#hypoverse — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hypoverse, aggregated by home.social.
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Telegram once helped organise resistance in Belarus. Today, state authorities use it to circulate confession videos and enforce political control.
Aryna Dzmitryieva asks what happens when tools of dissent are absorbed by authoritarian regimes ⬇️
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"The question was never only what was forbidden. It was who, when, and in whose interest decided what counted as a crime, an illness, a moral failure, or a threat to the state."
Two TV series, #Fartsa and #SovietJeans, reveal how Soviet law served as in instrument of state power. Gevorg Avetikyan reads the two series side by side and shows how coercion worked in practice - and how the grey market became part of the system itself. ⬇️
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On a hot, sweltering day in August 389 CE, Latinius Pacatus Drepaniu was faced with a difficult task: Priasing a triumphant victory in a civil war in front of an audience that included many who had supported the loser. In a true masterstroke, he turned defeat into contrast and victory into legitimacy, writes Susanna Elm⬇️
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How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?
Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.
https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579
#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse
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How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?
Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.
https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579
#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse
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How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?
Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.
https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579
#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse
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How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?
Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.
https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579
#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse
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How do photographs and films produced by repressive regimes change once the regimes themselves collapse?
Natalija Arlauskaitė views archives not as neutral repositories, but as visual systems of knowledge, power, and loyalty. Focusing on artistic practices of de- and re-archiving, she analyzes how images participate in the production of subjectivity, agency, and citizenship.
https://decentarch.hypotheses.org/2579
#VisualHistory #Gulag #PostSovietStudies #DecenteredArchive #hypoverse
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‘...as if roasting coffee beans until they are intensely burnt…’
A minor scribal note, left on a copy of a craft handbook ascribed to the Yemeni Rasulid ruler al-Muẓaffar Yūsuf, bears witness to a user’s engagement with craft knowledge.
While seemingly insignificant, comments such as these attest to the ongoing vibrancy of craft recipes, which continued to be used, modified, and transmitted long after first being written down, writes Leonie Böttiger 👇
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What does it take to become successful in academia? Publish early in a top journal, co-author with a well-known (and highly cited) scholar, and be affiliated with an elite institution. That's what the statistics say.
Sarah Lang breaks them down and reflects on her decisions, which went completely against this advice (including starting a research blog!) 👇
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“Industrious” Chinese and British “drunkards and scoundrels”:
In 1908, maritime labour debates were shaped by sharp stereotypes. In the pages of The Seaman, Chinese sailors were cast as a “yellow peril” and British workers as unreliable drunkards. Michelle Watzig shows what these stereotypes reveal about the status of British seamen in the early 19th century 👇
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"At its core the reproducibility crisis is a crisis of trust. The findings scientists publish and tout as facts, are often not replicable by others."
Nate Breznau argues that the reproducibility crisis is, at its core, a structural one - and that there is a solution: Diamond #OpenAccess weakens profit driven publishing, supports more ethical research, and improves the knowledge base of generative AI 👇
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"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
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"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
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"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
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"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
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"They call it efficiency. We call it violence."
In this episode, Leona Ogrisek and Philippa Kaufmann take a look at Australia's practice of offshoring asylum seekers to the island of Nauru. Listen to the student-led podcast, which the producers envisage as part of the fictional "Capital Crimes" podcast series about systemic violence.
🎧 https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/610
#SeminarBlog #HumanitarianSeas #Australia #Asylum #dehypoPodcast #hypoverse
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Sociologists tend to be politically left-leaning. Is this a problem?
Read Nate Breznau's thoughts on politics and the scientific method, and why following the scientific method does not preclude ethical problems 👇
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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
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Switzerland is often portrayed as a neutral and "raceless" society - but in reality, racism in Switzerland was simply invisible after 1945. Racial knowledge defined who was deemed assimilable and who was excluded, while the Swiss state ignored and eliminated racism from contemporary awareness and history, writes Nicolas Blumenthal 👇
https://migrantknowledge.hypotheses.org/33179
#MigrantKnowledge #GHIWashington #HistoryOfMigration #Migration #Switzerland #hypoverse
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After Kamala Harris’s defeat by Donald Trump in the 2024 election, many people concerned with equality in the United States have been asking: “What now?”
