one of my PhD students (who is from #Myanmar) is working on exactly this topic - and his material shows that it only ENDED on social media. It started decades before via Buddhist leaflets, sermons, etc.
In #Nordirland kommt es zu Pogromen gegen Migrant*innen. Eine Politik, die #Migration als "Mutter aller Probleme" ansieht, trägt dazu bei, dass eine solche Stimmung entstehen kann. Wir fordern eine Politik der Vernunft, die auf Integration statt Ausgrenzung setzt.
All welcome!
Kneipenabend in der "Seekuh" in Konstanz.
Organisiert vom #Master " #Ethnologie und #Soziologie " der
@uni-konstanz.de
Wann? Montag, 15.6. ab 18.00h, Konzilstraße 1.
Vernetzen. Austauschen. Zuhören. Fragen stellen. Pizza essen!
"one of the most underexplored consequences of AI’s rapid expansion: the environmental footprints of the energy required to power it." - not if you ask indigenous and other minority communities bearing the brunt of it in terms of consequences and data centre placement!
unu.edu/inweh/collec...
unu.edu/inweh/collec...
JOB:
The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (HRW) is seeking applicants for the position of #Myanmar Researcher to investigate, analyze, and advocate against #humanrights abuses in Myanmar and related regional issues.
Deadline: 30 June 2026!
job-boards.greenhouse.io/humanrightsw...
#UN scientists: "... the global infrastructure powering #AI, could consume 945 terawatt-hours of electricity annually by 2030 – nearly triple the combined annual electricity use of Pakistan, Bangladesh, & Nigeria, countries collectively home to more than 650 million people" unu.edu/inweh/news/e...
"nominal control without durable state power" #Myanmar
asiatimes.com/2026/06/myan...
There is absolutely no benefit in using #AI in this context. You still do all the work - and then you get codes you would be getting anyway because you are doing all the work (aka Grounded Theory!).
The programme, however, gets all your data!