Relooted has a free demo on Steam right now and you learn about colonial crimes in mission briefing. Going off retreive Mangi Melis head from a private collector in Germany now.... #decolonization#steam#relooted
On 8 and 9 September, we will host the workshop ‘Contested Imperial Endings’, organised as part of the #DecTiL project — 'Auditing Decolonization in Timor-Leste, 1974-82: the Riscado Report'
Poster for the workshop “Contested Imperial Endings”. 8 and 9 September 2025, in Lisbon, at Nova FCSH, Room B304. Organised by the Institute of Contemporary History from Nova University Lisbon and the Portuguese Commission of Military History. The background of the poster is a faint image of planet Earth.
A white medical bottle of Prontoderm Solution
The label says MDRO: Multi-Drug-Resistant-Organisms, e.g. MRSA, VRE, ESBL
Below that there's Dekolonizacja MDRO, Dekolonizace MDRO, Dekolonizàcia MDRO, Multiresiszrens kórkozók dekolonizácjója Decolonizarea MDRO, probably the same thing with Russian alphabet and Dekolonizacija MDRO.
Green symbols, one with a droplet and one with a phrase ready to use
Poster for the workshop “Contested Imperial Endings”. 8 and 9 September 2025, in Lisbon, at Nova FCSH, Room B304. Organised by the Institute of Contemporary History from Nova University Lisbon and the Portuguese Commission of Military History. The background of the poster is a faint image of planet Earth.
📖 Pedro Aires Oliveira wrote about the role of Basil Davidson's social activism in the liberation struggles in Lusophone Africa for a chapter of the book 'European Socialists Across Borders'.
Cover of the book "European Socialists Across Borders. Transnational Cooperation and Alternative Visions of Europe After 1945", edited by Mélanie Torrent and Andrew J. Williams. Published in 2025 by University of London Press.
I watch a lot of people first-time reacting to my favorite types of music that they've never been exposed to before. Metalheads reacting to punk. Boomers reacting to grunge. GenZ reacting to 90s pop. Rappers reacting to hippie anthems.
But nothing beats white people experiencing Heilung for the first time.
They mirror my own first reaction: stunned shock and spiritual revelation.
It's a moment of instant decolonization by tapping into to some long-locked tribal memory that is OURS, not someone else's. It's decolonizing not by telling us what we can't have, but by showing us what we lost — and how we can bring it back.
Heilung is recreating, as best they can, what our Norse, Germanic, and Celtic ancestors might have practiced, the music they might have sung, the rites they might have honored, the worldview they most likely espoused. All of that died when the Christian invasion erased our cultures over the centuries, and they forced us into a life that is still alien to our natures. Yet with each violent wave they proudly declared we'd been "civilized."
No. We'd only been domesticated and robbed of our birthright of knowing Mother Nature, hearing our own instincts, and sensing the spirits who live everywhere.
Heilung digs deep into a vein, not where there is hidden a satanic Balrog (though our programming might make us worry this music has summoned a demon). Instead we find a resurrection of our own ancestral soul lying dormant within us.
And these YouTubers have this spiritual awakening right on screen.
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[Blanket Caveat: This turned into a long thread, so I'll just say, I don't caveat a whole lot, I don't explain many of my terms or how I've arrived at the assumptions and claims that I make, and I probably don't properly connect all the dots. This topic could be a paper, and would be, if I did all that. I just wanted to get the broad strokes down.]
And I know neopaganism is a thing, and I've practiced it both solo and with others, but Heilung really puts in the work, the research, the energy, the spectacle, to make it feel real what it might have been like to sit around a fire where the elders were preparing for a raid, acting out a divine scene, or appealing to the harvest spirits, knowing you're at the mercy of inhuman powers far beyond your control and understanding.
