“Pehle dekhenge, samjhenge, phir jaayenge”: Waiting and Feminist Listening at the Labour Chowk - Society for the Anthropology of Work In this new series, scholars respond to SAW editors' call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the

In this new series, scholars respond to SAW editors’ call to reflect on innovative methods that are being devised by anthropologists of work to navigate the changing nature of work itself.

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Not all men but when a student interrupts over and over again to teach you how to teach what you are trained to teach, well… guess.

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the...

"Transit workers offer instead visions of a labor future centered on dignity, safety, and democratic control over technological change"
Check out "Futures of transit work Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit" by Hunter Akridge&Sarah E. Fox @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social

Feminists began raising the alarm about the manosphere decades ago – and we were ignored | Laurie Penny We were told we couldn’t take a joke, and that social media isn’t real life. Now the misogyny of early chatrooms and Gamergate has made its way to the White House, says journalist and feminist activis...

"Why has it taken so long for us to treat misogyny as a political problem? The modern manosphere has been metastasising for many years and for years, mainstream culture has responded with a helpless shrug. There was nothing unusual about men hurting women"

UCSD professors face discipline in connection with 2024 pro-Palestinian protest encampment One professor is looking at a possible suspension for two years without pay.

UCSD drags professors into discipline, suspension without pay threats accusing them of participating in encampment two years later. Professor and students see political prosecution and campus that punishment for learning and talking about Palestine

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Too Girly, Too Emotional, Too Much. Finding Myself in Academia by Christina Kefala - American Ethnological Society This is the Introduction to the first instalment of the “Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart” series, a project inspired by the work of Ruth Behar’s The

“Too girly. Too emotional. Too soft-spoken in one room, too assertive in another. Too kind to be taken seriously, too sensitive to survive in academia.”
Christina Kefala for “The anthropology that breaks your heart” series in @amethno.bsky.social

Europe’s Steel Industry Should Be Publicly Owned and Controlled Europe’s steel firms are increasingly unprofitable, and rising energy prices are making things even worse. Public ownership is vital to ensure conversion to green production while maintaining jobs.

“EU institutions are largely focused on propping up private steelmakers’ profits to prevent their relocation abroad. Yet today a movement among unions and left-wing actors across Europe is coalescing around a demand for an alternative path: public ownership of steel production”

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How Allocating Work Aided Our Evolutionary Success Many societies divide labor by gender and age. A biological anthropologist considers when and why this behavior arose.

From the SAPIENS.org archive. www.sapiens.org/biology/labo...

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Academic publishing is increasingly difficult and costly, relying on unpaid labor from authors, reviewers, & editors. In response to these precarious circumstances the AWR editorial collective is trialing a new approach to sustaining our journal through increased engagement.

About to start off with my little module “Graphic Anthropology, ethnographic storytelling and comics” @ the Institute of Cultura Anthropology and European Ethnology - University of Graz

Please check out this new book featuring a chapter by one of the AWR editors @valuequestion.bsky.social that explores Malinowski's engagement with work and labour

Anténor Firmin, l’anthropologue qui pulvérisa Gobineau Anténor Firmin, penseur haïtien oublié, a défié Gobineau en 1885. De Paris à Port-au-Prince, il fit de l’anthropologie une arme contre le racisme scientifique.

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Captures of Protest | Current Anthropology: Vol 67, No 1

The first issue of the 2026 Volume of Current Anthropology is out this week! I want to particularly flag the amazing work of our 2025 VIsual Media Competition winner Clara Beccaro - you can read her essay and see all her submitted pieces here. Two runners up will be featured in future issues

Migrant, Entrepreneur, Man: Platform Food Couriers’ Navigation of Precarity and Vulnerability - Cosmin Popan, 2026 Work on food delivery platforms is characterised by increasing vulnerability and a disproportionate representation of a racialised male workforce composed prima...

What it's like to "be a man" doing platform food deliveries when you're caught between entrepreneurial discourses and precarious work? My latest (open access) publication, for the Journal of Sociology.

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Ahmad Moradi: Iran, Year 1404: Chronicles of Planned Chaos Image 1: Bombing scene in Tehran, 2 March 2026. Anonymous photographer. Shared via the Telegram channel Vahid Online. No, dear Rira,my letter must be short,must be simple,with no talk of ambiguity or ...

“Violent chaos may very well be the only true objective Trump and Netanyahu have for this country”

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

"‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked when a fire spreads without discrimination. Once the blaze begins, distinctions collapse: between the combustible and the damp, the guilty and the innocent, perpetrators and victims."

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What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? A webinar, on 27 March, 2-3:30 pm CET, with Amira Mittermaier and Sylvain Piron. For more information, see allegralaboratory.net

Amoxtli | OtherwiseMag ​​​​​In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca, a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! Amoxtli is OUT!

In this issue, we encounter the Amoxtli Tezcatlipoca – the Book of the Smoking Mirror – a Mesoamerican sacred manuscript, through the stories and poems of its cultural inheritors:

Amoxtli is curated by José Sherwood González

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On the So-Called Reading Crisis as Class Warfare “A book is a powerful weapon, it can defend you in your mind.” —Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin French theorist Pierre Bourdieu once described photography as the art of the middle class. The wealthy know exp…

“The present moment is stacked with countless op-eds advocating for education to be “useful” and practical and think pieces which lament the decline of student interest in reading, without an analysis into the neoliberalization of education, and who this serves”

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Contre les fascistes : résistance et solidarité, submerger nos rues L'extrême-droite appelle à une marche à Lyon samedi 21 février à 15h dans le 7e arrondissement en mémoire de leur camarade fasciste. Des appels à converger circulent à l'échelle nationale et (...)

Contre les fascistes : résistance et solidarité, submerger nos rues
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The Certainty of Legal Labor: Meliorist Legalism and Endurant Hope in Hindu Nationalist India Emergent Conversation 25 This essay is part of the series First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South By Sandhya Fuchs Protests After Death Of Hathras …

Sandhya Fuchs, winner of the 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology for Fragile Hope: Seeking Justice for Hate Crimes in India (Stanford University Press, 2025), contributed this open access essay to PoLAR Online. The essay is part of Sana Malik's series, First Responders: wp.me/p68wh0-539

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1...

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When the state socialises risks through public funding, the public must share in the rewards. The task for Trump is not to abandon industrial strategy or to reactively take equity stakes but to learn what went right and wrong in Silicon Valley.

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The new issue of SAQ is out, featuring my article on Roma workers and the disciplining of labour under Czech racial capitalism:

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Our Obsession With Personal Responsibility Is Making Us Sick Poor health outcomes are often treated as an unfortunate by-product of individual bad decisions. This moralizing approach ignores the role poverty plays in determining who gets ill and who can afford ...

When the state recedes and then moralizes the space it vacates, poor health outcomes are treated as unfortunate byproduct of individual bad decisions

Training, Contingency, and Academics in Graduate Student Labor Graduate student labor confounds the assumptions of meritocratic professionalism.

"This separation has facilitated the positioning of graduate labor at the end of value-creation inside academia—that is, as a more efficient way for the university to extract teaching and research labor while pay and benefits are considerably lower."

To disrupt and organise against the genocidal war machine, it is necessary to understand the internal mechanisms of Israeli violence, which span historic Palestine, and are intertwined with the global capitalist system.

Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...

Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"

On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on polluti...

In this interview, anthropologist Rishabh Raghavan reflects on the role of refusal not only in his work theorizing labor and toxicity in southern India, but also in his interactions with his interlocutors - fishermen who refused certain lines of inquiry. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...