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Manan Ahmed @sepoy.bsky.social · Aug 14

I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.

Brinkley Messick seated second from the right.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · Jul 22

“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”

Alice Speri @alicesperi.bsky.social · Jul 22

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.

My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

www.theguardian.com

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Jun 17

Extremely grateful to Maëline Le Lay for this review in Cahiers de littérature orale
journals.openedition.org/clo/14406

Brandel Andrew, 2023, Moving Words. Literature, Memory, and Migrati...

L’ouvrage d’Andrew Brandel se présente comme une exploration dans tous les sens du terme. Il s’agit d’abord d’une exploration extrêmement stimulante de ce que signifie faire de la littérature aujou...

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Jun 6

Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!

Read more here:
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Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Jun 6

Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!

Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc

Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist

By Andrew Brandel

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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · May 28

R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House

Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Apr 29

Looking forward to reading this!

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Apr 26

No doubt they’ll find some shills from APL to be on a panel with them and the flat earthers

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Apr 26

Incredibly embarrassing to cede this clearly bad faith premise about intellectual diversity. “Heterodox faculty” is a well-known, paper thin veil for anti-intellectualism. So disgraceful if unsurprising that liberal academics are giving this cover.

hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...

Johns Hopkins works to bolster intellectual pluralism across the university

Partnership with American Enterprise Institute scholars includes collaborative research, teaching, and graduate pipeline projects; other initiatives aim to increase heterodox faculty across the univer...

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Mar 24

Starting the quarter with the 1843 Brief an Ruge. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s really a moment for it

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Feb 27

@modernlanguage.bsky.social hmm, suddenly very concerned about democratic norms, free speech, and the urgency of the moment.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Feb 8

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Feb 9

Have you done the differences in producing/writing a second book? It feels different to me but I don’t see as many articles on the process

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Feb 7

Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students

Magazine Homepage | CUSAS

www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Feb 7

Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students

Magazine Homepage | CUSAS

www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Feb 6

When's this coming out? Looking forward to reading!

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · Jan 21

a pandemic project is now out: a special issue on prison literatures in the middle east, eds. anne-marie mcmanus & brahim el guabli docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol25... walaa quisay and i wrote a short programmatic piece on how (not) to think about prison islam. i learned a lot from the other pieces

comparative cultural studies comparative literature media studies digital humanities | Vol 25 | Iss 1

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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · Jan 5

veena das - what even the cowherds and women know: everyday life and its promise www.academia.edu/126710656/Wh... a prospective retrospective

What Even the Cowherds and Women Know:Everyday Life and Its Promise

In this commentary I interrogate the implicit picture of anthropological knowledge as vulnerable to errors because its primary scene is taken to be an encounter with an alien society. Using a method o...

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Dec 28

I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world

Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago

The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Dec 2

I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Dec 2

And if you have an idea for an essay, please get in touch! I'd love to talk about it!

Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Dec 2

To learn more about the idea, check out the new blog post on the AA website, and make sure to read @labspeceth.bsky.social's essay about book reviews linked there.

Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist

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www.americananthropologist.org

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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · Dec 2

I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.

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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · Nov 22

Winter issue is coming soon!

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