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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 9d

Leaving Cologne and #DGSKA2025 full of ideas and #anthropological excitement. Wonderful to see old friends and meet new people - and look forward to continuing the conversation on un/commoning!

DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social · 9d

At plenary I:

@lianachua.bsky.social shared insights from Borneo on orangutan-human relations and global commons. 🌏🦧

Astrid Ulloa Cubillos spoke on 8 years with the Wayuu in La Guajira, tracing water’s relational paths through Indigenous territory.💧Reflections on more-than-human worlds.

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DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social · 9d

At plenary I:

@lianachua.bsky.social shared insights from Borneo on orangutan-human relations and global commons. 🌏🦧

Astrid Ulloa Cubillos spoke on 8 years with the Wayuu in La Guajira, tracing water’s relational paths through Indigenous territory.💧Reflections on more-than-human worlds.

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 10d

Looking forward to our conversation on #more-than-human un/commoning @dgska.bsky.social...though I think (hope!) it's 30 Sept at 9 am 🙂

DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social · 11d

Reminder: “More-than-Human Un/Commoning” with Liana Chua ( @lianachua.bsky.social ), Kileni Fernando, and Astrid Ulloa Cubillos on Sept 29, 5 PM. They explore commons beyond the human via conservation, Indigenous activism, and environmental justice.
Chair: Franz Krause ( @franzkrause.bsky.social )

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DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social · 11d

Reminder: “More-than-Human Un/Commoning” with Liana Chua ( @lianachua.bsky.social ), Kileni Fernando, and Astrid Ulloa Cubillos on Sept 29, 5 PM. They explore commons beyond the human via conservation, Indigenous activism, and environmental justice.
Chair: Franz Krause ( @franzkrause.bsky.social )

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Sep 5

It's been such an honour and pleasure to run the #Tunku Fund at @stcatharines.bsky.social and work (+makan!) with our amazing Malaysian students. Click 👇 to learn more about our scholars and upcoming #PhD and #MPhil scholarship opportunities @cam.ac.uk!

St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · Aug 31

On this day in 1957 Catz alumnus Tunku Abdul Rahman (1922, Law; Honorary Fellow 1960) declared independence for the Federation of Malaya as its first PM. A Catz fund in his memory has supported scholarships & Malay World Studies at @cam.ac.uk & beyond: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/... @lianachua.bsky.social

The Tunku research community

St Catharine's Tunku Abdul Rahman Fund exists to “encourage the development of the humanities and the social sciences in Malaysia” by offering grants and studentships for the country’s most promising scholars to study for a postgraduate degree in Cambridge. The Tunku Scholarship has supported an incredible range of scholars, and served as vital bridge between Cambridge and Malaysia – one that’s grown stronger every year.

www.caths.cam.ac.uk

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Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social · Sep 2

My take on the recent protests in Indonesia

www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...

Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala

A subculture of opposition survives beyond Jokowi

www.newmandala.org

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · Aug 31

On this day in 1957 Catz alumnus Tunku Abdul Rahman (1922, Law; Honorary Fellow 1960) declared independence for the Federation of Malaya as its first PM. A Catz fund in his memory has supported scholarships & Malay World Studies at @cam.ac.uk & beyond: www.caths.cam.ac.uk/... @lianachua.bsky.social

The Tunku research community

St Catharine's Tunku Abdul Rahman Fund exists to “encourage the development of the humanities and the social sciences in Malaysia” by offering grants and studentships for the country’s most promising scholars to study for a postgraduate degree in Cambridge. The Tunku Scholarship has supported an incredible range of scholars, and served as vital bridge between Cambridge and Malaysia – one that’s grown stronger every year.

www.caths.cam.ac.uk

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SAPIENS Magazine @sapiens.org · Jul 24

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THREAD: It’s with deep regret we share the news that SAPIENS will halt publication of new content by the end of this year. We are so proud of everything SAPIENS has achieved and for our role in furthering public anthropology. Wenner-Gren’s letter to our community. wennergren.org/important-ne...

Important News about SAPIENS

wennergren.org

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Jun 27

rdcu.be/etL5R A really interesting, nuanced take on indigenous names for the #Tapanuli #orangutan: when does it make sense to use them, and when might more 'neutral' terms be better for their #conservation? h/t @peopleprimate.bsky.social

Indigenous names matter, too: Tapanuli orangutan names reflect local community perceptions

rdcu.be

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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · Jun 26

We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist

Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger

Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025

www.jobbnorge.no

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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · Jun 11

A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/06/11/s...

