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"This episode of state violence against a people’s protest is emblematic of the ongoing struggle for land and economic reforms in the , whose unjust political system is rooted in a history of colonial and imperial subjugation. Through an interweaving of testimonials, observations, and materials … the artists aim to shed light on the significance of collective remembrance and mourning in the fight for and land ."

https://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/offerings-for-escalante/

"Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone" by Kavita Singh (2015).

"But think for a moment of the history of museums. Think of the way their collections have been built, and the purposes they have served. Think of the violent encounters that often lay behind the collecting of curiosities in the age of exploration; or think of the museums built by missionaries to display pagan gods wrenched away from natives. Think of the vast collections built (and the ways these were built) during the age of colonialism, with entire monuments transported across the seas and re-erected in museum galleries. Think of the nations transformed by revolutions, where treasures were violently wrested away from the church and presented as desacralized avatars in museums".

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Cover of the book "Museums, Heritage, Culture: Into the Conflict Zone" by Kavita Singh. Publisher: Reinwardt Academy. Amsterdam University of the Arts.

A unique coming-of-age story from the lost world of

Avi Shlaim was born in Baghdad and grew up in Israel. He is a Professor of International Relations at St Antony's College, Oxford. His previous books include the critically acclaimed The Iron Wall and he writes regularly for the Guardian, Middle East Eye and other outlets.

In July 1950, Avi Shlaim, only five, and his family were forced into exile, fleeing from their beloved Iraq into the new state of Israel. Now the rump of a once flourishing community of over 150,000, dating back 2,600 years, has dwindled to single figures.

For many, this tells the story of the timeless clash of the Arab and Jewish civilizations, the heroic mission of Zionism to rescue Eastern Jews from their backwards nations, and unceasing persecution as the fate and history of the Jewish people. Avi Shlaim tears …

I'm not a scholar of , so I'll refrain from commenting on the specifics of the failed constitutional referendum there. As a historian of , however, I will point out that here, at least, what we call might just as effectively be called democratic . Over the past few centuries, the electorate - by no means everyone who lives in the country - has repeatedly and overwhelmingly favoured Indigenous dispossession while opposing Indigenous empowerment. 1/

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By @haymarketbooks / October 11 2023

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/495-free-ebooks-for-a-free-palestine

Publishing on the struggle for justice in Palestine has been a central part of ’s mission since we published our first book, The Struggle for Palestine, in 2001. Now as ever, we recognize the root cause and ongoing perpetrator of violence in Palestine to be settler- and , and we stand in solidarity with in their for .

📗 Liverpool University Press published the latest book authored by Mário Machaqueiro: “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”.

In it, the author focuses on the ways Portuguese colonial administration dealt with Muslim communities in and .

👉 https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.3828/9781789761917

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Cover of the book “Portuguese Colonialism and Islam. Mozambique and Guinea, 1930 –1974: From Repression to Religious Seduction”, by Mário Machaqueiro. The cover includes two photographs featuring Portuguese military figures and Islamic dignitaries.

It would appear that “former Tory MP Antoinette Sandbach has threatened the University of Cambridge with legal action after a historian named her as a descendant of merchants who enslaved his ancestors.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/31/ex-tory-mp-threatens-sue-cambridge-university-slavery-research-antoinette-sandbach

Oh, my… It would be a damn shame if more people knew of this so please do not boost this post.

Testing the outreach here on Mastodon. Please boost if you think you know others who might know.

I'm looking for some good light undergraduate-level books/articles in English about Taiwan under the Japanese and during the White Terror. History, culture, I would even love recommendations of short fiction if you have any.

Thanks

Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ - Wrought iron process that drove UK success was appropriated from black metallurgists, records suggest"

"An innovation that propelled Britain to become the world’s leading iron exporter during the Industrial Revolution was appropriated from an 18th-century Jamaican foundry, historical records suggest.

The Cort process, which allowed wrought iron to be mass-produced from scrap iron for the first time, has long been attributed to the British financier turned ironmaster Henry Cort ... Now, an analysis of correspondence, shipping records and contemporary newspaper reports reveals the innovation was first developed by 76 black Jamaican metallurgists at an ironworks near Morant Bay, Jamaica. Many of these metalworkers were enslaved people trafficked from west and central Africa, which had thriving iron-working industries at the time.

Dr Jenny Bulstrode, a lecturer in history of science and technology at University College London (UCL) …

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