Beyond the Suffering Subject in Migration Research. A special issue of Social Analysis guest edited by Elena Borisova, Jérémy Voirol, and Jamie Coates. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Hans Steinmüller
@steinmuller.bsky.social
Peasant Anthropologist @ LSE | China, Wa, Argentina | co-editor Social Analysis
🤢"the market is relieved that it’s looking like the new chancellor will not be from the left of the party”
Samuel Moore@samuelmoore.org · 3w agoLol, that's that then
It's absolutely crazy that Mandelson & co gave Peter Thiel access to the British government, NHS, and ministry of defence
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3w agoI investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan
New book out: Offers that can't be refused - An Anthropology of Extortion, about threat and protection, violence and care, and mafia states the world over. Edited by Lucia Michelutti and the EXTORT research group, with 16 chapters and all full open access here: uclpress.co.uk/book/offers-...
Offers That Cannot Be Refused
Offers That Cannot Be Refused explores the social logic and lived realities of extortion through collaborative, comparative ethnography across multiple countries. This incisive volume reveals how unre...
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I was asked to create a risk analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot for a labor council and it occurs to me that others may find it useful. Voila! padlet.com/verdigris21/...
Microsoft 365 Copilot: An Analysis
An analysis of Microsoft 365 Copilot: Risks and Issued
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helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...
In the heart of the Miccosukee, the Native American tribe that shut down Alligator Alcatraz
The community found refuge from white persecution deep in the Everglades swamps centuries ago. Together with environmental groups, they succeeded in forcing the closure of the immigration detention ce...
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Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.
I knew that Starmer was going to be an authoritarian turd not because of what he said or did, but because of who propelled him into office: Labour Together, Mandelson. Now I see how Burnham is being propelled into office by: Labour Together's Josh Simons and Mandelson's protégé Wes Streeting.
Grace Blakeley@graceblakeley.substack.com · last mo.For as long as Labour exists as a cartel, divorced from a mass base, it will remain a playground for lobbyists and consultants whose interests directly oppose those of the majority. Starmer learned this lesson the hard way. Now, it's Burnham's turn. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...
Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Israel puts Palestinian doctor in solitary confinement after 17 months held without charge
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya now in cell barely big enough to sit in, says son, after UN experts demanded his release in March
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What does Musk’s racism do for him politically? Check out the new Factually! episode with @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com wherever you get podcasts. » Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/f... » Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0fK8WJw... » YouTube: youtu.be/jLJx8j26oFE
New article on ethnographic complicity, and how that's different in China and in Wa, part of a special issue on the "Hall of Mirrors" that is anthropological fieldwork, edited by Matthew Carey and Trine Korsby in the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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We are deeply sorry to learn of the death of anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo, author of "The Day of Shelly's Death" and "The Chasers." buff.ly/dX7W4ZH
Don't miss our latest Under the Rubric feature, "Performative Sovereignty: a conversation with Sam Wilby and Rao Mohsin Ali Noor about pyropolitics, animal sacrifice, and cosmic alignments across Indian and Ottoman polities." sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2026/05...
I have a new essay out in China Leadership Monitor www.prcleader.org/post/the-pat...
“The Patient Labor of Assimilation”: China’s Strategies to Create a New “New Territory” | China Leadership Monitor
With the so-called re-education camps closed, not only has media attention on Xinjiang waned but a troubling misconception seems to have taken hold: state violence targeting Uyghurs is over. In realit...
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You could not make it up
Hanno Hauenstein@hahauenstein.bsky.social · 4mo agoA pro-Israel German skinhead attacked a young Arab man wearing a keffiyeh in Halle. Because the attacker had an Israeli flag tattooed, a bystander rushing to help was later classified by several state-funded NGOs as an antisemitic incident. My full story here: thediasporist.de/one-night-at...
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
Emperor Abby (the first pope)@arobertswrites.com · 4mo agoL to the M to the A to the O
Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts open.substack.com/pub/kashgart...
Eight Years Without My Mother: What I Carry, What I’m Learning, and What Still Hurts
Opinion: Akida Pulat - Daughter of Uyghur Anthropologist Rahile Dawut
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Tension explores how rapid development in the Western Himalayas affects the minds and bodies of the Gaddi people through the multifaceted state of distress they call “tension.” 🗓️ 19th March 2026 🔗 buff.ly/EGRuIBP 📍SOAS University of London @soasuni.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social
Check out the new Special Issue of the JRAI, on Nightmare Egalitarianism: why equality is experienced very differently across contexts. With contributions by Florian Mühlfried, Sam Wilby, Greg Deshoulliere and Natalia Buitron, Sam Farrell, & Matthew Carey rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14679655...
I'm giving my inaugural lecture on "Complicity and Complexity in Social Anthropology", tomorrow 6pm UK time www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
Complexity and complicity in social anthropology | Hans Steinmüller
6pm Thurs 5 Mar | Hans Steinmüller | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
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Check out this photo from the recent seminar on Rosemary Firth’s Letters at LSE, organised by @steinmuller.bsky.social The PB of Love, Loyalty and Deceit: Rosemary Firth, a Life in the Shadow of Two Eminent Men by Hugh Firth & Loulou Brown is 25% OFF until Friday with code FIRTH25: bit.ly/4rgxpa4
I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
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New JRAI Special Issue: Nightmare Egalitarianism. On the dark sides of levelling and measurement, with articles on Amazonia, Burma, Georgia, India, Malawi, Morocco, and the Ancient Near East. All contributions are online 'early view' rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Nightmare egalitarianism: Commensuration, autonomy, and imagination
Egalitarianism is often idealized, but many anthropologists have noted its potential for nightmare scenarios involving envy, mistrust, and violence. This introduction outlines a framework for underst...
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The latest OPEN ACCESS special issue of Social Analysis has been published! View the TOC and more for "Experiments in Moral Order: Doing and Undoing Authority": bit.ly/4sFoO21 Guest Edited by Anick Vollebergh and @naomivanstapele.bsky.social
Panel Discussion on Rosemary Firth's Letters, and the book Love, Loyalty, and Deceit. With Loulou Brown, Hugh Firth, Janet Carsten and Jonathan Spencer, 6th Feb 5pm, at LSE. Full description here www.lse.ac.uk/anthropology..., Sign up here www.eventbrite.com/e/rosemary-f...
New Special Issue out with @socialanalysis.bsky.social : Experiments in Moral Order, or Un-doing authority, guested edited by Anick Vollebergh and Naomi van Stapele, with contributions by Mohamed, Van der Veer, Hird-Younger, Kloos, and Jauregui. www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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