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Ruy Llera Blanes

@ruyllerablanes.bsky.social
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Anthropologist (ISCTE, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal) Angola, Mozambique, Atlantic Political activism, utopias, memory and heritage Environmental problems.

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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos @alexchristoy.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Today = 9th 🎂 of 1st V of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-ed with @msadams.bsky.social, incl chapts by @benjaminjpauli.bsky.social, @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, @franziskah.bsky.social, Simon Podmore & Hugo Strandberg: doi.org/10.16993/bak
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(Con)textos: revista d'antropologia i investigació @contextosub.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🔉 We announce that (Con)textos: revista d’antropologia i investigació social opens the call for article submissions for issue 16 "Forests in crisis". 🌲 ◻️ Please find the Call for Papers attached, and read the guidelines for submitting articles at the following link: revistes.ub.edu/index.php/co...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction." On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
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The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026 cei.iscte-iul.pt/2025/11/call...
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Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026 - CEI-Iscte
Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon | 21 - 22 May 2026 Looking at the last two years in the land of Palestine, the Gaza genocide and the
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death. 

And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber. The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy. Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.

The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.

Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Free pdf download available, in English and Portuguese. www.cmi.no/publications...
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Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Summer school on "African Politics", 30 June - 2 July, Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais. More info: www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/escolas/s...
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Dominic Boyer @dominicboyer.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
How to communicate climate -- a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social @lacymjohnson.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social and yours truly.... www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
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How to Communicate Climate: New Experiments and Methods
With this four-way dialogue among climate researchers in the humanities and social sciences we attempt to unravel various techniques of climate communication. In aiming to reach non-specialist audienc...
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices. peticaopublica.com/pview.aspx?p...
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Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices.
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
A collective suggestion for a 'forensic' approach to processes of heritagization of violence, based on an on-site discussion in Bissau, and deeply inspired by the work of the @forensicarchi.bsky.social team. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts
In this article, we propose a research agenda towards the critical assessment of processes of memorialisation and heritagization of histories of violence in post-violence and post-authoritarian con...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Future of Revolution is out now! "We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future." - Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)
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The Future of Revolution
Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R....
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Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography | Thula
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
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O Caso Boaventura
Podcast · Coimbra Coolectiva · "O Caso Boaventura" fala sobre as denúncias de assédio que envolvem o mais famoso sociólogo português. Desde a publicação do capítulo de um livro com as primeiras acusaç...
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Alexandre Christoyannopoulos @alexchristoy.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Today = 8th 🎂 of 1st vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social including chapters by @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, & @franziskah.bsky.social: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e...
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RFI @rfi.fr · 22/04/2025
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
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Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
Il avait signé L'Invention de l'Afrique, un incontournable des études africaines : le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé tôt ce 22 avril 2025 à l’âge de 83 ans en Caroline du Nord, aux États-Unis, où il vivait. Il était l'un des intellectuels africains les plus respectés.
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Janne Rantala @jannerantala10.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond. 'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond' Just published in JPMS (UC Press). 🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
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To Brother AzagaiaA Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond
Dear Azagaia,Believing, in good African fashion, that you are present wherever you are remembered, I once again address my words directly to you. Right now, here in Mozambique, crowds are contesting t...
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Paco Ferrándiz @pacoferrandiz.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Hemos creado este perfil para que podáis seguir las novedades (y las reactivaciones de la hemeroteca) de “Disparidades.Revista de Antropología” del CSIC, antes conocida como RDTP. Todo el mundo invitado!
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Mickaël Correia @mickacorreia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort ce 26 mars "Covas do Barroso", un film de lutte choral qui remet en scène la résistance actuelle d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mine de lithium porté par la multinationale Savannah. Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...
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« Covas do Barroso », un docu-western sur la face sombre de la transition énergétique au Portugal
Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort le 26 mars un film choral qui remet en scène la résistance d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mines de lithium porté par la multinationale britannique S…
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Rui Martins @ruimartins.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
While greenwashed narratives portray mining for critical minerals as essential for a clean energy future, our video of the week reveals the global mining boom's destruction and the communities that are fighting back. Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social buff.ly/5jPKrb2
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This BBC presenter resigned over its pro-Israel bias. Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 20/03/2025
A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
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A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Mañana se cumplen 5 años del inicio del confinamiento. Ayer enviamos esto a producción. En breve, en librerías 😊
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Read here www.ft.com/content/b370...
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The ‘critical minerals’ rush could result in a resource war
Labelling justifies a preference for strong-arm tactics over co-operation
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Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
** The Two Princes of Mpfumo ** New book relating to #Mozambique #slavery #royalty #Africa Looks terrific ! www.pennpress.org/978151282720...
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
