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Samuël Coghe

@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
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Historian. Working on the history of colonialism in Africa from a global perspective at Ghent University. Also doing history of science and medicine. PI ERC Project CATTLEFRONTIERS www.cattlefrontiers.eu Ex-Berliner. Academic Dad.

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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My article on colonial cattle censuses has just been published in open access in The American Historical Review: doi.org/10.1093/ahr/... 👇 Focusing on Madagascar, I show the significance of cattle census and their potential for historical analysis.
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Cattle Censuses: Analyzing Cattle Policies in Colonial Madagascar
Abstract. Colonial historians have analyzed how human population censuses were instrumental for state-making and ethnic categorization, and how they can be
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Tomas Bartoletti @tomasbarto12.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Next stop: MADRID! Looking forward to this conversation on “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” with @davidpretel.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social and many more!
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
1.747 extra doden tijdens hittegolf: "Dodelijkste van laatste 30 jaar" vrtnws.be/p.KK6oXxV0k @de-nva.bsky.social @vrtnws.be Wanneer krijgen we excuses van Theo Francken??!
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1.747 extra doden tijdens hittegolf: "Dodelijkste van laatste 30 jaar" | VRT NWS Nieuws
Tijdens de hittegolf tussen 18 juni en 1 juli stierven er 1.747 mensen meer dan gemiddeld. Dat blijkt uit cijfers over de oversterfte die Sciensano vandaag vrijgeeft. Vooral in Wallonië stierven er op...
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Happy to announce that my article 'Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy' was published in OA in Geschichte & Gesellschaft! @ggjournal.bsky.social @commodityfrontiers.bsky.social You can read it here for free: doi.org/10.13109/geg...
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Rethinking Commodity Frontiers: Sub-Saharan Africa and the Capitalist World Economy | Geschichte und Gesellschaft
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Geschichte und Gesellschaft @ggjournal.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In #geschichteundgesellschaft schreiben Historiker:innen Geschichte(n) über soziale, politische, ökonomische und kulturelle Phänomene. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Darstellung und Analyse des gesellschaftlichen Wandels. Gibt es ein Thema, dem Sie einen Aufsatz - oder gar ein ganzes Heft - widmen möchten?
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Je ne suis pas Charlie, je n'ai jamais été Charlie parce que Charlie est trop souvent cruel et écœurant. #Charlie #CharlieHebdo @charliehebdo.fr
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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
From 3 to 5 June 2026, the ERC Starting Grant Project CATTLEFRONTIERS organised the international workshop 'Cattle Commodifation in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'.
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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
We have a new blog post up on our website where team member Paulo Matos talks about some of his experiences conducting fieldwork in Angola earlier this year: cattlefrontiers.eu/paulo-matos-...
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Paulo Matos - Snapshots from the Field
Paulo Matos - Snapshots from the Field
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
My chapter ‘Livestock Commodities in a Globalizing World: Between Pastoralism and Capitalism’ has been published in Open Acces (doi.org/10.4324/9781...) in the fantastic Routledge Handbook of Pastoralism. All you ever wanted to know about why and how meat, milk and hides became global commodities.
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Livestock commodities in a globalizing world | 9 | Between pastoralism
This chapter analyzes how, and with what consequences, livestock commodities became an increasingly important feature of the global economy, from the late 18th
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Congresswoman Nikema Williams @repnikema.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Donald Trump is unfit to serve as the leader of the free world. That's why I have cosponsored H. Res. 939 Articles of Impeachment to remove him from office.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If a single man has the power to bomb other countries without any mandate of Congress, cause a global economic crisis and commit war crimes as he sees fit, the US of A is, besides all other things, clearly a failed democracy.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
It is hard to grasp that no institution in the US seems to be able or willing to prevent their president and his crusaders from committing blatant war crimes.
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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...
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New U.S. Missile Hit Iranian Sports Hall and School, Analysis Shows
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André Loez & podcast Paroles d’histoire @andreloez.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Sur Jacques Revel, grand passeur de la microstoria, qui vient de décéder www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
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Mort de Jacques Revel, ancien président de l’EHESS et figure majeure de l’historiographie française
L’historien, qui a notamment travaillé sur la société d’Ancien Régime, a contribué à promouvoir la microhistoire, pour mieux approcher les réalités passées. Il s’est éteint jeudi 12 mars, à l’âge de 8...
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
History repeating, the same procedure as in Gaza... This world now needs courageous politicians to stop these illegal wars. Yet historians have a long memory and will bring up the cruelties and war crimes for decades to come! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... #WarCrimes #genocide
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Entire families wiped out and towns emptied as Israel’s war on Lebanon intensifies
Communities displaced and destroyed while death toll rises faster than during any previous war in Lebanon
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Eric Morier-Genoud @emorier.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
The journal "Monde(s)" organised a debate around my book "Catholicism and the mkaing of politics" with Profs Elizabeth A. Foster, Samuël Coghe, Markku Hokkanen and myself. Here: shs.cairn.info/revue-mondes... #Mozambique #Africa #Catholic #History #Politics #Church #Diocese #Sociology
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
After Cees Noteboom earlier this year, another favourite author of mine has died. Reading António Lobo Antunes in Portuguese was a challenge. I remain grateful for his tragic-hilarious stories. RIP www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
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António Lobo Antunes’s exhilarating novels forced Portugal to confront its darkest moments
