CFP: "The Greyzone of the Green Transition – Environmental Inequalities in Central and Eastern Europe." International conference in Romania, May 2026. Keynotes by Stefania Barca, Erik Swyngedouw, and Andrej Grubačić. #envhist #envhum

“Contradicting this idea that feminism is no longer relevant, gendered rhetoric is now a primary mode of bolstering state power. Insidiously, feminist language is being reappropriated to justify the erasure of feminist ideas and feminist history.”

“Gaitán’s murder is the climax of the book, a death foretold, an event so compressed with hope that its explosion sent historical shrapnel in all directions.” In a new interview at PB, Greg Grandin discusses the execution of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. www.publicbooks.org/a-second-enl...

To understand the uprising and crisis in Indonesia, here is our selection of articles from ALR: labourreview.org/indonesias-u...

Carolyn Lesjak reviews Fredric Jameson in NLR 154: ‘In contrast to “the private lives of currently fashionable autofiction”, the works discussed here “try to write the collective, or at least register the crisis of the individual attempting to do so.”’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

Curious about mostly online our activist Anthropology MAs+PhDs? Sign up for the Sept 5, 4pm Pacific Time Info Session with our founding department chair, Andrej Grubačić: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... Train in Anthropology informed by methodologies from Anarchism to Marxism.

Brands Me and my marketing to gay friends: gays:

Refusal of business as usual saves lives.

Rest in Power, David Graeber

If “end-stage capitalism” were a single picture.

In our Societies Against the State course this Spring, we are studying the Kurdish Freedom Movement all semester! . Curious about our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up today to join the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

📹Subcomandante Marcos removes his mask! . Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology, including research in solidarity with populations in struggle? Sign up for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up here for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Time online Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... 📹Department friend @davidgraeber (RIP🖤) from davidgraeber.org on the Paradox of Sovereignty

Eyal Weizman 4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture+the Q+A, up now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfD1...

New Degree option just dropped! Looking to finish a BA? Maybe get an accelerated MA with us in Activist Anthropology? See link below for info on CIIS accelerated degree programs! . www.ciis.edu/academics/ac... 1/8

Wednesday! ciis.zoom.us/j/98062486957 Celebrate David Graeber’s birthday with us! 4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture with Eyal Weizman. Bookmark the above Zoom link. . “Conditions of Life Calculated...” on the Gaza Genocide 1/10

IWW Bay Area newest shop, APTP Workers are facing union busting tactics from management and could use your support! ❤️🐈‍⬛

APTP Workers encourage your support by attending the MLK event. Support the cause, support the workers! There’s no call for a boycott!

Rojava Under Pressure: Women’s Revolution As A Beacon Of Hope In Uncertain Times. See the full video here, now with simultaneous translation into English: youtu.be/gRBeoYolDOg

Anarchist methodologies in Anthropology. It’s definitely a thing: Scott, Clastres, Graeber. And in fictions of Anthropology, LeGuin. . What’s rare (maybe unprecedented?) is an entire graduate department like this. . Join us at the CIIS Spring Open House to learn more: www.ciis.edu/events/sprin...

Decolonizing Knowledge and Science. Breaking Isolation and Weaving Solidarity with the Universities of North and East Syria/Rojava Feb. 20 Symposium: csua-paris.org/online-sympo...

Direct link: m.youtube.com/watch?v=MQYG...

No more stop-gap solutions in northeast Syria. Time to solve the whole problem and make the Kurdish issue a matter of democratic politics on both sides of the border. www.kurdishpeace.org/research/con...

Starting at 9:25, my colleague Aras Yussef at the Kurdish Peace Institute's Qamishlo office explains how Kurdish communities are seeing the fall of Assad and advances by Turkey-backed militias. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The fall of the Syrian regime has created new crises and new opportunities in the Middle East. As Kurds in Syria celebrate the end of a regime that has rendered countless Kurds stateless and denied the existence of a Kurdish identity, language and culture… 1/5

💥Announcement! Thursday 12.12.2024💥 📜 Online panel - Rojava under pressure 📜 Thursday, 12.12.2024 | 07:00 pm | Live Broadcast Live Broadcast on YouTube Chanel: youtube.com/@kongrastar5... 📣 Call: asanb.noblogs.org?p=9625 - @ceni_e.v #b1212 #Riseup4Rojava

“Stand Up Against McCarthyism: Defend Mohamed Abdou and Palestinian Solidarity” . Conversation between @quiqui.bsky.social and Mohamed Abdou for @haymarketbooks.org . Watch this space for info on Dr. Abdou’s talks with us in San Francisco, early February. . m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuRp...

