Katharina Grüneisl @katharinagrneis Twitter profile

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Katharina Grüneisl

11 days

@RGS_IBG NO CONFERENCING AS USUAL DURING GENOCIDE! Geographical Responsibility and Scholasticide in Palestine - sign and share the pledge for @BDSmovement @PACBI in our professional organisation & join on Friday for a roundtable with @SharriPlonski @ncpratt @fobzu Muna Dajani etc

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

Feminist philosopher and scholar Nancy Fraser from @TheNewSchool is uninvited by the University of Cologne #Germany as Albertus Magnus Professor and all planned May 2024 events are cancelled because she expressed solidarity with #Palestine @strikegermany

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@katharinagrneis

5 months

For the academics in #Germany kindly informing me that Nancy Fraser’s cancellation is justified because “she called for boycott”(of Israeli academic institutions) - may I recommend treatment for acute memory loss? 2022, unparalleled enthusiasm for boycott of #Russian institutions

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Katharina Grüneisl

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1 year

Georgia Meloni and Ursula von der Leyen not only dress in unison, they share THE SAME RACIST POLITICS that has brought them to #Tunisia today. Speaking at a "press point" without press that illustrates the EU's complicity in authoritarian takeover as long as borders remain closed

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

This Afro hair salon/grocery shop in #Tunis has been closed for fear of police controls and racist attacks, like most commerces catering to Sub-Saharan African communities. But black inhabitants of Mansoura gradually return to public space, many for the first time since Feb 21st!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

LISTEN to @weizman_eyal : on #Germany s support for Israel s genocidal war machine as a matter of theology (*blind* faith) - linked intimately to the refusal to comprehend the holocaust in continuity with other forms of colonial violence, before or after

Eyal Weizman on Israel’s Architecture of Occupation, Gaza & Targeting of Pro-Palestinian Jews

Extended conversation with Eyal Weizman, a British Israeli architect born in Haifa who founded Forensic Architecture. He’s the author of several books, including Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of...

www.democracynow.org

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

3 years

Empty supermarket shelves in Tunis (e.g. subsidised staples like semolina/vegetable oil) due to a crisis of payment - a situation that is likely to exacerbate with Russia/Ukraine war and soaring prices for wheat, fertiliser, veg oil...for background read,

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Forever and ever again in love with the singular #Tunis light and #Tunis skies

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

4 months

This is the German minister of education and research (FDP liberal party)👇🏽quoting a BILD article (right-wing tabloid) that defames student movement for Palestine at German universities as Israel- and Jew-hating “radicalized mob” & condemns academic staff standing in solidarity

Bettina Stark-Watzinger

@starkwatzinger

4 months

Das Statement der Lehrenden in Berlin erschüttert. Statt sich klar gegen Israel- und Judenhass zu stellen, werden Uni-Besetzer zu Opfern gemacht und Gewalt verharmlost. Weder #Antisemitismus noch Gewalt dürfen toleriert werden.

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2 years

It is 7°cold tonight in #Tunis with a frosty breeze and as we were delivering food/basic necessities to migrants' houses we met numerous others out in the cold, just evicted, women carrying their babies, suitcases and other belongings and looking for temporary shelter

Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

It is 10° cold in #Tunis and dozens of migrants, including pregnant women and small children, sleep rough in front of the Côte d'Ivoire embassy and @IOM_Tunisia tonight - some hoping for repatriation and others looking for shelter and assistance as they have been evicted

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

8 months

What a joke @ABaerbock - 112 days into the world’s most meticulously documented #genocide and just before the #ICJ ruling on preliminary measures #Germany is suddenly “worried” about “desperate conditions in Khan Younis” and wakes up to “rules” and “humanitarian law” in warfare

Außenministerin Annalena Baerbock

@ABaerbock

8 months

Ich bin äußerst besorgt über die verzweifelte Lage der Menschen in Khan Yunis. Auch beim Recht auf Selbstverteidigung gibt es Regeln & beim Kampf gegen Terror gilt humanitäres #V ölkerrecht. Das muss Israels Regierung genauso einhalten, wie alle anderen Staaten auf der Welt. 1/3

