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Thrilled to share our recently published article by Yasmen Abuzaid, Dency Amalraj, and Lisa Howell on protests for #Palestine on the University of Ottowa campus, “Occupy Tabaret: 72 days of resistance and solidarity”: homefieldanthro.org/occupy-tabaret… @SANA_Anthro @JANA_Anthro

CFP: Anthro in Florida: Praxis and its Limits. Share widely! @SANA_Anthro @JANA_Anthro homefieldanthro.org/content/anthro…

Save the date!! The SANA 2025 Conference will be happening at the upcoming @SfAAnthro Annual Meeting. More information to follow! @HomeFieldAnthro @JANA_Anthro

Thrilled to share the following CFP. Please circulate widely! @SANA_Anthro @JANA_Anthro

We're back! Thrilled to share our final contribution to the Communities in Crisis series, @CourtneyCa51895's article on school shooting preparedness in Florida. homefieldanthro.org/2024/04/12/i-g…

Author Mãdãlina Alamã documents “the daily work that adults working on their recovery from opiate addiction, together with the specialized assistance of caregivers, put into creating possible and desirable futures.”

New essay in our Communities in Crisis series! ⬇️ Opiate Addiction as Crisis: Chronic condition or call to action? – Home Field homefieldanthro.org/2023/11/25/opi…

📢 SAVE THE DATE 📢 Registration is now open for the virtual launch of our 2023 issue, COUNTER/CARTOGRAPHIES. Join us for a celebration on zoom with performances and shareouts from our contributors! Friday, Nov. 3 at 9am Pacific. Register here: bit.ly/46M5PY3!

Sean Michael Muller is a PhD student in Anthropology at @Columbia. His research draws connections between addiction and deindustrialization by tracing how the opioid fentanyl becomes a part of everyday life in rural northeastern New York State.

Muller takes us to northeastern NY and explores “how crisis operates as a designation of failure and how its use as a diagnostic can obscure the legibility of a long and political history of the American dream.” 🧵

📣Just published in our Communities in Crisis series! Check out Sean Muller’s “Geographies of Crisis and Histories of Failure: Deindustrialization and Addiction in Rural America” 🧵 – Home Field homefieldanthro.org/2023/10/20/geo…

Alison Kanosky is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at @csuf. She holds a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her ethnographic research explores the impact of defense and carceral infrastructure on American communities.

📣New in our Communities in Crisis Series! Prof. Alison Kanosky explores the economic and environmental crises left in the wake of US military occupation. ⬇️ “Well, We’re Still Waiting…”: The Prolonged Crisis of Military Facility Closures – Home Field homefieldanthro.org/2023/10/18/wel…

…the emotional, economic and legislative complexity by which the state maintains authority and control even in its absence. Facing uncertain futures, Kanosky demonstrates how communities compromise on imagined futures in an effort to bring closure to crisis. 🧵

Kanosky offers a powerful ethnographic account of the economic and environmental disasters caused by military occupation and abandonment of territories in the US. Caught in the wake of this crisis of abandonment, the residents Kanosky follows describe 🧵…

It was such a pleasure working with the @HomeFieldAnthro team on this piece! There are many academic articles about hunger, but they’re often not written by hungry scholars. This is what it’s like to study at home, both in geography and context.

@AlishaBorck @AlishaBorck is a PhD candidate at the @univofkentucky studying emergency food programs and care work in Appalachian Kentucky. Alisha’s research interests include inequality, food studies, food justice, Appalachia, rurality, political economy, and economic anthropology.

@AlishaBorck Drawing together personal experiences of hunger, research with community volunteers, and critical food scholarship, @AlishaBorck insightfully highlights the challenges of doing ethnographic work at home. 🧵

📣 New in the Communities in Crisis Series! Check out @AlishaBorck’s essay on the “everyday crises” of hunger in Appalachian Kentucky. 🧵 ⬇️ homefieldanthro.org/2023/10/14/cri…