Derya Aydin
@deryaaydin.bsky.social
anthropology | university of minnesota | PhD 📍U.S. | Kurdistan | Turkey https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/aydin040 https://icgc.umn.edu/derya-aydin
“Violence is especially exploratory, the landscape continually altered. Even colonialism’s proponents, beneficiaries are often confused about the formally correct way to view this landscape, having to reconsider it at every turn.”Eray Çaylı | Earthmoving | @utexaspress.bsky.social
Impeachment charges against U.S. Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth: •Illegal wars in Iran & Yemen •Civilian protection violations •Extrajudicial killings •Free speech suppression •Unauthorized capture of Maduro House vote expected in two days. www.npr.org/2026/11/09/n...
Thomas Massie files articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth
The articles accuse Hegseth of "high crimes and misdemeanors," including for waging war against Iran in violation of the War Powers Resolution.
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“The 2026 midterm map if only white men had voted, state by state. It's built from AP Vote Cast, the voter survey NBC, CNN and Fox all used this year, so it's how white men said they voted, not a vote count.” youtube.com/watch?v=UCf3...
2026 Midterm Results Map (by Demographic)
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‘After this week’s elections, Democratic congresspeople from working-class backgrounds are set to grow their numbers by 75%. They have a chance to push the party’s agenda in a pro-worker direction. Organizing in a congressional caucus can help them do that.’ jacobin.com/2026/11/midt...
Working-Class Democratic Candidates Won Big in the Midterms
After this week’s elections, Democratic congresspeople from working-class backgrounds are set to grow their numbers by 75%. They have a chance to push the party’s agenda in a pro-worker direction. Org...
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"Deadly Refusals: Kurdish Decolonization in Times of Counterterrorism" "I didn't want to write another book to show how lawless counterterror operations are ... they are parts of a bigger colonial power structure. For me that is only the beginning." | Serra M. Hakyemez
One of the reasons why Native Americans, Somalis, Muslims, Black people, and queer people are being supported today is that the violence directed at these groups has now spread to the entire society. Of course the demands of these politicians are important, but their representation is symbolic.
Derya Aydin@deryaaydin.bsky.social · 7d agoLast year in Minneapolis, two white Americans (R. Good and A. Petti) were killed during ICE operations targeting refugees, particularly Somalis. This did not merely bring to mind the racist violence directed at G. Floyd; it also demonstrated that white Americans, too, can be killed.
Last year in Minneapolis, two white Americans (R. Good and A. Petti) were killed during ICE operations targeting refugees, particularly Somalis. This did not merely bring to mind the racist violence directed at G. Floyd; it also demonstrated that white Americans, too, can be killed.
Şırnak, Northern Kurdistan (southeastern Turkey): Kurdish guerrilla cemeteries established during the 2013 peace process have been repeatedly destroyed. The latest destruction, which took place yesterday, reportedly included smashed gravestones & flowers placed by families, at ongoing peace process.
Ghosts, Spirits, and Death What can ghosts tell us about the world of the living? Recommended by Sussex Anthropology, these ethnographies explore relationships between the living and the dead in the aftermath of war, offering anthropological lense on memory, mourning and belonging.
Of course, America’s war-driven foreign policy didn’t begin with Trump, but its impact on domestic issues, especially the economy, has become increasingly central. The Democrats have likely never placed the consequences of war so squarely at the center of an election. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLEH...
War | Abdul for Senate
YouTube video by Abdul El-Sayed
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‘As the bryologist Native American storyteller Robin Kimmerer observed in her poetic meditation on moss, “finding the words is a step in learning to see.” Losing the words, is ceasing to see, a peculiar form of blindness, dulls the shimmer of the world.’ www.themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/t...
The Lost Words: An Illustrated Dictionary of Poetic Spells Reclaiming the Language of Nature
From acorn to wren, a vibrant encyclopedia of enchantments reweaving our broken web of belonging with the rest of nature.
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Li ser berxwedana Kobanê gelek vegotin hene, lê ya herî zêde ku li ser min bandor dike ev e - ji ber ku şoreş ne dawî ye, rêyek e ku gelek rêwiyên wê dawîya rê nabînin: “Berî du rojan, hinek heval şehîd ketin. Ewan jî bî hêviyê jiyan dikirin. Xweska wana jî dîtiba.” Zehra Penaber
Ethnographic seduction refers to how interviewees consciously and unconsciously draw fieldworkers away from their research objectives, blurring the reflexive distance essential to ethnographic understanding. How to resist it in war ecology research? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Afterword: seduction and empathy in research on war ecologies
The concept ethnographic seduction referred originally to the conscious and unconscious ways in which interviewees lead fieldworkers away from their research objectives by having them accept their ...
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Önümüzdeki yıllarda en çok duyacağımız kavram ekstraktivizm. Kapitalizmin dünya ile ilişki kurma biçimini ve doğaya sermaye tarafından el konulmasını ifade eden bu politik kavramı merkeze alan Polen Ekoloji’nin Türkiye’deki sömürü üzerine harika raporu. ekolojienstitu.org/turkiyede-ek...
TÜRKİYE'DE EKSTRAKTİVİZMLE MÜCADELE - Polen Ekoloji Enstitüsü
Canımız Hakan,Ağaçlara, kuşlara, dağlara, toprağa ve hayata sevgin; seni, yaşama yönelik topyekün saldırının ivmelendiği bir zamanda bizden koparıp almalarına sebep oldu. Biz de senin dost bildiğin he...
