We stand in full and fierce solidarity with the anticolonial liberation struggles of Palestinians and of all peoples resisting colonialisms and colonialities everywhere.
💥WRETCHED OF THE EARTH READING SERIES💥
(Re)read Frantz Fanon’s magnum opus with us this fall!
via zoom, every third Friday from 20/09 at 1PM CET
Organized by Andya Paz
@andkatto
⛓️
🥥CALL FOR MEMBERS: Countering the Colonial Project🥥
—a community-serving space for underserved academics & activists (like ourselves) who are wrestling with questions around the ‘colonial’ in the past, present & future tenses
Convened by
@antonioalcazr
🔗
Many of you may have heard already: the University of Vienna has gagged these teach-ins for Palestine. But the Gender Studies Department at Central European University will push through with the series!
🔗
Against the Present: Past and Future Perspectives on Palestine 🍉
Hybrid Teach-ins co-organized by Central European University’s Gender Studies Department + University of Vienna’s Social & Cultural Anthropology Department
🔗
🖋️Call for Members: South/South Writing Workshops 2024🖋️
Writing doesn't need to be a solitary thing or follow the usual macho, vertical way of peer feedback.
Come share your work and support others by reading theirs while practicing an ethics of care!
🔗
How & why do we inscribe the “I” in research? How does centering the self can end up releasing responsibility to question colonial/modern power?
Join our session on
“Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality” by
@JasmineKGani
&
@RabeaMKhan
🔗
Friends: We're seeking co-organizers for a series of events next A/Y:
🔸Feminist Decolonial Research Approaches & Methods
🔸Critical Political Ecology, Environmental Politics & Justice
🔸Anti-conference with/for/from global souths (free+online)
🤝 organize
@southsouthmovement
.org
🚩We're discontinuing our
#JusticeAgainstEpistemicide
series in light of the deeply troubling news about the 'Star Professor'.
Instead, our next session centers the voices of those who have survived sexual misconduct & are working to expose it. Join us!
Beautiful words on writing otherwise: 'we write because we have been thinking, talking, walking, and protesting together in order to do and create knowledges otherwise'
—Ana Luisa Muñoz-García, Andrea Lira & Elisa Loncón
10 slots free for our Writing Workshop {October 2024 edition} 🪶
This space is for you if, like us, you write outside the mold of eurocentric knowledge production and value care-full peer feedback.
Thanks to
@fromagefreya
+ Andya Paz for co-organizing!
🌊CALL FOR CO-CONVENERS & MEMBERS🌊
We're building an affinity group on anti-colonial and anti-imperial currents in southeast asia and oceania.
Together we'll do
-reading circles
-conference-organising in s.e.a./oceania
-editing/writing collabs
🥥
✨Friends and fellow travelers, we are putting together a reading list on on decolonial and anti-colonial epistemologies, epistemic justice, as well as critiques of slow violence and coloniality. If you have any recommendations, please share, we will make the list public ✨
Tomorrow: We’re kicking off our CoCo project with a conversation on Aimé Césaire’s Discourse on C*l*nialism.
Open to all, especially those taking the C-word seriously!
🥥
🔗
🥥CALL FOR MEMBERS: Countering the Colonial Project🥥
—a community-serving space for underserved academics & activists (like ourselves) who are wrestling with questions around the ‘colonial’ in the past, present & future tenses
Convened by
@antonioalcazr
🔗
Against the Present: Past and Future Perspectives on Palestine 🍉
Hybrid Teach-ins co-organized by Central European University’s Gender Studies Department + University of Vienna’s Social & Cultural Anthropology Department
🔗
⚡️Call for Abstracts⚡️
Handbook on 'Doing EU Studies Otherwise: Colonialism, Empire and Race', edited by
@Icazarosalba
@beste_isleyen
@janorbie
@siddharthtrip09
Help us share the call, esp. with friends working on EUrope outside EUrope!
🗓️ 24 March
🔗
⚡️Call for Papers ⚡️
COLONIALISM, CONFLICT & COMMEMORATION
Oxford Transnational & Global History
Annual Graduate Conference
Many thanks to
@OxfordTGHS
for organising!
