The introduction of our forthcoming special issue by Casper Andersen and me is now out: "Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Check the thread below for the articles as they are published.

I'm really excited to announce that the next article of our special issue. @bengohstoschool.bsky.social article titled: “Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Apply by 7 Jan to join our Malaysian & Malay World Studies community: - Tunku Scholarship for Malaysian PhD/MPhil students: caths.cam.ac.uk/tunk... - Philip Bowring Scholarship for any postgrads studying history/geography/culture of Malay World: caths.cam.ac.uk/bowring @lianachua.bsky.social 1/2

The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! View the TOC for this Special Issue on "Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility and Displacement," here: bit.ly/4qLWERG @lianachua.bsky.social @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social

New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱 www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

Looking forward to discussing Melissa Leach & James Fairhead's 'Naturekind' with @brambuscher.bsky.social , @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social & Rebecca Kilner this evening! Book launch at 5.30 pm, @pembroke1347.bsky.social Auditorium - lnkd.in/e8AzFxxy (Spoiler: it's goooood!)

CfP Political Ecology Conference Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation! @brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc

Leaving Cologne and #DGSKA2025 full of ideas and #anthropological excitement. Wonderful to see old friends and meet new people - and look forward to continuing the conversation on un/commoning!

Looking forward to our conversation on #more-than-human un/commoning @dgska.bsky.social...though I think (hope!) it's 30 Sept at 9 am 🙂

My take on the recent protests in Indonesia www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...

It's been such an honour and pleasure to run the #Tunku Fund at @stcatharines.bsky.social and work (+makan!) with our amazing Malaysian students. Click 👇 to learn more about our scholars and upcoming #PhD and #MPhil scholarship opportunities @cam.ac.uk!

1/ THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

rdcu.be/etL5R A really interesting, nuanced take on indigenous names for the #Tapanuli #orangutan: when does it make sense to use them, and when might more 'neutral' terms be better for their #conservation? h/t @peopleprimate.bsky.social

A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/06/11/s... #ethnography #drawing #sociology #anthropology #geography #creativemethods #research

📢: 3x postdocs on extractivism & animism in #SoutheastAsia w/Judith Bovensiepen's 'Resource Spirits' project @erc.europa.eu @oeaw.bsky.social. Great opportunity for #anthropologists of/from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines - incs fieldwork & conference funding oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/9imyjik1

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

The latest issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! This #OpenAccess special issue is entitled "Documents, State Affects, and Imaginings at Times of Bureaucratic Impasse." View the TOC here: conta.cc/4ijFFRt @lianachua.bsky.social

Job announcement #2! 12-month research & teaching Associate for recent #SocialAnthropology PhD grads @uniofcam.bsky.social - mostly supervisions and MPhil seminars. Includes mentorship & funding for conference/workshop organisation 👇 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50660/

Job alert! 3-yr #SocialAnthropology postdoc on #multispecies succession, working w/ Prof Rebecca Cassidy @uniofcam.bsky.social from Oct 2025. Lots of scope for customisation - see www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50699/

Welcome to the official Bluesky account for St Catharine's College in Cambridge or (as we're affectionately known) Catz! We look forward to sharing updates about our community very soon. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and TikTok.

📢Job alert - Associate Prof in Social #Anthropology @ox.ac.uk - particular interest in gender and sexuality, environment, race or religion www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

Talk by Prof Shawn McHale at Cambridge Uni! Friday March 7 17.00-18.30 GMT: "Peace, Violence, and #Buddhism: The First #Indochina War (1945-54) in the #Cambodian- #Vietnamese Borderlands" at Dept of #SocialAnthropology on Free School Lane - all welcome!

Really looking forward to this workshop that i'm co-convening on how to evaluate and engage constructively w/ #multimodal forms of #ethnographic expression! 'Ethnographic Expressions: Evaluating multimodal forms' 25-26 March 2025 at CRASSH crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745 1/4

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

I’ve tried to put together a non-exhaustive list of anthropologists on bluesky together. Did I miss anyone? Should I add you? go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK #anthropology #anthrosky

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.

✴️ Archipelagos (AES spring conference) ✴️ MIT, Cambridge, MA March 20–22, 2025 How can archipelagos & “archipelagic thinking” help us grapple w/pressing global challenges across cultures, geographies, climates, disciplines, & methodologies? More info here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/meetings/spr...

The #Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology's 2nd issue of 2024 is now out! Special issue on #Policing #Fakes by guest eds Julia Hornberger & Sarah Hodges, and the 2022 #StrathernLecture by Ruben Andersson @ox.ac.uk. All #OpenAcess - grab some ❄️ reading now www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

A brilliant new paper on conservation patriarchy - must be widely read: ‘We conclude that patriarchal norms and structures within conservation must be questioned and dismantled to make conservation more effective and just’ www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below

Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities! Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social

Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh

Looking forward to Wednesday's WHR Rivers Lecture at Cambridge University by David Scott (anthropology.columbia.edu/content/davi...) - 'The Provocation to Biography: Writing the Life of Stuart Hall'. Details: socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/whr-r...

Applications for the Tunku Scholarship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge Uni, are open until 6 Jan 2025! We support outstanding Malaysians doing PG degrees in the #arts, #humanities & #socialsciences. For more info: caths.cam.ac.uk/research/tunku. Please share!

We're new to Bsky. social. Give us a follow if you're interested in human-primate interactions. here's our website. human-primate-interactions.org

CFP Storytelling for Environmental Futures. Stavanger, Norway, 7-9 August 2024. Application deadline 15 January 2024. “Storytelling for Environmental Futures” wants to interrogate how storytelling about the future and in service of the future works. nordic-envhum.org/anest/cfp-st...