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Systematic violence against Indigenous communities continues in different ways. Women go missing & families search for them. In 2025, 732 IndigenousMinnesotans were reported missing according to the state's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...
Bemidji vigil honors families of missing and murdered Indigenous relatives
Ten years ago, Jeremy Jourdain went missing. Five years ago, Nevaeh Kingbird disappeared. Families, allies and community gathered on Saturday in Bemidji to remember the two young people and to honor a...
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“Talk of generational splits often obscures the capitalist relations at the heart of the present crisis. Yet the current wave of uprisings illustrates that many young people do experience crises in explicitly generational terms.” jacobin.com/2026/10/gen-...
Who’s Afraid of Gen Z Socialism?
From France to India, young people have led the current wave of protests. Rather than deny the importance of generational politics, we can see it as a way that people make sense of their life chances ...
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‘It is an irony that the height of this repression fell on 17 October, a date marked in French history by the 1961 massacre and drowning of Algerian protestors in the Seine, whose legacy echoes in the chants of today’s youth.’ www.equator.org/articles/fra...
‘We Are the Children of the Algerians You Didn’t Drown’ • EQUATOR
Two leading thinkers on France’s politics of revolt and the spectre of fascism
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To use data better, not only in creative endeavors like filmmaking but in human projects more broadly, we need a stronger focus on understanding how humans think, how data “thinks,” and how we translate between the two. www.anthropology-news.org/articles/hol...
Hollywood Meets Silicon Valley - Anthropology News
Can the indeterminate squishiness of creative decision-making help us understand why data is so difficult?
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An impressive project by @forensicarchi.bsky.social that maps the destruction of civilian life in Gaza, from hospitals and schools to archaeological sites and agricultural land. gaza.forensic-architecture.org/database/
Cartography of Genocide
The Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on Gaza since October 2023.
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AI researchers and international organizations have long called for strict regulation of AI-powered weapons that could behave unpredictably or operate with minimal human oversight, warning that such systems could rapidly escalate conflicts. www.npr.org/2026/10/23/n...
The Pentagon's guidelines for "responsible AI" aren't always followed, report shows
The Pentagon is building weapons and projects with AI capabilities that officials say don't always closely adhere to the agency's own guidelines for AI, according to a congressional watchdog report pu...
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2026 Limited-Run Tribal Nations Map: Traditional Names & Locations is more than a map. It is a powerful reminder of the peoples who came before, the cultures and the histories that deserve to be recognized, preserved, and passed on to future generations. www.tribalnationsmaps.com/store/p4166/...
2026 Limited Run - Tribal Nations Map - 48"x55"
Indian Tribes of United Sates of America Map, Native American Map, List of Indian Tribes, Location of Indian Tribes, Original Native Indian Tribes
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Odilon Redon: The deformed polyp floated on the shores, a sort of smiling and hideous Cyclops (1883) / National Gallery of Art
The question is: is that all it is? Are we just living through an uncomfortable moment of transition in the evolution of human “progress”? Or is this indeed a catastrophic rupture? / Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru...
Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR
Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination
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As uncertainty surrounding funding cuts continues, social science research centers are expected to be among the hardest hit. Some centers may be forced to close or absorbed. Increasingly difficult time for academic research and scholarship in the U.S.😕 www.startribune.com/umn-budget-c...
University of Minnesota budget cuts could now top $260 million
Faculty and students were already concerned about $225 million in cuts needed over the next two years, announced by officials last month.
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Hatun Aslan’ın ömrü yaşama ve ölüme haysiyet iade etme mücadelesiyle geçti. Bu yazıda anısına saygının, yasını tutmanın bir biçimi olarak anlatılarına yer veriyorum. Çatışmanın sonuçlarını anlamak, barışın imkanlarını çoğaltmak için bu mücadele tarihi kaydedilmeli. artigercek.com/yazarlar/der...
Yaşayanlar ve ölüler için haysiyet mücadelesi: Hatun Aslan
15 yıldır burada yatan, oğlu Yılmaz’dır. Üzerinde son kez gördüğü kıyafetleriyle Yılmaz, yıllardır burada yatmaktadır. 15 yıldır dile getirmese de kalbinin, ruhunun ve bedeninin en derininde saklı tut...
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“The notion of alienation is a very unusual one because it is at once an attempt to explain a widespread feeling—a very subjective, somewhat indefinable feeling—and a critique of the nature of any society that regularly produces it.” / David Graeber theanarchistlibrary.org/library/davi...
Alienation
David Graeber Alienation 2005 See also: David Graeber Institute https://davidgraeber.institute/ & https://davidgraeber.org/
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“The Work of Death” symposium brings together four anthropology subfields to explore death and dying through cultural, biological, social, and linguistic perspectives across time and human societies. lsa.umich.edu/ummaa/news-e...
An inspiring work! Artists & geographers are restoring Indigenous names to rivers and mountains, reconstructing the geographies of nations that existed long before the US and Canada: Transforming maps into works of art that challenge centuries of dispossession. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/mapping-wh...
Mapping What Colonization Could Not Erase
How Indigenous artists are reclaiming geography, confronting colonial histories, and defending the right to land, memory, and identity.
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