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Arya Thomas @aryawa.bsky.social · Jan 24

In the time of twin transitions, a significant reminder to labour studies and labour anthropologist, "The trouble was I had my back to future – and this is the sixth ethnographic fallacy – studying the present as a point of arrival rather than a point of departure"

Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism - Michael Burawoy, 2013

Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer ...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · 3d

Happy to share my article
“Vignettes from Athens: On drawing, ethnography, and being a bad anthropologist”, published in the Multimodal Ethnography section of Anthropology and Humanism.
It is a bit of strange perhaps harsh one, full of disegnetti at least.

#anthropology
#drawing
#ethnography

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This article explores the entangled practices of drawing and ethnographic fieldwork through a series of illustrated vignettes from Athens. Written from the perspective of a self-described “bad anthro...

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 15d

A new article from AWR!

In 'Visualizing Transborder Lifeworlds in the Polish-German Border Region' Iepke M. Rijcken, @piotrgoldstein.bsky.social, & Maksymilian Awuah reflect on transborder lifeworlds using photography and sound recording as a research method.

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The work of migrants and transborder commuters in rural and peripheralized localities is often considered invisible or, in fact, actively ignored. This multimodal essay reflects on transborder lifewo...

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 16d

New from AWR!
Check out 'New Ways of Life: Cultivating Balance at a Tech Start-Up During Lockdown' by Lily Rodel

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

This article draws on digital ethnographic fieldwork to examine how the pandemic-induced shift to remote work prompted workers at a London tech start-up to engage in ethical reflections on their new ...

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jckwj.bsky.social @jckwj.bsky.social · 18d

About drawing practice, wide board and Corbusier architecture in @otherwisemag.bsky.social. Thank you @letha-b.bsky.social for inviting me, it's a great honour!
To all, Happy reading!

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · 21d

Corbu’s boars

Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world

Check out our latest story by Jacek Wajszczak

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Corbu's boars | OtherwiseMag

'Soon, in the name of the capitalist order, the straight line became a way of acting and being present in the world' - Jacek Wajszczak's piece in the Graphic issue

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

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Hidden traces: Writing sociologists’ wives into existence - Rosalind Edwards, Val Gillies, 2025

In this article we draw on our investigation of the un- and under-acknowledged contributions of major post-war sociologists’ wives to the development of the dis...

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

Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics make to their husband’s work and how those contributions are acknowledged?

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Thanks for Typing: Acknowledging the contributions of sociologists’ wives

The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wi...

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 26d

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Our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social talking with Proshanto Dhar about his new book Slavery and Capitalism for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social .

David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 26d

New AWR article!

In 'Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy' Johanna Mugler argues anthropological studies of work and education in de-industrial settings should examine the social critique of industrial work in concert with its aesthetic critique.

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The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion ...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Sep 1

From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉

Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Aug 12

OUR NEW STORY IS OUT

Samir Harb grows seeds, lines and peace of mind, cultivating freedom in a pot of Palestinian soil

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Your silence is loud | OtherwiseMag

'These plants reminded me of my connection to the land - a way of knowing that lives in practice, in care, in a language far more honest than the one spoken in the world of German academia' - Samir Ha...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Sep 1

I’m happy I had the chance to curate this entirely graphic issue for @otherwisemag.bsky.social and work together with talented artists and researchers.
Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do!

#anthropology
#graphic
#storytelling

otherwisemag.bsky.social @otherwisemag.bsky.social · Aug 11

OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! GRAPHIC IS OUT!

In this issue there is no conclusion to be drawn. No lesson to be learnt. Just fragments. Traces. Half-dreamt sketches of being and becoming.

Graphic was curated by Letizia Bonanno

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Aug 29

In this new AWR article, Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey examine how India's digital self-help gurus help cultivate entrepreneurial citizenship through the 'work of mourning', and the 'work of dreaming'... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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This paper analyzes the content of India's digital self-help gurus (SHGs), who are popular online figures in India, and engages a varied online audience across multiple social media platforms. We exa...

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Aug 28

Deadline September 1st!

Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Jul 28

Grad students working on labor 👀 Check out this call for submissions for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf Prize. The recipient will receive a $250 and an invitation to develop the paper for publication in AWR @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Aug 18

Calling all graduate students who do research on the topic of the anthropology of work (broadly defined)! You have 2 weeks to apply for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf prize. Details in the link below:

SAW @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social · Jul 27

Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025.

Please email your submissions to ([email protected]).

