Lecturer in Colonial and Environmental History, University of Exeter (Cornwall). Historian of the Pacific and decolonisation, interested in anticolonial and environmental protest. She/her. www.emmakluge.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3mfjt57kd422kReally looking forward to this conference next month! See below for details. [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Feb 2026 14:06 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjt57kd422khttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3mbpkjzz2wk2nMy AHR review of @lydiawalker.bsky.social's States-In-Waiting is now live! I reflect on the book's methodological and theoretical contributions to global histories of decolonisation. Check it out here: https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/130/4/1766/8404809?redirectedFrom=fulltext&utm_source=authortollfreelink&utm_campaign=ahr&utm_medium=email #books #historians #decolonisation #globalhistory05 Jan 2026 23:07 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbpkjzz2wk2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3m4aeqd2eis27Looking forward to presenting at Birkbeck tomorrow! [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Oct 2025 07:07 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4aeqd2eis27https://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3m2tvgieris2zLondon friends: please come along to my talk in a couple of weeks. I’ll be talking about some of the ideas from my next project. Would love to see you there (or online)! [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 14:36 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tvgieris2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3m2tdfwjmxs2eIncredible article on the problems of citizenship in the aftermath of empire and refugees’ use of air travel to carve out a space for themselves between exclusionary and conflicting immigration regimes. [contains quote post or other embedded content]10 Oct 2025 09:14 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2tdfwjmxs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lwgpwloces25Today is the anniversary of the 1962 signing of the New York agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands, leading to the recolonisation of West Papua. In my Humanity article, I explore the events leading up to this: https://humanityjournal.org/issue13-1/a-new-agenda-for-the-global-south-west-papua-the-united-nations-and-the-politics-of-decolonization/ Message me if you want a copy!15 Aug 2025 11:13 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwgpwloces25https://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lwdwkptbrc2dOur historical narratives are often centred on land, but what happens if we shift our perspective to oceans? How might this shape our environmental and political imaginaries? Join us at @hass-cornwall.bsky.social as we plunge into the past to navigate new futures. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xqjTSVdGq014 Aug 2025 08:33 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwdwkptbrc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lvbfaqzp422pCreating a 'spare parts' document for writing I'm not yet willing to cut is still my most effective way of killing my darlings while doing revisions. Do I ever put these things back into the text? No. Do I need to pretend that I might? Yes, every time.31 Jul 2025 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbfaqzp422phttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lun27qg4yc2yIt was a pleasure to be part of this special issue on Petitions and Petitioning in Colonial and Post-colonial contexts. If you want to see the full SI (and check out my article on West Papuan petitions) you can find it here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/fich20/53/3?nav=tocList [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jul 2025 12:42 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lun27qg4yc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lqoumgravk2qExcited to be at #AAPS2025. The conference is to a great start with Rev Dr Cliff Bird delivering the Epeli Hau’Ofa lecture. Looking forward to listening to all the wonderful work happening in Pacific Studies across the region.03 Jun 2025 08:26 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqoumgravk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lqduujprvc2nMy article 'Papuan Petitions as an Archive of Decolonisation' is online and open access! It's part of an upcoming special issue on petitions. I explore West Papuan petitions written in the lead up to the Act of 'Free' Choice and the significance of this archive. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03086534.2025.2500357#abstract29 May 2025 23:32 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqduujprvc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3llitgxuxr22qYesterday’s #esshc2025 panel was such a joy. Talking about anticolonial mobilisation with the global history gang @riakapoor.bsky.social @sulinlewis.bsky.social and @emleake.bsky.social. Thanks to Anne-Isabell Richard for chairing and the audience for great engagement. Feeling inspired!29 Mar 2025 07:44 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3llitgxuxr22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lkt2lcg3hc2cReally enjoying being part of this conference! Such an interesting range of papers. [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2025 15:53 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkt2lcg3hc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lfwf2dtoik2oFantastic initiative for those hoping to publish in the Journal of Global History! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jan 2025 08:32 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfwf2dtoik2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3letq347md22dI'll be presenting on Pacific Decolonization as part of the panel 'Counternarratives of Postwar Decolonization' on Sunday afternoon with @lydiawalker.bsky.social and Nana Osei-Opare, chaired by @erezmanela.bsky.social and comments from @emleake.bsky.social #aha25 https://aha.confex.com/aha/2025/webprogram/Session25669.html03 Jan 2025 13:46 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3letq347md22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3letnlpl53k2fIn New York for my first American Historical Association conference! #aha2503 Jan 2025 13:02 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3letnlpl53k2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lbz6vnyl3c2fLooking forward to this! Our Cornwall department might be small but it’s so cool that we teach both Pacific and Caribbean history modules and bring them into conversation with the Environmental humanities. [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Nov 2024 13:39 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbz6vnyl3c2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/emmakluge.bsky.social/post/3lbz4mdmcs22fNew here! I’m a historian who expands global histories of decolonisation to include Pacific and indigenous peoples. I work on anticolonialism and environmentalism in Oceania and am increasingly convinced you can’t talk about one without the other (even though that’s what I did in my first project).28 Nov 2024 12:58 +0000at://did:plc:eeuecheflfib3mfjirsymdzy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lbz4mdmcs22f