Balkan Federation, Anarchism, Zapatista, Rojava, Fernand Braudel etc. etc. Andrej Grubačić with @josefmuehlbauer.bsky.social Varna Peace Institute . m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq41...

“I fell in love with Rojava” . Andrej Grubačić with @sardarsaadi.bsky.social and Nazan Üstündağ for Rojava University . m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGE...

Islam and Anarchism! . Check out Mohamed Abdou’s latest on @plutopress.bsky.social . Abdou joins us for three public talks in San Francisco In February, 2025! . Part of our Visiting Scholar Series. . www.plutobooks.com/978074534192...

New edition, soon! “Öcalan’s works make many intellectuals uncomfortable because they represent a form of thought which is not only inextricable from action, but which directly grapples with the knowledge that it is.” —David Graeber author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

Check out the Palestine teach-in @quiqui.bsky.social did for us a year ago 🍉 m.youtube.com/watch?v=0P4k...

If there was one book that you would recommend to someone who is new to politics, but very keen to learn more, what book would that be?

Watch this space for info on the next David Graeber Memorial Lecture! . Here’s a link to the previous ones including the most recent, from @davidwengrow.bsky.social in the 2023-2024 academic year: www.ciis.edu/news/david-g...

More about our new paper here - interesting discussing how to express the diversity. In the end we went with freedom, following @davidwengrow.bsky.social and David Graeber www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

"Masterfully written... provides a superb analysis of exile and exilic societies." — Anarchist Studies Award-winning book on @ucpress.bsky.social press www.ucpress.edu/books/living...

Throwback to our department chair’s appearance on @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/categor...

Catch David Graeber+Andrej Grubačić’s introduction to this volume, reprinted in @anarchistlibrary.bsky.social, here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andr...

Throwback to our event with @defendrojava.bsky.social + @dsa-lsc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy L to R: Debbie Bookchin, Arthur Pye, Andrej Grubačić

Welcome aboard, #TwitterQuitter, check out this volume from our Kairos editorial imprint on @pmpress.bsky.social Oh, and use the coupon code “GIFT” for 50% off on all books and e-books! . pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

PM Press is an independent, radical publisher of critically necessary books for our tumultuous times. Our aim is to deliver bold political ideas and vital stories to all walks of life and arm the dreamers to demand the impossible. Learn more at pmpress.org

New issue of Journal of World-Systems Research, out now. An open-access peer review academic journal in the tradition of the late Immanuel Wallerstein, who popularized the phrase, “late-stage capitalism.” jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr

April 4! Ecology, Spirituality, and Religion together with @anthciis presents a talk by Dr. Manisha Anantharaman in the CIIS lobby. Pre-register here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Earn your MA or PhD in activist anthropology in our low-residency format! Two weeks per year at our San Francisco campus and the rest live online! . Train in ethnography in solidarity with populations in struggle. . Sign up here for the Info Session, Weds at noon PT: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

Earn your MA+PhD in our low-residency Activist Anthropology program. . Register for the March 27, noon Pacific Time info session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... . This is *not* a quote from department friend and influence, David Graeber! It’s an improvement on a Heath Ledger Joker meme!

Earn your MA or PhD in our low-residency activist Anthropology program! Sign up for tonight’s online 5:30pm pacific info session, here: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... . Train in ethnography with populations in stateless spaces and political struggle as co-researchers! #activist #gradschool

Monday and Tuesday! Two online talks with political exile Nazan Üstündağ! Use this one pre-registration for both talks: ciis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

An image combining art from our Kairos imprint @PMPressOrg books by Sean Michael Wilson and Janet Biehl with Rojava’s Social Contract from @defendrojava See more on our books here pmpress.org/index.php?l=... #socialist #graphicnovel