Brilliant online talk alert! Join us for AnthroMob's next Moving Mobility Online (MoMO) lecture to hear Maya J. Berry speak about her research among rumberos in post-Fidel Cuba next Friday, March 5th at 4pm CET. More info and registration below @easainfo.bsky.social

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Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections - Allegra Lab Yuliya Grinberg. 2025. Ethnography of an Interface: Self-Tracking, Quantified Self, and the Work of Digital Connections. Cambridge: Cambridge University

In his review of Yuliya Grinberg's book published today, Feras Alejandro calls our attention to the inner workings, ambiguities, and labor practices of the tech spaces and communities responsible for the promotion of purportedly objective tools to quantify the self @universitypress.cambridge.org

Ethnographies of Joy: A Definitionless Dictionary in the Shadow of Impending Global Fascism Invitation to join a series of (virtual and in-person) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour? Suffocated by the writing voice you’ve somehow adopted aga...

For those who want joy... deadline approaching with intent
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Traveling to Cuba today and carrying more than usual, thanks to the incredible show of solidarity in response to my call for support with bringing urgent essential goods to the island. More here: www.elisehjalmarson/solidarity-w...

A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale

Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture - Allegra Lab Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is

Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social

Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire  - Allegra Lab Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge

In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"—a sobering reality that stands the test of time.

The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures

Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social

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It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.

AnthroMob 2025 Workshop Registration Thank you for registering to attend the 2025 AnthroMob Workshop, "Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodiment and Emotions," in The Hague from 11-12 September. The workshop is organized by the EA...

Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social

Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world...
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Colonizing Palestine: The zionist left and the making of the palestinian nakba - Allegra Lab Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.

Clare Maxwell engages with @areejsabbaghkhoury.bsky.social's compelling new book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba in this timely review 🇵🇸 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!

Workers Can Say Goodbye to Heat Protections Under Trump For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block fede...

This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...

In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."

Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney

Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social

Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney

Thrilled to see @andreaboccardi.bsky.social's insightful review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires in press at @allegralab.bsky.social, the first from our latest book review series!
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CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.

New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky

🚨 Call for papers 🚨

"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"

Central European University, 22-23/9/2025

Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez

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Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!

Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies - Allegra Lab Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than 13 years of

In press today! In "Lessons from Tahrir for Activists and their Allies", Alice Wilson thoughtfully engages with Rusha Latif’s book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution in the context of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad's fall from power.