Jonathan Alderman
@jonathanalderman.bsky.social
Anthropologist; Latin Americanist; Bolivianist. Research interests include: Indigenous autonomy/plurinational citizenship, ritual, religion, infrastructure, materiality, houses.
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September 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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The article examines an education project set up by Kallawaya campesinos in the 1980s, which taught literacy in Quechua and Aymara, and focusses on the production of the textbooks used in the school. The article argues for the revolutionary impact of decolonial education.
September 2, 2025 at 6:51 PM
The article examines an education project set up by Kallawaya campesinos in the 1980s, which taught literacy in Quechua and Aymara, and focusses on the production of the textbooks used in the school. The article argues for the revolutionary impact of decolonial education.
Delighted to announce my article "Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia", co-authored with my long-time research collaborator Feliciano Patty has just been published by JLACA
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley Online Library
An educational initiative called Aynikusun in northwest Bolivia, run by rural Indigenous communities with the assistance of a Belgian agronomist, significantly transformed social relations between Sp...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Delighted to announce my article "Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia", co-authored with my long-time research collaborator Feliciano Patty has just been published by JLACA
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
It's really difficult not to read this in the style of the Jet2 advert.
July 19, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It's really difficult not to read this in the style of the Jet2 advert.
Isn't that a bearded John Cleese?
June 11, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Isn't that a bearded John Cleese?
To be fair, all evidence suggests they completely gave up on the idea of winning games in the league after January
May 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
To be fair, all evidence suggests they completely gave up on the idea of winning games in the league after January
May 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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📕BLAR's (44:2) BOOK REVIEW📕
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📕BLAR's (44:2) BOOK REVIEW📕
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Isn't that the UK secretary of state for work and pensions on the right?
May 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Isn't that the UK secretary of state for work and pensions on the right?
Speaking ignorantly as someone outside the US, don't you also use the word supermarket? Although obviously what you'd buy in the supermarket would be groceries.
May 16, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Speaking ignorantly as someone outside the US, don't you also use the word supermarket? Although obviously what you'd buy in the supermarket would be groceries.
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
That would have been incredibly soft. A dive really.
April 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
That would have been incredibly soft. A dive really.
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Targeting students is one of the first moves in the fascist playbook. Always has been.
March 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Targeting students is one of the first moves in the fascist playbook. Always has been.
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
March 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
It's popular all over Latin America. When I lived in Bolivia fifteen to twenty years ago it was on TV all the time. Everyone knows the show and the characters.
March 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It's popular all over Latin America. When I lived in Bolivia fifteen to twenty years ago it was on TV all the time. Everyone knows the show and the characters.
Without even reading the article I knew you must be referring to El Chavo del Ocho. The guy has good taste!
March 15, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Without even reading the article I knew you must be referring to El Chavo del Ocho. The guy has good taste!
Rescind Trump's invitation
March 4, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Rescind Trump's invitation
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Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
Destroying the West in order to save it
When all reform leads to revolution
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March 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
This is what we've been waiting for. Unprecedented times call for emergency podcasts!
February 28, 2025 at 9:10 PM
This is what we've been waiting for. Unprecedented times call for emergency podcasts!
That must have been an amazing trip!
February 19, 2025 at 4:49 PM
That must have been an amazing trip!
Interesting!
December 6, 2024 at 8:22 PM
Interesting!
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An essay made with only first sentences, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles.
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs ...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
An essay made with only first sentences, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles.
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
This looks great!
December 6, 2024 at 6:13 PM
This looks great!