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

BOILING WITH ANGER - ANOTHER visa refusal from #France for a Tunisian assistant professor invited (and awarded funding!) to present research at the @GisMoyenOrient conference in #Lyon this July. STOP ORGANISING CONFERENCES ON MENA IN EUROPE !!!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

8 months

@real_wildangel @sarah81m Not silence: complicity and even active participation

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1 year

It’s been a week that #Tunis produces ever-more spectacular colour shows by the day, as if to say, despite it all…

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

7 months

Want to see how broken public discourse in #Germany really is? While families starve to death in #Gaza , German politicians - including Berlin’s mayor - accuse the award-winning Israeli-Palestinian film team @berlinale of antisemitism for calling for an end of the #GazaGenocide

Berlinale

@berlinale

7 months

The Berlinale Documentary Award, funded by rbb, goes to “No Other Land” by Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. Congratulations! Discover all info on the winners, awards, and juries here:

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

For many who call #Tunisia home (in diverse ways), the past week has felt deeply demoralizing - but in the midst of it all, there are also moments of rare beauty, bringing together unexpected coalitions of very different people that can suddenly stand, act and even laugh together

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Protestors marching against racism in #Tunis today chanting in solidarity with black brothers and sisters on the balconies of Lafayette #Tunisia

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

It is 10° cold in #Tunis and dozens of migrants, including pregnant women and small children, sleep rough in front of the Côte d'Ivoire embassy and @IOM_Tunisia tonight - some hoping for repatriation and others looking for shelter and assistance as they have been evicted

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

3 years

Interrupting days of obsessive news reading/debate scrolling on Tunisia to present, "The Fripe as Urban Economy: Market- and Space-Making in Tunis", now officially a PhD thesis

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

9 months

The criminalisation of spaces of migrant culture & sociality these days in #Germany under the guise of combating (extreme interpretation of IHRA-) antisemitism happens ostensibly in the context of #Gaza but in fact in congruence with the dismantling of immigration and asylum laws

Ferat Koçak

@der_neukoellner

9 months

Razzia im linken migrantischen Cafe Karanfil Heute gab es im Neuköllner safe Space Cafe Karanfil für linke migrantische Menschen eine Razzia. Karanfil ist vor allem ein Ort der kurdischen linken Diaspora, die sich gegen IS in Nord Syrien, gegen die rechte Regierung in der

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Tunisian NGOs report that over the past 2 weeks > 400 Sub-Saharan Africans have been arbitrarily arrested and held in the Bouchoucha detention centre, up to 7 days without access to lawyers - despite showing e.g. refugee cards,documents proving asylum/return procedures in process

Shreya Parikh شريا پریکھ

@shreya_parikh

2 years

Sub-Saharan folks with and without paperwork, guest workers or students, all being randomly arrested! This is really not a question of "legality" (whatever the fuck that is) This is a question of state-supported racial discrimination and violence #Tunisia

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

7 months

Exactly this👇🏼: in #Tunisia where #Germany invested heavily in arts/culture/civil society post-2011 the work of political foundations the Goethe institute and many GIZ projects has become impossible as partners refuse cooperation, events are cancelled or boycotted & staff resigns

Amro Ali

@_amroali

7 months

For decades, Germany worked hard to meticulously expand its soft power through scholarships, arts, and cultural institutions. Only for the German government to unravel decades of work and positive global branding in a mere few months. It is truly astonishing to observe.

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

BILNAS @LibyanStudies awarded me a postdoctoral writing fellowship for my book project on the #fripe in #Tunis 2023/24 I will share some stories of market-making with surplus clothing today 📆 Tues 16 April, 5pm (UK time) Register:

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

9 months

This article just out in EPA @economyandspace is a long labour of love for one of my dearest guides to the #Tunis #fripe economy who patiently shared her factory routines commutes and lunch boxes with me to write about feminisation and used clothes sorting

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

Nancy Fraser's signature of the Nov8 '23 'Philosophy for Palestine' statement is the only reason given by @UniCologne to deplatform her as Albertus Magnus Professor (rector Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee notifies her in email) - another blatant violation of academic freedom in #Germany

Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

Feminist philosopher and scholar Nancy Fraser from @TheNewSchool is uninvited by the University of Cologne #Germany as Albertus Magnus Professor and all planned May 2024 events are cancelled because she expressed solidarity with #Palestine @strikegermany

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Katharina Grüneisl

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1 year

@A_M_Nassar on temporarily losing ground in the disorientations of radical and rapid urban transformation in #Cairo in a fantastic session on cities materialities and affect @OfficialBrismes with @saramsalem

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Grateful for #Tunis skies granting momentary relief from pictures of journalists shut out of the new parliament, migrant boats adrift after the coast guard removed their engines, and over a hundred people spending their third week in a makeshift camp in front of @IOM_Tunisia

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

We have sunk low. Then lower. Now so low you realise what you considered a race to the bottom by the #EU trampling its alleged principles is in fact infinite. As fascists and heirs of colonisers sign a treaty with #Tunisia 's racist autocracy while migrants starve in the desert.

Ursula von der Leyen

@vonderleyen

1 year

#TeamEurope is back in Tunis. We were here together a month ago to launch a new partnership with Tunisia. And today, we take it forward.

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1 year

Leaving Lafayette #Tunis sunsets is without doubt one of the hardest things in life, even if it’s only for a couple of weeks…

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

7 months

Ahead of #Israel s ground invasion of Rafah - turned into one massive refugee camp already under bombardment by #IDF German newspaper @DIEZEIT calls military campaign against “last city in #Gaza under Hamas control” a strategic necessity - sickening. an open call for #genocide

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

7 months

Ist inzwischen eigentlich akzeptiert, dass Journalismus zu I/P in Deutschland das deckungsgleiche Nachplappern der Zielsetzungen einer rechtsextremen Regierung meint, oder spielt vlt noch *irgendwas* anderes eine Rolle?

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

8 months

A list of 20 short stories by Palestinian authors, translated to English and available open access online - curated by @arablit Including the powerful, often heart-wrenching writing of Ghassan Kanafani (here a previously untranslated story!)

A Curated List of 20 Palestinian Short Stories, in Translation, Online

Compiled by ArabLit Staff Below, we share twenty (plus) Palestinian short stories that are available in translation online, from across historic Palestine and beyond, by young writers such as Ameer…

arablit.org

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

If at @RGS_IBG in #Newcastle make sure to visit the beautiful Lit&Phil Library, right by the central train station

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

9 months

So grateful to @JehadAbusalim for having the strength and generosity to share his memories and inspiring stories - of Refa’at, the power of passionate teaching and language; and of railway tracks in #Gaza being repurposed as separation barriers by Israel (+untiring host @4Bassam )

Jadaliyya

@jadaliyya

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Portrait of a Palestinian Life let it be a tale...Remembering Ref`at Al-Areer, with Jehad Abusalim

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

#Tunis marching today against president Kais Saied’s hate speech that unleashed a wave of racist, anti-black violence - against the backdrop of unprecedented political crackdown against the opposition/independent media/activists in #Tunisia

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

The statement of this year’s fantastic #DreamCity festival in #Tunis against racist and violent anti-migrant policies by the EU and president Kais Saied in #Tunisia is artistically sophisticated and intellectually nuanced, yet also unequivocal, urgent and courageous

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

#Lafayette stories - crumbling warehouses, house walls bearing witness to disappeared neighboring beauties, and modernist buildings slowly sinking into the swampy grounds of what once belonged to the #Tunis wetlands

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Highlight of @OfficialBrismes : reflections on the stories researchers unwillingly witness or confront, sit and struggle with, decide to omit, or regret telling - and how attending to these matters to critical scholarship by @A_M_Nassar @SharriPlonski @RafeefZiadah @Alioushka

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

4 months

What once again makes headlines as popular anti-migrant & anti-black violence in #Sfax #Tunisia must urgently be linked to a broader chain of violence implicating first and foremost #EU border externalisation policies and then the Tunisian security forces and president Kais Saied

