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This book is hella good. Can't believe I haven't read it til now, seems like something everyone should read in college, even just to see research done so well

I co-wrote this piece with my brilliant students, Alice Devoy, Elena Gonzalez-Davila-Boy, Rojin Shirwan & Marie Vandermeulen @LSEHumanRights @LSEsociology on teaching with film, social reproduction, & refusal in times of horrific violence. Huge thanks to Shruti Iyer @anthrowork

🎥Severance Season 2 drops Jan 17! Dive into SAW’s @anthrowork “Exertions” Thematic Collection for short commentaries on Season 1, exploring its themes through an anthropological lens. 👉Severance Collection: saw.americananthro.org/severance #Severance #Anthropology #SAWExertions

🏆 we revamped our distinguished scholar award to a Distinguished Service Prize, to acknowledge the invisible labor that goes into creating community and institutions and our winner is Zeina Zaatari, Director of the Arab American Cultural Center (@ArabAmCC) @thisisUIC

This year I finally finished my book, Free Gifts, which will be out in August with @PrincetonUPress press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

@SarahBesky explores the unseen side of Indian tea plantations: labor, social reproduction, and the everyday acts that sustain these spaces. Workers' lives aren’t just about crops they're about care, community, and survival within systems of production. 🔗 bit.ly/49p69hr

2-year postdoc available at Tufts University, as part of a @MellonFdn engaged project on environment, labor, agriculture, commons, and education. Open to all humanities and hum soc sci fields, including anthropology and geography. Applications due Feb 1. humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral-f…

In our new issue, Gregory Hallin on professional wrestling & work: "Through consideration of a unionization drive in British pro wrestling, I explore how wrestling speaks to labor at the intersection of the precarious gig economy & post-truth politics." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…

I encourage everyone interested in cultural anthropology to read David C. Thompson's and Tarini Bedi's award-winning work and our accompanying jury note. Their bold and innovative insights into social life are sure to expand your thinking about our world! culanth.org/about/about-th…

The Life and Death of the American Worker- book review by @tomphilpott The powerless—and courageous—immigrants fighting for dignity inside the country’s slaughterhouses. democracyjournal.org/magazine/75/pl…

I am honored to be co-winner with @anthrodave of the 2024 Cultural Horizons Prize. Thank you @culanth for this and especially to the jury of graduate students who read the work so thoughtfully and imaginatively. culanth.org/about/about-th…

Congrats to Naisargi N. Davé whose book "Indifference" is the winner of the 2024 Gregory Bateson Prize, given by @culanth! dukeupress.edu/indifference

Come to the SAW business meeting this Wednesday (the 20th) at 11:45am EST. Come find out how to get involved, and our new initiatives. ucsd.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Grr, autocorrect. “Racialization” not “Radicalization”.

Last call for this wonderful proposed AWR special issue on 'Radicalization and Gig Economies.' Manuscripts due this Friday: saw.americananthro.org/pub/czvlt4zn/r…

Proud to have edited this incredible collection of essays on Anthropology in a Time of Genocide: On Nakba and Return with Kamala Visweswaran. Part one: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

My late Métis grandfather stood up for his fellow workers on dangerous road building projects he worked on as a heavy machine operator (bulldozer). Do not let anthropological imaginaries of ‘Indigenous’ life obscure many of our ancestors fought fiercely as labour activists, too.

In our latest issue, @amrita_kurian traces connections between experts’ pedagogies & a parasite's attractive bloom, examining the affective responses surrounding experts’ day-to-day technoscientific management of environmental sustainability initiatives journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…

It has come to the AAUP's attention that there has been misinformation regarding the ad hoc Committee of Inquiry at @Muhlenberg College. The Committee is proceeding with its work & will be conducting interviews from October 31 - November 2 via ZOOM. 1/2

Anyone can sign this, you do not have to be from the Lehigh Valley.