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JulietJFall

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Professor of political & creative geography at Université de Genève (she/her), Switzerland 🇨🇭 Hoping more academics engage around here, so tooting about work, but also sewing & yodeling.
English, French, Italian. Some German. #Academic #Geographer #Géographe #PoliticalGeography #GéographiePolitique #Borders #Frontières #CreativeGeography #VisualMethods #MéthodesVisuelles #Comics #BandeDessinée #HistoryOfGeography #FeministEpistemologies #AcademicsWithCats #VintageSewingMachines #Quilting

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There is the most amazing blue stuff growing on my very old branches on a neglected and damp woodpile (slime / algae / moss / lichen?). I’ve never seen anything quite like it! (Northern Tuscany, Italy 🇮🇹 ) Not ideal for burning & heating my old house, but aesthetically pleasing. Ideas, anyone?
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The same blue on a wider shot of the log
Mushrooms / funghi on the end of a log
Moss on an old wall

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@altlife @ak_text Isn’t it? I can’t get over the vibrant colour. I put it back carefully afterwards so that it stays damp.

JulietJFall, to art
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I have inherited an extraordinary archive of sketches, drawings, watercolours, & oils by my great-grandfather Albert Proetel (born Prötel, in 🇩🇪). He moved around Europe painting & married in Switzerland, setting up a studio in Lausanne. Never famous, probably suffered economically from being German in🇨🇭. His art has always been around on family walls. What on should I do other than just enjoy it? Some is framed, most in large folders.

Same style as previous painting, this one of a church in Sierne, Switzerland.
Same painter, for a view of the Swiss Alps, dated 1895, with wooden chalets in the foreground.
Same painter, with a view of a village and vineyards. Maybe Canton de Vaud somewhere?

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The tense negotiations between Swiss universities & major private academic publishers continues, with a no-deal situation between SwissUniversities, Elsevier and Taylor&Francis starting from 1st January. The budgets involved are insane and we urgently need new models for sharing public-funded research results. It’s just nuts.

More info here: https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/themen/digitalisierung/open-access/publisher-negotiations/elsevier

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JulietJFall, to random French
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Demain, je me réjouis de découvrir la dernière exposition du MEG Musée d’Ethnographie de Genève « Genève dans le monde colonial » jusqu’au 5 janvier 2025 où est exposée ma bande dessinée Cher Carl
Publiée dans Le Courrier, puis reprise sur le site de , elle a participé à relancer et nourrir les débats autour de la célébration de personnages controversés par des institutions académiques.
https://colonialgeneva.ch/

https://www.ville-ge.ch/meg/sql/memoires/6.pdf

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Could someone possibly suggest a way of exporting (my own) threads of posts from Mastodon as pdf? As I use posts here as a sort of very loose field research journal, it would be very useful to find an export tool similar to what I used on T******.Thank you so much! @mastodonhelper

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What a fabulous job our university libraries do, including making public-funded research available & searchable!

The University of Geneva has a superb Archive Ouverte where we must post all our written work, in whatever version (pre/post publication) can be shared.

https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/home/search?view=list&search=Juliet%2520fall

JulietJFall, to random
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The Merry Maidens in Cornwall, dancing on the Sabbath and petrified by the Devil. Or otherwise known as a late Stone or early Bronze Age (2500-1500BC) stone circle between Lamorna and St Buryan, in Cornwall 🇬🇧. Delightfully haunting site.

The same ring of stones, with a large one in the foreground

JulietJFall, to Facebook
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So, FacePalm is wanting Europeans to pay or continue to have our data stolen. Fair enough. If it removed the endless rubbish in the timeline and let me see my old friends & family’s posts then even 12.-Swiss Francs a month might make sense, but in fact it’s still going to be totally enshittificated…
Now, how to bring everyone over here?

JulietJFall, to comics
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A four-page comic exploring borders, home and belonging, in a special issue on Counter/cartographies in the journal "You are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography", ed. by Eden Kinkaid &
Cassidy Schoenfelder.
(Reference: Fall, J.J. 2023 Beating the bounds. "You are Here: The Journal of Creative Geography". Vol. XXIV; 22-24.)
Full open-access issue: https://lnkd.in/eG4z4zJC

