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"This altered problematic reveals ... PIL as a fragmented accretion of differentiated communities of practice, existing in a vast normative void full of content, ever increasing content, and an ever-growing assortment of “legally cognizable materials.” It is more like a legal black hole—an unbearable mass of normative “stuff”: The elements of law. Undifferentiated law, each of it embodying some unreflected “lawness".

@pil #pil #publicinternationallaw #PoliticalSciences #politicalscience

Much of the moral panic over “#cancelculture” – which animated #Musk to buy #Twitter in the first place – is a reaction to the fact that traditionally #marginalizedgroups gained technological means to affect the political debate.

Twitter has been crucial in this uphill struggle... How valuable this has been is evidenced by the fact that many of those elites are so consistently bemoaning “persecution”

#politicalphilosophy #politicalsciences #democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/21/elon-musk-liberal-twitter-plans-benevolent

One of my former students liked my Harry Potter paper so much that he and a group of friends translated it into Arabic. That Arabic translation is now being published as a little book :)

My very own, very first, pamphlet!

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Can you imagine living on one third of the cost of a double espresso, for your entire living expenses, per day, wherever you live?

That is not escaping extreme poverty, that is the very definition of extreme poverty.

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Nonetheless, this is USD equivalent *after* purchasing power parity (PPP) calculations. Egypt's current PPP is 4.57 and 2.15 USD 2017 is now 2.61 USD 2022. To statistically escape extreme poverty, an Egyptian needs access to the equivalent of 57 US *cents* per day, that is 11.60 EGP. For comparison, a double espresso costs 35 EGP.

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So I just discovered that the World Bank has adjusted the extreme poverty line from 1.90 USD 2011 to 2.15 USD 2017. This, unusually, represents an increase, albeit a small one, in minimal daily purchasing power. (The CPI conversion for 1.90 USD 2011 is 2.09 USD 2017). Normally these re-evaluations result in actual required purchasing power being reduced - a lowering of the poverty line.

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Is there a way to add #s when you reblog? I don't really understand this space, but I'd love to communicate more on it. The few interactions I have had have all been uplifting.

#pil #publicinternationallaw #PoliticalSciences #politicalscience #lafprofs #mastadon #sociology #sociologists #help

Germany?!?! Carry On Fascism? Or: Facism as Farce? But, outside of this Beer Garden Putsch, the actual rise of fascism globally is scary. Neoliberalism is dying, fascist regimes can keep it on life support. For a while. It will not go quietly, and what follows is terrifyingly unknown. Eco-Socialism or Death-Cult Fascism. I want to say the choice is ours, but I don't know if it is anymore.

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"They [Congolese] seem to believe that the
independence of the Republic of the Congo, … means independence also in a substantive sense of the word which is unreal."

Dag Hammarskjold

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That is 350,000 premature deaths per week, a million every 3 weeks, 18 million avoidable/inflicted human deaths per year. All at the hands of a global economic regime controlled by the over-developed states who now criticise Qatar for 6,000 workers deaths. The righteous doth protest too much.

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These problems apply to all social sciences. But especially so in sociology where we have this far accepted a multitude of theories and the types of data (hello #economics) and have covered all types of social phenomena (hello #politicalsciences).

One could argue that ok, let’s then focus on theory and leave data&methods for specialization. After all, this is more or less how the field was covered in study programs some decades ago

I'm sorry to sound super stupid but. How do you read comments on mastodon? I click on the icon and it does not show me the comments, but invites me to add to them. Not unreasonably, I hope, I'd prefer to read the comments before responding. I am using the android app.

#mastadon #internationallaw #publicinternationallaw #PoliticalSciences #politicalscience #help

Debating the merits and problems of prohibiting harmful traditional practices generally and female genital cutting in particular in class this evening. Captivating discussion and genuinely conflicted students. It was a great class.

#pil #publicinternationallaw #PoliticalSciences #culturalpluralism #culturalimperialism #exception #decisionandresponsibility #liberalism

The cross-disciplinary center now hosts ~250 researchers and ~ 50 externally funded projects at Uni Turku and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki. The center is now permanent, we cover #sociology #psychology #childpsychiatry #demography #socialpolicy #economics #politicalsciences #statistics etc… for details, have a peak at https://invest.utu.fi/

We also have a PhD an a Master’s program. I am really proud of their contents! https://invest.utu.fi/study-programmes/

A quick introduction - I am a #PoliticalSciences scholar with a background in #IR #constructivism , interested in #Norms, #InternationalOrganizations, and #SustainableAgriculture, mostly #qualitative_methods #PoliSciToots

A quick introduction - I am a #PoliticalSciences scholar with a background in #IR #constructivism , interested in #Norms, #InternationalOrganizations, and #SustainableAgriculture, mostly #qualitative_methods #PoliSciToots