I’m aware of the politics of language, especially when research concerns people and places already in liminal positions. So it’s worth sitting with this: I published about my research in Ishkoman Valley, Gilgit-Baltistan in a research supplement of the University of Augsburg

In their Introduction to Collection 15 Cryosphere, Anna-Maria Walter and Sophie Elixhauser provide a framework for a fascinating selection of texts and art. #anthropology #sociology #humangeography #sts #infrastructures

@raulpachecovega.bsky.social I can't believe it. I just read your post the other day where you mentioned about health and care work and how we need to talk more about it in academia. How you were so concerned about mother's health. I am in total shock that you are not among us anymore.

"At times, I wanted to burn the whole thesis. It felt hypocritical to continue writing about affective injustice when real people were being silenced, displaced, and killed – and our universities refused to even name it." ✍️ From our blog www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2216

Feeling the Colonial: Affective Decolonisation in Development Studies Classrooms

By Carla Maria Friederike Diem / part of our “Share your Decolonising Story” project “I hope for a world where International Development Studies cease to exist.” was the first line of my motivation…

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A great, fresh framing of the contemporary challenges of critical agrarian studies by Facundo Martín, @kristinadietz.bsky.social, Barbara Göbel & Bettina Engels for the @agrarianchange.bsky.social blog: aqs.org.uk/beyond-promi...

@ahakram-lodhi.bsky.social So good to see you here. I missed your tweets since you left X

Call for papers :: Markets as infrastructures We are particularly interested in contributions that connect long-term, in-depth or participatory insights on market forms and practices to theoretical approaches. shorturl.at/SboBI #markets #anthropology #economy #decoloniality #politicaleconomy

New paper out with fantastic colleagues in the Journal of Peasant Studies! 🎉 "Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies." Check it out: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #FoodSovereignty #AgrarianStudies #CollectiveHealth

Reimagining health with food sovereignty and critical agrarian studies

Despite the intrinsic connection between food and health, industrialised global food systems produce hunger, malnutrition, and chronic diseases. The Food Sovereignty (FS) movement offers a politica...

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We are happy to announce that gradually all our articles will be available in html on our website, starting with our latest issue on food: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

Foodways: An Introduction (Roadsides Journal Article)

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Maryam Fouad's "Awful Anthropology" -- now in the Anthropology that Breaks Your Heart: Loss and Found Special Collection. Read here: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

I wrote about food and the work to create "solidarity infrastructures" in the #Salween, particularly the work by women who provide food for the movement, with @zalifung.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

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In their contribution to our latest issue, @drvanessalamb.bsky.social and @zalifung.bsky.social show how food preparation by Karen women for anti-dam gatherings is a form of solidarity infrastructure in the Salween River Basin at the Thai–Myanmar border. www.roadsides.net/articles/8234

The new @roadsides.bsky.social collection is out, on Foodways! An excellent issue, edited by the fab @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social www.roadsides.net/collections/...

Our introduction to the latest issue of @roadsides.bsky.social argues for an understanding of the term foodways to focus on the ways food needs infrastructure to come into, move, and be in the world: www.roadsides.net/articles/8888

New paper with @drvanessalamb.bsky.social in @roadsides.bsky.social We show how food preparation, primarily undertaken by older Karen women, is key to contesting long-proposed hydropower dams & water diversions in the Salween River Basin Thanks editors @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon

In her photo essay, @fizza7.bsky.social recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency, how the road built to connect them dismantled the world for the people of Ishkoman. www.roadsides.net/articles/8243

I really liked writing for @roadsides.bsky.social as I was able to utilize my photos quite extensively, often not possible in academic writing. www.roadsides.net/articles/8063 Also, the whole publication process was one of the best I'e experienced. Great work @matthieu.bsky.team and Dolly Kikon!

The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social is out! Titled "Foodways", the articles of the issue discuss the various intersections of #infrastructure and food. Edited by @mattrest.bsky.social & Dolly Kikon. Roadsides is an excellent, non-profit and community managed #OpenAcces journal! #anthropology

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Roadsides' Collection No. 14

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Fizza Batool recounts how the Karakoram Highway traded food sovereignty for dependency and how the road built to connect the people of Ishkoman instead dismantled the world for them.

@fizza7.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it. Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly: www.roadsides.net/articles/8243

Food subsidies and infrastructure are not neutral. I wrote a little thing about it. Thrilled to be part of this @roadsides.bsky.social on #Foodways. Massive thanks to the editorial team! @mattrest.bsky.social and Dolly: www.roadsides.net/articles/8243

The Empty Granary of Ishkoman (Roadsides Journal Article)

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Over the past months, I was blessed to work with Dolly Kikon on the new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure. Over the next days, we'll publish all the fantastic contributions to "Foodways" - check it out on our all-new website

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Roadsides' Collection No. 14

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"The Southern struggle for liberation is the true agent of world-historical transformation, and this is the generation that must bring it about." Read Professor Jason Hickel's speech to the Fudan University forum on "Socialist Perspectives on Global Governance in a Multipolar World" online now.

"China, unequal exchange, and the present world-historic juncture."

Professor Jason Hickel's speech to the Fudan University forum on "Socialist Perspectives on Global Governance in a Multipolar World."

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