Hanna Nieber
@h_nieber
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anthropologist. PhD about kombe, drinking the written Qur'an. Now interested in astronomy in Madagascar, the SKA, and postcolonial STS. she/her
Halle, Germany
Joined January 2018
Dear all. Twitter is not what it used to be and I can no longer support the terrible recent developments by being active here. So, this is my good bye message. Perhaps you'll find me on bluesky one day but for now, I'll take some time off. All the best!
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so happy and proud to contribute to this amazing book project. 📘 can't wait for it to be out! #outerspace #ethnography #anthropology
🚀 Excited to share that @Jeeva_D, @adryonsk, and I have been working on a new collection of ethnographies of outer space! 🌌 Explore the whys and hows of space anthropology. Now available for pre-order! Link in comments ⬇️
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"An Audacious Vision" by Hanna Nieber @h_nieber Part of //Living in a Mode of Despite//, a new AES collection edited by @MaschaSchulz, Rishabh Raghavan, & Julia Vorhölter #anthrotwitter #ethnography Read it here! ⬇️ https://t.co/DtwFGg5TI6
americanethnologist.org
Words are in the world and of the world (Barad and Gandorfer 2021, 33). Words do things, change things. Words matter. Words create worlds and spaces of
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And a big thank you to my colleagues @anthroencyclo for posting this!
A wonderful collection of essays here on "living in the mode of despite", including one by OEA's very own, Hanna Neiber 👏👏 @AmEthno @h_nieber
https://t.co/kGQ0EWySCB
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And to add some shameless self-promotion, see my article in which I focus on astronomy activities in Madagascar and Africa more broadly to examine "universality as horizon" https://t.co/rfvCSda7TH
Universality is never accomplished, yet it matters in many different ways. See our special issue in which we tackle #universality through different #anthropological case studies.
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Universality is never accomplished, yet it matters in many different ways. See our special issue in which we tackle #universality through different #anthropological case studies.
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1/2 @MaterializingB reviews 'The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices" for Journal of Contemporary Religion. He notes, "religion is about the making and maintenance of intimacies"... https://t.co/xTYoqK6HLL
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super excited about this! counting days to see the @ARIESanthro team again and all the other social science of outer space geeks 😍
we're just two weeks away from the Ethnographies of Outer Space conference in Krakow, Poland! with more than two dozen presenters assembled connecting space, science, technology, and more, we here at the @ARIESanthro team are really looking forward to hosting!
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Happy to share that the book "Religious Plurality in Africa" with my chapter on "Coming to Terms with Religion/s" is out now. Thanks to all those who were involved, including Marloes Janson, Kai Kresse, Benedikt Pontzen, and Hassan Mwakimako.
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listen in and learn from one of the most inspiring women I have met in the past few years: Dr. Zara Randriamanakoto (@rznastro). Thank you, @cosmicsavannah for doing this amazing podcast!
Episode 72 is here 🥳 Guest: Dr. Rojovola Zara-Nomena Randriamanakoto 🎧 Tune in from your favourite podcast platform OR click on the link 🎙 https://t.co/iS4vISVMni
#thecosmicsavannah #tcs #podcast #astronomy #womeninstem #clusters #galaxies #milkyway #saao #ska #hst #nasa
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If you're in or around Mainz tomorrow, join me in thinking about and with astrophysics in Madagascar. Looking forward being at @ifeasmainz and part of their wonderful working group "Indian Ocean Confluences"!
Mit dem Vortrag "Astrophysik, Horizonte und strategischer Kontinentalismus in Madagaskar" von Hanna Nieber (MPI Halle) @h_nieber startet am 18. Juni die Vortragsreihe der interdisziplinären GFF Arbeitsgruppe "Indian Ocean Confluences" https://t.co/JFOkoUvyDn an der @uni_mainz. 🌊
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Vielen Dank für diese wunderbare Einladung! Ich kann es kaum erwarten, das @ifeasmainz zu besuchen. #anthropology #madagascar #astrophysics
Mit dem Vortrag "Astrophysik, Horizonte und strategischer Kontinentalismus in Madagaskar" von Hanna Nieber (MPI Halle) @h_nieber startet am 18. Juni die Vortragsreihe der interdisziplinären GFF Arbeitsgruppe "Indian Ocean Confluences" https://t.co/JFOkoUvyDn an der @uni_mainz. 🌊
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Congratulations, indeed! I absolutely loved reading "Eating in Theory" and truly enjoyed (alert! self-promotion following) writing about it some time ago in this blog post:
religiousmatters.nl
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Congratulations to Annemarie Mol, who has won the Bernal Prize for distinguished contributions to the field of STS from @4sWeb. https://t.co/ar3ECpnVU0
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📢 New entry alert! 📢 Read about DEBT in our wonderful entry by @RyanDavey284. A must-read, because "[a]cross the globe, debt and credit are a dominant framing for many economic and political relationships."
anthroencyclopedia.com
Debt is meant to be about repaying what you owe, but it often accompanies inequality, oppression, and unrest. Responding to this paradox, this entry explores a variety of debt relations that
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A new #openaccess article just went online! It deals with the textual Qur'an's power, practices of performing Islamic authority, and #materiality as lens to investigate all of this. Thanks to my interlocutors and to the "material religion" team!
tandfonline.com
The article studies the performance of Islamic authority through texts. It combines this with a close investigation of the textuality of these texts—that is, their letterforms as well as shapes of ...
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So very happy that a copy of the "efficacious intimacy" book has arrived and is now close to me. It contains a chapter in which I query how ingesting the Qur'an does not necessarily make it possible to talk about it. Thanks, @jugaad__project! #anthrotwitter
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'Surveillance', an entry for the Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, now live! We hope this might provide a useful starting point for anthropologists and surveillance scholars as a reflection on the field so far @EASAinfo @culanth @SurvSoc_journal
anthroencyclopedia.com
Surveillance—watching over through human and/or non-human technologies for an intended purpose—can connote a dystopian imaginary in which all activity becomes visible before a hostile gaze.
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Vielen Dank @DLF, dass ihr einen Bericht über meine Forschung gefunden und daraus ein Mini-Feature gemacht habt. Leider haben sich ein paar Fehler eingeschlichen, aber im Großen und Ganzen ist es dennoch ein schöner Beitrag. https://t.co/uhkVZBlhOR
deutschlandfunk.de
In Südafrika entsteht mit dem SKA (Square Kilometre Array Observatory) das größte Radioteleskop der Welt. Es soll den Aufbau der Milchstraße erforschen.
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I'm really looking forward to this book discussion! While the book as product is wonderful, the path that led to it becoming a reality was truly amazing! Thank you, @drurmilamohan for steering this collaborative project! #collaboration
Register for a virtual Book Discussion on "The Efficacy of Intimacy & Belief in Worldmaking Practices". Friday, Jan. 19 '24. 10-11:30am US EST. Hear authors discuss their chapters according to themes of spiritual and social agency, art, and politics. https://t.co/Dja9rcUqhA
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