🔗
🫒 Open letter for the Free Palestine Collective and in protest against choking anti-colonial critique in western academia 🫒
Please consider signing our statement. 🔗
In March last year
@ErinPritchard15
& i edited a book & it was published. Today, it is now unpublished, it has been silenced &we have received a reversion of rights. Im proud of this collection, of everyone who wrote a chapter, the bravery of every single author. We will be back.
OUT NOW: Beyond the colonial vortex of the 'West': Subverting non-western imperialisms before & after 24 February 2022
An interstitial opening of dialogue & solidarity between the ‘post-Soviet’ & ‘post-colonial’ on resisting non-western imperialisms.
🧵
Our solidarity series for Palestine opens with Tuck and Yang’s ever powerful reminder NOT to metaphorize decolonization and rob its fundamental political intent: to regenerate Indigenous lives and lands back.
Join us!🍉
24 October—6pm CEST—zoom
Register:
Friends: Please consider supporting or amplifying this fundraiser for South/South Movement.
Your donations will keep our website running for the next 5 years. This will ensure that publications & resources hosted on our website remain widely accessible.
#GlobalSouth
as a construct carries so much histories & meanings. Our collective uses the language of “global souths” to refrain from monolithizing conditions of “southernness” & to think between/across peripheries, no matter the hemisphere & beyond methodological nationalism. ☮️
Questioning Eurocentric and western-centric knowledge regimes in social and political studies?
Follow
@SouthSouthMvmt
, a student collective challenging these perspectives and redefining
#GlobalSouth
from an anti-colonial lens.
Join their initiative 👉
Our {Method}ology Otherwise Reading Session
#3
engages with Tuck & Yang’s R-words: refusing research, thinking together on the refusal to do research & refusing to be researched.
Open to all!
Convened by
@tarafjamal
+
@CBertazolli
Sign up:
Our solidarity series for Palestine reconvenes on Nov. 18 to historicize Palestine's struggle for liberation by "reading across" 3 documentaries. 🎞️👇
@tarafjamal
Open to all!
Please watch the films at your own time before the session.
🔗 Register here:
Call for Papers ⛰️⛰️⛰️
The Cordillera Review is welcoming contributions in Philippine and global studies on “theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of indigenous and upland societies”.
Thanks to Andya Paz for sharing.
✨CALL FOR CO-ORGANIZERS✨
South/South is expanding! Since 2021, we’ve covered some ground despite being unfunded, independent & precarious.
We’re seeking event, wordpress, social media, graphic design, community outreach & writing workshop wizzards!
🚀
Friends—a reminder that we’re not working as an NGO on a payroll. We’re an independent outfit peopled by PhD researchers, with limited knowledge claims & often in already precarious situations. How we wish we had more fuel, but we’re doing our best to keep this thing afloat. ✊
ICYMI: We're running a helpdesk for PhD applicants across social/political studies. If you're looking for peer feedback in a safe space, we're here! Many thanks to
@fromagefreya
for lending us a hand.
🔗
If you are applying to graduate programs in the social/political sciences and from the
#globalsouths
(widely understood), we're here to help and offer feedback on your applications as peers and with care!
Write to us at organize
@southsouthmovement
.org
Slightly last minute, but we have 4 slots available for our peer-to-peer writing workshop on 16 July 🪶
To join, tell us a bit about you/your work and send us your draft 📜 by 28 June at <organize
@southsouthmovement
.org>.
Co-chaired by
@NasemaZeerak
@CBertazolli
@antonioalcazr
You claim to do ‘critical’ work, and yet have beef with the space-claiming we do as PhD researchers and academic precariats from/for the global souths. Connect the dots for us!
📢 Close to 100 academics doing amazing work from all over the world have signed up for our writing workshops next year! Given this unexpected level of interest and our limited capacities, we have sadly closed the registration at this time. Grateful for the warm response!
🖋️Call for Members: South/South Writing Workshops 2024🖋️
Writing doesn't need to be a solitary thing or follow the usual macho, vertical way of peer feedback.
Come share your work and support others by reading theirs while practicing an ethics of care!
