Mihir Sharma

P151: Urgency in a polarized world This panel focuses on “urgency” as an analytical lens. How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a

CfP:
Urgency in a polarized world
nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a mode of action? We scrutinize the multiple meanings, mobilizations, and consequences of urgency.
#EASA2026
#anthropology #anthrosky

Some great insights about Heimat, un/commons, and the respons/ability of ethnography in the wake of fascist resurgences #dgska2025 @dgska.bsky.social Universität zu Köln

Read this in preparation of the roundtable of the task force anti-racism of the @dgska.bsky.social

By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social
Sina Emde
@mihiress.bsky.social &
@cwhittaker.bsky.social

Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d...
Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pm

wilding out (started a books newsletter)

Reading List Berlin | Theresia & Patrik | Substack An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin. Click to read Reading List Berlin, by Theresia & Patrik, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Hey, kennen alle Berliner*innen eigentlich den Newsletter für Veranstaltungen in der Hauptstadt von
@enzensberger.bsky.social und @patrikgraeb.bsky.social?
readinglistberlin.substack.com
Lohnt sich!

Welche Folgen hatte & hat es, dass Soziologen imperialen Praktiken nicht nur ideell vorgearbeitet haben, sondern an ihrer Umsetzung auch institutionell beteiligt waren? Wie präsent ist die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart des Faches – Nach den Imperien?

www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-...

Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.

"...the share-price-motivated and buyback-driven public corporation, the extractive private-equity model, and the more exploitative closely held firm that dies with its founder all aim to take out as much money as possible, without much consideration for the future."

jacobin.com/2021/04/take...

I solemnly swear that I had nothing to do with the creation of this graphic. But now that I’ve seen it I have to pass it on, lest it permanently haunt my dreams

Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue

Out now: our conversation about Genetic Ancestry and the Colonial Legacies of Race. Thanks to Ernesto Schwartz-Marin for facilitating the discussion.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...

Genau das wäre die Überlegung: ihm nicht viel Raum geben. Wenn es möglich wäre, seine NS-Nähe mit einem Adjektiv o.ä. zu schildern und dazu auch eine Fußnote hinzuzufügen wäre mein Vorschlag.

Wie wichtig ist der Autor für deinen Text? Wird er mehrmals zitiert? Ist der NS Bezug bekannt (z.B. Heidegger) oder eher unbekannt? Je nachdem würde ich die Entscheidung treffen.

Call for Proposals: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart - American Ethnological Society In The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical

americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo... #anthrosky

Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit Abstract. The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a

In my new article, I suggest that we need a historically situated political economy perspective to understand the mainstreaming of the far-right - I show this via an analysis of the post-Brexit border regime in Britain: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield Featuring Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxie...

I had a great time talking @danieldenvir.bsky.social of The Dig about the UHC CEO killing; inequality and mystified violence; gun violence and "healthcare" as indifferent, overlapping systems of human disposability; the history of "attentants"; morbid symptoms, the death drive, and much more

"Who's afraid of anti-racism?"

This is not a rhetorical question 💁🏽‍♂️

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Merci beaucoup 🙏

The latest @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine issue is out and it’s about ‘Waste’. It offers a range of reflections on waste, wasting away, and wasted lives, thinking about gender, race and capitalism.

Amit Balmiki on the interlinkage of caste-deskilling-tourism-migration in Pokhara/Nepal: "many of the traditional waste workers ...'migrated to other countries, mostly Saudi Arabia and other countries, in search of better livelihoods. That is why we started working as sweepers.'”

Poster design for the Historical Materialism Athens conference, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide', to be held between 24–27 April 2025 at Panteion University.

Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'.

The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org

Sharepic mit dem Zitat: "Über 75% der Bevölkerung in Deutschland sind für eine Legalisierung von Abtreibungen. Das steht in einem starken Widerspruch zur aktuellen Gesetzeslage, welche Abtreibungen nach Paragraf 218 des Strafgesetzbuchs kriminalisiert."

Kämpfe für körperliche Selbstbestimmung sind weltweit seit Jahrzehnten zentral. Eine aktuelle Kampagne fordert die Legalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen. Unser Dossier beleuchtet Geschichte, Kämpfe & globale Perspektiven. 👇
www.rosalux.de/weg-m...

#WegMit218 #Abtreibung

MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown Featuring Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA...

My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...

Wir verlosen zusammen mit @karstenschubert.net 6 Exemplare von seinem Buch "Lob der Identitätspolitik".
Um mitzumachen folgen Sie und und reposten diesen Beitrag.
Viel Glück!

#anthrosky #academicsky

Two days left to apply for this panel on "unwritten narratives of activism" at #SIEF2025 in #Aberdeen with @agadarancia.bsky.social PLEASE SHARE 🙏 nomadit.co.uk/conference/s... ✊🏾✌🏾

HIV-Forschung: Kurz vor der Heilung? Einst bedeutete Aids den Tod, heute ist es eine gut behandelbare Erkrankung. Aber heilen lässt sie sich noch nicht. In Berlin will man das ändern.

Mein neuer Artikel über das Team von @cgaebler.bsky.social, das an der Berliner Charité auf der Suche nach einer HIV-Heilung ist. So weit weg sind wir davon nicht entfernt. Schön, manchmal auch an optimistischen Geschichten zu arbeiten.

New essay by @agadarancia.bsky.social for @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/ideas/how-th... #anthrosky

Cities Made Differently Full of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.What makes a city...

David Graeber (@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social) and Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky.bsky.social), Cities Made Differently (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2024; #skystorians, #history, #urbanhistory) mitpress.mit.edu/978026254933...

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