Nick’s book “Homesick” comes out in a month! The book asks the question of how shelter became exposure in the US and what we can do about it. www.dukeupress.edu/homesick (discount code: E25SHPRO)
Some time ago, Ana Chiritoiu and I co-edited an SI on Anthropologies of Capture, in which we proposed capture as a generative anthropological analytic. Read our Introduction here and see if you're captivated (and remember, disagreement is also a form of capture!): doi.org/10.3167/sa.2... (1/6)
Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology!
actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Written 70k+ words of my
dissertation and now stuck on the conclusion.
Maybe I don’t know what to do with it.
Maybe I’m just not ready to let it go yet.
Maybe both.
Maybe neither.
Many folks internalize such ideas producing very real effects. You might want to checkout - I show one here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
A dear feminist science studies mentor passed on March 5. Have a good journey Sandra Harding. ❤️
Harding was UCLA Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Gender Studies, former Director of the Center for the Study of Women.
Link is an oral history interview with Sandra on her career.
"Bayer’s shares have declined about 80 per cent since it took over the US’s Monsanto in 2018." + over 5000 people were let go.
The curse of bigness in action. So much for the argument that corporate mergers are necessary to spur growth, create jobs, etc.
www.ft.com/content/38cd...
Could tech solutions for sustainable agriculture obscure structural violence? In-depth take on how blitzscaled climate programmes risk harm despite good intentions. #Sustainability #ClimateJustice
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
"What is Ramadan – and other questions answered: A brief guide to the Islamic season of Ramadan for the curious, the bored, the uninformed and the ignorant."
For my non-Muslim friends, and haters!, I wrote this guide to Ramadan and fasting almost 15 years (!) ago.
With the all the attacks on our community I thought I’d post this again. Might save a life.
I just sent some $$$ to Give Directly, which is giving cash aid for essentials to low-income families displaced by the LA wildfires. Please consider sending a few dollars, every bit helps.
Here is a statement by my colleague Katherine Franke about the end of her time teaching at Columbia. Please read it. drive.google.com/file/d/1i4cO...
Feels like a fresh (noise proof) start! BUT this is one more social media platform – will it become just like others (and successful?)? Does anyone remember Clubhouse? Only time will tell.
A starter pack for folks in STSFAN
Give me a shout if you want to be added, or taken off
bsky.app/starter-pack...
Could you please add me? Thank you!
Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list!
go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
Could you please add me? Thank you!
I had the pleasure of having @technofixcritic.bsky.social as a guest lecturer in my #EnviroAnthro course this semester. I highly recommend that you assign this paper! I have several well-intentioned students who want to go out in the world and "solve" environmental issues, +
That's so kind of you! Thank you so much!
Thanks for this! Pls add me too if possible.
Would you add me to the list too? Thank you!
Thanks so much for your kind words, Luísa! It was my pleasure to speak to your wonderful class.
