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Penny Edmonds

@pennyedmonds.bsky.social
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Professor of history, empire, colonialism/postcolonialism. Australia/Pacific. Feminist. Lazy Buddhist. On unceded Kaurna land | Author: Settler Colonialism and Reconciliation link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781…

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I kind of want to go
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Welcome to the Republic of Gilead ...
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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The Polish revolutionary and theorist Rosa Luxemburg was murdered on this day in 1919 after a failed uprising in Berlin. She was killed by members of a far-right thugs , who directed by right-wing Social Democratic Party. Here's Tony Cliff on her life and thought: www.marxists.org/archive/clif...
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Book talk in London next week.
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik
It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Brilliant article ...
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Rosario López @rosariolopez.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Just published! My latest article on John Pocock and how history 'inhabits' us aeon.co/essays/histo...
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History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
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Tom Ashbyトム アシュビー @tomaashby.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
@rosariolopez.bsky.social in Aeon: '[For J.G.A. Pocock] a degree of disagreement and pluralism is integral to both the historian’s craft and the citizen’s experience.. There was no history without politics, and no politics without a contested political identity' aeon.co/essays/histo...
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History is always political, and contest over it is a good thing | Aeon Essays
In his work on republicanism as a living idea, J G A Pocock showed that contesting history is part of a robust civic life
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Almost there. Hang in.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
If you just ignore existing state and federal laws, the cost of nuclear waste, water use, decommissioning costs, rising construction costs, building a new industry from scratch, the falling cost of renewables and the fact that Dutton’s figures are blatantly cooked, his plan is actually reasonable.
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
New essay out today (with @alanlester.bsky.social @adeleperry.bsky.social Omeasoo Wahpasiw) exposing residential school denialism’s transnational network, or how denialism in Canada is being used globally to defend empire and colonialism: activehistory.ca/blog/2024/12...
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Exposing Residential School Denialism’s Transnational Network
Residential school denialism may have its origins in Canada, but it is increasingly circulating and being used around the world as part of a wider matrix of imperial apologetics – a transnational n…
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
That's great
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Perfect #platypus - you can see how they change from swimming to waddling to slithering depending on how deep the water is. #MonotremeMonday #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #platypuses #WildOz
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Joanna Kidman @joannakidman.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
THIS! ⬇️ "Science and the humanities aren’t rivals, but partners committed to interpreting the cosmos": Dr Pounamu Jade Aikman e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata
“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
A great defence of the humanities by Māori scholar Pounamu Jade Aikman: e-tangata.co.nz/comment-and-...
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We dismiss the 'fluffy' stuff at our peril | E-Tangata
“Science can show us the ‘how’, but the humanities give us the ‘what’ and ‘why’. Funding one without the other is like sailing without a compass: you can move forward, but without direction or purpose...
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
If you’re in Montreal on Monday and interested in the history & politics of colonialism, do come along?
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
And another: theconversation.com/friday-essay...
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Friday essay: ‘I said no’ – Nie’s refusal and the troubling question of Pacific slavery in Australia
In 1881, a Pacific Islander woman brought here to work on a sugar cane plantation ran away. She was violently retrieved by her employer. Her story sheds moving light on a dark history of exploitation.
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Penny Edmonds @pennyedmonds.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I'm new, so a few papers: #BLM in Sydney and travelling memory www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent
Photograph featuring an embroidery hoop on a pale wooden surface with an image of a figure in black thread sewn on tbe cream material the figure  a young woman  is shown braiding her long hair with thread that produdesqq from the image and wears a striped top
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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Group of students waiting to be allowed to enter a Sydney University classroom under the institution's proposed new 'civility rules'
b&w photo from 1930 of prisoners in face-covering hoods, black suits, and wooden clogs waiting to enter a room in Fresnes prison, south of Paris
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A degree from Sydney Uni soon won't be worth as much as it used to be
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Sydney Uni students allowed to use AI in radical reversal of cheating policy
The plan, to be phased in next year, will mean students won’t be banned from using AI on homework or assignments.
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Kate Fullagar @kfullagar.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Delighted to share a new project that @KTeaiwa and I have been working on for the past year - a new six-volume history of Oceania (Australia and the Pacific) - 60,000 years: culturalhistoryofoceania.blog
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A New History of Oceania ~ Sixty Thousand Years
A Bloomsbury Cultural History of Australia and the Pacific
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Professor Amy Roberts @profamyroberts.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It was great to be a guest on Nanawun Kaldowinyeri (Thursday 21/11/24) on @radioadelaide radioadelaide.org.au/program/nana... #AusAirplay
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Nanawun Kaldowinyeri 21/11/2024
Radio Adelaide - Rich & Real.
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