Jon Piccini

Jon Piccini

@jonpiccini.bsky.social

Senior Lecturer. Reviews editor. Union Thug. ADHD haver. Writing a history of Australian empire. Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will. Tweets mine. He/him

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Jon Piccini
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Silly question. Lots of things have improved (lower poverty, less violence, more awareness of discrimination and the need to combat it). The problem is, the benefits of this are very unevenly distributed (see, Gaza).

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

Jon Piccini
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Good news: As well as suffering from the general shittening of the internet, Google Scholar has now decided that my 2019 monograph was, in fact, published in 1945!

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Amanda Katz
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Why is this student so upset about the mushroom, though? What could it have done to make her protest across the whole continent

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Joel S.@joelhs.bsky.social

This framing assumes professors are all more leftist than our students. My median undergraduate comes to my classes with politics to the left of mine. If I were trying to “convert them” politically, which is absolutely not my goal, I would be turning them more moderate, not more radical.

Jon Piccini
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Two headlines from the Canberra Times on the 24th of May, 1968. 10 million French workers were on strike (half the workforce) and de Gaulle was preparing for military action. And, it was all sparked by student protests over the school system, who were written off as 'extremists' and 'agitators'.

Jon Piccini
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Those who do not understand the past are condemned to repeat it. Those who do understand, well they just go ahead anyway.

Stacy Fahrenthold@sfahrenthold.bsky.social

In this explosive follow up to the story about the American Historical Association's use of DC lobbyists to silence AHA member Palestine advocacy, we have this: AHA is conducting a witchhunt of its Council. Loyalty oaths. Lawyers. Threats. Authoritarian behavior. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

chronicle.comOpinion | The AHA Goes BallisticIn response to internal leaks, the scholarly organization spies on members and imposes loyalty oaths.

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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social

‘African cities expanded by 15mn people annually in the past few years and are expected to grow by 19mn annually by 2050. That’s almost two Londons a year, or more than 50,000 new African city dwellers every day.’ www.ft.com/content/5203...

ft.comAfrica’s explosive growth in citiesThe continent’s urban centres are set to expand by 19mn people annually, or by nearly two Londons a year. But urbanisation is not following a familiar path

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Rick Morton
@squigglyrick.bsky.social

Went to the October 17 protest in Paris today. Lot of anger, especially about the police actions over previous weeks where students lost hands / an eye. This was at Republique.

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Gregory Billam
@gregorybillam.bsky.social

Thoroughly enjoyed reading this intro to a fantastic special issue on Labour History and 'Brexit Britain', co-edited by Diarmaid Kelliher, Aditya Sarkar, and Laura Schwartz. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

tandfonline.comOrdinary working-class people? Labour history and ‘Brexit Britain’This article introduces the special issue ‘Ordinary Working-Class People? Labour History and “Brexit Britain”’. We argue that Brexit was a phenomenon around which a particular form of gendered and ...

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Adam David Morton
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A truly sad day for Gramsci studies with the news that Peter Thomas has died. For reasons indicated at the beginning of the commentary, here is a hastily put together tribute. He is survived by Sara Farris and their two children and my sincerest condolences and deepest sorrow remain with them.

ppesydney.netThe Peter Thomas Moment - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)Political theorist and Professor in History of Political Thought, Brunel University of London whose towering The Gramscian Moment defined Gramsci Studies.

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Brad Simpson
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The @toynbeeprize.bsky.social Has published an interview I did with them a few months ago on my book. Grateful for the engagement by Mirek Tobias Hosman. toynbeeprizefoundation.org/self-determi...

toynbeeprizefoundation.orgSelf-Determination and International Order: A Conversation with Bradley SimpsonThe idea of self-determination belongs among the most important in modern international politics, yet its meaning and implications for decolonization, human rights, sovereignty, world economy, and …

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πατέρας raver
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Greek Australians will boo a Welcome to Country in one breath and then tear up as they tell you about their claim to a part of Turkey where their family lived 600 years ago. Embarrassing.

Jon Piccini
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Suggestion: rather than a state, downgrade North Queensland to a territory. Maybe even roll it in with the NT. Then make south east Queensland a state instead. Except the gold coast which we will forcibly amalgamate with NSW.