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** The #ICC is opening war crimes cases against #Russia -- so why isn’t the #USA helping? **
Read my @latimes op-ed to find out…
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
** The #ICC is opening war crimes cases against #Russia -- so why isn’t the #USA helping? **
Read my @latimes op-ed to find out…
latimes.com/opinion/story/…
#AtrocityCrimes: Like others, U.S. politicians have decried Russia’s atrocity crimes in #Ukraine. President #Biden called it a #genocide. VP Harris recently said the U.S. has determined Russia has committed #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…
theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…
#Investigations: And the U.S. is already helping Ukraine investigate these crimes. While Ukraine is already holding trials of Russians, it wants the ICC involved. But the @nytimes reports the Pentagon is blocking this – why?
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/…
nytimes.com/2023/03/08/us/…
As well as immune troubles, neurological damage, cardiovascular accidents, and on and on. Nice to see #anthrotwitter waking up a bit to the Covid dimension of reality.
Because yeah really, we got a lot of nice quarantine journals, and some medical anthropologists have been involved in government responses in 2020-2021. But Covid wasn't just an event; the situation has changed, and until now, anthro ppl haven't been up to it.
The main reason I more or less stopped relaying Anthronews is because I felt it was so out of touch with this emerging, urgent aspect of reality.
Actually, this is not surprising once you've read Christina Garsten and Adrienne Sörbom ethnographic account on WEF's role in globalizing risks and catastrophes roadmaps for public as well as private administrations
sup.org/books/title/?i…
#anthrotwitter #DavosStandard
sup.org/books/title/?i…
#anthrotwitter #DavosStandard
Woops, posting it again.
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Basically, their ethnography is about mapping WEF's role in the global apparatus of governance, which includes both private and public oversight, although it is often done at the cost of basic democratic accountability.
sup.org/books/title/?i…
Basically, their ethnography is about mapping WEF's role in the global apparatus of governance, which includes both private and public oversight, although it is often done at the cost of basic democratic accountability.
What this means is that the WEF is at the forefront in both doing the job of mapping threats and risks, and in selecting "entrepreneurs", whether they be public or private, that understand these threats as opportunities in furnishing solution-based answers.
A list of some texts that I love by mentors and academics I admire for no particular reason at all đź‘€:
#AnthroTwitter #SexualityStudies #ParticipantObservation #Ethnography
#AnthroTwitter #SexualityStudies #ParticipantObservation #Ethnography
“Queer Activism in India
A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics” by Naisargi Dave
dukeupress.edu/queer-activism…
A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics” by Naisargi Dave
dukeupress.edu/queer-activism…
“After Love; Queer Intimacy and Erotic Economies in Post-Soviet Cuba” by Noelle M Stout
dukeupress.edu/after-love
dukeupress.edu/after-love
So excited to see the spotlight on Dr Khiara Bridges and her anthropological work on reproduction, how reproductive justice must always be intersectional. Here is a thread of other ethnographies on reproduction, race & gender I would recommend 🧵 
Coercive reproductive policies have historically been used as a tool of imperial power to forcibly sterilize communities of color, often in the name of “public health sanitation.”
These policies are predominantly targeted at women of color. This has led to the use of unsafe contraceptives in poor communities of color, medical racism, and the unethical experimentation on people of color in the name of maternal and child health and “protection.”
To those junior scholars having to spend multiple days on "zoom campus visits" first a big bravo, you are all doing a fabulous job in horrible circumstances! A few very small words of advice (see next threads) #academic twitter #anthrotwitter
1) Before you jump into the screen share provide a conversational intro (3-5 mins) to how you came to the project you are going to present and why it matters to you, what ideas are most important to you as a scholar right now beyond your project itself; then start the slides
2) Avoid putting transcriptions conversations/quotations on to your slides; maybe use images instead or some themes or provocations from the quotes you read in your text rather than the quote itself.
Hi #anthrotwitter, I'm looking for recs on ethnographic works focused on "helpers" - broadly defined, as they navigate issues of morality, deservingness, care, justice, il/legality in their work with the populations they help/serve.
Specifically, I'm beginning to think in earnest about a second project focused on immigrant "helpers" and how they perceive these issues in their work with im/migrants with different legal statuses. I want the "helpers" to be the focus of the ethnographic work.
I'd take examples from other arenas, ie. development, health, etc. Would also take non-anthro stuff, though I do want to start with works that take a reflexive, experiential approach to the work of these "helpers." I also see this category of helpers as distinct from "activists"
Sunday Word Cloud!
