How should we rethink decolonisation when it is hijacked by authoritarian forces? A few thoughts from me: hope they help all those grappling with these pressing issues, inc profs & students. Do read+spread this open access article @AmAnthroJournal
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https://t.co/05ucC7wRYa
@gpeyrol16 i can send some articles if you want? in short, Christian Zionism amplified the settler dispossession of indigenous Papuans into a fear of Islamisation which some see as paralleling Israel. they then project national aspirations onto Israel and hope they’ll intervene
@_TheBlueShyGuy@shaun_vids it’s not really true that the souvenirs were meaningless. it avoids the agency, meanings, and new types of relationships Iatmul tourist art expressed - often national and christian twists on traditional iconography to elicit long term tourist relationships
@FeyeraBender there was no “primitive communism”. it’s a ridiculous ahistorical idea that stops us thinking about emancipation today. i think people use it to self-justify communism with a romaticised projection of hunter-gathers. tho it ignores recent work on inequality for those societies