Middle East Eye Fr

@MiddleEastEyeFr

4 months

Plusieurs centaines de personnes ont manifesté samedi près de Sfax, dans le centre de la Tunisie, pour réclamer "le départ" et l'évacuation "rapide" des milliers de migrants d'Afrique subsaharienne installés dans cette région

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Katharina Grüneisl

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2 years

First donations are already being used for emergency aid and more funding will be required to help pay the March rent of those unable to work/made jobless over the past week, to avoid even more migrants becoming homeless in #Tunis

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

3 years

Crucial background reading on worsening food shortages in #Tunisia as the country awaits IMF loan, faces crisis of payment/foreign reserves - a situation that could worsen as 50-60% of wheat imports come from Ukraine, @FadilAliriza for @MeshkalTn

Food Shortages as Lenders “Suffocate” Tunisia - Meshkal

Without an IMF deal, Tunisia is being shut out of the international credit market, leading to payment issues for vital goods like food.

meshkal.org

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Sub-Saharan African migrants are leaving #Tunisia in a rush, investing their last resources in the risky crossing of the Mediterranean, escaping the catastrophic situation they have been living for the past two weeks

TAP news agency

@TapNewsAgency

2 years

#Tunisia : Coast Guard units in #Sfax , #Kerkennah , #Mahdia and #Sousse , on Thursday night, thwarted 25 "illegal sea border crossings" and rescued 1,008 irregular migrants: 54 Tunisians and 954 from Sub-Saharan #Africa , the spokesperson for the NationaLGuard said Friday. #TAP_En

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Opening of photo exhibition on discard economies - waste work @GisMoyenOrient in #Lyon with some of my photos from the fripe (used clothing) economy in #Tunis curated by Benedicte Florin and Pascal Garret @UnivTours @anr_imagin_e @DiscardStudies

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Come to our double session tomorrow afternoon on discard economies and valuation at #RGS2022 @RGS_IBG with @julescorwin ( @LSEGeography ) @crangma @KathleenStokes @aparnaagarwal91 @shumryan , Rémi de Bercegol, Barbora Stehlikova

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

In #Tunisia , even the most banal encounters with the state - often through its administration and bureaucracy - can be nerve-racking and humiliating for all citizens. This should tell us something about the prolonged 'irregularity' of diverse migrant populations in the country...

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

While men, women and small children sleep in makeshift camps in this cold #Tunis winter night in front of the @IOM_Tunisia and @UNHCR office after having lost their jobs and being evicted 👇

TAP news agency

@TapNewsAgency

2 years

#Tunisia : FM Nabil Ammar said at a meeting with the #UN High Commissioner for Human Rights the #Tunisian authorities "guarantee strict respect for human rights & Tunisian legislation, unlike what is deliberately reported with the aim of not disclosing responsibilities." #TAP_En

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1 year

Join us next week at @RGS_IBG in #London to explore changing landscapes of industrial production - from Brunswick to Yubari to Mumbai; and from brick kilns on the Nile to garment manufacturing zones in the Jordanian desert, with @maansiparpiani @cortenph @nith1989 @ljmabon

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

7 months

Such un unbelievable disgrace for #German academia - killing what is left of critical scholarship at galactic speed. A cheap smear campaign from right-wing press ends academic careers. Successfully shocking the rest into silence and making the outspoken few pack their bags

Ghassan Hage

@anthroprofhage

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Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society

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2 years

Fantastic set of papers and discussion on #discard and (shifting geographies of) #valuation @RGS_IBG from used garments to microplastics, derelict buildings and e-waste by @KathleenStokes @ShumRyan @crangma @AparnaAgarwal91 Rémi de Bercegol, Barbora Stehlikova with @JulesCorwin

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

The anti-black/-migrant violence in the streets of #Sfax is not ‘spontaneous popular mob violence’ - it is politically constructed at diff. scales - eg by #Tunisia s MPs who blame the current health crisis on migrants to avoid discussing medicine shortages

Tunisian fatally stabbed in clash with migrants | The National

Man, 40, was killed in Sfax amid escalation in racially motivated violence between sub-Saharan Africans and locals demanding their expulsion

www.thenationalnews.com

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

All-female panel showcasing (on-going) ethnographic research on Iraq in 39 degrees and 0 oxygen @GisMoyenOrient #Lyon put together by @jduclosvalois with @isadora_gotts @maireadnigabhan and Melisande Genat

