How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

If a social media addicted billionaire says “The left is the party murder,” it’s an indisputable fact.

If a think tank founded by the Koch brothers concludes that right-wing terrorism is responsible for far more deaths than left-wing terrorism, they were just cherry-picking.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOE’s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

Judith Butler's response to their name being turned over to the federal government by UC Berkeley as part of a Trump administration antisemitism investigation is well worth reading: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Time for Climate Justice: A Response to David Suzuki’s interview with iPolitics — Concordia Ethnography Lab JONATHAN WALD This post responds to a recent iPolitics interview with David Suzuki where he expresses that “it’s too late” for climate change. Instead of arguing for optimism, this post argues that c...

www.ethnographylabconcordia.ca/ethnoblab/a-...

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

📒[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 7

Read “The patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their place”🌽🚜

By Kregg Hetherington @krether.bsky.social

At 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65 James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.

A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.

Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...

So happy to share our recent bilingual series with Cultural Anthropology on "Rethinking Facts from Latin America." Thanks for valiant co-editors @aballes2.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social, and our partners over at @tapuya.org @vivavivette.bsky.social.

Our conversations were quite interesting -- the hegemony of English works in so many different ways.

It's in response to this dynamic that we decided to launch our Theorizing the Contemporary series in both languages simultaneously. Initially we had proposed authors post in English or Spanish, but found almost (but not quite) everyone preferred English, for different reasons.

⭐ Cluster Introduction "Los hechos nunca andan solos: The Future of Facts in Latin America"

by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington & Eden Medina

Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655

#FutureofFacts #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social

Cluster Article “The patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their place”🌽🚜

By Kregg Hetherington (@krether.bsky.social)

Read at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

Tomorrow at EHESS Raspail, with Birgit Muller, Le lien alimentaire: la gouvernance des semences au Paraguay et au Canada. Rm AS1_23

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina One year into Javier Milei’s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

‘There will be nothing left’: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.

À Paris vendredi!

This great conversation I had with Sophie Chao about our respective plantation books is now up on ESTS. Thanks to Sophie for leading the chat and seeing this publication through!
estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

Finding you all in here is an unexpected gulp of fresh air!