Carna Brkovic holding the book "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans"
Happy to share that my book, "Realigning Humanitarianism in the Balkans. From Cold War Politics to Neoliberal Ethics" has just been published!
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No artigo, eu penso no deboche e nas risadas durante tiroteios na Baixada Fluminense como reflexos do conhecimento íntimo de moradores sobre a violência armada. Com esse argumento, eu desafio a ideia, de que moradores das chamadas periferias urbanas "banalizam" a violencia.
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
Como entender o humor em meio a tiroteios? Na sua coluna na @folha.com sobre "a alegria brasileira", o academico Rodrigo Tavares menciona um artigo meu que responde a essa pergunta.
www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/rodr...
📐 How do scales define research practices and contexts?
🔎 How can an attention to scale help explore the complexities of social life or major global challenges?
📑 These were some of the questions that animated our workshop "Unpacking the Heuristics and Methodologies of Scale" on February 23-24.
New book out in Open Access with UCL Press, co-edited with Elmira Muratova, with chapters on case studies ranging from Ukraine, Turkey-Afghanistan, diasporic West Africa, Thailand, Kyrgyzstan-Kuwait, and Indigenous Canada. Free download from the link in the thread.
🗺️ An Infracursions exhibition: "Cartographic Encounters: Art, Space, and the Amazon", on today (23/02) and tomorrow (24/02) in @bristoluni.bsky.social Priory Road Complex, next to the reception! Free to attend, come in and learn more about scales of extraction in the Amazon Rainforest.
Two people stand in front of a sign that reads 'COP30 Brasil Amazonia Belem 2025'
📢 Read our latest blog post!
🌎 #COP30, dubbed by its organisers as the “COP of the Amazon”, came to an end this past Saturday. Dr Margherita Scazza spent over a week in Belém & here she reflects on what this COP might mean for forest governance & incursion economies... ➡️ bit.ly/4pFfVDf
Submit by Monday 3rd November Are you exploring questions of scale in your research? We're inviting scholars from any discipline to submit abstracts for an interdisciplinary workshop unpacking the concepts of scale. Find out more: infracursions.org/events
🚨Only a few days left to submit your abstract!
Don’t miss the deadline to be part of our interdisciplinary workshop exploring concepts of scale! Open to all disciplines.
Deadline: Mon 3rd Nov
Find out more➡️ infracursions.org/events/
#Callforpapers #Callforabstracts #Interdisciplinaryresearch
Hot off the press! 🚨 A new #OpenAccess entry on #Humanitarianism by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social & @malayfiroz.bsky.social is out now - check it out!
🔗 doi.org/10.29164/25h...
#Anthropology #OA
There is now an entry on "Humanitarianism" at @anthroencyclo.bsky.social (co-authored by me and @malayfiroz.bsky.social)!
We worked to make it an accessible resource for readers unfamiliar with humanitarianism & anthro.
🔗 www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/humani...
#Anthropology #Humanitarianism
📰 Researchers from *any* discipline are very welcome to send us an abstract for our upcoming workshop (Feb 2026) on the question of scale 📐
📆 Deadline for submissions on November 3rd!
Poster for Call for Abstracts. Poster text reads: Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 Workshop Unpacking the Heuristics and Methodologies of Scale The Infracursions project at the University of Bristol invites scholars from any discipline to submit an abstract for a two-day workshop. The workshop aims to develop an interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies and practices of scale. Dates: 23-24 February 2026 Location: Bristol, UK Website: infracursions.org/events Keynote Speakers: Michael Lempert - Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Karen Seto - Professor of Geography & Urbanization, Yale School of the Environment
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale
Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025
📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers
‘What’s happening in Gaza is an even clearer case of public figures with command authority declaring their intention to blockade food and then doing so. It is a mystery how anyone can call it a “humanitarian disaster” rather than a genocide.’
@naoisedolan.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions.
Find out more and access the full Guidelines here:
easaonline.org/implementati...
Bittersweet farewell to my job at @hcrinstitute.bsky.social this month, especially after seeing some of my students graduate today! A sincere thanks to great colleagues, and to Manchester, where I did my PhD and where I got my first lecturer role. Exciting new things coming in October! 👀
I feel like I was the last person to learn that Zohran Mamdani is the son of postcolonial scholar Mahmood Mamdani, who I read as an undergraduate and postgraduate student.
Tinkering with the central statement for my book project 🛠️📚
"For those who live or work in favelas, forms of relating and knowing both urban space and its armed actors—gangs and police—are central to navigating urban insecurity."
‘What Israel has created in Gaza is an environment so toxic to human life that the unnaturally high level of deaths (at least 54,000 since October 2023) would continue even if the bombing were to stop immediately.’
@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on Gaza, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ju...
...whereby a humanitarian actor trains the state in the management of lives under threat, not through emergency aid but by reshaping the state's governance of urban violence.
#CriticalHumanitarianism #UrbanViolence
Moved from Twitter to here, so re-promoting my publications 📄
In this article for Humanity Journal, I argue that the @icrc.org attempt of addressing urban armed violence as a humanitarian issue in Rio de Janeiro becomes a form of biopolitical tutoring...
muse.jhu.edu/article/876515
Call for participants: As part of my @researchireland.ie funded project, I am looking to speak to women/people from non-EU migrant background, who have experienced pregnancy in Ireland over the last 15 years. Please feel free to amplify this call for participants.
#maternalhealth #migranthealth
#AcademicFreedom is the right to say everything but not anything. It is based on the rejection of bullshit. It only exists when it is actively practiced in the everyday. Refusing bullshit and telling the truth is practicing academic freedom.
I am hiring a PhD researcher! Join our international team of Social scientists and take part in an exciting collaborative research project that seeks to push interdisciplinary boundaries in innovative ways!
Essa história mostra que (a) bolsonarismo é organização criminosa, com métodos de organização criminosa e (b) é sempre, sempre com jornalista mulher.
Hoje, pela primeira vez na carreira acadêmica, vou citar a @revistapiaui.bsky.social numa proposta de financiamento para pesquisa. Esperando que traga sorte 🤞