Black and white line drawings of two people on a bike, and map outlines as background. Text: « BEATING THE BOUNDS » IS AN ANCIENT CUSTOM, OBSERVED IN PARTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES THAT INVOLVES TOURING LOCAL LANDMARKS EVERY FEW YEARS AND SWATTING THEM WITH BRANCHES OR STICKS TO MAINTAIN A SHARED MENTAL MAP OF PARISH BOUNDARIES. ARMED NOT WITH COMMUNITY BUT WLTH MAPS, PHONE APPS, GUIDEBOOKS, ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS, HISTORICAL TREATIES, BLOCKS AND FENCES, WE BEAT OUR BOUNDS.
Image shows a line drawn moveable fence with red and white plastic tape, as though stretching over a map. The state border is marked in red, and the part across the border, in France, is faded and hard to see. GEOGRAPHERS TAUGHT US THAT BODIES CONNECT THE GLOBAL AND THE INTIMATE. SO WE TRIED THINKING THROUGH OUR MOVING BODIES, MAPPING OUR CHANGING WORLD, EXPERIENCING NEW DIVISIONS AND CONNECTIONS IN THE LANDSCAPE. WE REDREW OUR MENTAL MAPS, FOLLOWING THE LINES.
Image shows two people on bicycles, drawn from the back, as they contemplate a closed road, barred by large concrete blocks. Lower down, a girl blows bubbles across a fence. The bubbles turn into red dots on a map, showing the closed and open border passage points attached to a no entry road sign. MAYBE WE HAD NEVER TRULY EXPLORED OUR WORLD BEFORE THE PANDEMIC. MAYBE WE HAD JUST TAKEN OUR MOBILITY AND PRIVILEGE FOR GRANTED AND HAD SIMPLY ACCEPTED THE LINES DRAWN ON OFFICIAL MAPS? THE CRISIS RESHAPED OUR LANDSCAPES TEMPORARILY CLOSING, THEN REOPENING, THE BORDER CROSSINGS. IT MADE US WANT T0 GO AND BEAR WITNESS. IN DOING S0, THE LINES REDREW US. THREE YEARS LATER, OUR BODIES ARE STILL BEATING, MAPPING OUR LIVES AND LANDSCAPES ALONG THE LINES.

JulietJFall, to geopolitics
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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

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We ended up in Thônex, just after a beautiful borderstone showing the Sardaigne/Savoie arms, and the Geneva key & eagle. Home for tea!

Borderstone with Geneva flag carved in stone, outlined in black paint, on a busy border crossing, on a main road.
The other (now French) side of the border stone, and the date 1975
A smaller stone, also from 1975, laid following a small border change linked to the construction of the large border passage point. A key point for commuters from France, coming to work in Geneva. Urban landscape, next to a metal fence, with the Salève mountain in the background.

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We then got into trouble traipsing across cross-border fields, ending up in someone’s garden, trying to accurately follow the line where it left the river. « We are just trying to follow the invisible borderline» not surprisingly comes across as rather odd to people who are wondering if the walkers wandering into their land are a) lost or b) burglars! To be fair, none of this really makes any sense, does it? Other than as geographical poetry of the absurd.

Another trace of a WWII memorial (on the French side) marking the gateway to freedom during 1943-44, presumably meaning access to Switzerland, but manned by occupying forces.
Man standing at one border stone looking through binoculars at the next one, in a field
A border passage point that is closed with a gate at night, in front of yet another 1910 border guards building

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All history was not erased. The city held on to other memories a little further down the street: Irène Gubier (1897-1995), a woman of remarkable bravery, member of the French Resistance during WWII, is remembered by her little cross-border house standing tall. It was used to transport people & messages during the war. She was deported by the Nazis to Ravensbrück but survived to live to 97. She is remembered on both sides of the border.

The simple stone cottage, with a border stone at one angle of the house. The house is in France, but the back door opens into Switzerland.
The sign on the house laying out biographical details for Irene Gubier
The little house seen from the front, next to the river.

JulietJFall, to random
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My 17 yr-old has pneumonia, as do two of my close colleagues. WTF? 😷

JulietJFall, to random French
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Très, très inquiétant…

“Victoire du parti populiste opposé à l'aide à Kiev lors des législatives en Slovaquie”

https://www.rts.ch/info/monde/14356184-victoire-du-parti-populiste-oppose-a-laide-a-kiev-lors-des-legislatives-en-slovaquie.html

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Back to Nuraghe Losa, on my way to teach in Cagliari (Sardinia), sharing the amazing Bronze Age sites with family, this time.

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From a few days ago, when I was on my way to Cagliari to teach, I visited the extraordinary 4000-3650 BC site of Monte d’Accoddi, a Neolithic site in Northern Sardinia, completed to the present form around 3000 BC. Fabulously intriguing, and apparently the only ziggurat-style structure in the Western Mediterranean. This island has so many layers of history, in this case with a hint of Mesopotamia!

