#Scholars

SCOTUS has been no friend to victims of police choke holds in their search for accountability. In 1976, Adolph Lyons, a 24-yr-old black man, was stopped by the LAPD during
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*Some popular misconceptions about Motzki: a thread* Harald Motzki (d. 2019) was an extremely influential scholar in secular Hadith Studies, best known for his criticisms of Joseph Schacht and Gautier
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It's #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay. So I want to highlight some of the readings I use to talk about Indigenous perspectives of International Relations, especially as they touch on sovereignty. (I owe a
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@dandrezner, Ron Krebs, and Randall Schweller make an excellent case for grand strategy by arguing that it does not exist. 1/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2020-04-13/end-grand-strategy @NinaSilove points out that "grand strategy&
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I don't think they do. I have always believed this was obvious intellectually but have also personally experienced the 'seeing through the lens' and it was deeply alarming. I shall
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Communications research has much to offer during the coronavirus crisis. But are we offering it? Short piece on how invisible media+communications research seem to be even as societies struggles w/understanding
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I’ve been very reflective of late. Not all of this has been productive or helpful, in fact it has often been overwhelming. This year has been tough. Really tough. From
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Noticed that the r1b in Africa follows an extremely peculiar formation..... [cont] Then I remembered the flood map used to figure out that the Eye of the Sahara was the
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RETRAIN YOUR BRAIN FROM NEGATIVE THOUGHTSTimes of crisis is the best time to retrain your brain. Why? Because you dont have any other choice than to change the way you
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I don’t love Westerns in the way that I did when I was young. But I think I watch them now with a more attentive eye, and I find them
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Claiming Tolkien was anti-racist also contributes to erasing and ignoring the lived experiences of fans of colour. It makes fandom less welcoming to POC. Don’t do it 10/ The racism
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I wish Nigerians were interested in and read Nigerian history. I wish we understood the reasons why we are so different from each other. The things we glorify today, I
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THREAD - Hanuman temples in India & overseasone of several zoomorphic characters in Indian mythology, but is the only wholly animal figure who is revered as a god today. The mythic
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(1/n) Many fake things are going around about Sati and jauhar by these idiots, in this thread I am going to bust the myths about them from historical perspective.{THREAD}https://twitter.com/SyedMaj31697545/status/1309572573123010561 (2/n)
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A favorite quarantine pass time is rewatching all the Disney princess movies. A take on Disney princesses as academics. #1 Princess Jasmine was definitely an ethnographer. She met Aladdin ‘in
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Apparently, there is an *ongoing* discussion (like today) of whether Native Americans were "cannibals" and that it was "proven" so. Here are some resources to dispel that myth, since it
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