Gerard McCann
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Global and African history. Current musings and collaborative shindigs: https://t.co/bmC2pl36O2
Joined November 2012
📢 Please check out our new open access article @JAHeditors: ‘Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century’. Co-written with @IsmayMilford, @emma_edin & Daniel Branch. Product of our @GlobalEAfrica project https://t.co/lthfvLnOAN
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and rejecting narratives that explain the failure of regional integration as the immediate consequence of postcolonial authoritarianism or global economic crisis."
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"In doing so, it tells a different story about the fate of the category of East Africa, building on a body of scholarship about the imagined political communities of decolonizing Africa..
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"This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and cultural practices of regionalism, their remarkable longevity and their significance for understanding possibilities of radical change...
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"In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work...
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Much of the work behind this book was generously funded by @LeverhulmeTrust and shaped by many colleagues along the way. Many thanks to all!
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For those still here, we're pleased to share news of the publication of our new @degruyter_brill book "Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975". Available for free: https://t.co/wDDaVeS604. Please do share
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Same with the Staff Mentoring Scheme - more voluntary work I signed up for as mentor. Resigned.
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b) by @sulinlewis 'Women, Hospitality and The Intimate Politics of International Socialism, 1955–1965'
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Abstract. In the 1950s, a commitment to democratic socialism connected networks of intellectuals, activists and political operators in both Europe and Asia
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a) by @g_m_roberts "TANU’s Bombay Delegates: Stephen Mhando, Ali Mwinyi Tambwe, and the Global Itineraries of Tanganyikan Decolonisation"
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Hot off the press this month: two fizzingly great essays about Afro-Asian and international socialist decolonisation (and yet more on the much overlooked Burma-based Asian Socialist Conference in the 1950s). Give them a read @afroasiannet... 1/3
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Dr James Morris ‘Oxfam in Kenya, 1963-2002’ (2015) https://t.co/Z6pStHI72t 5/5
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Dr Thomas Shillam ‘Socialist Internationalism in South and Southeast Asia, c1947-1960’ (2022) https://t.co/AxiC96Un5r 4/5
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Dr @AnnaAdima ‘Anglophone women’s writing and public culture in Kenya and Uganda, 1959-1976’ (2022) https://t.co/L4xTABzXwJ 3/5
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Newly minted Dr @ThomasJWright13 '"Constituencies of control": repertoires of coercive punishment in Kenya's Mau Mau emergency, 1952-1956 (2023)' https://t.co/rZ5b7OoTtu 2/5
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I've had the privilege recently to be in the supervisorial passenger seat of some excellent African, Asian and international history PhD work by talented grad students @YorkHistoryDept. I've learned so much from them. Thought I'd share some it here with interested persons... 1/5
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YES! A first ballot selfie from me in recognition of the gravity of the situation (and angry memories of UUK skulduggery 👇last time out!) Keep the pressure on! @ucu
Read this🧵👇from @Sam_Marsh101 about the cuts that were pushed through JNC a year ago today. As an alternate on JNC, I was also in the room that day. 1/2
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Massive (and picturesque) rally of striking teachers, civil servants, railway workers and university staff in York. Big, pink hatted @ucu turnout after picket, kids frolicking about. We need a proper offer from our employers, not just mollifying words #ucuRISING
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‘Bullshit jobs are just manufactured management positions with no real utility in the world, but they exist anyway in order to justify the careers of the people performing them. But if they went away tomorrow, it would make no difference at all.’ I feel you, David!
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Oh and the head of UCL himself concluded that universities have been ‘systematically underpaying’ staff ‘for many years’. 13/
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And, let us not forget another form of bullshit: that we are required to complete this extra work as our employer acquiesces to the 30-40% gutting of our pensions based on a valuation which we said then, and clearly is now, total bullshit. 12/
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