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

8 months

Making sure the #GazaGenocide is also #Germany ’s genocide - @derspiegel reports that #Israel and #Germany have silently agreed on the delivery of lethal high-precision tank ammunition to support the #IOF ’s on-going massacres #sendGermanytotheHague

Waffenhilfe für den Gaza-Krieg: Bundesregierung prüft Lieferung von Panzermunition an Israel

Die Ampelregierung bereitet einen brisanten Rüstungsexport vor. Nach SPIEGEL-Informationen ist man sich im Grundsatz einig, eine Lieferung von Präzisionsmunition für Panzer zu genehmigen. Einige...

www.spiegel.de

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

For all those who argue "it has become too difficult to follow" - read this brief editorial that sets out the "relentless landscape of terror"(on-going Nakba) Israel has unleashed in Palestine this year for @PalStudies by @shereneseikaly and Rachid Khalidi

From the Editors

Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 52, No. 2, 2023)

www.tandfonline.com

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

#Amman competing for new love and compensating for the temporary loss of #Tunis sunsets

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

On the arrest of 10 public figures in #Tunisia since last Saturday, following a day of anger/protest by Tunisian journalists against intensifying crackdown yesterday, by @IgnitionUK

Tunisia crackdown on opposition and media alarms rights groups

Ten public figures arrested since Saturday as President Kais Saied pursues what Amnesty calls a repression of dissent

www.theguardian.com

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

This is shameless. Not a single statement (nor action) by UNHCR @Refugees since Kais Saied's hate speech resulted in unlawful arrests and violence against registered refugees in #Tunisia >7 weeks ago, and now a press release deploring an 'attack' on their premises without context

Monia Ben Hamadi

@MoniaBH

1 year

Le HCR @Refugees en #Tunisie se dit "profondément troublé par les incidents violents [...], lorsque des réfugiés, demandeurs d'asile et migrants ont pénétré dans ses locaux, causant des dégâts matériels et entraînant des interactions tendues avec les forces de police locales".

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1 year

@Tatiana_Thieme waking up the #RGSIBG23 crowd @RGS_IBG today with hustle geographies from #Nairobi to #London that unsettle normative ways of working in, navigating and inhabiting cities and that escape capture by the logics of capitalist extraction that produce them

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7 months

"What is truly antisemitic is the equating of Zionism with Judaism" - Rachael Shapiro in #Berlin before being arrested by #German police

James Jackson

@derJamesJackson

7 months

Jewish Antizionist activist Rachael Shapiro was arrested after a protest outside publisher Axel Springer’s HQ

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3 years

Join us for a session on "discard economies and dynamics of valuation in times of crisis" at the forthcoming RGS-IBG conference 2022 @UniofNewcastle with @JulesCorwin , find CfP here:

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2 years

Funding campaign to help pay for emergency accommodation, medicine and medical care, and food and other basic necessities for SSA migrants who have been evicted or cannot leave their houses to get to work due to security concerns in #Tunisia

Soutenez les personnes subsahariennes en Tunisie, organized by Citoyen.ne.s Contre le racisme

English below Nous sommes un collectif de citoyen.ne.s soli… Citoyen.ne.s Contre le racisme needs your support for Soutenez les personnes subsahariennes en Tunisie

www.gofundme.com

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2 years

Widespread reporting of the sacking of Sub-Saharan African workers and expulsions of SSA students and migrants from rental accommodation across Greater Tunis - associations providing emergency shelter are scrambling to find solutions for the most vulnerable #Tunisia

Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Tunisian NGOs report that over the past 2 weeks > 400 Sub-Saharan Africans have been arbitrarily arrested and held in the Bouchoucha detention centre, up to 7 days without access to lawyers - despite showing e.g. refugee cards,documents proving asylum/return procedures in process

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2 years

Join us for this👇exciting triple session on Circulations, Inequalities and Borders @Insaniyyat1 #Insaniyyat2022 in #Tunis this Wednesday, with @myriamat @WaelGarnaoui @v_zagaria @hibashaath and many others!

