(Schließlich endet die Musik irgendwo zwischen geöffneten Fenstern, den digitalen und den echten. Ein Hubschrauber zieht flusswärts, dröhnt in Höfen und über kalten Plätzen und verschwindet schließlich außer Sichtweite, außer Hörweite. Gegenüber flackert noch einmal Bewusstsein durch die Wohnungen, Menschen verschwinden in Betten, Vorhänge werden zugezogen. Display erlöschen, zumindest die großen, deren Bildern man die Macht über die Räume, die sie umgeben, nehmen muss, dann und wann. Letzte Ausläufer des Tages, Augen werden kleiner, es darf für heute wohl an der Zeit sein.)
The Dutch government has “come to the conclusion that Bulgaria meets the conditions set for Schengen accession and can therefore agree to a decision leading to Bulgaria’s full application to Schengen”, deputy justice minister Eric van der Burg said.
The Netherlands and Austria have so far thwarted Sofia’s bid to enter the free-to-travel zone over worries the influx of asylum-seekers could grow if the Schengen zone was expanded.
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has long tried to positioned himself as an independent arbiter in global conflicts, now faces the uncomfortable possibility of having to mediate a crisis between Brazil’s northern neighbors Venezuela and Guyana. Escalating tensions over Essequibo, an oil-rich region roughly the size of...
Last day: The 30th Map 🗺️ of #30DayMapChallenge is "My favourite..." alternative #map of United #Europe 🇪🇺 of Circular states 🔵. Each circular state has a capital city radiating from the European Capital City in Vilnius, where it lays its geographic center.
I see this instance has a nicelong character limit for posts.
I have a Ph.D. in Human Science (2016, Saybrook University), which is about the experience of being human in social contexts. It is the mother of the social sciences but is now, at least in the English speaking world, and at least as far as I can tell, a dead field.
In #kyriarchy, I mostly focus on #classism and #ageism, but since arriving in Pittsburgh, have been confronted with blatant #racism (and yes, many white people here do see it). But #SocialJustice has to be for everybody; to focus on any one identity, to the exclusion of others, is nothing more than to elevate that identity over that of the predominantly wealthy white males who are now in charge.
Human beings have #HumanRights. These rights are not constrained by their governments' failures to ratify certain human rights treaties.
#Borders exist to mark off territory controlled by elites whose competition accounts for most if not all wars and to deny human beings on the "wrong" side of an arbitrary line rights and privileges available on the "right" side. This cannot be justified ethically. I am hostile to #xenophobia
Finally, I am pessimistic about the future of humanity. #COVID19 and the #ClimateCrisis demonstrate our unfitness for survival.
The European coastguard and border guard agency Frontex has announced that it will deploy 50 officers to Finland's border with Russia.
Finland will close all but one of its eastern border crossings with Russia, accusing the Kremlin of waging "hybrid warfare" with a migrant crisis on the border.
It says the nation is encouraging and assisting migrants to approach the border posts and claim asylum - something that Moscow denies.
Want to see atmospheric yet often really mundane border photos? My online 🇨🇭🇫🇷 walking journal is moving here, as I’m enjoying this new online atmosphere. (I’m freezing new posts on Twatter & just ‘name-holding’ my account.)
Link to last post on one of the longer earlier threads: https://twitter.com/julietjfall/status/1571476764269871104?s=46&t=9RfIT2qARWZk8ZBEIES9Vw
More archive work today, seeing the original documents & accompanying maps of the Treaty of Turin establishing part of what is now the 🇨🇭🇫🇷state border, formerly Geneva & Savoie/Sardinia. Just gorgeous to see it in person, and wander across the pages. Although these docs have been scanned, seeing them in person and gazing at them at an angle, allows you to see the amazing artistry (those little tree shadows!). #oldMaps#visualMethods#visualArchives#Geography#politicalGeography#borders
We wandered on along a charming path in the evening sun, enjoying the usual mix of contrasting landscapes on either side of the line: small villas on the Swiss side & rather charmless apartment blocks in France. I love spotting the immediately-recognizable former border posts, often now converted, built in the 1920s & mostly designed by Marc Camoletti: the architect who built the Musée d’Art et d’Histoire. #localHistory#architecture#borders#frontières#borderWalk#douane#visualEthnography
Term-time is ended, the archives are closed, and we are back outside celebrating the beginning of the holidays by walking! Walking the wiggly borderlines along the Foron river, where the border is unusually not in the middle of the stream but along the right (Swiss) bank. France has full rights over the water. Interestingly, 🇨🇭and 🇫🇷 haven’t formally agreed on the exact location of the border here and discussions are ongoing. #Borderwalk#geography#borders#frontières#visualMethods
My, my, guess what we’ve been doing today for a blissfully sunny & warm Boxing Day? Unseasonably warm, but just perfect for hopping across and along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷 border, this time near Jussy. Four hours to walk from border stones 120 to 155, and back to the starting point, with two extra bonus old ones incongruously moved from elsewhere & reused rather oddly to mark the entrance to a property. #BorderWalk#borders#geography
This stretch of our long ongoing border walk saw us traipsing along paths, mostly on the Swiss side, and sometimes crossing muddy fields, digging in brambles looking for border stones and wandering in unexpected stretches of mossy woods as we traced our way along the 🇨🇭🇫🇷border. This was an old section of the border of what was the Mandement de Jussy, belonging to the city of Geneva before the canton was made into one contiguous unit in 1815. #BorderWalk#geography#borders#frontières#mosstodon
Lula Reluctantly Adopts Mediator Role in Venezuela-Guyana Crisis (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has long tried to positioned himself as an independent arbiter in global conflicts, now faces the uncomfortable possibility of having to mediate a crisis between Brazil’s northern neighbors Venezuela and Guyana. Escalating tensions over Essequibo, an oil-rich region roughly the size of...