poliscirish.bsky.social
Political researcher. Deconstructor of discourses. Dancer of jigs. Spectator of spectres. Herder of hooligans.
PhD in Irish political history. QUB alum. Research manager at Parkland Institute
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This is properly haunting. I'm not 100% certain any of the people you encountered in Bow Street were actually alive 😱
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And the "solutions" being copycatted from Alberta - for-profit surgeries and reliance on private nursing agencies - are actively making the situation worse for the system and for those needing care.
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
www.parklandinstitute.ca/operation_pr...
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And yet the other powers seem determined to accept the framing of Trump as an essential broker of peace in Ukraine and (to a lesser extent) Gaza. What part of any of this {gestures at entirety of Trump regime} supports that strategy?
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I love* the ones who insist that you're "just not understanding the crucial point" as you respond directly to their own actual words.
*By which I mean, not at all 🙃
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Cheers, it was intended as tongue-in-cheek, but useful nonetheless.
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15% for "Other Responses" seems ... Curious.
Although I can't help but hope that the majority of those "other responses" looked like this: 🖕
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Was there a mysterious fourth option? Because that math leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
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There is an argument to be made there. I can recall a sense of moral panic in the early aughts that postmodernism would erode the basis of objective reality to meaninglessness & be deployed by bad faith actors. Rove & Bannon et al certainly benefitted from this untethering from & inversion of truth.
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Actually, my 9 year old has probably learned *too much* from these conversations. "Holiday" is one of his most-requested car tunes, and that 3rd verse is heavy AF. But it's so important to talk about it, to trace the lines between past & present. How did we get here? How can we read music this way?
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Empirically wrong, and a misreading of theory to boot. Just because a discourse is socially constructed & historically contingent in no way makes it *not real*.
It's like those claiming relativism means that there is no basis for truth, fact, or reality and it all morphs into weird nihilist fantasy
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Obviously. Cheers, thanks for clarifying that 🙄
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Point being: if the money isn't allocated from the source, no one has a choice whether to comply or disobey - the money isn't there, because it hasn't been approved. So that can only go back to Congress and the man behind the Exec Order. The courts are a slow, inefficient, and fallible "solution"
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Except: these grants were either defunded or not approved in the first place. The research can't just continue without funds out of principle. Just like many of the projects cannot just resume where they left off. That's not "compliance", that's "my funds have been blocked and I can't pay my RA."
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For now, until our provincial government approves Gina Rinehart's application for a massive expansion of open pit mining on the Eastern slopes ...
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I laughed, and I'm definitely the target demographic for this joke. Well played.
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A gaming handle is a great way to celebrate one's favourite philosopher! As a gift for my co-author on a Spectres-inspired paper, I had a scarf knitted with the line "Enter the Ghost" woven in.
The tattoo could be useful though - especially for Jaques & his love of especially wordy sentences.
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Jealous 🤩 Perhaps your kiddo was thinking of this gem?
"That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break."
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The difference here is there were no *designated* protest zones in Enniskillen or otherwise. The exclusion zone didn't apply to those centres and there were demonstrations in Dublin & London iirc - but there were official security zones in each town/city.
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The 2013 G8 in Fermanagh, NI.
Rings of security cordons, including the entire resort complex, a 6 mile exclusion zone on Lough Erne, the primary road between Enniskillen & the host hotel, as well as sec ops in Derry, Belfast, and Bundoran across the border.
www.theguardian.com/world/2013/j...
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Thanks for sharing. To walk through sites like these is really powerful. In BC, a former internment camp was preserved and dedicated to teaching & reflection on the experience of Japanese-Canadians during and after the war. Many years ago now, but I was inspired to learn more. That's no small thing.
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Apologies if I sounded lecture-y.
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Understanding commemoration means acknowledging its full political & historical complexity, contradiction, omissions and exclusions alongside its professed aims of inclusion and unity.
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As a scholar of commemoration in politically divided/divisive contexts, I really appreciate this reminder and breakdown of the significance. However, you repeatedly mention the strengthening of civil liberties ... while entirely omitting FDR's order on Japanese internment only 4 months earlier.
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The hero we need, but don't deserve.
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Please be kind, we Edmontonians are still grieving the 6-1 catastrophe, not to mention last night's drubbing.
Does anyone know where one could get a decent goalie on short notice?
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Of course, sadly and predictably.
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But the Americans liberated the women of Afghanistan! So much liberation, hugely free. /s 🙄
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Even without context, that is a fabulous list of words. I might just put those in my pocket to get me through the day.
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I was out with my husband on a rare evening without our kids. The B&D version of "My Maria" comes on. He catches my eye and grins. I just slowly shake my head.
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Small acts of kindness and empathy can have huge ripples.
I'm sorry for your loss, Monica.
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