Historian of protest, political claim making, and state crackdowns. Student of Sudans and Horn of Africa. New Orleanian. Migrating to https://xitter.cf/t.co/qLAgnQbkub
Khartoum, Sudan
Joined May 2012
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I'm thrilled to share that my article "University Independence as Political Flashpoint in Early Independence Sudan, 1956–75," is out in the Journal of African History.
In it I discuss the value of "university independence" in Sudan as distinct from university autonomy and academic freedom and the ways that this value proved a powerful democratic impulse in the face of authoritarian governments, at least for some elites.
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Rebecca Glade retweeted
The idea that you might need to continue to learn how to read—because a text demands a different framework or further critical imagination—should not be an abhorrent one. I think it's exciting, that there continue to be texts, forms, idioms I don't yet know how to (fully) read.
Rebecca Glade retweeted
ALT A Ruth Wilson Gilmore quotation about abolition is the caption for a still from the popular television program Gilmore Girls. The caption states: "The poet Anne Carson wrote, 'It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.' And what abolitionists are trying to do is perceive and participate in and understand how people are bound together."
Rebecca Glade retweeted
Sometimes I really feel like I'm from another time, another world—caring as much as I do about books, about the written word, about the placement of a punctuation mark, about getting the language right and doing right by language (a kind of ethics, a beauty I can't live without).
Rebecca Glade retweeted
best ways to soothe heartache:
-reading a good book
-learning something (anything)
-a long walk
-a long long long walk
-making something (anything)
-eating a big, tasty meal
-reading a book so bad it begins to replace your previous pain
-looking at a tree (any)
Rebecca Glade retweeted
so much is against reading for pleasure, writing for play, looking without agenda, wondering, just wondering. too much keeps us from beauty that is freedom, from mystery that is freedom, from the freeing questions, from the free inner life that is (or should be!) always ours
Just spoke on a panel where the moderator addressed all other academics using their academic title (Dr/Prof) except for me, where he used my first name...
I'm struck by the lack of accountability. No one acknowledged anything was wrong, and I expect to hear nothing in follow-up. The moderator will be able to continue treating more junior female colleagues this way and no one will say anything.
I'm excited to share my contribution to the AHA's Authoritarianism 101 syllabus. My module uses a Sudanese national security report from 1971 to discuss how authoritarian regimes evaluate threats. historians.org/module/threat…
Rebecca Glade retweeted
idk what the hell is going on in other disciplines but in History, lifting the citations from someone else's work is akin to plagiarism. You are falsely claiming to have done the research. It's intellectual dishonesty
"Muzan’s ability to create space for new possibilities should not be one that we yield in this terrible moment. By carrying her sensibility with us, we might build that better world, one of which she would be proud."
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