4th of June at SOAS - the UK premier of Territory, a film about political brokerage in Sao Paulo directed by Telma Hoyler www.territoriodoc.com/teaserok-v2 @soasanthro.bsky.social

@soasanthro.bsky.social Masters students Jacqui and Phyllis visited me in my Sheffield Town Hall fieldsite. We talked about offices, fieldnotes and interviewing politicians for their film about the everyday lives of anthropologists.

Spent the weekend with a brilliant team of researchers from South Omo learning about access to education for agro-pastoralist communities in Ethiopia. #LearningFromSouthOmo

Great to see these South Omo policy briefs on health, education, culture and tourism, and land, livestock and livelihoods. Produced by our partners IPSS as part of a @soasanthro.bsky.social research programme bit.ly/4sNJrsC bit.ly/4qW2Gi6 bit.ly/3YLGUl8 bit.ly/4pOjcje bit.ly/3Nxuzi0

Mercy, Mursi but, sadly, no me (though I can join on zoom)

Vinayak weds Payal

Whoops

Landscapes of the Saal Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh

Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people. “Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London. Free entry. Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta 🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo

Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social

Remembering PhD fieldwork - me, Bhagtu and Helen in Chamba, H.P. sometime in 2002 or 2003. Sent to me by Vinayak Dhami (who was about eight when the pic was taken)

🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music

At IPSS in Addis where researchers from South Omo are sharing their learnings with an audience of academics, government representatives, and NGOs. Turning outputs to impacts #LearningFromSouthOmo

Sharing Learning from South Omo - a two day conference with members of agro-pastoralist communities in South Ethiopia. grnpp.org/agro-pastora... @soasanthro.bsky.social

Very excited about ‘Learning from South Omo’ - an exhibition highlighting new research from Southern Ethiopia. Doors open at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre this Thursday 16th of July. If you’re in Addis then be sure to drop by. And if you’re not, you can read about it here: grnpp.org/learning-fro...

In 2021 people in Sheffield voted to do away with the local system of strong leader governance; in 2025 the national strong leader says ‘sorry, people in Sheffield voted wrong’ @estrangeirada.bsky.social @emmacrewe.bsky.social

Happening today 5pm in B103 @soasuni.bsky.social Christina Noble talks about her life in the Western Himalaya and launches a new online archive of her photographs dating back to the 1970s www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Tigray landscapes

Had an amazing time at Adigrat University for a two day workshop on creative and collaborative approaches to the study of politics. @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social

Screening today at Adigrat University, Ethiopia: ‘Mugut - the wheels of democracy’ starring @andyksheff.bsky.social and the campaign to save Sheffield’s Rose Garden Cafe.

Morning in Tigray

Taking me back to my PhD research - Aniruddh Sheth of Centre for Pastoralism Research presenting on the political economy of reinventing pastoralism www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

Listening to the brilliant @laurahammond.bsky.social make sense of her academic journey to professor of development studies at @soasuni.bsky.social

Celebrating 10 years of Hope For The Future www.hftf.org.uk supporting climate and nature campaigns at all scales to succeed.

Coke bottles are a work of art. Ethiopian ኮካ ኮላ takes that design genius to another level.

I’ve been visiting schools around Omorate in the far south of Ethiopia englishpuhal.blog/2025/02/05/t...

The growing levels of Poverty in the UK should shame us all as revealed in the @jrf-uk.bsky.social 2025 Poverty Report. It is essential reading for us all and proves that poverty is a policy choice we can all change. www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2... @cpaguk.bsky.social @ukcf.bsky.social

Happening tomorrow in Addis

Huge congrats to @posnegorg.bsky.social and all involved in the excellent ‘Stories of Migration’ exhibition. @soasuni.bsky.social Brunei Gallery until 22nd March.

I’m back in Jinka in the far south of Ethiopia. With nothing to do today I went for a wander above the town.

“These processes [globalisation and free market capitalism] made us more similar by creating winners and losers in pretty much the same way across the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’ll start with this coz it’s new and it’s open access: Open Conversations about creative collaboration and Living Democracy eprints.soas.ac.uk/42856/