Anthropology of Global Inequalities Research Group

Visa: Backway to Europe Episode One Backway to Europe: Talking Borders and Migration with Gambians on the Move by Viola Castellano Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It

Thrilled to share Viola Castellano's launch of the podcast Backway to Europe (Allegra Lab). An excellent opportunity for approaching (hi)stories of migration through an evocative ethnographic narration. Episodes can be accessed for free here: soundcloud.com/allegra_lab/...

VISA - Allegra Lab Backway to Europe is a podcast series produced in collaboration with Gambian advocates and activists. It centers their analyses of the border regime

My friend Viola Castellano just launched her podcast series on irregular migration from Gambia to Europe, recorded with Gambian activists. I learned a lot from the first episode, you can too!

allegralaboratory.net/visa/

Looking for work in #anthropology published #openaccess? Try these journals: www.antropologi.info/links/Main/J...

From Sunday to Wednesday, Cinema Africa returns to Cineplex Bayreuth with an exciting line-up of African films, starting with a Mozambican feature plus live musical performances to open the festival. 🎟️ Tickets are available via the Cineplex website/app and at the box office.
See you at the movies ✨

Anthropologe über Ethnonationalismus: „Rassismus ist ein modernes Phänomen“ Mihir Sharma forscht zum politischen Leben des Begriffs „white working class“ und zeigt, wie die Kategorie „weiß“ konstruiert wird.

Mihir Sharma über deutschen Ethnonationalismus in der @taz.de: taz.de/Anthropologe...
@dgska.bsky.social

The latest OPEN ACCESS issue of Anthropology in Action has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 31, Issue 3 here: bit.ly/4pE9Xlp
@juani-neu.bsky.social
@pinkydigital.bsky.social

🔊 Listen to a new podcast episode from the AiA editors here--don't miss it!: bit.ly/3NqLIda

I highlight how recent population genetic research, while aiming to separate science from politics, can inadvertently reinforce existing inequalities and (Hindu) nationalist ideologies, urging for a more thoughtful engagement with these complex issues.

(New Publication Alert) 🧬❗ In this chapter, I discuss the intricate relationship between population genetics and politics in India, focusing on the making of the categories "Ancestral North Indian" (ANI) and "Ancestral South Indian" (ASI).

Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Offener Brief – Der Bund hat die Pflicht zur Kolonialismus Aufarbeitung und Erinnerung

Hier geht es zum Offenen Brief: decolonize-berlin.de/de/pressemit...

Mitzeichnung über den Link weiterhin möglich!

Stellungnahme zum Stellenwert der Kolonialgeschichte in der deutschen Kolonialgeschichte 👇 wird gezeichnet u.a. von @hdilger.bsky.social @glasmanjo.bsky.social @noa-k-ha.bsky.social @mrothberg.bsky.social @rjmauk.bsky.social @patrickhege.bsky.social @he-mel.bsky.social @franziscaz.bsky.social

The exhibition will be opening today! We look forward to seeing you there over the coming weeks

Berliner Straßen und Plätze – eine weiße patriarchalische Erinnerungskultur ► Straßenlärm Wir haben alle Berliner Straßen und Plätze gezählt: Nur 9,92% der nach Personen benannten Straßen ehren Frauen*.

Straßenlärm hat alle Berliner Straßen und Plätze gezählt: Nur 9,92% der nach Personen benannten Straßen ehren Frauen*. Nur 13 Straßen in ganz Berlin sind nach nicht-weißen Personen benannt.

strassenlaerm.berlin/berliner-str...

📢 Join us this Thursday, 20 November, for a hybrid roundtable at the University of Bayreuth! Details can be found in the poster.
@unibayreuth.bsky.social @benjaminkirby.bsky.social @terrefebiruk.bsky.social @debele.bsky.social
#UrbanStudies #AfricanCities #Migration #AfricaMultiple #BayreuthEvents

Don't miss this event happening today! @unibayreuth.bsky.social

Join us now!
Global African Feminisms @africamultiple.bsky.social

www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/en/Important...