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1 year

Huge thanks to @nith1989 @maansiparpiani @cortenph @ljmabon and Grace Abou Jaoude for such inspiring papers and reflections on socio- ecologies of landscapes of manufacturing during the last hours of #RGSIBG23 @RGS_IBG

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1 year

Return to my first ever and thus forever special HOME in the Czech-Austrian-German #borderlands and blue forests

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@katharinagrneis

5 months

Donna Shalala - president of @TheNewSchool - replies to @UniCologne ’s shameful cancellation of Nancy Fraser, taking a strong stance in defence of academic freedom and solidarity with #Palestine “As you well know we rescued intellectuals seeking refuge from the Nazis…”

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

Only a 15min sunny walk from @RGS_IBG to the @balticgateshead and Mounira Al Solh’s exhibition on (woven) female narratives of crisis and displacement in #Lebanon

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

In love with the Ammani take on Modernism/Modern Architecture/Art Deco. While elements of it take one back to downtown parts of #Tunis #Beirut and #Cairo , it also carries a distinct and beautiful #Amman signature

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

European migration policies have transformed both the Northern and Southern shore of the Mediterranean into sites of endless violence, from #Crotone to #Tunis

Sea-Watch International

@seawatch_intl

2 years

A sports hall was turned into a funeral hall for the 66 people who were found dead after the shipwreck in #Crotone . After the serious shipwreck off Lampedusa in 2013, EU politicians said: "This must never happen again." Europe, these deaths are yours!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

10 months

Fellow ethnographers of MENA - submit your abstract to our panel @OfficialBrismes until December 1st and join @HarrygPettit and myself in discussing story-telling as a critical tool for (un-)knowing 'the economy'

Harry Pettit

@HarrygPettit

10 months

Call for papers for a session I am organising with @katharinagrneis for the @OfficialBrismes Middle East Studies conference next July on ethnographies of MENA economies. Please spread in your networks and reach out if you have questions :)

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Marine architectures with splendid views and a taste for risky proximity to the grand blue on the #Bizerte coastline #Tunisia

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

Only in #Tunisia : traditional hammam with hot springs in 2000 year old Roman basins in the midst of temple remnants and the breathtaking views of Oued Mellègue (El Kef)

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

It's been two weeks since KS's anti-migrant speech and some have lost everything as a result of it. A woman I met tonight was first evicted from her home, then from the workshop she rented for her tailoring business, and now faces yet again eviction from her temporary shelter.

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

During #Ramadan , the beautiful staircases of Lafayette in central #Tunis turn into sought-after spaces of rest and refuge, so whenever I leave or enter my apartment I cause momentary shock and terror - interrupting a hushed lunch break, timid kiss, or deep inhale from a cigarette

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@katharinagrneis

7 years

3000 years of contested histories and modern-day traffic jams in the old city, Day 1 of @GeogDurham students in #Jerusalem #durusalem

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

Day 3 of the #MECAMTravelingAcademy in Nabeul - peer-review sessions on border economies, migrant mobilities, (urban) governance and female work/labour in Tunisia @MecamOffice

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Instead of contextualising the on-going violence that has forced Sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees to camp out in front of @IOM_Tunisia and UNHCR for >1month and demand evacuation, press reports focus on migrants attacking pedestrians and cars

Tunis: Des subsahariens ont agressé plusieurs piétons et ont attaqué les voitures !

Plusieurs subsahariens ont attaqué, ce mardi 11 avril 2023, un groupe de piétons avec des pierres et des outils tranchants. Ils ont, également, attaqué quelques voitures qui se trouvaient aux berges...

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@katharinagrneis

7 months

No one puts it as succinctly as @4noura - take 4 min to understand what tragedy the world is facing in #Rafah as #Israel completes the #Gaza Nakba to depopulate the strip - while the internat community has chosen not to use “the arsenal of diplomatic means to end this #genocide ”

Jadaliyya

@jadaliyya

7 months

Watch @Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat @4noura , address the Rafah evacuation orders on the BBC this evening.