There are many paths out of authoritarian Christianity. And those paths have shifted over the centuries. Time was, your only other option wasn't atheism, it was deism, an enlightenment version of god as a scientist-creator who abandoned the universe after creating it. Now it's atheism, and from there you may end up at suburban paganism-lite, or a secular philosophy. Or you can look to various world religions.
Every one of these routes is some form of colonized or colonizing.
But Heilung is decolonized.
There is nothing about the culture Heilung displays on screen that is stolen from some entirely different People. (Obviously they had trade with and raided one another and nearby regions, but they didn't systemically colonize the way The Roman Empire and later Roman Christianity did.) Heilung gives us something that is 100% ours.
Their name means "Healing," and I could write a thesis on why that is true for me.
It takes me beyond deconstructing, into reconstructing, a space I'm less comfortable with.
🗣 Until 30 May, organisers are accepting proposals for the workshop ‘Contested Imperial Endings’, which aims to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
Poster for the workshop “Contested Imperial Endings”. 8 and 9 September 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal. Organised by the Institute of Contemporary History from Nova University Lisbon and the Portuguese Commission of Military History. The background of the poster is a faint image of planet Earth.
🆕 Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos were two of the researchers invited to collaborate on the exhibition ‘Before Being Independence, It Was a Struggle For Liberation’, recently opened at the Aljube Museum.
Rita Rato, Víctor Barros and Aurora Almada e Santos at the entrance to the exhibition ‘Before Being Independence, It Was a Struggle For Liberation'. The three of them are chatting around two open books. The author of the photo is José Frade.
🗣 We've opened a call for papers for the workshop "Contested Imperial Endings", seeking to encourage a comparative discussion on dissolution of several European empires, with a greater emphasis on those which unravelled in the aftermath of post-1945 European decolonization.
Poster for the workshop “Contested Imperial Endings”. 8 and 9 September 2025, in Lisbon, Portugal. Organised by the Institute of Contemporary History from Nova University Lisbon and the Portuguese Commission of Military History. The background of the poster is a faint image of planet Earth.
🆕 The #TRANSMAT project culminated last week with the conference ‘Decolonising Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’ and the opening of the exhibition ‘Facing the Colonial Legacy in the Museum’, both hosted by the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum in #FigueiraDaFoz.
Photo of Elisabete Pereira, Robert Nyamushosho, Marília Xavier Cury, and the banner of the conference "Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods" at the entrance of the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum.
This week, the #TRANSMAT team moves to Figueira da Foz for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’.
The programme includes keynote speakers Meryem Korun, Mark Thurner, David William Aparecido Ribeiro, and Marta Lourenço.
Poster for the international Transmat / Intopast conference “Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections: Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods”. 12 to 14 March 2025, Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz. Programme and registration at www.transmat.uevora.pt/en . The poster includes a photograph of a wood and straw basket with black, beige and red decorations.
"Klug reveals the central but underappreciated importance of global #decolonization to the divergence between mainstream liberalism and the #BlackFreedomMovement in postwar America."
Illustrative image of the call for applications for four Assistant Researchers under the FCT Tenure programme. The deadline for applications is 24 February 2025. More information at ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/en. The background of the image is faint, but it is a photograph of the front façade of the Almada Negreiros College, a two-storey 19th century building, with yellow walls, white windows and flanked by two small towers.
Registration is now open for the international conference ‘Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections. Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods’, which will take place at the Santos Rocha Municipal Museum (Figueira da Foz) between 12 and 14 March.
Poster for the international Transmat / Intopast conference “Decolonizing Museums and Colonial Collections: Towards a Transdisciplinary Agenda and Methods”. 12 to 14 March 2025, Museu Municipal Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz. Programme and registration at www.transmat.uevora.pt/en . The poster includes a photograph of a wood and straw basket with black, beige and red decorations.
