We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025). The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."

Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023. Honorable Mention Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.

If you’re a disappointed & disappointing ethnographer, this article may resonate with you: it’s about fieldwork and ethnography, drawing and the politics of writing, and well, performative success in anthropology. If you want to read it but have no access, drop me a message 💥 #anthropology

There is now an entry on "Humanitarianism" at @anthroencyclo.bsky.social (co-authored by me and @malayfiroz.bsky.social)! We worked to make it an accessible resource for readers unfamiliar with humanitarianism & anthro. 🔗 www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/humani... #Anthropology #Humanitarianism

In the time of twin transitions, a significant reminder to labour studies and labour anthropologist, "The trouble was I had my back to future – and this is the sixth ethnographic fallacy – studying the present as a point of arrival rather than a point of departure"

Happy to share my article “Vignettes from Athens: On drawing, ethnography, and being a bad anthropologist”, published in the Multimodal Ethnography section of Anthropology and Humanism. It is a bit of strange perhaps harsh one, full of disegnetti at least. #anthropology #drawing #ethnography

A new article from AWR! In 'Visualizing Transborder Lifeworlds in the Polish-German Border Region' Iepke M. Rijcken, @piotrgoldstein.bsky.social, & Maksymilian Awuah reflect on transborder lifeworlds using photography and sound recording as a research method.

New from AWR! Check out 'New Ways of Life: Cultivating Balance at a Tech Start-Up During Lockdown' by Lily Rodel

About drawing practice, wide board and Corbusier architecture in @otherwisemag.bsky.social. Thank you @letha-b.bsky.social for inviting me, it's a great honour! To all, Happy reading!

Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics make to their husband’s work and how those contributions are acknowledged? thesociologicalreview.org/podcasts/tha...

newbooksnetwork.com/slavery-and-... Our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social talking with Proshanto Dhar about his new book Slavery and Capitalism for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social .

New AWR article! In 'Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy' Johanna Mugler argues anthropological studies of work and education in de-industrial settings should examine the social critique of industrial work in concert with its aesthetic critique.

From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉 Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work

I’m happy I had the chance to curate this entirely graphic issue for @otherwisemag.bsky.social and work together with talented artists and researchers. Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do! #anthropology #graphic #storytelling

In this new AWR article, Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey examine how India's digital self-help gurus help cultivate entrepreneurial citizenship through the 'work of mourning', and the 'work of dreaming'... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deadline September 1st!

Calling all graduate students who do research on the topic of the anthropology of work (broadly defined)! You have 2 weeks to apply for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf prize. Details in the link below:

🚨 Call for Applications: Economic Anthropology is seeking 2–3 new editorial board members. ⏰ Deadline: 29 Aug 2025 ✉️ Apply: [email protected] 🔗 Details: easaonline.org/jobs-calls/c... Help shape the future of the journal!

Issue 3, on Surveillance and Care, builds on a discussion which began at @americananthro.bsky.social in 2002 to explore ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in ethnographic research and what we might learn from them. www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

“Un cerotto mal riposto sopra la crisi del fordismo, il turismo di massa è sempre stato descritto come la soluzione alla deindustrializzazione” ilmanifesto.it/senza-tempo-...

Wonder who is selling their soul to work at ICE? Here you go! Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the link!

“We believe that the weakness of all women is based on the fact that all of us women are wearied and exhausted at the very outset by the 13 hours of housework that no-one has ever recognized, that no-one has ever paid for.” Dalla Costa on why general strike should be broadened to include housework

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS! Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at [email protected].

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work” Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social #anthropology anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Please read the introduction to our current Special Issue edited by Giorgio Brocco & Stephanie Mauksch “Laboring from ex-centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work” which outlines why this Issue is so timely & important:

Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

Mutating out of factory, educational and community struggles, and incorporating the concerns of second wave feminism, Autonomia expanded its critical framework to include a systematic critique of all facets of life under capitalism: from the ‘factory floor to the factory of society’ as they saw it.

📢 The latest #OpenAccess issue of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has been published! Visit the @berghahnbooks.bsky.social website for more information: buff.ly/MYJ8PPk

The Mediterranean becomes a hauntological place, where the past is not simply preserved but persists as a spectral presence that informs and deforms our present enabling the emergence of historiographies and narratives that have been crushed and erased by dominant ones.

The latest #OpenAccess issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology from @berghahnbooks.bsky.social has been published! This special issue is entitled "Documents, State Affects, and Imaginings at Times of Bureacratic Impasse." Find out more: buff.ly/vujYJ1y

Anthropology at FU Berlin, one of the best SocAnth departments across Europe, is under threat at a time when we most need anthropology

If you're interested in the relationship between shareholder value primacy and trade unions, here's our podcast with @takisiliopoulos.bsky.social and @ggalanis.bsky.social for the #DemoTrans project: open.spotify.com/episode/5Brn...

💥💥💥Our new story “Training (sun)glasses is out!

The website that @cosminpopan.bsky.social has created for his new collaborative film is up and running! "Barça ou Barzakh" is an ethnographic documentary exploring hopes, risks, and resilience of Senegalese youth navigating the dream of Europe. CHECK IT OUUUUUT barcaoubarzakh.com

"For social anthropologists, The White Lotus presents a unique opportunity to engage with contemporary issues at the intersection of media representation, global tourism, and cultural power dynamics." Call for Papers on The White Lotus. Details👇 @easainfo.bsky.social

If you are into graphic novels and you are also into politics, you CANNOT miss this. It’s about Taranto and its all-devouring steel plant, it’s about class struggle, it’s about many other things and it’s beautifully written and it’s beautifully drawn. Go get it and hold on to your rage.

"Perché il fronte è manifestamente comune, è quello contro lo stesso soggetto non umano a tendenza accumulativa che si tinge di verde: è facile capire che, se chiude una fabbrica inquinante di semiassi, quei pezzi si faranno lo stesso in un altro posto con più sfruttamento"

Anthropology as a Feminist Project of Collective Practice Second wave feminism, or women's liberation, grew out of the new political energy that emerged in the USA in the 1960s. Movements for women’s liberation were a product of the social disquiet and dissent associated with US war in Vietnam…

“Creative citation—when done with care—is not only an aesthetic practice, it is a political one. It resists the extractive tempo of the neoliberal university, where ideas are skimmed, sorted, harvested for use. In such a system, citation becomes currency, and knowledge a resource to be mined”

Che gli incubi ci perseguitino ogni notte.

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT Somersault Gogol tells a story of words that blur into deeds. "The word we had to learn this week was defenestration" www.otherwisemag.com/somersault

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world... allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...

And there you have it: Israel has confessed, indeed heralded, its intent to complete the Gazan genocide. And the EU? Mrs von der Leyen? Our great and good leaders? They are consenting through a studied silence. 80 yrs after its defeat, Nazism in back. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

2025 Society for Anthropology of Work Book Prize: Call for Submissions @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-saw...

Europe's steel industry in crisis: "Hit by new US tariffs, the European steel industry has been hit by falling demand and intensified competition from Chinese overproduction. The viability of most steel plants across the continent is now at risk." www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

The latest #OpenAccess issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has published! This special issue is entitled "Documents, State Affects, and Imaginings at Times of Bureacratic Impasse." Visit the @berghahnbooks.bsky.social website for more info about the journal >>

The Society for the Anthropology of Work (@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social) is offering small grants for research on the anthropology of work. Deadline: May 15.

What’s happening Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation.