In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ

What happens when borders reopen? In our world of walls and tighter migration controls, Central Asia's experiences offer some hope and sanity. Our research on this has just been assigned an issue and page range so no reason not to cite it accurately now :-) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Rozafa Berisha's & Claudia Eggart's edited collection "Locating the geopolitical. Ethnographies of contact zones" explores how people across various contexts actually align the most intimate aspects of their lives to various geopolitical configurations. Really timely, really hot stuff!

New publication in @cpcs.bsky.social. In it, I ask: Who gets to define the legacy of the Russian 1990s? Former shuttle traders challenge official trauma narratives, emphasizing agency, material gains, and the moral complexities of capitalism. OA for 2 more weeks here: shorturl.at/PSGXp

📢 We are pleased to announce this new series "Locating the Geopolitical"! It includes four articles and an introduction, each elaborating the anthropological specificities of geopolitical phenomena.

In this new series on 'Locating the Geopolitical' we argue that anthropology is particularly well equipped to study the geopolitical - not as an abstract domain of global affairs, but as something co-produced and rendered meaningful from within concrete locations and experiences. shorturl.at/yOLYQ

I agree + amazing summary of a very powerful discussion @Spore

People in Bishkek, come over! www.instagram.com/p/DXYCo1eCFT...

People in Bishkek, come over! www.instagram.com/p/DXYCo1eCFT...

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our SI in www.roadsides.net/collections/... on "Markets as Infrastructures" until March 15!

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our SI in www.roadsides.net/collections/... on "Markets as Infrastructures" until March 15!

From ISRF fellow @ceggart.bsky.social: a CFA for a special issue that approaches markets as infrastructures in order to examine how abstraction and materiality are not opposites but rather mutually sustained through social, technical, and political labour. More details below 👇

I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

A thoughtful and damning analysis of my new article “Jackhammering into the Sewer”, on Epstein and deep corruption: eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...

Save the date! Feb 24th, Global Initiatives Grant webinar. Register for 10 AM: buff.ly/SVMb2N8 Register for 8PM: buff.ly/JD3jtX3

Hurray, it's official! The amazing ISRF supports the work on my book: ’Lived Geopolitics. Re-scaling Market Infrastructures in Odesa and Bishkek from Soviet Collapse to Backlash Imperialism’ isrf.org/people/claud.... From September 25, I'll be at ZMO in Berlin to dive into this daunting task

Das dt. Wissenschaftssystem setzt auf künstliche Verknappung von Wertschätzung: Leute kleinhalten. Ihnen suggerieren, nichts zu können. Nahelegen, sie müssten dankbar sein, sogar für miese Bedingungen. So lassen wir uns alles Mögliche gefallen. Deshalb: Lobt einander, was das Zeug hält! #IchBinHanna

Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵

Had a great time presenting our ongoing collaborative research with Sandra Parvu (ENSA Paris Val de Seine) on "Transport Geopolitics in the Lower Danube Borderlands" at New Europe College in Bucharest yesterday! Huge thanks to NEC for the opportunity and support! nec.ro/events/trans...

Grateful to the Jordan Center in NYC for featuring a summary of my 2023 article, published in @europe-asia.bsky.social, called ‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia on their exciting and vibrant blog section shorturl.at/h9Q1V

Glad to see my article "‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ published in @ThirdWorldQ, vol. 45! Based on fieldwork at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, I argue that asking: "what works" instead of "how can it be formalised" challenges narrow views on growth & development. doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Hi, I am a social anthropologist, currently turning my dissertation into a book studying trading networks in Odesa & Bishkek in light of geopolitical change. I also explore infrastructures (material & imagined) in the lower Danube's borderscape. Hope to connect and exchange on a better platform.

We've made some additions with new people we've seen/come across. Let us know if you can think of anyone missing! go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

New starter pack on Russia’s war against Ukraine, and on Russia and Ukraine experts & journalists. Send me a private message if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/23BTWVx

Dear #CentralAsia crowd. Here is a first "starter pack". Please reach out if you want me to add you ! go.bsky.app/LXZM1qx

So happy to having passed my viva @UoMAnthropology, on Lived geopolitics @7km Market in Odesa and @Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek without corrections! Thanks so much to my examiners Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi & Elena Barabantseva and my supervisors Madeleine Reeves & Michelle Obeid.

Grappling with geopolitics in ethnographic research? Please consider contributing to our panel with Rozafa Berisha #EASA 2024 "Locating the Geopolitical" nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Important, honest & painful piece by Anastasia Leukhina, coordinator of #UNET @zois.bsky.social in the series „Ukraine voices“ @Carnegie Europe. A #mustread on #Ukraine & Ukrainians thinking beyond the wa