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JC Gaillard @jcgaillard.bsky.social · 16d

Check out the maiden issue of Wicked Stars - a zine to trouble disaster studies! Available from: www.radixonline.org/wickedstars. Pieces by @kschmutina.bsky.social, @ajfaas.bsky.social, @aditisharan15.bsky.social, @ricardosefes.bsky.social, and many more.

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · 16d

We launched Wicked Stars, a new online zine for critical takes on disaster—how it’s produced, sustained, resisted. Global voices, many languages. Check it out and LMK @riskdisastertig.bsky.social @disastersdecon.bsky.social www.radixonline.org/wickedstars #WickedStars #DisasterStudies

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · 19d

Call for Applications: The #Comitas Institute Award for Public Knowledge & Engagement

Honoring Lambros Comitas, this award celebrates ethnographic research that builds public knowledge & addresses human problems.

Details: appliedanthro.org/awards-prize...

#SfAA #socialscience #appliedanthropology

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Risk & Disaster TIG @riskdisastertig.bsky.social · Jul 7

Check out Docot's "Photos from the Migrant Archive" in the latest #PracticingAnthropology at www.tandfonline.com/... #Anthropology #SfAA

Blue background that reads "check out:" next to an image of the front cover of the journal "Practicing Anthropology" over text that links users to Dada Docot's Photo Essay at https://doi.org/10.1080/08884552.2025.2497233

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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · Apr 25

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores.

This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Mar 21

Come check out our session at #SfAA2025 next week. We're celebrating 60 years of Applied Anthropology at the University of South Florida.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Mar 20

Our Theory Sale is live 👀

Verso Theory Sale | Up to 40% off

Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses. For over 50 years, Verso has been publishing important works of Marxist theory. Now through Monday, you can save up to 40% on the ...

www.versobooks.com

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Mar 18

Are you interested in serving the Society for Applied Anthropology (@appliedanthro.bsky.social) in a leadership capacity? Curious to learn what that entails and how that works? Come join the members of the board in Portland for an informal chat.

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DisastersDecon.bsky.social @disastersdecon.bsky.social · Mar 6

It’s so great to be back 🤩 Thank you @jcgaillard.bsky.social & @ajfaas.bsky.social for opening Season 10 with us today 🤓
And for those of you who missed the livestream, you can catch up on our YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/live/yVLOccX...

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Mar 4

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Mar 4

Excited to join this conversation with brilliant colleagues, JC Gaillard @jcgaillard.bsky.social, Jason von Meding @vonmeding.bsky.social, and Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social. We'll be talking philosophy, nature, and disasters, and heaven knows what else will come up with such great company.

Prof Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social · Mar 4

@disastersdecon.bsky.social are back! Season 10 is starting this week, when @vonmeding.bsky.social & I will be joined by our friends @jcgaillard.bsky.social & @ajfaas.bsky.social😍
You can watch the livestream on our YouTube Channel & on our Facebook page.

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Danielle Terrazas Williams @drdanielletw.bsky.social · Jan 30

Job Opportunity!

University of California Berkeley

Oral Historian of Recent US History Oral History Center, Bancroft Library

www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

H-Net Job Guide

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Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Jan 29

The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader—edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana—is an anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of #anthropology.

Out now. Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Cover of The Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader. Edited by Aisha M. Beliso-De Jesús, Jemima Pierre, and Junaid Rana

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Jan 23

This is 100% true, but it's also much funnier now that I'd practically forgotten this conversation!

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Jan 23

I've chosen to publish in @jds-disasters.bsky.social because that's where some of the most critical conversations in disaster studies are taking place. What was my first clue? @kschmutina.bsky.social told me so!

Prof Ksenia Chmutina @kschmutina.bsky.social · Jan 23

So I asked @ajfaas.bsky.social why he decided to write for the @jds-disasters.bsky.social - and apparently it’s all my fault 🤪💙

youtu.be/wV40D9y7IqM?...

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Neil Lewis, Jr. @neillewisjr.bsky.social · Jan 2

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Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · Dec 2

My comments about Diamond/Hancock also reminded me...Remember, attacks against scholarship are coming!

Step 1: Find some super-niche research.

Step 2: Strip it of all context.

Step 3: Ridicule the scholar. Then, denounce the field.

Step 4: Call for federal funding cuts and bans.

An image metaphorically depicting political attacks on academic freedom by showing a man's mouth taped shut with blue and red tape.

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · Nov 21

The deadline for the Bronislaw #Malinowski Award is Dec. 15. #SfAA presents the Award to a social scientist who has demonstrated a commitment to understanding & addressing the needs of global societies. www.appliedanthro.org/about/awards...
#socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology #SfAA2025

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Nov 26

Any reading recommendations for first generation professionals? As a first gen student myself, I've learned to be an effective mentor. But I speak with former students who are now professionals and struggle with socially integrating into those spaces, with cultivating professional habitus

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Society for Applied Anthropology @appliedanthro.bsky.social · Nov 23

Join the Risk & Disaster TIG for a workshop on online harassment of applied scholars on Nov 25, Noon ET. It is open to all - academics, practitioners, & government employees at all career stages. Please register at bit.ly/RDTIGWebinar
#SfAA #socialscience #anthropology #appliedanthropology

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Nov 21

Deeply probing, stimulating, and wonderfully well crafted essays by my old friend, apparently not yet on bsky. But do yourselves a favor

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Nov 20

If you're at #AAA2024 in Tampa, come join my friends and I this Friday afternoon as we share work on ruination, praxis, resistance, and worlding alternatives. @sbalkan5.bsky.social @dominicboyer.bsky.social

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Agent Fox @ajfaas.bsky.social · Nov 19

My copy just arrived today. Looking forward to reading

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Tim Watson @timwatson.bsky.social · Nov 17

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Dr. Clare Sammells @csammells.bsky.social · Nov 17

Are you an anthropologist working in Latin American or the Caribbean? Or maybe you just want to know more about the region? Here's a starter pack of some of the members of SLACA (The Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology): go.bsky.app/LGV4jHn

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