Environmental, Will, Imperial
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/08/01/env…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #academia #anthropocene #architecture #bookreview #climatechange #globalhistory #histreligion #puertorico #science #anthrotwitter #animalstudies #STS
Environmental, Will, Imperial
jessicamdewitt.com/2021/08/01/env…
#envhist #envhum #history #twitterstorians #academia #anthropocene #architecture #bookreview #climatechange #globalhistory #histreligion #puertorico #science #anthrotwitter #animalstudies #STS
"environmental"
"will"
If I were to pick one constantly reiterated assertion that has done the most to limit anthropologists' understanding of publishing, or of what it might take to pursue different models or forms of publishing, it's this one. #anthrotwitter
Wiley doesn't just profit: the majority of that profit goes back to the AAA & its sections, which in turn funds some of the editorial labor & other activities. Wiley is also undertaking the work of making scholarship readable, findable, placed in a particular info system, etc.
The real complain (+ others) is that Wiley charges too much for its services, which scholars benefit from & have come to expect, even when they have little sense of what is involved. And "digital" has added another layer of abstraction to these services. eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/19432
Also @RobGMacfarlane's landmark book would never have worked if it had been called The Very Specific And Limited Old Ways
ditto Howard's Very Specific And Limited Way
Here's a thread of some articles surrounding these topics from the @culanth archives! All free and open access! Any other ideas, #AnthroTwitter, #ClimateTwitter?
This 2017 article by Sarah Vaughn details the epistemic politics that shape the climate adaptation of sea defense in Guyana.
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
In this article from 2018, Jason Cons explores recent development projects that seek to instill resilience in populations likely to be severely impacted by climate change.
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…
Sometimes we all need a little lift in the weirdness of these times, #AnthroTwitter & #AcademicTwitter, so:
What's a recent (today, yesterday, this past week) small victory of yours?
Can be as small as you want!
Comment below!👇
#HumpDayMotivation
What's a recent (today, yesterday, this past week) small victory of yours?
Can be as small as you want!
Comment below!👇
#HumpDayMotivation
e.g. me (Adam) yesterday: 200 words on the page after struggling to write!
Also maybe now's not the time to share...that's cool too!
🙌Hi everyone, @afleisch_anthro back on the accounts this week! 🙌
This joke format's a bit passé at this point, but I did have one about tenure track positions in U.S. anthropology. Unfortunately, only 21% of anthropology PhDs will get it...
#AnthroTwitter
This joke format's a bit passé at this point, but I did have one about tenure track positions in U.S. anthropology. Unfortunately, only 21% of anthropology PhDs will get it...
#AnthroTwitter
Nothing like millennial dark jokes about the jobs crisis in academic anthropology to get your week started! /s
Wishing you a week full of small successes, etc.!
FYI this number came from 2 separate studies published in 2018, one of them here at CulAnth:
culanth.org/fieldsights/ac…
Wishing you a week full of small successes, etc.!
FYI this number came from 2 separate studies published in 2018, one of them here at CulAnth:
culanth.org/fieldsights/ac…
And Speakman et al. published in PLOS ONE in 2018, "Market share and recent hiring trends in anthropology faculty positions:"
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
While #anthrotwitter isn't always rosy, we have to ask: what's happening in @AmericanAnthro's Communities listserv? As anthropologists, we can examine peoples' practices and explore their broader meanings; pls add ethnographic data to this thread so we can understand these people
A couple of ironic bits about the Harper's letter: 1. they are condemning ... the very thing they are supporting .... speech. They want controlled speech without consequence. That's just not how speech works. Enough people pipe up, there are consequences harpers.org/a-letter-on-ju…
2. I am against government censorship of speech. It is good to be confronted with some degree of diversity of opinion and difference. But liberalism ideology around speech & free speech is often damn naive and needs an upgrade and Harper's letter clings to the naive version.
3. Speech has consequences. That's why things happen with words. That's why Aristotle identified rhetoric as a powerful weapon. That's why speech can wound. That's why people fight against hate speech. That's why we change our norms around speech.
En antropologĂa existen varios protocolos cuando alguien “acompaña” en trabajo de campo a la antropĂłloga/ al antropĂłlogo. Las personas/ interlocutores deben saber para quĂ© está la persona que acompaña porque se trastocan los resultados #AnthroTwitter
El trabajo de campo no es un “paseo” para ver quĂ© dicen los interlocutores. La presencia de un acompañante o varios, como menciono, tiene que ser explĂcito en los protocolos de investigaciĂłn y resultados #AnthroTwitter
Lo anterior, dicho de manera muy sintĂ©tica, son buenas prácticas en antropologĂa de quien lleva a cabo trabajo de campo (investigaciĂłn) y deben ser explĂcitas, en especial por lo delicado del tema y para saber de quĂ© forma participaron los interlocutores #AnthroTwitter
Show us your #Distribute2020 setup!
@AndreaMuehleba1 @mayanthileilani @arjshankar @GabrielDattatre - We all want a behind the scenes look at your 24/7 participation situation.
#AnthroTwitter #VirtualConference @SocietyVisAnth
@AndreaMuehleba1 @mayanthileilani @arjshankar @GabrielDattatre - We all want a behind the scenes look at your 24/7 participation situation.