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In the last few days, in between teaching & writing, I visited two more Nuraghic sites near Siddi dating from the Bronze Age, on a slight high plane above the fertile lowlands of Sardinia: one corridor-shaped (not the usual beehive dome style) at Sa Fogaia; one “giant’s tomb” called Sa Domu ‘e S’Orcu (i.e. house of the orcs!). Both practically empty in April & open to visitors to climb around and inside. Extraordinary places!

Inside, a man (my geographer friend & colleague Andrea Corsale, from Unica in Cagliari!) takes a photo with his phone, pointing upwards. The ceiling is about triple his height
Large tomb structure formed a truly massive rocks in a gently sloping facade, with a central door beneath a massive rock
Inside corridor about 1.5 meters wide and about 4 or 5 meters long where bodies were apparently placed. Some smaller niches to one side. The roof is slightly collapsed at the other end, allowing light to stream in

JulietJFall, to random
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There are always unexpected delights to spending time at a different university: ideas, mental space, new people & places. In Cagliari 🇮🇹 , I have been lucky enough to find a home two years running with two companionable tortoises wandering around and living on the large terrace. Watching them munch after a day of teaching has been an unexpected, meditative delight. They are so ungainly & awkward, to my limited human eyes. Long may they wander this earth!

JulietJFall, to geopolitics
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Happy to be presenting my book & comic project tonight at the University of Cagliari, during an interdisciplinary seminar as part of my Visiting Professorship.
As I've been spending the past few days translating the 'comic' section of it into French from the original English, and will be presenting this in Italian, it really makes me think about how language shapes how we think and write about the world, beyond images.

Slide showing the three sections of the book, 1. Locking the line; 2. Making the line; 3. Holding the line; each with a choice of drawing to illustrate the theme. The first shows a fence used; the second a hand holding a historic map; and the third shows workers laying a border stone.

JulietJFall, to academia
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Locked away in a grand old dame of a hotel up a mountain for three days with a fantastic group of geography PhD students & assorted dynamic colleagues from French-speaking Switzerland 🇨🇭& beyond for the doctoral training. Networking, building new solidarities, reaching out and exploring ideas and research methodologies. As always such a privilege to spend time with young scholars and lovely colleagues… but not even a single wisp of snow.❄️

Belle Époque paneled wood inside the Grand Hotel des Rasses, a beautiful but rather rundown building in the Swiss Jura
Moss on a huge cut tree
A ski slope overlooking the Alps with no snow at all, yellow dried grass, and a sign lying on the ground designed to be planted in snow saying the ski slope is closed

JulietJFall, to italy
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A cool spot of up in the Apuan Alps near the Grotta all’Onda — the “wave cave” named because of its broad limestone mouth — perfect for enjoying some cool air while escaping from the heatwave, in Tuscany 🇮🇹. A rock shelter since the Middle Paleolithic, and a lovely spot for a picnic today.

Two people disappearing into the wide mouth of the Grotta all’Onda, a cave site of prehistoric shelter high up in the mountains.
Standing inside the wide cave pictured in the previous image, looking out in the sunny woods. The image looks as though it is taken from a much cooler place than outside the cave.

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Covid cases on a rapid rise in Geneva, as witnessed by wastewater analysis (the only real tracking left), and candid observation in my workplace! Sorry, but I can't consider this to be "just a cold now" as many people around me seem to assume. Particularly as I've spent the past few weeks drawing a comic on the acute stage of the pandemic. It's still so raw.

Numbers from waste water analysis: https://www.covid19.admin.ch/fr/overview

M0CUV, to FiberArts
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Is there anyone following me who knows about adjustments? I’ve cleaned, oiled & de-gunked a low-end machine (HobbyCraft 19s; made by Silver) but the top thread keeps getting knotted up round the bobbin mechanism. Any ideas?

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@M0CUV @Fredatron Before doing anything drastic, I always change the needle (check it’s the right way round), try fresh thread of a different brand (some machines are snobs), rethread a different bobbin (some old ones have a kink in them), re-thread everything checking the manual (because duh sometimes I do something silly), and have a cup of tea & a biscuit. If it still doesn’t work, at least you’ve had a cup of tea!

JulietJFall, to maps French
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Superbe visite à la collection cartographique Elisée Reclus / Charles Perron à la Bibliothèque de Genève, avec nos étudiant•es de Master en géographie.

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