Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻♀️
@chenchenzh
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migrant & researcher. director @durham_cccs, co-host @shichapodcast. she/her. no longer active on X. 🦋 @chenchenzhang.net
the north
Joined May 2008
and then two research papers (open access or pdf available on my webpage) https://t.co/ifNjIs9OZG
https://t.co/XNcxk89FHh
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incidentally I've written a couple of things on the "western civilization is killed by suicidal empathy" line of reactionary thought. start with the Three Body Problem fans. https://t.co/oksYRIAHtS
madeinchinajournal.com
Liu Cixin’s the Three-Body Problem book trilogy is one of the world’s bestselling Chinese sci-fi series, being read and endorsed by figures such as George R.R. Martin and Barack Obama. In Chinese...
Western Civilization is doomed, unless the core weakness of suicidal empathy is recognized and actions are taken that are hard, but necessary for survival
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Mamdani did it!!! He stands for making essentials affordable for all. That is good politics but also good economics. We show in a new paper that stabilizing the prices of necessities decreases inequality and inflation.
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“Primavera 8×5”: fascinating long-read on the struggles of Sudd Cobas, a grassroots union of migrant workers in Prato’s textile industry dominated by Chinese factory owners. On globalization, the production and overcoming of racialized divide, solidarity. https://t.co/jqeypfBaH4
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super excited to join the team convening this newly launched working group🎉. come meet us for a chat about all things critical, creative, and "on the margins"
MEET THE TEAM 👋 Introducing: Dr Chenchen Zhang We are very excited to welcome @chenchenzh to the Critical Alternatives for World Politics Working Group as our new co-convenor. 🥳
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📢CALL FOR PAPERS AND PANELS 📢 Critical Alternative for World Politics (CAWP) invites you to submit your papers, panels, and roundtables for this year's @MYBISA in Brighton! This year's theme is: 🕶️ Images and Imaginaries of International Relations 🖼️ See the CfP below: 👇
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Much attention has been paid to the Chinese mercenaries fighting for Russia. But there are also Chinese people fighting on the other side, risking their lives for a country that is under assault by a war bankrolled by Beijing https://t.co/g7JEYmpZD1
theguardian.com
Volunteers defy their government and public opinion in China to risk their lives for an adversary of Beijing’s main geopolitical partner
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I grew up in The Netherlands. During my youth it was easily the most pro-Israeli country in Europe. So pro-Israeli that visiting Palestinians would say it was easier to reason with Israelis than the Dutch about the Middle East. Although the Dutch are like others a fundamentally
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incisive piece on the victimhood politics of "anti-imperialist-branding states"
A long, long journey article published today- had been thinking about it for years & finally compelled to write it after the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in Iran. Now turning it into a book project, which expands on the WLF section at the end. https://t.co/971QZyTcW7
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some thoughts on Zhongyuan Mandarin - from someone who grew up internalizing the stigma associated with their native dialect
chenchenzhang.net
On why re-examining our “dialects” is about resisting hierarchies, opposing discrimination, and pursuing linguistic justice, rather than cultural “orthodoxy”.
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My friend David Adler (@davidrkadler), a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days. Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him.
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BREAKING 🚨 Flotilla participants report that Greta Thunberg was dragged by her hair, beaten, and forced to kiss the Israeli flag "as a warning to others." This news comes amid reports of other disturbing incidents of violent humiliation of Flotilla members.
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#OtD 30 Sep 2014 Xu Lizhi, a poet and rural migrant who worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, died by suicide at the age of 24. Learn more about Xu and other Chinese migrant worker poets in our podcast: https://t.co/7VLEqPIYC9
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still very relevant today. I think the left's obsession with Schmitt post 9/11 prefigured both the decolonization talk on the part of the European New Right and the turn to 'civilizational order' on the part of some decolonials
journals.sagepub.com
Many studies have deduced subterranean dialogues between Hannah Arendt and Carl Schmitt from indirect evidence. This article uses new evidence from marginalia i...
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Dear friends, I have just published a very personal essay in the @guardian on the @gbsumudflotilla ⛵️ Who we are, why we sail, what it means to be a Jewish U.S. American aboard this humanitarian mission, and why Gaza — amid the escalation of Israel’s genocide — cannot wait. 🩵
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we are super excited to launch our student research blog Odd China Out. submissions bridging scholarly work with a wider audience, in English or bilingual, are welcome! check out the published posts here: https://t.co/EaGoVtHCmD
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“drones manufactured by the Chinese tech giant DJI have been used to attack hospitals & civilian shelters and to surveil Palestinian prisoners being forced to act as human shields”. DJI stopped sales to Russia & Ukraine, but did not stop selling to Israel https://t.co/GLib6RDuUj
aljazeera.com
Israeli military repurposes the drones to bomb hospitals and shelters in Gaza, Al Jazeera's Sanad investigation finds.
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"We feel for the people of Gaza because we went through horrors of war in a very similar way." Bosnian survivors of genocide have protested Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
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"the most important anticolonial intellectuals may not use the language of decolonization and may not be in universities, but on the streets, with social movements, and in prison". Alpa Shah
关注组得知,Tara #张雅笛 涉嫌煽动分裂国家罪,于7月31日被刑事拘留,现关押于长沙市国家安全局看守所。 We now know that #Tara Zhang Yadi was criminally detained on suspicion of “Inciting Seperatism” on 31 July , currently held at Changsha National Security Detention Center.
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