🔗
An open invitation to think together about non-western imperialisms and those that have laboured (and continue) to subvert them, in solidarity and conversation with
@DaryaTsymbalyuk
and
@engelhardt_x
. ✊
🗓️25/10, 18:30–20:00 CET, on Zoom
Register here:
How & why do we inscribe the “I” in research? How does centering the self can end up releasing responsibility to question colonial/modern power?
Join our session on
“Positionality Statements as a Function of Coloniality” by
@JasmineKGani
&
@RabeaMKhan
🔗
Questioning disciplinary norms in
#polisci
, we're happy to host a convo w/ Ethel
@Tungohan
on 'doing' socially engaged research, scholar-activism & teaching as im/migrant, racialized, historically marginalized, Global South academics.
Register here:
🧵1/
“We are seeking essays, interviews, book reviews, poetry and other writing or art that foregrounds Palestinian, Arab, and people of SWANA indigeneity in spiritual practice and communities”
⚡️CALL FOR CO-ORGANIZERS⚡️
Co-organize with South/South to support our space-claiming work in social & political studies!
We're seeking event, wordpress, social media, graphic design, community outreach & writing workshop wizards! Sign up by 30 June.
🌌
Our community events, projects, and initiatives, including this reading series, are all free of charge. Always.
(Just a footnote since some of you have asked!)
💥WRETCHED OF THE EARTH READING SERIES💥
(Re)read Frantz Fanon’s magnum opus with us this fall!
via zoom, every third Friday from 20/09 at 1PM CET
Organized by Andya Paz
@andkatto
⛓️
🌍 Our
@euroglots
team is hosting a new reading group series on seeing Africa–EU relations through a postcolonial prism. A million thanks to
@RahelWeldeab
for chairing this series. ✊
Open to all!
Register:
🌍 Our next reading group series engages with postcolonial writings on Africa–EU relations & how this relationship is often framed in the context of development cooperation & partnerships. Join us!
Convened by
@RahelWeldeab
Register:
🐲HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE C-WORD!🐲
Join us 18/12, 7PM MNL for:
—a group conversation on Aimé Césaire's Discourse on C⚫️l⚫️nialism
—our Countering the C*l*nial project's kickoff meeting (help us shape our agenda & actions!)
Open to all!
@antonioalcazr
🔗
🥥CALL FOR MEMBERS: Countering the Colonial Project🥥
—a community-serving space for underserved academics & activists (like ourselves) who are wrestling with questions around the ‘colonial’ in the past, present & future tenses
Convened by
@antonioalcazr
🔗
🌊CALL FOR CO-CONVENERS & MEMBERS🌊
We're building an affinity group on anti-colonial and anti-imperial currents in southeast asia and oceania.
Together we'll do
-reading circles
-conference-organising in s.e.a./oceania
-editing/writing collabs
🥥
If only more social/political scientists committed to a politics of refusal:
‘Refusal in research makes way for other r-words—for resistance, reclaiming, reciprocity, repatriation, regeneration.’
Join us on 22/06 to think through Tuck & Yang’s ‘R-Words’!
@tarafjamal
@CBertazolli
Our {Method}ology Otherwise Reading Session
#3
engages with Tuck & Yang’s R-words: refusing research, thinking together on the refusal to do research & refusing to be researched.
Open to all!
Convened by
@tarafjamal
+
@CBertazolli
Sign up:
Next week: 3rd & final installment of our reading series on Africa–EU relations. Here, we'll try to unpack 'ontological (in)security' & the myth of partnerships in Africa-EU relations.
A million thanks to
@RahelWeldeab
for co-organising with us!
Register:
🌍 Our Africa–EU relations reading group series is back on 31 May! Round 2 is all about the EU as an intervener in Africa & the post-colonial turn (?) in EU ‘development’ studies.
Convened by
@RahelWeldeab
Open to all, esp. folks outside academia!
Sign up:
"But I’m done with politeness and writing in soft tones. Fuck measured rationality. Fuck sanitized speech. Fuck bourgeois cold empathy. Fuck liberal fakery. Fuck the morality of those who conveniently forgot why we are here in the first place."
@nechchai
🗝️SOLIDARITY SERIES FOR PALESTINE🗝️
Our third session is a reading group discussion on "Taking the Land without the People" by
@4noura
.
