My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Dire situations in Indonesia right now. aje.io/x94hn1

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and it’s now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest That’s ok – there’s lots we can do in other ways 🧵1/

Post-Doc Announcement Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability 2026 Call for Applications Applications Due: October 20, 2025 Link: www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki... 1/

"We reiterate the urgency of the Palestinian condition and the role of Palestinian resistance in shaping global anti-colonial thought." Read more from J. Kēhaulani Kauanui and Ather Zia's introduction here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

ISEK 2025 Summer School is officially underway! As part of our Southeast Asia in Motion series, this year’s Summer School brings together students from SEA and the University of Zurich to collaboratively explore Zurich’s urban commons. #ISEK #UZH #SummerSchool #SoutheastAsiaInMotion #UrbanCommons

The Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative is accepting applications for a Visiting Scholar. Only a week left to apply! App Deadline: June 26th tinyurl.com/y64yh99k

Full list of brave people the Israel Occupation Forces have kidnapped in international waters today

CFA: The Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University is accepting applications for a part-time Lecturer in Southeast Asian History for the Fall 2025 Tufts Civic Semester! More details are in the image below. To apply, email a CV and cover letter to [email protected].

🌷 In what ways do scents shape our imagination, and how can we imagine the smellscapes of the past? Join us on 4 June for ‘Scent and Imagination’, a multidisciplinary symposium on the relationship between scent and imagination involving academic, artistic and practical activities buff.ly/r6dBLg0

As Gaza’s infrastructure is reduced to rubble, animals are dying quietly in destroyed zoos and shelters. Hadeel Farhat exposes this often unseen dimension of Israel’s war—where the destruction reaches every corner of life in Gaza. www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

Just try to process this.

Join @uhcseas.bsky.social for the panel discussion “James C. Scott’s Scholarship on Southeast Asia and Beyond” to reflect on the influence of Professor James C. Scott and his contributions to research and the field of Southeast Asian studies. May 5 @ 3:00 PM (HST) tinyurl.com/yc3dt8ah

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region. Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏 www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

Check this out! Great opportunity for recent PhDs #postdoc #AsianStudies

ETH Zürich insists that they take no side on politics, while we are aware that science and technology are political matters. What would their beloved Albert Einstein say about this? Well, we can read first hand his position on politics 👇 monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...

Donating to this. When profs are persecuted for speaking truth to power, we need solidarity. Palestinians are subject to a clear strategy of ethnic cleansing, and I don't want to work in a system where such facts are not allowed to be spoken.

📣 JOB ALERT PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de Deadline: 28 March 2025. More info here: www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po... Do get in touch with any questions!

2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

The Dept of Anthropology at UC-Davis is hiring a sociocultural anthropologist scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically-grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996