#AnthroTwitter #VirtualConference @SocietyVisAnth
Join @yarimarbonilla, Junaid Rana, and @nargesbajoghli on May 8th @Distribute2020 as they discuss the imperial, racial, and labor politics of a global pandemic. How is imperialism unsettled in the era of the coronavirus?
distribute.utoronto.ca/groups/keynote…
distribute.utoronto.ca/groups/keynote…
And on Saturday, May 9th tune in for the #Distribute2020 Keynote with Miyarrka Media: "Making Worlds Otherwise" · "Hacer mundos de otra manera."
This video is an invitation to participate in the Yolnu art of connection.
@SocietyVisAnth @arjshankar
This video is an invitation to participate in the Yolnu art of connection.
@SocietyVisAnth @arjshankar
The @SocMedAnthro's Anthropology of Mental Health Interest Group has put together "a few recommendations for the moment, a Coronavirus Care Package, as it were":
[see the footnotes!!!]
amhig.medanthro.net/amhig-coronavi…
(via @EmmaLouiseBacke) #AnthroTwitter
[see the footnotes!!!]
amhig.medanthro.net/amhig-coronavi…
(via @EmmaLouiseBacke) #AnthroTwitter
1/ I’ve been going back and forth about sharing this, but with #hautalk making a return on #AnthroTwitter, I think it might be time for me to share my experiences with anthropology graduate programs. Long thread and content warnings for abuse and suicide.
2/ I’ve had four PhD supervisors so far. I’ve been afraid to tell people that for fear of seeming like a difficult or bad student, but as certain events become more distant, I’m becoming more capable of not taking these things personally.
3/ I applied for PhD programs immediately out of undergrad (a huge mistake). When I got an email from telling me that I’d been accepted to Berkeley to work with a star anthropologist, I thought that I was hallucinating (I had mono at the time).
1/17 Ever wonder how whiteness is privileged in the social sciences? #anthrotwitter #AnthroSoWhite [A Thread]
2/17 The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) surveyed over 41,000 anthropology syllabi. opensyllabus.org/result/field?i… @Beliso_DeJesus and I analyze it. Let’s see how many assigned-texts are authored by Black scholars…
3/17 In the top 1,000 texts taught in anthropology courses, only 9 are authored by Black scholars. Let's explore what they are, who they're written by...and what that says about #anthropology
Thread: Another overview amazing #Muslim *female* achievement.
Did you know the first university in the world was built by a Muslim woman approx 1200 years ago?
This is the story of Fatima Al-Fihiri (800–880 CE). #BadassWoman #twitterstorians
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Did you know the first university in the world was built by a Muslim woman approx 1200 years ago?
This is the story of Fatima Al-Fihiri (800–880 CE). #BadassWoman #twitterstorians
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2. Daughter of a wealthy businessman, the family moved from Tunisia to Fez, Morocco during the rule of King Idriss II. When both her husband and father died, Fatima and her sister inherited a fortune.
They chose to spend their inheritance on building educational institutions.
They chose to spend their inheritance on building educational institutions.
Crash course: I teach a paper called 'The Anthropology of Evil' at @Otago. It just got very real. This thread will unpack some ideas from the course in relation to the #ChristchurchTERRORISTattack. Questions, not answers. #anthropology #anthrotwitter #ChristchurchMosqueAttack [1]
When the world is shattered, human meaning-making kicks in fast. We try to 'locate' evil within existing worldviews, including theological, secular, and academic. We collectively ask what/who/where, & WHY?! This gives us the social resources to assign blame, prescribe action. [2]
What is 'evil'? An inherent quality of a person? Their intention/motivation? The action itself? The consequences of the action? Watch how the media and legal system frames this for #ChristchurchTerrorAttack. And what about a white supremacist who has never committed violence? [3]
Hey #anthrotwitter, we compiled a list of #anthropology and anthro-adjacent #podcasts. Read to the end, it's good all the way down.
Share widely! If we missed some, let us know & we'll add them. @AmericanAnthro @JasonAntrosio @anthroworks @EASAinfo #humanitiespodcasts #scicomm
Share widely! If we missed some, let us know & we'll add them. @AmericanAnthro @JasonAntrosio @anthroworks @EASAinfo #humanitiespodcasts #scicomm
.@thisanthrolife Crowdsourcing the Human Condition.
Contra* from @criticaldesignl, a podcast about disability, design justice, & the lifeworld.
@AnthroAlert, bridging the gap between academic & applied anthropology, providing an anthropological perspective to current events.
Contra* from @criticaldesignl, a podcast about disability, design justice, & the lifeworld.
@AnthroAlert, bridging the gap between academic & applied anthropology, providing an anthropological perspective to current events.
.@sfaapodcasts, sessions from the annual meetings of the society for applied anthropology.
@survivesocpod, every ep we each pick a topic that has made us angry, & talk about why it matters from a sociological perspective. survivingsocietypodcast.com
@survivesocpod, every ep we each pick a topic that has made us angry, & talk about why it matters from a sociological perspective. survivingsocietypodcast.com
