People in Bishkek, come over! www.instagram.com/p/DXYCo1eCFT...

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Don't forget to submit your abstract for our SI in www.roadsides.net/collections/... on "Markets as Infrastructures" until March 15!

Don't forget to submit your abstract for our SI in www.roadsides.net/collections/... on "Markets as Infrastructures" until March 15!

From ISRF fellow @ceggart.bsky.social: a CFA for a special issue that approaches markets as infrastructures in order to examine how abstraction and materiality are not opposites but rather mutually sustained through social, technical, and political labour. More details below 👇

With a focus on how markets are built, maintained, and contested, this @roadsides.bsky.social issue invites contributions that move beyond abstract critiques toward grounded analyses of how economic life is organized, and how it might be organized otherwise.

I'm excited to announce a cfa for Roadsides' fall issue on 'Markets as Infrastructures.' Together with Hasan H. Karrar we edit this issue and we look forward to receiving abstracts from far and wide, incl. #economicanthropology #politicaleconomy #decolonialstudies www.roadsides.net/collections/...

The Dystopia That Was Always Coming — And the One They Built While We Looked Away Eyewitness for History by Thomas Drake “They transform pain into social media content. They turn pain into predator contentment. The pursuit of truth is always noble: but not the sluggish or careless...

A thoughtful and damning analysis of my new article “Jackhammering into the Sewer”, on Epstein and deep corruption:
eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...

Save the date! Feb 24th, Global Initiatives Grant webinar.

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Hurray, it's official! The amazing ISRF supports the work on my book: ’Lived Geopolitics. Re-scaling Market Infrastructures in Odesa and Bishkek from Soviet Collapse to Backlash Imperialism’ isrf.org/people/claud.... From September 25, I'll be at ZMO in Berlin to dive into this daunting task

Das dt. Wissenschaftssystem setzt auf künstliche Verknappung von Wertschätzung: Leute kleinhalten. Ihnen suggerieren, nichts zu können. Nahelegen, sie müssten dankbar sein, sogar für miese Bedingungen. So lassen wir uns alles Mögliche gefallen. Deshalb: Lobt einander, was das Zeug hält! #IchBinHanna

Cutting @rferl.org.web.brid.gy's funding is one of the Trump administration's most blatant acts of Kremlin-friendly sabotage. It's been an invaluable news and archive source in and about the formerly communist-run states of Europe and Central Asia.🧵

Had a great time presenting our ongoing collaborative research with Sandra Parvu (ENSA Paris Val de Seine) on "Transport Geopolitics in the Lower Danube Borderlands" at New Europe College in Bucharest yesterday! Huge thanks to NEC for the opportunity and support!
nec.ro/events/trans...

‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia This article explores the emotional dimensions of post-1991 socioeconomic transformation in Russia. Biographical narratives of cross-border traders (chelnoki) offer insight into continuities and ru...

Here is the link to the original article www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... that was based on my Master's thesis and greatly influenced my dissertation research on the history and persistence of the 7Km Market in Odesa and the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek

Grateful to the Jordan Center in NYC for featuring a summary of my 2023 article, published in @europe-asia.bsky.social, called ‘They Called Us Spekulyanty’: Shame and Pride in the Biographies of Female Shuttle Traders in Post-Soviet Russia on their exciting and vibrant blog section shorturl.at/h9Q1V

Everyday informality and governance dynamics in crisis situations and beyond The current article serves as a prelude to this collection entitled ‘The Informality of Crisis Situations: Survival Strategies and Modes of Governance’. It introduces the concept of crisis from an ...

The article is part of a special issue on "The informality of crisis situations: survival strategies and modes of governance," edited by the informality heavyweights Joseph P. Helou and Abel Polese. Thanks a lot for putting this together 👏🙏! doi.org/10.1080/0143...

‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ the rise of the informal Kyrgyzstani apparel industry The Kyrgyzstani apparel industry has seen spectacular growth in recent years, despite informal structures, a predatory business environment, and intersecting crises. Contrary to other apparel produ...

Glad to see my article "‘Made in Kyrgyzstan is gold!’ published in @ThirdWorldQ, vol. 45! Based on fieldwork at the Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek, I argue that asking: "what works" instead of "how can it be formalised" challenges narrow views on growth & development. doi.org/10.1080/0143...

Hi, I am a social anthropologist, currently turning my dissertation into a book studying trading networks in Odesa & Bishkek in light of geopolitical change. I also explore infrastructures (material & imagined) in the lower Danube's borderscape. Hope to connect and exchange on a better platform.

We've made some additions with new people we've seen/come across. Let us know if you can think of anyone missing! go.bsky.app/TxsUGAN

New starter pack on Russia’s war against Ukraine, and on Russia and Ukraine experts & journalists. Send me a private message if you want to be added. go.bsky.app/23BTWVx

Dear #CentralAsia crowd. Here is a first "starter pack". Please reach out if you want me to add you !
go.bsky.app/LXZM1qx

So happy to having passed my viva @UoMAnthropology, on Lived geopolitics @7km Market in Odesa and @Dordoi Bazaar in Bishkek without corrections! Thanks so much to my examiners Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi & Elena Barabantseva and my supervisors Madeleine Reeves & Michelle Obeid.

Grappling with geopolitics in ethnographic research? Please consider contributing to our panel with Rozafa Berisha #EASA 2024 "Locating the Geopolitical"

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Moving Beyond Resilience in Ukraine’s Recovery For its long-term reconstruction, Ukraine cannot rely solely on the unity and courage of its citizens. Re-creating the country’s security and reforming its institutions will require an open, inclusi...

Important, honest & painful piece by Anastasia Leukhina, coordinator of #UNET @zois.bsky.social in the series „Ukraine voices“ @Carnegie Europe. A #mustread on #Ukraine & Ukrainians thinking beyond the wa