Join us!
7 December, 6pm CET, via zoom.
Co-organized by
@tarafjamal
,
@sarma_rohit
&
@CBertazolli
.
Register here:
🔗
A view of anti-imperialism from the periphery
How can we support the oppressed, even as we deal w/ our own oppression, while still leaving space to critique geopolitical dynamics & hegemonic powers?
@danaelkurd
@leilashami
@RomeoKokriatski
@firethesetimes
Our "Whose International Law Is It Anyway?" series is back! We'll discuss B.S. Chimni’s "The Geopolitics of Refugee Studies: A view from the South". Join us!
26 June / 17:00 CEST / via zoom
Many thanks to
@CBertazolli
&
@sarma_rohit
for co-organizing!
⚖️
We thank everyone who joined our conversation tonight on decolonisation≠metaphor in settler colonial contexts! 🍉
Our solidarity series meets next on Nov. 18 to historicize Palestine's struggle for liberation by "reading across" 3 documentaries. 🎞️👇
🔗
Our solidarity series for Palestine opens with Tuck and Yang’s ever powerful reminder NOT to metaphorize decolonization and rob its fundamental political intent: to regenerate Indigenous lives and lands back.
Join us!🍉
24 October—6pm CEST—zoom
Register:
⚖️Whose international law is it anyway?⚖️
Join our new reading group series on Third World Approaches to International Law!
#TWAIL
Session 1 on Nov. 20—6pm CET—zoom
Open to all!
Convened by:
@CBertazolli
@rishabh_bajoria
@sarma_rohit
🔗Register:
What does it mean to speak, write & think (& perhaps especially to resist) in the oppressor's language?
Join our Palestine Solidarity Series as we read & think w/ the works of Palestinian poets & Audre Lorde!
Co-organized w/
@AndiShiraz
&
@tarafjamal
🔗
If you are applying to graduate programs in the social/political sciences and from the
#globalsouths
(widely understood), we're here to help and offer feedback on your applications as peers and with care!
Write to us at organize
@southsouthmovement
.org
To Vienna we go: We're delivering a collective keynote at the 14th European Graduate Network Conference. If you're in town, please join our conversation on the joys & struggles of solidarity-building in & out of the ivory tower. Many thanks to CEU organisers for the invite! ✊
Fellow or would-be fieldworkers: Join our convo on the social/political implication of our research! Who does it serve & why? How can we manage our relations with communities? What do we make of the discomfort, vulnerability & rejection that we may experience as researchers?👇
🎙️We're hosting an open-format event, as it were, by the bonfire, on the meaning of fieldwork. When does it start & where does it end? How can we deal w/ uncertainties & contradictions that emerge in the field? Organized by
@tarafjamal
.
Join us!
Register:
As South/South, we unconditionally condemn the Star Professor’s actions and stand in full solidarity with and support of those who have had to endure not only his predatory abuse of power but also the complicity of the university in enshrouding it.
@tarafjamal
@CBertazolli
REMINDER: WE ARE NOT FORMALLY AFFILIATED IN WHATEVER SHAPE OR FORM WITH THE CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY OR ANY UNIVERSITY FOR THAT MATTER. WE ARE AN INDEPENDENT STUDENT-LED COLLECTIVE STRATEGICALLY DETACHED FROM THE EUROCENTRIC CONFINES OF THE NEOLIBERAL METROPOLITAN ACADEMY.
Grateful to everyone who shared our space tonight with so much care, insight, and empathy, plus to
@tarafjamal
+
@Anissa_Bougrea
for co-hosting!
Our series returns with a reading group discussion on Noura Erakat's “Taking the Land without the People.” Date TBC soon.
🍉🍉🍉
Our solidarity series for Palestine reconvenes on Nov. 18 to historicize Palestine's struggle for liberation by "reading across" 3 documentaries. 🎞️👇
@tarafjamal
Open to all!
Please watch the films at your own time before the session.
🔗 Register here:
With respect to the global call for a strike demanding a cease fire in Gaza, we will be postponing our reading session set for Monday 11/12, please keep your eye out for the new date and thank you for understanding.
