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Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

In the hopes that others are more often on this site than I am, I'm happy to share this CfP and ask you forward to any and all you think may be interested in a workshop exploring practices of the archival commons in and beyond Africa (esp. early career scholars!!): www.hsozkult.de/event/id/eve...

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Practicing the Archival Commons: Publics, Power and Perspectives

This workshop seeks to examine refigured archiving work currently undertaken in Africa as well as to learn more about the ways in which this refigures scholarship. Introducing the concept of the ‘arch...

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Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

@kalikamehta.bsky.social & I have been working together on mass starvation in Bengal, 1943 in the context of international criminal law. Here, we share observations on the persistence of mass starvation as an under prosecuted war crime in the context of colonial violence, then & now: aje.io/ja36qg

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Starvation is a war crime. So why is it so rarely prosecuted?

From Bengal to Gaza, hunger is often used as a weapon of war but almost never punished.

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Lisa Regazzoni @lisaregazzoni.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

With Riley Linebaugh (@rileysline.bsky.social) joining the editorial board of Theory of History at Work, the blog gains valuable expertise on postcolonial justice and the links between archive-making and history-writing! Here is the excellent contribution by Sauda Nabukenya, edited by her 👇

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Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

The cover is here and the book will be soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

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Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I spent nearly a decade on this project, which will soon exist as a book. I am equally afraid that someone and no one will read it. It is imperfect, contains errors, and could be better (I said it first, reviewers!) It is also an offering to those who see history as a site of colonial conflict.

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Riley Linebaugh @rileysline.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Microsoft PowerPoint has a free template for in-class use called "Make Your Own Colony." Students decide which resources to extract, how to accumulate capital and differentiate society. Literally made a bsky account to share this, go off!

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