The Roma: A Travelling History
Madeline Potter
newbooksnetwork.com/the-roma-a-t... #romahistory #romanihistory discusses writing a history through the practice of Romani storytelling

One of our most popular pieces on #Mongolian and #Buddhist studies; in 2021 former editor-in-chief Daigengna Duoer introduced readers to the online #database and #mapping project “Documentation of Mongolian #Monasteries.”

🔗 See this #PostFromThePast here: digitalorientalist.com/2021/01/29/m...

I started out writing a book about Mongolian music, but ended up with a bigger question: what do you do with a world that is falling apart? For the musicians and herders I worked with, the answer is in the songs. A Song for the Horses out this October:
uapress.arizona.edu/book/a-song-...

Talked with Maggie Freeman on her podcast “Nomads, Past and Present” about “The Nomadic Leviathan“:
#TheNomadic Origin of the State,
#TheWeberian State,
#The Conquest Theory of State Formation,
#Bureaucracy as a method conquest rule,
#Extrahuman Transportation ⬇️
newbooksnetwork.com/the-nomadic-...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

I talked to Lhamsuren Munkh-Erdene about his work on Mongol and Chinese history and why many pre-modern states were founded by nomadic pastoralists.

Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!

1/ Happy to share that my article “Beyond Homecoming: The Reintroduction of Seven Przewalski’s Mares in the Gobi Desert” has been published in Environmental Humanities.

It is the story of seven mares flown from Australian zoos to Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in the 1990s
doi.org/10.1215/2201... #envhist

Call to action to defend tribal libraries, archives, and museums from ILMS and NEH cuts!

#libraries #archives 📚

www.atalm.org/call-to-acti...

Thank you Literary Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social
for running a little extract from my book 👇

‘In From the Margins: On Letting the Roma Narrate Their Own Story’

lithub.com/in-from-the-...

A great quote showing how the Mongol royalty moved in great cities. It was also not the movement of mobile herders or "nomads" - it was thousands of animals and people (certainly was terrible for the environment).

See Chris Atwood's "Imperial Itinerance" article for more info.
#tengri #mongolsky

Shoutout to my bestie, @nomadspod.bsky.social.

I've never listened to one of these episodes without learning a lot and usually wanting to buy another book. It's about nomadic and nomadic peoples throughout history and it's fantastic.

And another little podcast: this time about the history, legacies, and culture of nomadism for the Roma. Thank you ‘Nomads Past and Present’ for the invitation! I’ve really enjoyed it!

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

I talked to Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social about her (excellent, moving, informative) book "The Roma: A Travelling History"

Listen below ⬇️ or wherever you get your podcasts!

As a contributor to a past issue of JAE and reader of the journal, I send all my solidarity to the (censored) issue’s editorial team Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, and Nick Estes and all the contributors. This move against academic freedom should not be accepted.

Happy International Women's Day! The Mongolian People's Republic heavily featured women's liberation as part of their stated mission, emphasizing education, women's ability to be high quality workers, and so forth. #mongolsky #tengri

History of reindeer herding in Canada. A Sami freind (Lloyd Binder's) family brought over reindeer to the NWT from Northern Norway. The reindeer herd was transfered to Inuvialuit ownership. www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti...

Few people are paying attention to the complications posed for & by the Sami in Russia. I have a Sami freind now a refugee in Norway. He is in distress as the war between Russia and Ukraine continues over related internal & external politics. Learn more. www.thebarentsobserver.com/life-and-pub...

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

I talked to Zozan Pehlivan about her research into the effects of climatic disruptions and anomalies on the lives and intercommunal relations of Kurdish pastoralists in the 19th century Ottoman Empire ⬇️

thanks so much for listening!

went to Kurdistan, came back a changed person

Second, I have a chapter on nomadism in the medieval Mediterranean included in the volume "Windows into the Medieval Mediterranean" ⬇️ (not open access, but relatively affordable and the entire volume is an excellent resource for anyone who teaches or researches the medieval Mediterranean world)

New year, new publications out into the world! ✨

First, my article on the architecture of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the IPC's interactions with the Bedouin was just published by Architectural Theory Review (open access, so you have no excuse but to go read it) ⬇️

🚨NEW EPISODE!🚨

I talked to archaeologist Joy McCorriston about ancient pastoralism in southern Oman, and what evidence of pastoralist permanence (in the form of stone monuments and settlements) can in turn tell us about pastoralist mobility.

Listen below or wherever you get your podcasts ⬇️

✨proofs day✨

If any of the above sounds interesting to you, sign up to spend January on Zoom with me! 🏜️