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Finally leaving Musk’s platform
I’m finally leaving what was once Twitter. I guess most people who read this will question why I was still there in the first place. That is why I’m writing a short post about why I was there and why I won’t be there anymore. I’m a researcher whose work focuses on political violence in…
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Academic extractivism and the trend towards de-contextualization in the social sciences
I have been meaning to discuss an academic trend in the social sciences for quite some time: ‘academic extractivism’. The main feature of this practice is the severing of the link between the knowledge and its context. By referring to ‘objectivity’ in a way that allows de-contextualization by separating the knowledge from the context in…
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War, peace, and the autumn
It was an autumn night in 2013. Most people were on holiday because of the Eid of Sacrifice. I was in Genç, a war-torn municipality in the small city of Bingöl. We were four young men sitting in a table. Two of the others were my cousins, the third was also from our village. All…
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Hello everyone!
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the College of Mexico (Colmex). I usually work on the legitimation and delegitimation of state-sponsored violence, dehumanization, racism, authoritarianism, and the role of digital platforms in reproducing and legitimizing violent structures. My work is transdisciplinary and I usually focus on the cases of the Turkish-Kurdish conflict and the Colombian…
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- War, peace, and the autumn
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