Cambridge and Boston folks, join us today at 3pm for the Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series as we welcome Professor Nathalie Peutz from NYU Abu Dhabi and Radcliffe Fellow (AY 2025-26).

The racial contract is technopolitical, and you can see all apartheids from space. More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA. Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi... Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert

A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for @scroll.in scroll.in/article/1087...

In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...

“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...

Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed

“Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...

Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Limn 12 Spotlight Series Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out. Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now. limn.press/article/pref...

Escape to the Country, by Sarah Besky & Yojak Tamang Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn #Himalaya #Tourism

Durba Mitra's fabulous new book is now live! Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!!

From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!) doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Read more about the issue's authors, including Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv, Koreen M. Reece, Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...

New article! Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability? @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social @harvardcmes.bsky.social

Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...

Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in @csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too! doi.org/10.1017/S001... cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social

Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.

Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago). ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 @UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

House Approves "Nonprofit Killer" Bill, Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act

Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...

Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster. 📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte... @labspeceth.bsky.social