A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Tucson residents fought back against Amazon’s secretive plans to build a data center in the desert — and won. But now, in a blatant attempt to override the City Council and the will of the people, Amazon and the project’s developer is pushing ahead anyway.

"it's something to do" 🖤✨

Kevinismus

when a call for papers shows up in my inbox

"In other words, they argue that Holocaust memory, which was designed to prevent the worst, is being used to motivate and justify the worst. And they feel outraged — and betrayed." Dirk Moses thediasporist.de/is-holocaust...

lol! Make a guess 🙃

Isn’t this textbook colonialism?

The Heart of Whiteness Julian B Carter #NormNativity #Normal #Whiteness #Queer #History #JulianBCarter #TheHeartOfWhiteness #BooksSky #Race #Education UNTIL we understand how whiteness affects everything in this country, we don’t understand anything in this country. Growing feels good. Get into it.

Ethnologia Europaea 55(2) is out! The special issue "Delayed and Displaced Gifts" explores the many sides of gifts and gifting 🔗🎁 Read open-access here: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal... 🏷️ #gifts #gifting #ethnology #anthropology

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

💯. Refusal is generative. Ask Audra Simpson

It's out!🍾 I am delighted to announce the publication of our "Germany's History Wars. Contesting Memory and Identity Today" It is Open Access! 👇 You can download it here for free. www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

missed the discourse yesterday but, truly: the shootings were anti-jewish and antisemitic. jewish people were targeted during a religious celebration. period. what more information is needed? and the people trying to score political points against anti-zionism? SHAME.

“Whether or not a symposium like this could be held at a university in Berlin today: the fact that many of its participants felt they had to cross a border to speak freely – this is the real alarm bell. Germany would do well not to ignore it.”

Something incredible has happened - I was awarded an ERC Consolidator for my project titled "Racial Socialism: Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies". I could not have done this without my brilliant colleagues & friends, and my family, who all supported me in various ways.

Huge Win for Rümeysa Öztürk! “I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.” - Rümeysa Öztürk AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!

All these arguments about ‘better’ stewardship of stolen artworks in European museums and then this

And this says so much about everyone's beloved Trudeau's politics

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

By “sovreignty” he means “states should be weak enough so that billionaires like me should be able to treat them as feudal vassals” bsky.app/profile/lora...

Universities will keep sexual predators on the faculty because their "hands are tied by tenure." Turns out protesting genocide is all it takes to loosen those unshakable chains.

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

“Gaza now hosts the largest group of child amputees in modern history.” UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini says nearly 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza have suffered life-changing wounds in Israel’s war – and almost one-quarter of those are children. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/7eexx4

If you’ve been to graduate school, you should read Katabasis

New article out now: "Weaponizing Nature, Naturalizing Violence: Anthropologies of Ecofascism," a conversation between Chloe Ahmann, Mona Bhan, Alexandra Coțofană, Radhika Govindrajan, Julia Leser, Zeynep Oguz, Yuka Suzuki, Noah Theriault. #Anthropology doi.org/10.1111/aman...

Wasn’t Marshall plan white supremacy?

I'm reading some student essays and a student who never shows up to class wrote that the classes are anonymous, you never get to know your classmates, THEREFORE, smoking is a great way to get to know them. WHAT?

Tomorrow 👻

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

If you’re attending #AAA2025, join us for our paired panels, “Real Ghosts?! Not Metaphors, Not Hauntology, Not Derrida,” exploring ethnographic encounters with spirits, presence, and the boundaries of reality and experience. (1/4)

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Come work with us in Bremen and with Nasima Selim! Postdoc for #anthropologists with focus on #environment. www.uni-bremen.de/en/universit...

I found out that the podcast episodes I hosted for the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social got downloaded over 100,000 times 😱 I’m both proud and terrified at the same time.

"we received a large number of strong applications"

German Chancellor Merz recently complained about how the cityscape has changed due to immigration, making sure we understand that he’s unhappy with the visibility of non-white people in public space. A thread 🧵 🔗 www.dw.com/en/merzs-dis...

Congratulations to Ieva Jusionyte on being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow! Check out their 2018 article "Called to 'Ankle Alley': Tactical Infrastructure, Migrant Injuries, and Emergency Medical Services on the US–Mexico Border" #Anthropology #MacFellow doi.org/10.1111/aman...

This has been a journey! @christopherewing.bsky.social and I are proud to announce the forthcoming publication (with Palgrave) of "Reading Queer Media in the German Speaking World" bringing together the work of brilliant historians and German studies scholars working on queer 🇦🇹🇩🇪🇨🇭 printed media

Good morning #DGSKA peeps, come check out our panel, Who‘s afraid of anti racism, at 14:00 today! I’m gonna be talking about studying whiteness as an anti racist strategy.

(2/2) Other presentations include P059: "Un/Commoning Migration", P034: "Challenging Universal Rights with the Commons or Uncommons" and P011 "Common(ing) Values and Values In-Common". See you in Cologne next week!

Looking forward to attend this year's German Social Anthropology Meeting in Cologne next week. Members of our working group participate in P057: "Who is afraid of anti-racism?", P061 "Beyond Condemnations", and P001: "Commoning Solidarities Beyond Differences?" (1/2)

Are you following @amanthro.bsky.social? 👀

This is such a loss for the program and the university. Durba is a generous, intellectual powerhouse. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Out now! The boasblog: "Who’s afraid of anti-racism?" A roundtable explores anthropology’s colonial legacies, resistance to anti-racist initiatives, and how to build a discipline committed to justice and inclusion. Give it a look: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

We're more than halfway through 2025, so we're revisiting some of the most-read AA articles so far this year! First up is Alpa Shah's "When decolonization is hijacked" #OpenAccess #Anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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