By Giuseppe Feola, Olga Koretskaya, originally published by Degrowth.info
December 7, 2020
"Our societies are facing multiple interconnected challenges, which include #ClimateEmergency, an unprecedented loss of #biodiversity, growing #inequality and #PlasticPollution. What connects these challenges is the underlying capitalist economic model, which prioritizes #profit-making over #wellbeing and requires endless #EconomicGrowth simply to stay afloat.
"Degrowth offers an alternative vision – it is a project of urgent and fundamental transformation. Degrowth requires reimagining our societies from the perspective of being profit-centred to being wellbeing-centred. This approach distinguishes degrowth from other, more compromising visions of transformation, such as ‘green growth’. But how can society transition towards degrowth?
"One idea that has become prominent in thinking about such a transition is that of ‘#decolonization of the imaginary’, a concept developed by Serge Latouche. This concept signals the need for a disruption of taken-for-granted ways of seeing the world, and their associated practices, rules and social norms. Decolonization of the imaginary questions deeply rooted beliefs about who we are, how we live, and about our place in this world. Are we merely self-interested individuals or are we also care-oriented members of communities? To what extent do technology and #consumption contribute to human wellbeing? Does our constantly expansive economy threaten human communities and the natural world?
"Decolonization of the imaginary has been an inspirational idea for scholars and activists alike. Yet, it alone seems to be insufficient to take us to fully grasping the depth of disruptions of capitalism that have been produced by initiatives such as transition towns, #permaculture farms, and #RepairCafes. Decolonization of the imaginary emphasises the symbolic dimensions of social change but it underplays the material dimensions of such change. It is also usually understood as an end point, and hence fails to help us to recognize – and learn about – what happens along the way.
"How can we think about the processes by which disruptions of capitalism occur in broader, deeper and more dynamic ways? Is it possible for us to better capture what is going on in concrete initiatives?
"In a recent article, Giuseppe Feola proposes that we think about the disruption of capitalism in terms of ‘#unmaking’. He suggests that an unmaking of capitalism is not only necessary, but possibly pre-conditional for a transformation of the magnitude and nature required by degrowth. ‘Unmaking’ refers to individual or collective actions of disengagement or active deconstructions of existing capitalist systems that ‘make space’ for alternatives. Such actions could take the form of a personal decision to limit consumption or to quit a high-paying job at an #OilCorporation. Unmaking can also be recognized in a #CommunityFarm that refuses to submit to market pressure to expand production and instead turns to a #CommunitySupported model to sustain itself."
"Ecological communities tend to be healthier under Indigenous jurisdiction. (This is not because Indigeous peoples and practices are “necessarily environmentally sound,” according to Anishinaabe legal scholar John Burrows — this is a noxious and essentializing stereotype. “Indigenous peoples can be as destructive as other societies on earth — we are part of humanity, not outside of it,” he writes). The difference in socioecological outcomes can be traced to ..."
"Despite various environmental regulations, Western law primarily views the land and its lifeforms as property subject to use and abuse for capital accumulation. The opposite holds in many Indigenous legal systems: more-than-human beings are viewed as kin with whom humans cultivate balanced and respectful relationships"
If you haven't seen the #JohnPilger#documentaries about #Cambodia & how the #USgovernment is why #PolPot#KhmerRouge gained & retained power - please watch them.
It's important #geopolitical#history.
It was one of the worst #genocide atrocities in modern human history. Cambodians were #dehumanized like Vietnamese were. Both sovereign nations suffered many years of embargoes by US & their Western allies, along with with Cold War pals back then - China. US was still angry & bitter about losing their imperialist invasion in Vietnam & they opted to punish Cambodia, Vietnam & Laos - they are really sore losers.
As you watch these #documentary films - please try to pay attention to how US officials haven't really changed their scripts in decades. They use similar lies/political deflective/avoidance verbal dances to this day. In 2024, they're talking about Arabs like they used to talk about Cambodians, Vietnamese & Laotians - like none of us are human beings. It's just collateral damage when a million or more POC folks, far from Western worlds, are mass murdered for political power games.