So far, we’ve been called anti-imperial imperialists, pro-autocracies, academic labor infringers, privileged Soros kids & anti-Semitic. No matter. We know none of this is true. We stand our ground, in our small way, on countering all forms of oppressions, epistemic or otherwise.
Join our conversation around decoloniality and publishing with the founding members of
@_decolonise
, a platform for the creation and dissemination of written, acoustic & visual knowledge from the margins. RSVP:
Great to see the conversation moving on the colonial/imperial entanglements between global south(s) and global east(s)!
"Memory Landscapes between Eastern Europe and the Global South(s)"
Webinar / 7 June 2024 / 12:30-14:00 CEST
@MEMOCRACY_team
🔗
Our {Method}ology Otherwise Research Group will no longer discuss the work of the 'Star Professor' as we find it would run counter to our ethos and positionality to provide a platform for his work at this time.
Tune in later today to our convo with
@DaryaTsymbalyuk
&
@engelhardt_x
as they talk about their lived experiences of resisting Russian imperialist violence & building solidaristic ties with those struggling under non-western imperialisms.
Register below to get the Zoom link. ⬇️
An open invitation to think together about non-western imperialisms and those that have laboured (and continue) to subvert them, in solidarity and conversation with
@DaryaTsymbalyuk
and
@engelhardt_x
. ✊
🗓️25/10, 18:30–20:00 CET, on Zoom
Register here:
Our solidarity series for Palestine reconvenes on Nov. 18 to historicize Palestine's struggle for liberation by "reading across" 3 documentaries. 🎞️👇
@tarafjamal
Open to all!
Please watch the films at your own time before the session.
🔗 Register here:
To paraphrase Césaire: Europe is still indefensible today.
Next week, we’re discussing Discourse on C*l*nialism & its unceasing significance, plus launching our Countering the C🥥l🥥nial project as a connective tissue for many at South/South. Join us!
🔗
🐲HERE WE GO AGAIN WITH THE C-WORD!🐲
Join us 18/12, 7PM MNL for:
—a group conversation on Aimé Césaire's Discourse on C⚫️l⚫️nialism
—our Countering the C*l*nial project's kickoff meeting (help us shape our agenda & actions!)
Open to all!
@antonioalcazr
🔗
What does it mean to speak, write & think (& perhaps especially to resist) in the oppressor's language?
Join our Palestine Solidarity Series as we read & think w/ the works of Palestinian poets & Audre Lorde!
Co-organized w/
@AndiShiraz
&
@tarafjamal
🔗
Womxn's struggles and imagining justice beyond prison walls: A conversation with
@silvilunazul
16 May 2024 / 4PM UK time / via zoom
Open to all!
Organized by
@AdrianaDejeAsi
🔗
Think out loud with us on the student encampments and the university's complicity in the c*l*nial/modern status quo.
29 May 2024 / 18:00 CEST / via zoom
Many thanks to
@AndiShiraz
@tarafjamal
+ more for co-organizing! 🌺
Please register here:
Our RE/THINKING THE GLOBAL SOUTH/S series is back! We're excited to visit Vienna to have a friendly conversation with peers about solidarity & what it means today.🌹
30.03 / 14:00 / CEU QS 4F Lounge
Open to all!
Sign up here:
Friends: please amplify and support
@MeeraGhani
's Pakistan flood relief fundraiser!
And ICYMI: read up on Meera's excellent piece on why the people of Pakistan need
#climatereparations
, not EU charity.
(How) can the ‘star professor’ economy be undone? ✨⭐️🌟💫☄️
What might alternatives look like?
Join us this Wednesday for a bonfire chat!
Convened by
@tarafjamal
+
@CBertazolli
Registration link 👇
Sink the 🌟 professor economy we must? What would it mean to unsettle this toxic economy?
Join our conversation about alternative ac and non-ac research spaces.
Open to both ac and non-ac folks!
Convened by
@tarafjamal
+
@CBertazolli
Sign up:
A friendly reminder to people that neither do we operate as an NGO nor as a funded organisation affiliated with any university or formal institution whatsoever. We're an autonomous collective powered by volunteers in and outside of academia and those in-between. ☮️
Our solidarity series for Palestine starts later today! We’ll talk about (israeli) settler colonialism, and what decolonisation does and does not mean in settler colonial contexts. Join us!
