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Joined January 2015
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How Chagos islanders are fighting to keep their culture alive in exile @ConversationUK article with many thanks to Olivier Bancoult & Sabrina Jean @CRGmauritius @yandangael @UKCRG @RebeccaRotter @ahrcpress @EdinUniCAHSSres @uoessps @AnthroEdinburgh theconversation.com/how-chag…
Powerful performance of new #Chagos book #TheLastColony by @philippesands, starring @andoh_adjoa as Liseby Elysé with piano music by Guillaume de Chassy & Olivier Bancoult @CRGmauritius in attendance. Watch online for free/donate to @edbookfest edbookfest.co.uk/the-festiva…
Job ad! @AnthroEdinburgh lectureship in race, racism, decolonial studies! Open-ended, full-time, lovely city, delightful colleagues… elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/…
Observing @ucu #DigitalPicketLine while stuck in half-term sick house and unable to picket with intrepid @ucuedinburgh colleagues on #UCUstrike for #USS. (Gonna escape virtually to familiar locations nearby in #Scotland and faraway in #Mauritius by watching Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.)
Observing @ucu #DigitalPicketLine while stuck isolating at home during #UCUstrike #USSStrike #FourFights #OneOfUsAllOfUs @ucuedinburgh. (Gonna withdraw my labour, convalesce, and homeschool.)
‘Life was lovely’: Chagossian women head home 50 years after forced exile, reported thoughtfully by @BowcottOwen and Bruno Rinvolucri theguardian.com/world/2022/f…
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"British Chagossians have been pressed to leave the UK by council officers and third-generation Chagossians have been unable to claim British citizenship. They are welcome neither there nor here. This treatment is as sordid ... as the original evictions" theguardian.com/commentisfre…
‘A special day’: how a Glasgow community halted immigration raid theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
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If the government is serious about ‘global Britain’, why is it cutting research funding? | Coronavirus | The Guardian theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Glasgow protesters rejoice as men freed after immigration van standoff theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
Police release men from immigration van blocking Glasgow street bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-g…
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Protesters block immigration van from leaving after Glasgow raid theguardian.com/uk-news/2021…
Foreign aid: Government decision to cut budget 'unlawful', says peer bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-5…
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UK universities call for Johnson to halt research funding cuts theguardian.com/education/20…
UK scientists attack 'reckless' Tory cuts to international research theguardian.com/science/2021…