Rachel Marie Davis examines feminism in Trump’s second term. She looks at how feminists responded to Trump over the past decade, which strategies failed to connect with the wider public, and what progressive leaders can learn from these experiences 👇
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Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
📷 ssr ist4u, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
📷 ssr ist4u, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
📷 ssr ist4u, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
📷 ssr ist4u, CC BY-SA 2.0
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Rising seas threaten the Pacific Islands with a sovereignty crisis that is unprecedented in international law. Rejecting being framed as "climate refugees", Pacific Islanders insist on their agency as nations fighting for survival rather than as victims awaiting rescue.
When territory disappears, what happens to statehood?
https://humanitariansea.hypotheses.org/449
#PacificIslands #RisingSeas #InternationalLaw #Sovereignty #hypoverse
📷 ssr ist4u, CC BY-SA 2.0
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
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El agua es vida: With the anarcho-capitalist government of Javier Milei taking over the federal government in Argentina, struggles around water intensified. As the national Israeli water company Mekorot is increasing its presence in Argentina through agreements over water management, indigenous populations and urban activists are starting to mobilize 👇
https://trafo.hypotheses.org/63869
#Argentina #TransregionalActivism #WaterSovereignty #Trafo #hypoverse
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When political repression intended to isolate and break individuals instead produces solidarity, resistance, and moral authority: Klára Pinerová examines the prison experience of Czechoslovak political prisoners from the 1950s to post-Communism as both a tool of repression and a foundation for collective identity and memory politics with the emergence of the "heroic victimhood" narrative.
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Europe’s cooperation with the Libyan coast guard is framed as security policy. Yet thousands intercepted at sea end up in camps the UN deems unsafe.
Lukas Seiwerth traces how EU institutions helped build this system, why key human-rights obligations vanish in the process, and how “legal black holes” have become an integral part of Europe’s Mediterranean border regime 👇
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Women at Sea: A newly edited collection of sources from an 18th-century newspaper offers a glimpse into life at sea - from notes on cargo to pirates, privateers and mutinies.
Simon Karstens searched the volume for mentions of seafaring women and discovered how the types of sources we select can shape the results of our research.👇
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What does sustainable food look like in #Japan - beyond vending machines and convenience stores?
A new study offers insights from chefs, farmers, ramen makers, and food entrepreneurs working to reconnect meals with nature, seasonality, and community.
#Sustainability in Japan takes a look at Japan’s slow food movement and its quiet transformation of the culinary sector👇
https://sustainability.hypotheses.org/1080 via @dijtokyo.org
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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇
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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇
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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇
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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇
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The intellectual infrastructure of Trumpism has been decades in the making, argues Yanic Dollhopf. Taking a closer look at the ideology propelled by the John Birch Society could be key to understanding the contemporary American far-right 👇
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Can Islamic law and democratic constitutionalism coexist? In Egypt, the Supreme Constitutional Court has developed a nuanced practice of judicial review that engages Shārīe‘ā without abandoning democratic principles.
Mohamed ‘Arafa traces how Muslim jurists can help shape a framework that balances religious principles with democratic values. 👇
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"Every Breath You Take" is one of the most popular songs in radio history and has found its way into many a wedding play list. But "I'll Be Watching You" is not about romantic love - it's about stalking.
Martina Ravaioli unpacks the creepiness of The Police's most popular song 👇
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How do societies remember those once hidden behind institutional walls? The Swedish podcast "Vipeholmsanstalten" reconstructs the world of neglect, coercion and medical experimentation in one of Sweden’s largest institutions for intellectually disabled people.
Anna Derksen explores how the podcast produces historical knowledge as a form of mediated memory 👇
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Since Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, now X, @auschwitzmuseum faces new challenges on the platform: invisibility, algorithmic bias and antisemitic hate speech.
Isabelle Sarther explores how the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial continues its educational mission and exerts its moral authority in in the public discourse on X 👇
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The German occupation during World War II had a massive impact on the daily lives of millions of people. Life was marked by the struggle to obtain food amidst rationing and hunger.
A new digital collection of sources from across Europe illustrates what life under German occupation was like, from queuing for bread to risking one’s life on the black market, and from everyday coping to quiet acts of resistance. 👇
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How old were women and men at first marriage in late Ottoman Palestine – and how large was the spousal age gap?
Sarah and Johann Buessow analysed Ottoman marriage registers from Gaza and Jerusalem. Their findings: child marriage was widespread but varied by region. Marriage age reflects not only education and military service — but also deep-rooted gender inequalities 👇
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In 1543, Martin Luther wrote some of the most virulent anti-Jewish texts of the early modern period. But how did he get there?
In this interview, historian Stephen Burnett revisits Luther’s turn to hate, traces overlooked influences and intellectual fears 👇