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Letizia Letha Bonanno

@letha-b.bsky.social

Social anthropologist doing ethnography and disegnetti about industrial labour and steel plants in Italy&Romania. Punk HC/ Bande dessinée. MSCA PF @univie.ac.at Co-Editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social Visual editor @otherwisemag.bsky.social

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · last wk.

Statistics show that somewhere between 20% and 25% of women college students will be the victim of a sexual assault. No statistics tell us what percentage of men students will be rapists. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We live in a rape-prone society. The horrific Cornell case reveals what that looks like | Rebecca Solnit

Public outcry to punish the alleged perpetrators in the Cornell case misses the point – the only solution is political, legal and cultural equality of women

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Everywhere, it is the same mechanism: Parties that called themselves sensible, pragmatic, and centrist have pursued one of the most doctrinaire economic programmes in European history and pursued it with a rigidity, an intolerance of dissent, and a contempt for democratic contestation”

Europe’s centrists are finally paying the price of their extremism

The centre’s blind adherence to austerity has devastated European societies.

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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · last mo.

2026 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions. The recipient receives $250 cash award & an invitation to develop the essay further for possible publication in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social anthrowork.org/announcement... Deadline 15 October

2026 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions - Society for the Anthropology of Work

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to be considered for the Eric R. Wolf Prize.

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4w ago

Witnessing the end of Taranto's steel plant in real time, "When that promise fails, capital moves on. People often cannot. And what remains is not simply an abandoned industrial site. It is a city, a neighborhood, and generations of people living in the aftermath of a future that never happened"

When the Market Destroys a Community

Steelworks 80, a planned steel expansion that brought workers to northern Sweden, was derailed by a global downturn. Its story shows how communities built around the promise of investment are left wit...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hot off the press in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social an excellent article by Belén Martínez Caparrós on how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibilities for domestic labor and care. Check it out! It is open access 💥

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines how women drivers in Malaga's private passenger transport sector sustain paid work while holding primary responsibility for domestic labor and care. Drawing on ethnographic fiel....

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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation@rosaluxglobal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The study examines the strategies and narratives used to discredit UNRWA and its work within Germany's political landscape, with the long-term goal of ending German funding for the agency. Who are the key actors behind the "anti-UNRWA network"? Read the full study:

Inside the Campaign Against UNRWA in Germany - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung

A new study maps the pro-Israel actors working to cut Palestinian relief agency UNRWA's funding

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 3mo ago

À travers le prisme du ciment,la recherche de@samirharb.bsky.social nous conduit vers la géographie politique singulière de la Palestine où la production cimentière et ses réseaux d’infrastructures sont configurés par l’occupation israélienne des terres,des ressources et des territoires palestiniens

Écologie politique, ciment et imaginaire radical en Palestine : un entretien avec Samir Harb

Entretien conduit et traduit par Isabel Ruck

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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"Why Work? Doing the #Anthropology of Work" is comprised of reflections in honor of Kathryn Marie Dudley (Recipient of the Conrad M. Arensberg Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Anthropological Study of Work), in the latest issue of AWR anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please check out Manchun Du's and Ryan G. Hornbeck's latest article "Keeping company" on the positive dimensions of emotional labour in China's Pei liao industry. In your favorite #anthropology journal @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 🫶 anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional lab...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Please check out Miranda Magally's excellent article "Familiar Interfaces: Norms of Domesticity and Immigrant Latina Workers on Care Work Platforms" part of the special issue "Racialization and the Gig economy" @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines the experiences of immigrant Latina domestic workers on care work platforms, arguing that these technologies extend historical norms of domesticity into the digital era through ...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Whether in 1960s Paris or in 2020s America, Right Gramscianism frames itself as a defensive project, aggrandizing the power of its left opponents in order to adopt a posture of rightful resistance against the annihilation of its value”

How the Right Hijacked Antonio Gramsci

Inspired by a misreading of Antonio Gramsci, far-right activists have spent decades attempting to shape intellectual and cultural spaces. But their version of Gramsci’s ideas leaves out a crucial elem...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social co-editors @jasminefolz.bsky.social & @valuequestion.bsky.social explore Work/ Labour in this old but gold entry that "provides a comparative perspective on how people make a living within their natural & social environments[...]through global historical processes"

Work/labour

Most of our lives are spent working, as we frequently engage in purposeful activity to build and maintain our physical and social worlds. The anthropology of work and labour provides a comparative per...

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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This new article at #Anthropology of Work Review: "Keeping Company: Exploring the Positive Dimensions of Emotional Labor in China's Pei Liao Industry" by Manchun Du & Ryan G. Hornbeck is aimed as an intervention into debates on emotional labor anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article examines positive dimensions of emotional labor through ethnographic fieldwork on paid online companionship in China's pei liao industry. We argue that dominant concepts in emotional lab...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

My “salad days” piece of writing on drawing and ethnographic fieldwork is something like seven years old in American Anthropologist www.americananthropologist.org/ethnographic...

Drawing as a Mode of Translation — American Anthropologist

“Between July 2015 and January 2017, I carried out fieldwork in Athens, Greece. I moved there to explore how practices and practicalities of care were reconfigured under economic austerity, which, at ...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 4mo ago

“Material Gworls: Consumption and Cosmopolitanism From Jamaica to Japan” by Roxanne Kimberly Dobson is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy” edited by Shreya Subramani&Christien Tompkins @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article is part of the special issue “Racialization and the gig economy”, Anthropology of Work Review 47(1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. Amidst the economic pre...

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Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Check out this new article by Hannah Borenstein @hborenstein.bsky.social , "Finding One's Footing: Hidden Abodes of Production in the Global Running Economy" in the new special issue of #Anthropology of Work Review anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article is part of the special issue ‘Racialization and The Gig Economy’ (AWR July 2026; 47(1)) edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article examines how Ethiopian women dista...

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The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The Hidden Labor of Ethiopian Runners Long-time friend of the pod @hborenstein.bsky.social joins to discuss the social and political economic dynamics that shape Ethiopian running and practicing the anthropology of sport. open.spotify.com/episode/0gkT...

Letizia Letha Bonanno@letha-b.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Check out Hannah Borenstein's article "Finding One's Footing: Hidden Abodes of Production in the Global Running Economy" in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social SI "Racialisation and the gig economy" edited by Shreya Subramani&Christien Tompkins. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article is part of the special issue ‘Racialization and The Gig Economy’ (AWR July 2026; 47(1)) edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article examines how Ethiopian women dista...

anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Anthropology of Work Review@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hot off the press please see @cptompkins.bsky.social open access contribution to the Special Issue Racialization and the Gig Economy 'Navigating Choice: School Buses as Racializing Infrastructure in Post-Katrina New Orleans'

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library

This article is part of the special issue, Racialization and The Gig Economy, Anthropology of Work Review 47 (1), June 2026, edited by Shreya Subramani and Christien Tompkins. This article explores t...

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