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FocaalBlog accelerates and intensifies anthropological conversations to make them more widely, globally, and swiftly available.
Global Historical Anthropology
Joined October 2015
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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do,...
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Oane Visser discusses the presence of food movements at #COP30, showing how their presence in and on the streets next to the conference changed in the past years.
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Image 1: The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, with COP30 mascot, Curupira. Photo by Ricardo Stuckert This year, COP30 took place in Brazil. Unlike last year’s COP29 in Azerbaijan, this...
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You are warmly invited to join us at the launch of Don Kalb's latest open access book, the sprawling Value and Worthlessness, at the annual meeting @AmericanAnthro Speeches, wine, and fun are provided for comrades, friends, and enemies. @BerghahnAnthro @berghahnbooks
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Astrea Nikolovska reflects on how souvenir shops in Belgrade have started selling socks with images of authoritarian leaders printed on them #authoritarianism #populism @MEMPOP_ERC
https://t.co/o9ajD7R59R
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Image 1: Gift shop window in Belgrade, May 2025, photo by Astrea Nikolovska In the mid-2010s, the tourist center of Belgrade was full of various souvenirs featuring the image of Vladimir Putin....
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The second batch of texts from the feature edited by Arpan Roy on how support for Palestine informs and transforms local political contexts is out. Contributions by Aron F. Eldridge, Omid Mehrgan and Laura Adwan #FreePalestine
https://t.co/zFOHqgoLUe
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Editor: Arpan Roy This forum is an inquiry into what it means to stand with Palestine. It is an exploration of how Palestine has stayed-with “local” political contexts, and how it has survived...
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We're back with a feature edited by Arpan Roy on how support for Palestine informs and transform local political contexts. First batch of texts includes Roy’s intro and contributions by Olivia Harrison and Nico Putz. https://t.co/zFOHqgoLUe
#FreePalestineNow
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Editor: Arpan Roy This forum is an inquiry into what it means to stand with Palestine. It is an exploration of how Palestine has stayed-with “local” political contexts, and how it has survived...
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Congratulations to @MariaSalaru! Her #OpenAccess book An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation published today. Read and download free at: https://t.co/Kht88Z1SSD
#Architecture #Romania #UrbanTransformation
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Sindre Bangstad traces the emergence of the contested working definition of #antisemitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and shows how it is used to curtail #academicfreedom
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Image 1: The reinstated Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, 23 April 2024. Photo by Abbad Diraneyya. Cancelling Mbembe On June 6 2024 I was present in the grand hall that is the...
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Sindre Bangstad traces the emergence of the contested working definition of #antisemitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and shows how it is used to curtail #academicfreedom
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Image 1: The reinstated Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University, 23 April 2024. Photo by Abbad Diraneyya. Cancelling Mbembe On June 6 2024 I was present in the grand hall that is the...
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📰 The latest Open Access issue of @FocaalBlog has been published 🚨 This issue has a special theme section entitled “Managing problem debt in Europe: Financialization, households, and debt apparatuses”. View the TOC here ⤵️ https://t.co/qRD0v9uzDp
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How do war and displacement reconfigure practices of cultural heritage? @DrAnnaBalazs reflects on three projects developed by Ukrainian cultural practitioners during the Russian invasion #UkraineWar
https://t.co/Gb8Nil3SfV
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Image 1: Screenshot from the Mariupol Memory Park website “On the form, I ticked that I had got enough pads. I ticked that I had been instructed. I ticked that I had applied for microloans, more than...
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Chris Hann writes about how the war in Ukraine might have been the west's geopolitical fatal flaw, cementing the east-west divide and leading to a resurgence of nationalism. #UkraineWar #UkraineRussiaWar️️
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Image 1: Pro-European integration manifestation in Kyiv on 29 November 2013. Photo by Mstyslav Chernov Introduction Soon after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in an earlier post on this blog (Hann...
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New blog discussing the challenges of ethnographic research in contemporary #CentralAsia, #Russia and #China
#anthropology
https://t.co/rSXHW3t83M
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One of the main strengths of ethnographic methodologies is immersed, long-term research, which enables in-depth learning and a holistic vision of a given issue. Restricted or volatile access to...
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“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy 🇩🇰 First blog for 2025 from @FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. ⌲ By @gorkem_akgoz
#Refugees #Denmark
https://t.co/v3svjO1H7A
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Tune in to the new episode of "Talk On — Debates in Anthropology" Christoph Brumann chats with Xenia Cherkaev about her book 'Gleaning for Communism', which @FocaalBlog has listed among their "One Hundred Indispensable Works for Thinking in Our Times." https://t.co/q6RzM5oCwA
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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do,...
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New blog on #anthropology at #NewZealand universities and the politics of #decolonising
https://t.co/RDjfCtq5W2
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As three anthropologists working at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand), we experience anthropology in our daily work in the context of our local histories, communities and...
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“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy First blog for 2025 from @FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. ⌲ By @gorkem_akgoz
#Refugees #Denmark
https://t.co/v3svjO1H7A
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I wrote a blogpost for the @LRB on why Trump’s imperialist fantasies about the Panama Canal and Greenland is not just about building Trump hotels. https://t.co/QYmhtLYBZL
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The declarations about Greenland and the Panama Canal are more than just another example of Trump’s trolling-as-...
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Comrades, we have an email subscription option. Get an email whenever we publish a new blog (and only then, no other stuff)! Please share widely so we can stay connected with our readers. Solidarity, AND see you on the other side, Your FocaalBlog gang https://t.co/RXmPfABXVJ
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FocaalBlog is associated with Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology. It aims to accelerate and intensify anthropological conversations beyond what a regular academic journal can do,...
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Imagine being forced to choose between an indefinite limbo in a deportation center or returning to a war zone. In The Sad Truth, Helle Stenum exposes this harrowing reality, linking it to Denmark’s broader historical patterns of refugee exclusion and marginalization. In my latest
First blog for 2025 just dropped. An insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. Thanks for writing for us, @gorkem_akgoz
#Refugees #Denmark
https://t.co/4KS0jLjhZL
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