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Visa refusals - e.g. for attending the @GisMoyenOrient conference #Lyon - that systematically exclude MENA scholars from conversations ABOUT their region in Europe render momentarily visible to red passport holders what is in fact a continuous bureaucratic nightmare & humiliation

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

11 months

Thank you @mona_harb_ @DrJSchwedler and @abuaardvark for putting together the wonderful workshop @BeirutUrbanLab from which this paper on contested urban (dis-)order in the #Tunis fripe markets developed

POMEPS

@POMEPS

11 months

Read Katharina Grüneisl's piece, Countering “Fripisation:” Competing Forms of Order-Making in Tunis’ Second-Hand Markets, published in POMEPS Studies 49: Urban Politics in the Middle East!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

3 years

Throwing the surprisingly sturdy self-built (and recyclable) doctor hat - just the Durham cathedral missing in the background of course, THANK YOU @ColinMcFarlane3 @NoamLeshem @rikjaz @crangma @DurhamGeography !!!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Migrants who have lost their jobs over the past weeks are looking desperately for work across #Tunis . A young man in Aouina said today that while “we always worked for salaries Tunisians wouldn’t accept, now it feels like we should work for free, because all we bring is trouble”

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Excellent reporting, as usual, by @HaifaMz and colleagues for @inkyfada on racist violence and police deportations of Sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees from #Sfax to the Libyan and Algerian border over the past week #Tunisia

Reportage | “C’est un apartheid assumé” : À Sfax, les Subsahariens chassés, agressés et déportés

“C’est un crime contre l’humanité qui se déroule à Sfax”. Dans le centre de la ville, des centaines de Subsaharien·nes sont livrés à eux-mêmes après avoir été expulsé·es de leurs maisons, voire...

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

6 months

Too good to be true👇🏽: reacting to a right-wing tabloid press defamation campaign by sacking one of the most reputed anthropologists in #Germany because the German interpretation of #democracy = Staatsraison = enforced conformity for all, to avoid polarization @maxplanckpress

Ghassan Hage

@anthroprofhage

6 months

President of Max Planck Society, one week after sacking me giving a lecture on the virtues of democracy. part 2 in follow up post

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

#Tunis HOME with all the beautiful summer vibes, scents and sounds…

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@katharinagrneis

6 months

#Germany s Minister of Justice (!) declares calls for a ceasefire and an end of arms deliveries to #Israel @berlinale "antisemitic agitation" and seriously threatens artists - including Jewish Israelis - with criminal prosecution. Another milestone in GER's new authoritarianism

Marco Buschmann

@MarcoBuschmann

6 months

Die #Berlinale hat dieses Wochenende schweren Schaden genommen. Antisemitismus ist unerträglich und kann keinen Platz haben - schon gar nicht dort, wo es um den freien Austausch von Meinungen und Kultur gehen soll. Antisemitische Hetze ist keine in Deutschland geschützte Meinung.

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Forced to explain the cause of medicine, rice and coffee shortages in #Tunisia to the #Jordan customs to account for the contents of my suitcase but getting approval to transport all sorts of labneh (&derivatives) in my hand luggage to the (sheep)milk-deprived Maghreb

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@katharinagrneis

4 years

The story of two women from Karantina - the working-class neighbourhood adjacent to the Beirut port, recorded as part of a larger effort by @ZahraHankir to archive stories of survivors of the Beirut blast:

‘Listen to me, listen to a woman who’s endured deep pain: leave this country’

Mariam Abdel Sater, 64, and her daughter, Desiree Darouni, 30, as told to Zahra Hankir in Karantina, Beirut. Translated from Arabic…

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

11 months

4 more days to catch the inspiring exhibition Maps of Dignity - خرائط الكرامة by @ERC_DREAM at @FestDreamCity festival in #Tunis - research on contestation visualised and recounted through diverse forms of (counter-)mapping on the crumbling walls of Dar Ben Achour

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Three fantastic days @MFOxford discussing popular (textile) value chains, everyday logistics labour & urban transformations from Beirut to La Paz and Leicester with #LeGrandEntrep ôt project and guests @SabinaLawreniuk @molotnik @crangma