Boasblogs • Un/Commoning Anthropology This boasblog accompanies the 2025 conference of the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology entitled “Un/Commoning Anthropology”, which will take place in Cologne from Sept...

Check out the proposals for the handbook project discussed in today's panel “Accompanied Research” at: boasblogs.org/uncommoning/...

Am 18. Oktober 2025 von 14:00 bis 15:30 Uhr wird der Nettelbeckplatz in Berlin-Wedding feierlich in Martha-Ndumbe-Platz umbenannt.

Call for Pitches for the Highlights Section — American Anthropologist Anthropologists! Specifically, early career anthropologists! Queer, feminist, trans*, BIPOC, neurodiverse anthropologists, anthropologists with disabilities, those with working-class backgrounds, fi...

Anthropologists! 📝✨ The Highlights section of the American Anthropologist is open for pitches—especially from early-career scholars. Got a fresh take? Share your ideas with us!

www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

#Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social

📚 NAB XXIII (2024 Edition) is out now!
🖥️ Read it online: www.africamultiple.uni-bayreuth.de/pool/dokumen...
#NAB2024 #NABXXIII #AfricanStudies #AfricaMultiple #BayreuthUniversity #ResearchInFocus

@ksch.bsky.social is giving an online talk, entitled "We are all African! Antiracist projects and racializing practices in South African post-apartheid genomics" next Tuesday at 5pm BST / 6pm CET for the Human Genomics Without Racism (Hugera) lecture series.
More details below👇

I had the pleasure of being part of the workshop *Commoning Solidarities beyond Differences* at #DGSKA2025, organised by @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social and Olaf Zenker, with contributions from the Claudia Briones, Philipp Naucke, Samira, Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne, Şeyma Saylak and me 🙏🏼 @dgska.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sabine Netz for being awarded 2nd place in the prestigious DGSKA Dissertation Prize!
Her dissertation explores the role of age in relation to the legal status and living conditions of asylum-seekers in Germany. We're proud to celebrate this outstanding achievement!
#DGSKA2025

(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)

Out of Focus – the exhibition of the DGSKA 2025 – is now online!
The individual projects are now accessible and explore curatorial practices through sound, video, and digital media.

Check them out here:
agmedien.de/events/out-o...

#dgska2025#outoffocus

We cordially invite you to the workshop “Transnational Entanglements of Racial Anthropology: History and Legacy”, which will take place in Berlin and online on September 11-13, 2025.

See program, more information and online attendance links in our institute’s website (link in bio).

Hunderte feiern die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin Angekündigt, abgesagt, doch durchgeführt: Am Samstag wurde feierlich die Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße in Berlin eingeweiht. Kurz zuvor drohte die Umbenennung der ehemaligen Mohrenstraße an einem Eilantrag...

»Die Umbenennung ist ein Symbol dafür, dass eine rassistische Fremdbezeichnung für Schwarze Menschen, Menschen afrikanischer Herkunft, aus dem öffentlichen Raum verbannt wurde.«

www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1193...

Racist Berlin street name changed after legal battle – DW – 08/23/2025 The renaming of a Berlin boulevard to Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Strasse, after Germany's first Africa-born scholar, has finally happened despite a last-ditch legal attempt to stop it.

Racist Berlin street name changed after legal battle
www.dw.com/en/berlin-ra...

Our working group member Samira Marty is presenting her newest research on August 21 at the Ibero-American Institute. Her talk, "Poets in Times of WhatsApp: Nicaraguan Exile, Poetry and the Digital Sphere," will be hybrid.
Find more information via www.iai.spk-berlin.de/forschung/fo...

📣 @amanthro.bsky.social invites pitches for its new Highlights section, featuring creative, experimental, and critical work from early-career anthropologists.

Submit 200-word pitches to Armanc Yildiz: ayildiz@g.harvard.edu
🔗 bit.ly/3QhJKoF