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poet, anthropologist & postdoc in disaster studies @harvardcmes.bsky.social | work on disability & bodies, labor, resource extraction, disasters website: www.lnk.bio/eiremaz

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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · Jul 14

New article!

Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?

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

This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch....

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Alyssa A. L. James, PhD @colibriphd.bsky.social · 7d

My essay "Tending to the Future" is out in Small Axe!

Thanks @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social for the invitation to contribute to the Caribbean Keywords project on Heritage!

Read the essay here: read.dukeupress.edu/small-axe/ar...

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Max Planck Institute for the History of Science @mpiwg.bsky.social · 8d

Our Institute’s Colloquium Program 2025–26 is now available online! This year we will be "Rethinking Time in the History of Science" 🕰️⌚️

📍 MPIWG & Harnack-Haus

🔗 For the full program and information on registration, please check bit.ly/42Zq98m

#HistSci #DeepTime #Anthropology #ReligiousStudies

Poster of the MPIWG Institute’s Colloquium. It features the titles of its five events below an image that shows a colorful mixture of liquids in red, orange, yellow, green, and violet.

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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · 9d

While I agree that spatial order is crucial to social and political life, it's disheartening that some still believe a reorientation of 'liberalism' can be a solution to anything in the U.S.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9d

This one of many reasons that 21st century liberalism should reorient itself around *places*, namely creating places that are actually pleasant to live in, with generous public spaces that bring people's physical bodies into proximity.

The Anti-Social Century

Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11d

“.. Some energy experts say West Virginia is a harbinger of what could happen ..

“.. As residents’ electricity prices have increased, nearly one out of five customers of the leading utility .. is behind on monthly bills.”

@nytimes.com $AEP
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Rua M. Williams @fractalecho.bsky.social · 28d

Why are the negative consequences of so-called AI so consistently directed at disabled and racialized people? Disabling Intelligences details the ongoing effects of the eugenicist mindset on our corporate ventures and our interpersonal relationships. link.springer.com/book/9783032...

Disabling Intelligences

This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 18d

"Fidel" will spend his day harvesting hundreds of boxes of parsley. He shares he is grateful for his union job that allows him to earn more in way better working conditions than non-union workers. #WeFeedYou

A farm worker standing in a cilantro field. He is wearing a hat and a face mask and his hat band has the Mexican flag

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

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Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · Sep 13

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Trump administration appears to be trying to make a global war on renewables. I spoke to @mkblyth.bsky.social for @drilledmedia.bsky.social about the strategy of carbon dominance, how this is shaping politics not just in the US but everywhere, and what that means for the future.

Trump Is Trying to Kill Renewables Everywhere

The US government is trying to strangle renewables to save fossil fuels. Trump wants other countries to do the same.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · Sep 4

The very concept of "virtue signaling" is culturally Protestant, premised as it is upon a fundamental disconnect between the true, unknowable inner self, and the outward acts that self performs. But there is no self that preexists its actions in the world. Better people enact virtue than vice.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Sep 4

The notion that doing anything good in public ever was in itself proof you are actually a bad person because virtue signaling is the worst sin you can possibly commit has to be the most destructive psyop in human history.

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm seeing a social media trend where people are sneaking pics of men reading books in public and making fun of them as "performative males"

And while I love a good dunk, I don't think you guys want men to be reading even less than they are now. Just saying

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Sep 3

"Merleau-Ponty Today," a special issue of SAQ (124:3) edited by Judith Revel, is now available. View the full TOC and read Revel's introduction "Merleau-Ponty, History Otherwise," made freely available: buff.ly/CF9KvNT

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · Aug 29

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“We need a new way of thinking about fire: as not only natural disaster, but also environmental threat with a high risk of long-term harms to health,” David L. Ulin, a professor at the University of Southern California, writes.

Opinion | Los Angeles Wildfires Left the City With a Toxic Mess

Urban wildfires are becoming public health emergencies.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Aug 25

My blurb for this book was limited to fifty word, but I could have gone on and on about how important it is, a book we will be talking about for a long time.
edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-spinoza...

Spinoza in Post-Marxist Philosophy

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 23

This flew by my radar this week, but massively important: the 5th circuit court of appeals ruled that the NLRB’s structure unconstitutional.

It is a huge blow to “American workers who hope to organize their workplaces without fear of retaliation. It represents a partial negation of the New Deal…”

Elon Musk Just Won His War on Labor Unions

The Fifth Circuit has done the mogul’s bidding and neutered the National Labor Relations Board, in a move that will likely substantially damage workers’ rights.

newrepublic.com

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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · Aug 22

Great episode.
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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · Jul 16

Frederick Cooper's "Decolonizing #Decolonization" is out on FirstView: "This article poses the question of what work the concept of decolonization can and cannot do." #Russia #Africa #Empire #History

doi.org/10.1017/S001...

Decolonizing Decolonization | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core

Decolonizing Decolonization

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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Aug 18

Re-upping our latest entry on the Deep Sea, where Marta Gentilucci highlights #anthropology 's "shy yet critical approach to the deep sea as an ethnographic site–one imbued with meanings that shift depending on who encounters it, with what tools, and through which mediations." #OpenAccess

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · Aug 14

Hot off the press: new #openaccess entry on the #anthropology of the #deepsea by Marta Gentilucci @unibergen.bsky.social www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/deep-sea

Deep sea

The mystery evoked by the deep sea—its darkness, remoteness, and inaccessibility—has long captivated the public imagination. Iconic works of science fiction as well as pioneering documentaries reflect...

www.anthroencyclopedia.com

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David Young @gnuoyd.bsky.social · Aug 15

Another great book that I finished recently was @kimkelly.bsky.social’s Fight Like Hell, a history of the U.S. organized labor movement since colonial times. Gives several examples of private surveillance / violence (Pinkertons, hired thugs) and police opposing organizers—rhymes with the present!

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Aug 8

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work”
Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
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The Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our hidden gem of the week details how tech doesn’t just “augment” work; it reshapes power, squeezing workers while boosting employer control.

By @aihathing.bsky.social & @cariatida.bsky.social in @datasociety.bsky.social

https://buff.ly/3EcmDOs

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The Final Report @firehorse249791.bsky.social · Aug 11

Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires www.reuters.com/sustainabili... #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #Wildfire #Canakkale #Turkey

Hundreds evacuated in northwestern Turkey as authorities fight wildfires

Firefighters in Turkey are battling wildfires in the centre of the northwestern province of Canakkale, fanned by strong winds, and hundreds of residents have evacuated in precaution, local authorities and media said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · Aug 10

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢

How does one care for the welfare of child soldiers whose very vulnerability may undermine the State’s ability to wage war? In “Army of the Vulnerable,” Edmonds explores how the British army attempts to protect its own while retaining the capacity to exercise violence.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Aug 5

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians

“I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

www.motherjones.com

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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · Jul 30

Thank you so much!

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Jul 21

“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work”

Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social

#anthropology

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

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