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

And finally, all unwelcome tasks can once again be pushed to our favourite temporal horizon ...AFTER AID, INSHALLAH

saker صقر

@Saker79

1 year

تفعيل الرد الالي لل ٣ شهور الجايين 👇

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

Aid al Kebir in #Tunisia this year comes as a source of intense financial stress and economic anxiety - as price inflation puts the traditional sheep (or even meat) out of reach for many families or forces them to borrow to avoid the humiliation of not being able to slaughter

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@katharinagrneis

1 year

No one walks and writes #Beirut like @CAmmoun . In this beautiful series of 12 urban walks, he invites us to (re)discover the city - with all its complex layers, materialities and metabolisms. And in the urban detail, we find 'the world' - questions of universal importance

Camille Ammoun 🪐

@CAmmoun

1 year

Beyrouth dans le monde est une série de douze chroniques publiées dans @LOrientLeJour entre février 2022 et mars 2023. Ces douze textes visent à placer Beyrouth au cœur des problématiques de notre monde contemporain. #beyrouthdanslemonde #thread ⬇️

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

5 months

Nancy Fraser: " #Germany s unqualified support of the state of #Israel is a betrayal of Judaism (...) reducing it to a hyper-ultra-nationalism that is currently destroying the #Gaza strip" - "I am not repentant, I just signed another letter against #Israel 's scholasticide"

Hanno Hauenstein

@hahauenstein

5 months

As Nancy Fraser spoke to me about her recent cancellation at the University of Cologne, she explained why she considers Germany's unconditional allegiance to Israel to be a betrayal. And why she’s far from repentant about signing open letters in solidarity with Palestine.

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

7 months

Celebrating and discussing the brilliant new book of @HarrygPettit “The Labor of Hope” on cruel promises of capitalism, masculinities and meritocracy in Cairo with @Tatiana_Thieme @littler_jo Salwa Ismail @clairecmercer @LSEGeography @LSEMiddleEast #LSELaborOfHope

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

@FadhelKaboub on the root causes of the current political situation in #Tunisia : an extractive economic development model - unchanged since the 70s - driving a debt spiral, undermining food & energy sovereignty and producing mass unemployment & brain drain

Saied supporters welcome vote on Tunisia constitution despite low...

Its detractors say Tunisia's draft constitution will give President Kais Saied unchecked powers, but for voter Baya, that's a welcome break from the country'...

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

I will present my research on the Fripe (used clothing economy) and urban transformations in Tunis in conversation with @isabel_ruck @CarepParis next Tuesday, October 11th at 6:30pm

CAREP Paris

@CarepParis

2 years

🗣️ CONFÉRENCE | "L’économie de la fripe à Tunis : quels impacts sur la ville ?" 👉 Avec @katharinagrneis , chercheure au Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale de l’ @EHESS_fr Modération : @isabel_ruck 📆 mardi 11 octobre 2022 à 18h30 en présentiel

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

4 years

Investigative journalism at its best - Tunisian/Italian collaboration between @inkyfada @AidaDelpuech and @irpinvestigates to unveil the vast politico-economic networks behind imports of Italian waste to Tunisia

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

2 years

Endlich schaffen es die besorgniserregenden Entwicklungen in #Tunesien ausführlicher in die deutschsprachige Presse, Dank an @sarah81m !!!

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Katharina Grüneisl

@katharinagrneis

1 year

Incredible new book by @Imanmersal not only for #Cairo lovers - on a writer’s search for another writer, the power of female friendship, and the transformative experience of uncovering stories below the surface of cities we love (thank you @A_M_Nassar )

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

@mona_harb_ and @mona_fawaz presenting some of the latest work of the @BeirutUrbanLab on booms&busts and the financialisation of land and housing markets in #Beirut

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

First stop in #Newcastle ALWAYS - pink lane bakery - on the way to @RGS_IBG

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@katharinagrneis

2 years

Numerous break-ins targeting Sub-Saharan African migrants across #Tunis since last week deprive them of vital provisions, clothing and even cooking gas. While police protection was always absent, state-sanctioned violence has propagated a new feeling of complete impunity.

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