With an exacting modernist style and the courage to address fascism and colonialism head on, Lobo Antunes’s writing is a deluge of unforgiving truths in lush prose
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Bon Bon John @bonjohnson.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Pete Hegseth "You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense." -Senator Jack Reed youtu.be/qhZ3lILyolM?...
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"You lack the character, composure and competence to hold the position of Secretary of Defense."
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
If European leaders want international law to survive, then they have to speak up and defend it, instead of remaining silent. How difficult can it be to condemn the illegal actions of states that don't respect us anyway? #SpeakUpEurope
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sher12.bsky.social @sher12.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this | Simon Tisdall
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentat...
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Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com · 14/02/2026
It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
The AfricaMuseum in Brussels rightly refuses to transfer mining archives on DRC's geology to Trump and his greedy imperialist techfriends. Back off! vrtnws.be/p.vLePpJvpm #greedyimperialists
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AfricaMuseum weigert geologisch archief over Congo over te dragen aan Amerikaans mijnbedrijf, ondanks druk van Trump | VRT NWS: nieuws
Het AfricaMuseum in Tervuren weigert geologisch archiefmateriaal over Congo over te dragen aan een Amerikaans mijnbedrijf dat de gegevens wil gebruiken om waardevolle grondstoffen in kaart te brengen....
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Mocht je ondanks alles nog zin hebben om naar het WK voetbal te gaan: @hardgras.bsky.social
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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Tomorrow, February 10, Samuël Coghe will be presenting at the Socialist Medicine Seminar at the Humboldt University of Berlin about 'The Ecological Limits of the Cattle Frontier: Anthrax and Transimperial Technopolitics in Colonial Madagascar, 1890s-1960". socialistmedicine.com/samuel-coghe...
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Socialist Medicine ERC Research Seminar
Sławomir Łotysz presents on the history of Polish medicine in the Korean War at Socialist Medicine Seminar.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
How great the US can be!
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Es gibt häufig nicht die eine Wahrheit. Aber es gibt eindeutige Lügen. Die klar zu benennen, wie @philippsarasin.bsky.social schreibt, sollte Aufgabe unserer Medien sein. Sonst ist alles egal.
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Philipp Sarasin @philippsarasin.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Warum zum Teufel schreibt der Spiegel (und analog andere Medien), die Videos von der Ermordung von Pretti „scheinen“ der „Darstellung“ von Trump und DHS „zu widersprechen“?! Sie *zeigen* absolut eindeutig, dass Pretti keine Waffe, sondern ein Phone in der Hand hielt. Was alle sehen…/2
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Never thought the Sex Pistols were being prophetic about the US in 1977: "God save the Queen. The fascist regime.They made you a moron. A potential H-Bomb..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
"God save the queen, a fascist regime..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Alex Pretti did not brandish gun, witnesses say in sworn testimony
Pair testify that Pretti did not hold weapon and was trying to help woman federal agents had shoved to the ground
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Important work by economists in Germany shows that US importers and consumers are paying Trump's import tariffs... www.kielinstitut.de/fileadmin/Da...
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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Tomorrow, Elene Vernaeve and Samuël Coghe will present the CATTLEFRONTIERS project at the Internationalised Politics Colloquium at the University of Bremen. For more information: www.uni-bremen.de/institut-fue...
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Internationalised Politics Colloquium - Universität Bremen
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CATTLEFRONTIERS @cattlefrontiers.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Last week Elene Vernaeve and Zarah Cleve attended the 4th CRN PhD Days, presenting on "Cattle, companies and the countryside: Environmental impact of the cattle industry in 20th century Katanga" and "Controlling Flies and Managing Landscapes: Veterinary Science and Tsetse in Katanga" respectively.
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John Abernathy @john-abernathy.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.
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Samuël Coghe @samuelcoghe.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Still 6 days to apply for the CATTLEFRONTIERS international workshop in Ghent (3-5 June 2026) 'Cattle Commodification in Global History: Capitalism, Science and Empire'. See the CfP below for more information or cattlefrontiers.eu/workshop-cat...
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Leo Lucassen @leol.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Hoelang moet het nog duren voordat de leiders van de Democratische Partij opstaan tegen dit schrikbewind?
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
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David Pretel @davidpretel.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
📢 Call for Papers 📢 2026 Commodities of Empire workshop: “Locating Knowledge: Science and Technology in Commodity Frontiers.” 📍 Madrid, 2–3 September 2026 ⏳ Submission deadline: 14 February 2026 👉 CFP: commoditiesofempire.org.uk/events/ @davidedgerton.bsky.social @samuelcoghe.bsky.social
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10/01/2026
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter. I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
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Boyd van Dijk @boydvandijk.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Irène Herrmann's new book is finally out link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/01/2026
Trump on why he pardoned notorious drug trafficker Juan Hernandez: “It was a Biden set up. Take any country you want. If someone sells drugs in that country, that doesn’t mean you arrest the president and put him in jail for the rest of his life.”
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Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Mamdani kennt sich auch im Völkerrecht besser aus als Merz....
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Carolin Emcke @emcke.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
"Die rechtliche Einordnung des US-Einsatzes ist komplex"....Man weiß gar nicht, wo man anfangen soll. #Merz #Venezuela
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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 03/01/2026
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
Twitter thread in Spanish by José Mario de la Garza, a human rights lawyer in Mexico, translated using Google Translate:

