"It was a dark and stormy night"... there are deep implications in terms of reflections on colonial politics and ethnographic writing (specifically), as it has been discussed in recent works.

My chapter focuses on shame and stigma in both contexts, Sweden and Japan "I examine how ‘caring by words’ is enacted via neologisms or ideologically meaningful terms that unveil the interplay between governments, health systems and citizens" (Merli 2025: 371). #longcovid #covid19 #chronic #pandemic

Hot from the press, the book "Covid's Chronicity" is open access. I am truly happy to having contributed chapter 18 "Beyond #COVID19: Caring by words in Long COVID discourses in Japan and Sweden". uclpress.co.uk/book/covids-...

Hi Kevin, this startpack is meant to showcase information about research on and researchers of SouheastAsia. Enthusiasts welcome to follow!

The accepted papers will be part of a special issue in a #medanthro journal. Send your paper before 23 February 23:59, indicate that you submit to our panel!

5/ By interrogating assembling and disassembling, we highlight the body—human and disciplinary—as a central site of tension and reimagination. How do anthropological assemblies can address fragility, confront systemic inequities, and propose alternatives for a more equitable and sustainable future.

4/ Reproductive and immunitary innovations, while promising to preserve life, also reinforce systemic inequities, perpetuate neo/colonial power, and reshape the alignments between individual, social, and political bodies (Scheper-Hughes & Lock 1987). Medical knowledge retains comfortable hegemony.

3/ Well-being, sought to alleviate life’s fragility, is sought through technologies, knowledges, and practices that slash and assemble bodies into new states of relief and ethical quagmires.

2/ Dis/comfort of bodies in different health contexts as the focus of medical anthropology, examining how health practices and technologies transform bodies amidst contemporary precarity.

@benk-d.bsky.social

Distribute widely! SANT 2025 conference in Lund 10-12 April. I am organizing a panel together with Ben Kasstan on "Un/doing Comfort, Dis/comforting Bodies: Slashing and Assembling Health, Care, and Anthropological Knowledge". CfP now OPEN until 23 February www.soc.lu.se/en/sant-2025

A plunge into old library practice, wonderful. How does it fill to actually fill requests by hand?

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Now you are both on the starter list.

Just added you!

Added, welcome.

The Thailand research group next?

An important conference for all #medanthro, and in Vienna, not least.

Here’s some cool stuff you can do with Bluesky It’s not just an Alf pics repository.

For those joining BlueSky for the first time, here is a great primer by the Verge. Lots of useful tips on taking control of your newsfeed, setting up an algorithm that suits you, starter packs, and much more! Welcome to Blue Sky! www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

You are welcome!

Hi Ben, this starter pack is research oriented. But another one on entrepreneurship would also be great, though outside my area of competence.

Thanks, Mikko.

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Sure thing.

You are now in the SEA start pack.

Thank you Jan, added!

You are welcome! :)

So - what's going on here, you might ask. This is Farhana's response to a post referring to two natural scientists - a physicist and an earth scientist - who are asking questions about humans - to each other. Farhana suggests (rightly) that these questions would be better put to social scientists 1/

Hi Panarat, I have created a Starter Pack for Southeast Asia, have a look!