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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Historian of 🇩🇿
@UCSC
| "Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria," available
@DukePress
| history, politics, theory, cats.
Santa Cruz, CAdukeupress.edu/markets-of-civ…Joined April 2012
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
"Markets of Civilization," is officially out with
@DukeUniversity
Press! It studies economic development in colonial and post-colonial Algeria 🇩🇿 through the lens of racial capitalism. A 🧵on the book w/a discount code and info on upcoming book talks ⬇️. (1/10)
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Check out the most recent
@meriponline
issue! From the intro: "“Peripheries and borderlands call into question the seeming totality and power of the state as well as the myth of separate-but-equal sovereignty imposed globally after World War II.”
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MERIP
@meriponline
Hi everyone, this is @sahelblog, one of the members of the editorial team for MERIP's Issue #305, “Peripheries and Borderlands.” The full issue is available here: merip.org/magazine/305/
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
It's not just UC employees; in 2019 the UN claimed Blackstone was “wreaking havoc” through “aggressive evictions” that effectively pushed low and middle-income tenants from their homes. This is the literal opposite of a #Cola4All.
latimes.com
University of California's $4-billion real estate investment will worsen housing crisis, unions say
Housing advocates fear rents will rise even faster after the University of California poured $4 billion into a real estate fund owned by Blackstone.
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
#AHA23 folks, I’m here in Philly presenting with some seriously brilliant colleagues on Saturday. I can’t promise my book lives up to its cover, however….
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Megan Brown
@MeganHist
Saturday at 1:30, @MuriamDavis, Emily Marker, and I (with Josh Cole commenting) will discuss our books at #AHA23. And may I just say, if we are judging books by their covers, that these are seriously great books? @AHAhistorians @Harvard_Press @DukePress @CornellPress
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Me when a student emails asking for the syllabus for a SPRING seminar when the winter one isn’t finished yet.
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@MuriamDavis
Echoing
@jessicaktaft
but also adding appreciation for faculty comrades like her who spent incredible amounts of time thinking about big picture strategy and also delving into the legal details to write memos and FAQs and still managed to ask about my kitty’s upset tummy 😻).
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Jessica Taft
@jessicaktaft
UCSC's graduate student labor organizers are amazing - strategic, thoughtful, democratic, and committed to the long term struggle of transforming public higher education to meet the needs of all students and workers. Solidarity forever. twitter.com/payusmoreucsc/…
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@MuriamDavis
I’ve learned an immense amount from the striking grad workers and my faculty comrades over the last six weeks. Looking forward to continuing to build power across the unions in the UCs and beyond.
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
UCSC organizers on the ratified agreement that ends the strike. Only 20% of rank and file at SC voted for the contract (35% at UCSB; 27% at Merced). The struggle continues.
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UCSC4COLA
@payusmoreucsc
We must celebrate the level and depth of rank and file engagement throughout this contract fight and strike, which has exceeded any mobilization in the history of our union local.
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Excited to read this!
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Zachary Levenson
@grundrza
I've got a new paper out with Marcel Paret in @DuBoisReview on the origins of the concept of 𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 – above all, how it traveled back and forth across the Atlantic between South Africa and the US in two waves: the 1970s and 80s and again post-2008 twitter.com/DuBoisReview/s…
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
ps - in the past I've use scrivener for archival notes and Evernote for clipping/course related things I came across and just plan old word docs for secondary reading notes.... curious to hear what others are doing!
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
How do Zotero folks take reading notes? I finally shifted from Endnote to Zotero, but can't quite figure out the note function. I like being able to see what I have notes on, but the child/standalone notes still require me to know they are there (and expand the entry). Thanks!
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
I reject the logic of a “prestige top up” for UCB, UCLA, and UCSF. The creation of a two-tiered system (flagship and « others ») goes against the basic premises of higher ed. Whatever happens with the TA, faculty need to speak out against this.#FairUCNow #COLA #Relegation
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whatuhbore
@whatuhbore
Replying to @jedediahsilver and @NelsonLichtens1
Those against the differential pay are citing similar if not higher costs of living for campuses like UCSD, UCSB, UCSC. This is not a cost of living adjustment because those campuses also would see a similar increase. These are prestige top ups.
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Thrilled to be in such amazing company, MIH has published some fantastic work recently that pushes the boundaries of what we mean by "intellectual history"!
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
@daniel_dsj2110
13. Muriam Haleh Davis on Decolonization and the regional question in France: cambridge.org/core/journals/
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
I’ll be presenting my book in Ghent (
@ugent
) next week should folks be around. Grateful that
@SamiZemni
has agreed to be the discussant.
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فيروز
@Fayrouz_yousfi
On Wednesday, 21 December, MENARG will be hosting Professor @MuriamDavis, talking about her new book "Markets of Civilization: Islam and Racial Capitalism in Algeria." Join us at 5 pm at Ghent University. Live stream here: youtu.be/k6QTTgaU-20 for those who cannot attend.
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@MuriamDavis
Don't miss this!
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Tocqueville 21
@Tocqueville21
BOOK FORUM: This week, we will be publishing four reviews of Emily Marker's "Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar Era" (from @CornellPress) followed by Marker's response on Friday. Links will be added daily to this thread. #twitterstorians
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Given the historic ⚽️win for al-Andalus (I mean Morocco 🇲🇦) yesterday - and images of players posing with the Palestinian flag - you should absolutely read this
@meriponline
article discussing the politics of Palestine on the pitch.
merip.org
The Re-Politicization of Palestinian Soccer - MERIP
The past decade has seen the growing presence of political protest and expressions of Palestinian national identity in football stadiums in Israel, with Ultras Sakhnin setting a powerful example....
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M Haleh
@MuriamDavis
Doing my obligatory employee ethics training for the UCs. The video just stated: "we all want to work in an environment in which we feel valued." This is truly rich. 😂 #FairUCNow
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