Eric Haney

Postdoc @CIPSS_McGill on the past & future of Institutions in Turbulent Times | empire, order, recognition & birth of the int'l system | DPhil @Politics_Oxford

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@RJ_Reeve @yuanyi_z Really depends when you’re looking. There’s late c19 jockeying between foreign & India office competence to recognise succession in Zanzibar with the background of free vs enslaved labour supply, and in that environment the sultan has some strategic room to move.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@b_nishanov Frankly a heartening case of people actually listening to messaging & making an informed choice rather than defaulting to a vaguely positive-sounding yes.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

Honoured to be honourably mentioned with @ameyaprataps , and to keep company with @Jan_Eijking! Congrats both! So grateful to the HIST section for making such a brilliant space for this kind of work; can't imagine what my DPhil would have been like without this community.

[Historical International Relations Section @HistoricalInte1]

The honourable mention goes to Eric Haney @EricBHaney and Ameya Pratap Singh @ameyaprataps for “Going to the Jungle Without a Gun: Knowledge, Fear, and Hierarchy in South Asian Theories of War, 1857, 1950”. Congratulations to Eric and Ameya!

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@schulz_c_a @HistoricalInte1 Emailed you!

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@Aelkus I mean, I came across it while trying to explain links between c19/20 "tribal" politics and anti–colonial revolt. It's an idea with range.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@Aelkus One of Schelling's best insights was that a speaker distancing themself from the ability to control consequent actions doesn't dilute a threat, but rather is the nature of it. "If you x then I can't stop y, even if I would much rather not y myself" is stronger than "I will y".

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@prowag Thanks, looking forward to reading about findings in longer form!

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@prowag Surely the assumption that these are simply three frames for the same underlying policy, either in public perception or in fact, needs more establishing? If public assumes these are different things, & many activists agree, then this isn't a finding about frames.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@mccormick_ted Odd notion of business. Every third geology grad I've known was angling for a job in oil.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@IRHotTakes This is fun, because actual empire has been riddled with this on purpose. At Victoria's coronation Durbar, the leader of Hyderabad retranslated "loyalty and allegiance" as "friendship and alliance", & the viceroy had to chase him down later to bargain a redo from him.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@votarycannon Didn't understand your question, didn't speak clearly, and didn't want to have that conversation here. Take care.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@jordanlperkins For instance, I'm 100% on board with Acocella's suggestion here to start on Gilgamesh with a commentary (albeit one that includes tons of original language), not a translation. Not even really from a scholarly angle, but an enjoyment one. https://t.co/H3WdzpEQsL

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@jordanlperkins I like the aesthetic experience of being transported by primary works, but don’t trust that where I’m being transported to is anything like the place they originated without thick context, multiple translations, etc. I even find the former more fun with the latter's help.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@lastpositivist @dog_envier (By 'this' I mean the expectation that certain dep'ts and their faculty have political persuasions not actually held by many individuals).

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@lastpositivist @dog_envier Student self–branding by discipline may contribute to this. During the Davies drama there were pretty self–conscious battle lines between financy and athro/gov blocks, with all the trappings of a centre vs lefty divide. But everyone still came to the goldman recruitment sessions.

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@profmusgrave @SWGoldman I'll never not have whiplash from how quickly my y'alls went from a marker of hickness to apparently one of tryhard inauthenticity. There was about a week in there where I had a few Brits saying it just as a (grammatically standard) useful contraction.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@lastpositivist @jweisber @AaronRHanlon If you're craving the 'cabal that knows things' experience, I've got some claims you could take to a history conference.

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@CJSlaby @Uncover_ED did the work on it, and has more great things ongoing. https://t.co/WKyTRhdS0i

[Eric Haney @EricBHaney]

@CJSlaby There's a well travelled hallway between Edinburgh's polisci dep't and its school of history, classics & archaeology with portraits & bios of imperial & non–white alums: eg Africanus Horton. It's brilliant, but doesn't conjure the same fears of white erasure so isn't news.