See the cfp below!
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2025 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions

The Prize honors excellence in graduate student research. We especially invite papers that integrate political economy and bold political action into the analysis of social life.

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Aug 18

🚨 Call for Applications: Economic Anthropology is seeking 2–3 new editorial board members.
⏰ Deadline: 29 Aug 2025
✉️ Apply: [email protected]
🔗 Details: easaonline.org/jobs-calls/c...
Help shape the future of the journal!

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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · Aug 10

Issue 3, on Surveillance and Care, builds on a discussion which began at @americananthro.bsky.social in 2002 to explore ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in ethnographic research and what we might learn from them. www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

Medical Anthropology

SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Aug 10

“Un cerotto mal riposto sopra la crisi del fordismo, il turismo di massa è sempre stato descritto come la soluzione alla deindustrializzazione”

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Senza tempo né soldi: il turista non è un alieno | il manifesto

Diritti (Commenti) Il dibattito sul calo delle presenze turistiche nelle località balneari ricorda un vecchio adagio portoghese che recitava così: «Non si può desiderare il sole sull’aia e la pioggia ...

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AnneM - Peace is the Presence of Justice @ampreferspm.bsky.social · Jul 24

Wonder who is selling their soul to work at ICE? Here you go!

Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the link!

Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice

This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Jul 23

“We believe that the weakness of all women is based on the fact that all of us women are wearied and exhausted at the very outset by the 13 hours of housework that no-one has ever recognized, that no-one has ever paid for.”
Dalla Costa on why general strike should be broadened to include housework

A General Strike - Mariarosa Dalla Costa

A speech arguing for the concept of the general strike to be broadened to include housework, given at a 1974 celebration of International Women’s Day in Mestre, Italy. Originally published in All Work...

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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Jul 22

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at [email protected].

The Society for the Anthropology of Work and the Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to join the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a new 8-month writing mentorship program running from September 2025 to April 2026.

We seek six early-career scholars and graduate students working on topics related to labor and work from anthropological perspectives and who seek to develop submissions for the Anthropology of Work Review.

Our initiative is designed to especially support those who may not have robust mentorship supports in their home institutions, and we strongly welcome applicants from equity-deserving groups.

You’ll engage in…
• Monthly writing group meetings and peer feedback
• A developmental editing workshop with Ideas on Fire [ideasonfire.net]
• The opportunity to meet and learn from the AWR editorial collective
• A community of practice (CoP) approach to writing focused on collaborative, supportive, and rigorous writing development

Eligibility:
• Current graduate student or early-career scholar (within five years of PhD)
• Working on an article-length research manuscript related to the anthropology of work
• Committed to attending monthly meetings and engaging in one peer review between meetings

To apply, please submit a short application of max 500 words describing (1) your project and its fit with the anthropology of work, (2) your goals for writing and publishing, and (3) a brief note about your writing and mentoring needs. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw, SAW Mentorship Coordinator, at jeshaw@tru.ca. Questions are also welcome!

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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

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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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · Jul 15

Please read the introduction to our current Special Issue edited by Giorgio Brocco & Stephanie Mauksch “Laboring from ex-centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity, and Work” which outlines why this Issue is so timely & important:

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

The transition to industrial regimes has produced new categories of people deemed “unfit” for labor. Even if these boundaries are more porous nowadays, contributions to this Special Issue reveal cont....

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Jul 16

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Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions

The EASA Executive Committee announces the publication of Implementation Guidelines for the EASA Motion Concerning Collaborations with Israeli Academic Institutions. This document provides implementat...

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Jul 9

Calling all early career anthropologists!! We're looking for more contributing editors to join the SCA! Check out the posting here and express interest in joining our podcast, social media (👋), member blog, or visual and new media team by July 30: www.culanth.org/about/about-...

Join Our Team: Call for New Contributing Editors

Are you looking for a writing endeavor beyond your dissertation, final essays, and grant applications? Looking for a collective of inspired anthr...

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Letizia Letha Bonanno @letha-b.bsky.social · Jul 1

Mutating out of factory, educational and community struggles, and incorporating the concerns of second wave feminism, Autonomia expanded its critical framework to include a systematic critique of all facets of life under capitalism: from the ‘factory floor to the factory of society’ as they saw it.

Mario Tronti and the many faces of autonomy - Seth Wheeler

Mario Tronti’s Workers and Capital is a landmark work in the history of Marxism. A central theme of the work is the concept of autonomy. In this article, Seth Wheeler analyses the shifting understandi...

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