Cover of "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest" by Alice Rudge
"@alicerudge.bsky.social has conducted remarkable fieldwork and her analysis of how Batek sense others is a distinctive contribution to the anthropology of ethics, difference, voices and the senses," writes Catherine Allerton for the Asian Journal of Social Science. bit.ly/4sCVSrh
JOB KLAXON
1 Yr Project Researcher @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social working on @britishacademy.bsky.social funded *Prehistoric Policies* with Ben Elliott (@archsoundscapes.bsky.social), Alice Rudge (@alicerudge.bsky.social) and me. Contact me with queries.
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Applications are invited for a temporary post of a Project Researcher within UCD School of Archaeology. This position supports the British Academy funded Prehistoric Policies project. PP examines the ways in which environmental policies in Britain and Ireland, and especially those focused on the Just Transition, use figures of the prehistoric past to support their claims, often using popular science accounts as their main sources. PP will analyse environmental discourse and policy and conduct interviews with key figures to better understand why future-facing documents refer back to the human past as well as what kinds of claims are made and whether they are well-founded. PP also includes public-facing events to raise awareness of the way in which prehistory is being used in environmental policy. Fixed Salary: €46,700 Per Annum Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 3rd December 2025.
Our 12 month environmental policy researcher position is now live! Come and work with @graemewarren.bsky.social at UCD on our @britishacademy.bsky.social funded Prehistoric Policies project with @alicerudge.bsky.social and me. It'll be fun, I promise! my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
SOAS Walter Rodney Collective: Seminar Series, Fall 2025 Empire, Race, Capital: Readings Beyond the Atlantic 5-7pm, SOAS (unless otherwise specified_ Convenors: Sarah El-Kazaz, Hengameh Ziai, Lisa Tilley, and Samia Khatun Thursday 9 October Esmat Elhalaby, Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization (2025) Thursday 16 October Catherine Hall, Lucky Valley: Edward Long and the History of Racial Capitalism (2024) Tuesday 28 October Omar Cheta, How Commerce Became Legal: Merchants and Market Governance in Nineteenth-Century Egypt (2025) Thursday 30 October (12:30pm) Nicky Falkof, Worrier State: Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa Thursday 13 November Tithi Bhattacharya, Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence: A Social History of Fear in Colonial Bengal (2024) Thursday 20 November Françoise Verges, Making the World Clean: Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment and Racial Capitalism (2024) Thursday 4 December Hafsa Kanjwak, Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (2023) Department of Politics and International Studies, Department of Development Studies, and School of History, Religions and Philosophies
The Histories of Capitalism and Race series
@soasuni.bsky.social is back with a stellar line-up! Join us for exciting book discussions with @esmat.bsky.social, Catherine Hall, @omarcheta.bsky.social, Nicky Falkof, Tithi Bhattacharya, Françoise Verges, and Hafsa Kanjwal.
Screen shot of the series title in orange, and below the series image, depicting "A mixed herd of goats and sheep graze below the high passes in the Dhauladhar range of the Himalaya. The shepherds experience ecological stress mediated through the animals that they care for. Photo by Suraj Gupta shared with permission."
Screen shot of some text from the linked intro: "In our classrooms we are increasingly encountering ecological distress, and many of our students seek anthropological thinking as a way of making sense of the everyday challenges of climate change and ecological destruction. As a collective, we see it as our responsibility to encourage critical inquiry about the ways in which ecological distress is a shared planetary problem, and the ways in which it is unevenly distributed, or incommensurable, across bodies, minds, landscapes, and within and between pedagogical spaces. How might old and new anthropological insights shape how we respond to and understand—even help to repair—ecological distress? The entries within this collection aim to encourage students—in and outside the university—to think through these kinds of questions. Our diverse collective of scholars and practitioners are based across the United Kingdom, the United States, Malaysia, India, Australia, Germany, & New Zealand, where the contours of ecological distress take distinct forms."
As syllabi are being put together, don't miss this Teaching Tools series on "Teaching Ecological Distress" compiled by @alicerudge.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social et al.
A toolkit with guided readings & activist/pedagogical tools for teaching ecological distress across contexts.
New #OpenAccess entry on 'Sustainability' out in @anthroencyclo.bsky.social
Written by Prof. @alicerudge.bsky.social at @soasanthro.bsky.social
Find it here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/sustai...
With "a keen eye for the workings of power," Anthropology "forces us to value the plurality that characterises the landscapes into which sustainability lands, that goes into constituting sustainability initiatives, and that marks definitions of sustainability itself," writes @alicerudge.bsky.social
New article on 'Sustainability' out in the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology! Written off the back of designing the @soasanthro.bsky.social MA Global Futures and Sustainability curriculum - thank you to our amazing students and all who supported!
Cover of "Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rainforest"
"The monograph’s immense contribution is in its analysis of language, in terms of its synthesis of the Batek voice and its reflection on how voice can function," writes Faizah Zakaria for Indigenous Religious Traditions of SENSING OTHERS by @alicerudge.bsky.social
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Good news day! I'm very pleased to be able to announce this after a little wait. I can't wait to get stuck into it with Alice Rudge of @soasanthro.bsky.social, @graemewarren.bsky.social, and an exciting new face who will fill our PDRA position in due course! Full intro thread to follow...
The @ucddublin.bsky.social story about the exciting project *Prehistoric Policies* that Ben Elliott @archsoundscapes.bsky.social, Alice Rudge @alicerudge.bsky.social and I are just starting. Interested in how ideas about the past influence policy today? Watch this space!
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Dark laboratory: on columbus, the Caribbean, and the origins of the climate crisis by @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social is on its way to the stacks @soaslibrary.bsky.social!
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Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!
Looking forward to this @culanth.bsky.social SCA Fridays conversation with Nikita Simpson and Saad Quasem - alongside the ecological distress collective including @kerrychance.bsky.social, Bridget Bradley, and Gerimis Art Project! Join us Friday 11-12 EST, 4pm UK time, or 12am Malaysia time!
News & Reviews featuring @waitmanwbeorn.com @sidsibo.bsky.social @jacobflaws.bsky.social @alicerudge.bsky.social and more!
The call for new editorial leadership at Cultural Anthropology is now open. Since its founding in 1986, the journal has represented the cutting-edge of anthropological theory and ethnographic inquiry. More info: culanth.org/about/about-...
Yayyyy this was a great project to work on. Thank you to editors @lianachua.bsky.social and Viola Schreer for inspiring us to think about heroism and villainy in the Anthropocene! And a huge thanks for putting together such a wonderful community of authors - there's some incredible pieces in here!
My own piece looks at sugarcane-based #bioplastic and how it replicates petro-systems more than interrupts them. Também disponível em português! culanth.org/fieldsights/...
The series has essays by wonderful contributors who were SO great to work and think with. Thanks to all of them, as well as the Cultural Anthropology team. @dominicboyer.bsky.social @beatricecointe.bsky.social @mythrijega.bsky.social @markomonteiro.bsky.social @hannahcknox.bsky.social and many more
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Short text just published in a collection on "Substitution" edited by @katieulrich.bsky.social, Alice Rudge & Véra Ehrenstein.
Sharing Fressoz's puzzlement with the "energy transition", I follow the traces of transition-as-substitutions in models & data infrastructures.
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