OCCUPIED REFUGE on Friday, 6 March 2026, 4-6pm at University of Glasgow. To order the book in the UK & Europe: mngbookshop.co.uk/978147803313... (Discount code: E26BRNKM) It’s a free, in-person event and everyone is welcome! You can sign up below:

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GLASGOW LAUNCH: Occupied Refuge

Join us for the Glasgow launch of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp (University of Glasgow)

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B Camminga @obsqueer.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

🎉 Big news! Our new collection, East African Queer and Trans Displacements, is out Open Access 5 Feb. Bringing together diverse case studies + interdisciplinary perspectives, this collection offers the first in-depth examination of queer and trans displacement in East Africa. tinyurl.com/4fz2rk5v

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Abolish ICE is not enough. It's not about training -- Ross who killed Renee Good was a TRAINER. It's not about body cams -- we saw Alex Pretti killed with our own eyes. We have to abolish the idea that violence ever made us safer, before it's too late. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray

It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

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Hanno Brankamp 🍉☀️ @hannobrankamp.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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GLASGOW LAUNCH: Occupied Refuge

Join us for the Glasgow launch of Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya by Hanno Brankamp (University of Glasgow)

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