Sara Canali

PhD candidate @ugent @GIESGhent & @UNUCRIS. Passionate about EU's external action, MENA, religion/gender in EU foreign policy, coloniality. Views are my own.

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Kicking off #EUIA25 with a thought-provoking panel on the EU’s role in today’s renewed era of geopolitical competition. Looking forward to engaging with colleagues over the next three days!

[Giulio siamo noi @GiulioSiamoNoi]

Ai tuoi 37 anni non compiuti, alla tua vita strappata ai tuoi affetti promettiamo il nostro impegno costante fino a quando non ci sarà piena verità e giustizia.
#15gennaio #veritàegiustiziaperGiulio

[College of Europe in Bruges @coebruges]

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[Conflict Research Group @crg_crg]

You are invited!
CRG Book Launches: The Natural Border: Bounding Migrant Farmwork in the Black Mediterranean. - CRG @JeroenAdam1 in Conversation with Timothy Raeymaekers ( University of Bologna) To register, click 👇🏻 👇🏻https://t.co/7LaiC0EIZx

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Super grateful for the great comments and engaging discussion at our panel today in Trento #UACES24

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Glad to share my blog where I summarise some of my reflections around the current shape and possible implications of the decentring research agenda for European external action.

https://t.co/pDqDAasTMt

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

It's a wrap! Glad to have had the chance to present my draft research paper on critical perspectives of decentring EU external action and dynamics of othering in Amsterdam. Thank you to the fellow panellists for the discussion and to Dr Vos for the feedback! #UACESgf24

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Such an inspiring, and thought-provoking keynote speech!

[UACES Graduate Forum @UACESgf]

UACES Graduate Forum 2024 continues with Dr. Maryna Shevtsova’s keynote speech!

“Identity, Borders and Human Rights: Navigating Security Challenges in Post-enlargement Europe”

@UACES @VUamsterdam #UACESgf24

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

@katlozka Thank you ❤️

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

The Graduate Forum Research Conference 2024 has officially started this morning at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Looking forward to engaging panels and discussions! #UACESgf24

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

The #Nuseirat massacre will go down in history as one of the most appalling examples of disdain for Palestinian life in one of the most well-documented and boasted about genocides in history.

Although it can't be of any solace for the Palestinian people enduring genocide, the tide has turned. Israel's war on the Palestinians—rooted in their very indigeneity—is now fully exposed.

Justice will knock on the doors of the perpetrators and their accomplices.

The sycophants committed to whitewash Israel's crimes, while vilifying advocates for justice, will have what they deserve: oblivion, in the dustbin of history.

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Interesting read, also in light of Josep Borrell's remarks following yesterday's FAC meeting on distinguishing between Netanyahu's govt and Israel https://t.co/jKyDf7wFGR

[Koen Bogaert @koenraadBogaert]

Tijdens de commotie over de acties van de UGent-studenten aan het rectoraat, werd een zoveelste bevel van het Internationaal Gerechtshof genegeerd. En werden er opnieuw tientallen mensen op gruwelijke wijze afgeslacht. De studenten staan aan de juiste kant van de geschiedenis.

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Privileged to have listened to @mayaywind who presented her book "Towers of Ivory and Steel", where she discusses how Israeli universities are an integral part of the settler colonial project. Main point taken - we now are faced with the chance to build a truly decolonial world.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

A colonizer is always angry, because a colonizer is always guilty.
A colonizer is always violent, because a colonizer is always afraid.

A colonizer is always angry and afraid because a colonizer is never home.
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Lately I started getting words for it, this colonizer homelessness, the fact that colonizers look and feel like aliens to natives not only because they don't belong, but because the colonizers themselves feel the same way.

Think about it: wherever a colonizer goes, whatever they see, smell or taste, it is never theirs, or completely natural. It is not organic to them, but engineered; their whole existence is.

Whatever sustains and nourishes the native, threatens the colonizer and reflects their strangeness: the food, the music, the landscape, the flora and fauna. the sounds and smells, everything.

Whatever comes naturally to the native is a great effort for the colonizer: they don't understand the codes, and never will. They can't be still.

Aa colonizer is not an immigrant, a tourist or a guest, they have to find meaning for their stay. It must be a higher purpose, a higher calling, else what can explain both their presence not home, and the violent means they always need to maintain it? We are not designed to inflict pain and injury for comfort. We need a story to put us in a positive light.
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So much of the western world's anxiety, I think, is just a colonizer's latent, repressed homelessness. Because colonialism is not just taking other people's home, it is also, and forever, being without one yourself.

[Sara Canali @CanaliSara]

Very excited to have taught my first seminar at UGent this morning. Big thanks to @janorbie for this opportunity!

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.

My latest can be read here: https://t.co/Jd9CYEFPex

[Koen Bogaert @koenraadBogaert]

Meer dan 375 Vlaamse professoren en meer dan 1400 studenten en academici vragen in een open brief om samenwerking met Israël stop te zetten. Ze reageren daarmee op aanvallen door het Israëlische leger op Palestijnse universiteiten.#educide

https://t.co/mNFePqVv7r via @demorgen

[Ghent Institute for International&European Studies @GIESGhent]

@MichelleHaas_ Next, we welcome @CanaliSara!

As of 1 January 2024, Sara is a PhD fellow @ugent and @UNUCRIS. Sara’s doctoral research focuses on decentring European foreign policy, looking at the case of gender and religion.