A recent publication: "Politics of Memorialization in Angola. Erasing and Controlling Contested Pasts". Published in The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict, edited by Ihab Saloul and Britt Baillie. Open Access link.springer.com/referencewor...
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Politics of Memorialization in Angola
This contribution maps the specific dynamics of the politics of heritagization and memorialization of conflict in Angola, arguing for the idea of a logic of “militarization of memory” in p...
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CTXT.es @ctxt.es · 02/03/2025
🇦🇷 FEMINISMOS | @nuriaalabao.bsky.social escribe sobre la violencia sexual que formó parte habitual de las torturas que se aplicaron en la ESMA durante la dictadura argentina a raíz del libro 'La Llamada', que cuenta la historia de la montonera Silvia Labayru. ctxt.es/es/20250301/...
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Secuestradas y desaparecidas: violencia sexual y memoria histórica
El ejercicio de reconstrucción del pasado que plantea el libro de Leila Guerriero ‘La llamada’ sirve para entender el alcance de los avances feministas en el reconocimiento social de las violaciones
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Liam Bates @liambatespoet.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
- Al Overview
"Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributed to Karl Marx.
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Special issue (Open Access) @Lusotopie journal: Il était une fois la révolution portugaise Era uma vez a Revolução portuguesa One upon a time, the Portuguese Revolution journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7912
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XXIII(1-2) | 2024 Il était une fois la révolution portugaise
Revue comparatiste consacrée aux espaces issus de l’histoire portugaise / Comparative review devoted to areas from Portuguese history
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Empresas hoteleiras "recuperam (mesmo) património"?
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The language of the right is increasingly resembling the language of AI, and vice versa: words devoid of context, sensibility, history, memory or semantic complexity. Just think of their use of terms like "freedom" or "sex." Perhaps it's time to start thinking of them as "stochastic parrots."
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 24/02/2025
Why are #migrants dying while trying to cross the US southern border? An anthropology professor details the 3 main risks they face: 1) Lack of water, shelter 2) Risk of drowning 3) Falling or car accidents
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Why are migrants dying trying to cross into the US? These are the 3 main risks they face
Drowning, blunt force trauma and exposure to extreme weather are among the risks that migrants face making the dangerous journey across the US-Mexico border.
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Tomás Criado @tscriado.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
The music of the world's geopolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvJk...
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Fantomas - Rosemary`s Baby
YouTube video by sulico78
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britoguterres.bsky.social @britoguterres.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
A estadia no Rio explicada na Globo oglobo.globo.com/blogs/ancelm...
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Arena Carioca, na Pavuna, vira cenário de série sobre o futuro da língua portuguesa
Espaço foi escolhido para ser o cenário das gravações da segunda temporada da série “Meu bairro, minha língua”
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chrislavaquerie.bsky.social @chrislavaquerie.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Créée en 1981 et publiée par @editionskarthala.bsky.social la revue Politique Africaine contribue à "dé-exotiser une certaine perception académique occidentale du politique en #Afrique". À suivre régulièrement donc 👏 @stefanhi.bsky.social @politiqueafricaine.bsky.social @elarabertho.bsky.social
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Dr Dorothée Boulanger @doboulanger.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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A photo of my author's copies of the Portuguese version of my book A ficção como história. Resistência e Cumplicidades na literatura angolana pós-colonial
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Apropos of nothing, use the discount code BASH for 40% off The US Antifascism Reader
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The US Antifascism Reader
Since the birth of fascism in the 1920s, well before the global renaissance of “white nationalism,” the United States has been home to its own distinct fascist movements, some of which decisively infl...
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Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
** Mozambique ** Rich inteview of Michel Cahen by AfriqueXXI @afriquexxi.bsky.social on the situation in #Mozambique « Il n’est pas impossible de voir apparaître une nouvelle guérilla » AfroLuso Afripolsky #Africa #protest Here: afriquexxi.info/Mozambique-I...
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Mozambique. « Il n’est pas impossible de voir apparaître une nouvelle guérilla » - Entretien
La victoire aux élections générales du 9 octobre de Daniel Chapo est contestée par l’opposition et une partie de la population : des manifestations ont causé la mort de plusieurs centaines de (…)
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Seminar: Keeping/Discarding: Critical Reflections on (Un)Archivability (University of Leiden, NICA, 16 January 2025) www.nica-institute.com/event-keepin...
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Event | Keeping/Discarding: Critical Reflections on (Un)Archivability - Seminar - Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
Date:  16 January 2025 | Time: 9:00-13:00 | Location: Leiden University | Credits: 2 ECTS
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Daniel Oliveira @danielolivalx.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hoje, na Mouraria, durante o debate sobre o acesso dos estrangeiros ao SNS. O resultado do espetáculo que a foto mostra está na TSF: uma detenção, "várias armas", 4600 euros e artigos contrafeitos. Vamos fingir que não percebemos o que se está a passar?
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Petição para a "Criminalização de todas as práticas discriminatórias racistas, xenófobas, homofóbicas, machistas, transfóbicas, e outras" peticaopublica.com?pi=criminali...
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Criminalização de todas as práticas discriminatórias racistas, xenófobas, homofóbicas, machistas, transfóbicas, e outras
O seu apoio é muito importante. Apoie esta causa. Assine a Petição.
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez @acorsin.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
1/ Free Culture & the City was published earlier this year. I never got around doing a proper thread on the book. Better late than never. Let me wrap up 2023 with a brief introduction to the book’s main argument and concepts (Photo Luis Daza of street art by Lagaleriademagdalena)
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Ruy Llera Blanes @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
CFP Lusotopie: Indépendances africaines et les avatars de la colonialité // Independêncisa africanas e os avatares da colonialidade (eds. Victor Barros, Suzano Costa). Deadline résumés 31 janvier 2025 / deadline resumos 31 Janeiro 2025. journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/7902
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2025-1&2 Indépendances africaines et les avatars de la colonialité
Éditeurs :Víctor Barros, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade NOVA de Lisboa / IN2PAST – Laboratório Associado para a Investigação e Inovação...
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
An extract from Against the Crisis, published by Land and Climate Review: "Holgersen [argues] that capitalism is flexible enough to make money from both destroying and saving the planet - all at the same time". @landclimate.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social
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Why bad ecology is not necessarily bad economics - Land and Climate Review
In an extract from his new book, Ståle Holgersen questions the idea that climate change presents an economic threat, arguing that capitalism is flexible enough to make money from both destroying and s...
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