#ethnography #drawing #sociology #anthropology #geography #creativemethods #research

Seeing between the lines: how drawing opens up new horizons in social research

The recent requests from academic journals to peer-review submissions on drawing as a method and an invitation to give a guest talk on drawing in social research have made me reflect on my experien…

alexandrinavanke.com

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Jun 10

📢: 3x postdocs on extractivism & animism in #SoutheastAsia w/Judith Bovensiepen's 'Resource Spirits' project @erc.europa.eu @oeaw.bsky.social. Great opportunity for #anthropologists of/from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines - incs fieldwork & conference funding oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/9imyjik1

POSTDOC (F/M/X) in Social Anthropology

OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...

oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs

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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · Apr 29

Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!

"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"

It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓

Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair

An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w

direct.mit.edu

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · Apr 18

The latest issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published!

This #OpenAccess special issue is entitled "Documents, State Affects, and Imaginings at Times of Bureaucratic Impasse." View the TOC here: conta.cc/4ijFFRt @lianachua.bsky.social

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Mar 21

Job alert! 3-yr #SocialAnthropology postdoc on #multispecies succession, working w/ Prof Rebecca Cassidy @uniofcam.bsky.social from Oct 2025. Lots of scope for customisation - see www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50699/

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Social Anthropology - Multispecies Succession (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Post-doctoral Research Associate in Social Anthropology - Multispecies Succession (Fixed Term) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk

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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · Mar 12

Welcome to the official Bluesky account for St Catharine's College in Cambridge or (as we're affectionately known) Catz! We look forward to sharing updates about our community very soon. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and TikTok.

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Mar 6

📢Job alert - Associate Prof in Social #Anthropology @ox.ac.uk - particular interest in gender and sexuality, environment, race or religion www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...

Associate Professorship in Social Anthropology

www.anthro.ox.ac.uk

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Mar 6

Oh, finally!! That's really exciting - congratulations! Look forward to reading it

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Olga Ulturgasheva @olgault.bsky.social · Mar 4

www.linkedin.com/posts/vaness...

Vanessa Grotti on LinkedIn: We are very excited to be hosting Olga Ulturgasheva from the University of…

We are very excited to be hosting Olga Ulturgasheva from the University of Manchester at the Social and Cultural Anthropology Lab in Ravenna this Friday 7th…

www.linkedin.com

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Mar 3

Talk by Prof Shawn McHale at Cambridge Uni! Friday March 7 17.00-18.30 GMT: "Peace, Violence, and #Buddhism: The First #Indochina War (1945-54) in the #Cambodian- #Vietnamese Borderlands" at Dept of #SocialAnthropology on Free School Lane - all welcome!

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Feb 27

‘Ethnographic expressions’ explores these questions by bringing ethnographers and multimodal practitioners together to scrutinise, refine and devise key criteria and principles for evaluating multimodal ethnographic work. 4/4

Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Feb 27

How can such outputs be rigorously evaluated, and how might these evaluative practices be deployed by journals, websites and other publication infrastructures? 3/4

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Feb 27

Recent years have seen the proliferation of different kinds of ethnographic expression, e.g. poetry, fiction, sound, photo essays. But what makes a ‘good’ ethnographic output? 2/4

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Feb 27

Really looking forward to this workshop that i'm co-convening on how to evaluate and engage constructively w/ #multimodal forms of #ethnographic expression! 'Ethnographic Expressions: Evaluating multimodal forms'

25-26 March 2025 at CRASSH
crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Feb 27

1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...

Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Feb 3

Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field?
Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities!
We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here:
environmentalhumanities.org

Contact us if you have any questions.

Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press

environmentalhumanities.org

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

✴️ Archipelagos (AES spring conference) ✴️
MIT, Cambridge, MA
March 20–22, 2025

How can archipelagos & “archipelagic thinking” help us grapple w/pressing global challenges across cultures, geographies, climates, disciplines, & methodologies?

More info here: ⬇️
americanethnologist.org/meetings/spr...

AES 2025 Archipelagos - American Ethnological Society

This in-person spring conference at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites scholars to explore how "archipelagic thinking" can address contemporary global challenges.

americanethnologist.org

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Dec 13

The #Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology's 2nd issue of 2024 is now out! Special issue on #Policing #Fakes by guest eds Julia Hornberger & Sarah Hodges, and the 2022 #StrathernLecture by Ruben Andersson @ox.ac.uk. All #OpenAcess - grab some ❄️ reading now

www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...

www.berghahnjournals.com

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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · Dec 12

A brilliant new paper on conservation patriarchy - must be widely read: ‘We conclude that patriarchal norms and structures within conservation must be questioned and dismantled to make conservation more effective and just’ www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Mapping the patriarchy in conservation - npj Biodiversity

npj Biodiversity - Mapping the patriarchy in conservation

www.nature.com

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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · Dec 2

Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Dec 2

The Environmental Humanities November 2024 issue came out a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to post a thread on it yet! I wanted to bring this massive amount of new #envhum scholarship to your attention.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
A thread...

Cover of Environmental Humanities, vol 16 issue 3, Nov 2024. Image is a spider web with dew

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