once again i encourage everyone to read Arif Dirlik who wrote already in the early 2000s about various claims about "alternative" modernities, value systems & civilisations in the postcolonial world and how it reinforces internal & external hegemonies. such as the "asian values"

In 2012, Adidas secured the title sponsorship of the Olympics for $150 million and thought they would overshadow Nike. However, Nike used a brilliant strategy to outperform Adidas and dominate the Olympics. Here’s the full story:

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"Confucian iconoclasm reappropriates elements of the antitraditional discourse of modernity to its own ends, but in such a way as to challenge the Eurocentric conceptions of modernity promoted by May Fourth intellectuals and elevate its own Confucianism—in a way that is nearly as

Australian breakdancer ‘Raygun’ is being accused of ‘rigging’ her way to the 2024 Olympics 😳 A thread 🧵

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"Reconfiguring Racial Capitalism" by Mingwei Huang is an ethnography of Chinese capitalist projects in Johannesburg that traces the development of new forms of racial capitalism in the twenty-first century. Read the intro for free now: ow.ly/i8kV50T6rlH

The new issue of MIC is out! In it, we focus on what remains of cultural differences at the end of the dream of communist pluralism and ethnic autonomy and on how Blackness has been imagined, defined, or practiced in Chinese history. Download for free at madeinchinajournal.com/2024/08/27/ben…

Raygun apologises to Australian breakdancing community bbc.in/3XuwBlp

JUST IN - Germany to welcome 250,000 "skilled and semi-skilled Kenyan workers" in labor deal — BBC

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self promo time: re-circulating my old take on the long history of racist imperialist liberalism in Sinophone dissident intellectual culture led to 2000s Liu Xiaobo madeinchinajournal.com/2022/03/08/fro…

President Xi Jinping today met with China's leading private tech giants, including Alibaba's Jack Ma, Huawei's Ren Zhengfei, BYD's Wang Chuanfu, Xiaomi's Lei Jun, DeepSeek's Leung Man Fung and Unitree Robotics' Wang Xingxing.

🚨Free access to some articles to commemorate #InternationalWomensDay! 🟪In 2017, MariaAloyMayo & Maite Taboada analysed news on #womensrights & politics in Cosmopolitan. 🟣Applying Appraisal theory, they identified different layers of attitude. 🔗bit.ly/4kytCSs

Now THIS is the 'decolonisation' book I wanted to see in existence, & read - thanks Simin Fadaee

JUST IN: 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chinese government praises American streamer IShowSpeed for promoting positive US-China relations during his visit to China.

[Rekaman Diskusi] Mother, Border, Other: Third World Internationalism & the Politics of Motherhood bersama Taomo Zhou 周陶沫 …51966perpustakaanonline.wordpress.com/2022/11/23/thi…

I'm an anthropologist, so I prefer ethnography to surveys, and, one of my favorite ethnographies about love is by Laura Ahearn on love letters in Nepal