1. Overthrowing a dictator sounds morally right. No one mourns a tyrant. But international law wasn't built to protect the good, but to restrain the powerful. That's why it prohibits force almost without exception: not because it ignores injustice, but because it knows that if each country decides whom to "liberate" by force, the world reverts to the law of the strongest.

2. The problem is not Maduro. The problem is the precedent. When military force is used to change governments without clear rules, sovereignty ceases to be a limit and becomes an obstacle. Today it is “overthrowing a dictator”; tomorrow it will be “correcting an election,” “protecting interests,” “restoring order.” The law does not absolve dictatorships, but neither does it legitimize unilateral crusades.Cont’d:

3. The uncomfortable question is not whether a tyrant deserves to fall, but who decides when and how. Because history teaches something brutal: removing a dictator is easy; building justice afterward is not. And when legality is broken in the name of good, what almost always follows is not freedom, but chaos, violence, and new victims. The law exists to remind us of this, even when it makes us uncomfortable.Maduro isn't the problem: he's the face of the problem. Removing him from power would be merely opening the door. Behind him is the machine: Rodríguez, Cabello, the military command, the operators of repression and plunder. If you only change the person at the top and leave the system intact, what follows isn't democracy: it's a reshuffling.

And there's something even more difficult: Chavismo didn't just capture institutions, it captured daily life. Economy, media, bureaucracy, employment, fear, favors, blackmail. A country can't be "de-Chavistaized" by decree or by an electoral miracle. The real transition begins when that network is broken without setting the country ablaze.

The challenge is enormous, and it's also a moral one: to unite without vengeance, but without impunity. Targeted justice for those most responsible, truth for the victims, guarantees that the rest will dismantle the system, and a plan for people to live again—not just survive. Because freedom doesn't come with a new president: it comes when the state ceases to be a threat.
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