@tarafjamal
🔗
Our solidarity series for Palestine opens with Tuck and Yang’s ever powerful reminder NOT to metaphorize decolonization and rob its fundamental political intent: to regenerate Indigenous lives and lands back.
Join us!🍉
24 October—6pm CEST—zoom
Register:
Pitch your drafts to our writing workshop in July! It’s an open yet critical space for care-full peer feedback.
Get in touch with us by tomorrow to join!
Limited slots only 🌱
Slightly last minute, but we have 4 slots available for our peer-to-peer writing workshop on 16 July 🪶
To join, tell us a bit about you/your work and send us your draft 📜 by 28 June at <organize
@southsouthmovement
.org>.
Co-chaired by
@NasemaZeerak
@CBertazolli
@antonioalcazr
Reminder that decolonisation is not a “fashionable ideology.” It is decades of rigorously constructed, multinational, transcultural intellectual theory and praxis. It is lived experience, our debt to the ancestors and completion of their dreams and ours. It is our lives’ work.
‘Your visa is denied.’ Passport privilege is rarely discussed in academia, but it’s a lived experience for many of us. Join our conversation w/
@nihanalbay
on the hidden costs of being a global South scholar.
🗓 25 March, 16.00–17.00 CET
➡️ Register here:
🎙️We're hosting an open-format event, as it were, by the bonfire, on the meaning of fieldwork. When does it start & where does it end? How can we deal w/ uncertainties & contradictions that emerge in the field? Organized by
@tarafjamal
.
Join us!
Register:
Thanks a million to
@silvilunazul
for the powerful talk and for pushing us to think about counter-carceral and relational views of imagining/practising gender justice! And to
@AdrianaDejeAsi
for co-organising with us! ✊
Womxn's struggles and imagining justice beyond prison walls: A conversation with
@silvilunazul
16 May 2024 / 4PM UK time / via zoom
Open to all!
Organized by
@AdrianaDejeAsi
🔗
'Political science is the discipline that disciplines. The history of political science is one mired in colonial and imperial goals and violence'. — Ethel
@Tungohan
🔥🔥🔥
Questioning disciplinary norms in
#polisci
, we're happy to host a convo w/ Ethel
@Tungohan
on 'doing' socially engaged research, scholar-activism & teaching as im/migrant, racialized, historically marginalized, Global South academics.
Register here:
🧵1/
Civil society groups: please sign this letter to EU political leaders about stopping the israeli settler colonial regime’s war crimes and prioritising the Palestinian people’s fight against genocide & apartheid:
#ShameOnEU
#StopGazaGenocide
#FreePalestine
“Eyeless in Gaza: Blindly Oblivious to the Blindingly Obvious”: A conversation with Dr. Amir Ali 🫒
24 January 2024, 12:45 pm CET / 5:45 pm IST, via Zoom
Many thanks to
@Khushbu68906378
&
@tarafjamal
for co-organizing!
🔗
Friends: We want to host a reading circle on Susanna Ounei’s “For Kanak independence” (1985) as part of the global solidarity action for Kanaky. 🌊
We’re looking for folks with knowledge claims to help us organize this. Please reach out at organize
@southsouthmovement
.org. ✊
All out for Kanaky
Global call out for solidarity
Now is the time as a Pacific family, and global family that we stand together in solidarity for the safety and independence of our Kanak relations
🥥CALL FOR MEMBERS: Countering the Colonial Project🥥
—a community-serving space for underserved academics & activists (like ourselves) who are wrestling with questions around the ‘colonial’ in the past, present & future tenses
Convened by
@antonioalcazr
🔗
🌀CALL FOR CO-ORGANIZERS🌀
Co-organize with South/South to support our space-claiming work in social & political studies!
We're seeking event, wordpress, social media, graphic design, community outreach & writing workshop wizards! Sign up by 30 June.
⚡️
For our May 4 session, we will be reading and discussing this chapter: 'The walls spoke when no one else would: Autoethnographic notes on sexual-power gatekeeping within avant-garde academia' by Lieselotte Viaene, Catarina Laranjeiro & Miye Nadya Tom.