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Fionanimhurchui

@fionamur.bsky.social

My reflection on #motherhood and #mothering on this #mothersday www.thejournal.ie/readme/mothe... @thejournal.ie @dcuresearch.bsky.social #care #anthrobluesky

Mother’s Day: It's not gratitude that's needed, it's an honest conversation about motherhood

On Mother’s Day, Dr Fiona Murphy examines all aspects of motherhood, mothering and everything in between.

www.thejournal.ie

March 30, 2025 at 8:49 AM

Fionanimhurchui

@fionamur.bsky.social

It’s too complicated they say - a poem on silence, complicity and blame . Thanks to @publicanthropologist for publishing publicanthropologist.cmi.no/2025/03/14/i... #anthrobluesky #publicanthropology #poetry

IT’S TOO COMPLICATED, THEY SAY | Public Anthropologist

A Reckoning in Seven Movements I. To Begin With Fire There are nights I wake with my hands curled into fists,nights when I cannot unclench…

publicanthropologist.cmi.no

March 14, 2025 at 1:56 PM

Felix Stein

@felixundstein.bsky.social

Join us for a hybrid talk next Wednesday, 19th of March at 1pm CET, on "Enslavement, Colonialism and Moral #Repair: Some Problems with #Apologies" by Revd. Prof. Michael Banner, from Trinity College, Cambridge. Find out more & sign up here: www.reparationsresearch.eu/moral-repair #anthrobluesky

March 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology

@anthroencyclo.bsky.social

Can #agency be reduced to notions of personal choice, #freedom, and #autonomy? Find out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency #anthropology #sts #anthrobluesky

Agency

In anthropology, agency is broadly defined as the socio-culturally mediated capacity to act. Classically, the concept has been used to analyse how people try to influence, or change, their lifeworlds ...

www.anthroencyclopedia.com

January 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM

REPAIR

@reparationsres.bsky.social

Obituary for #anthropologist Signe Howell. With her "one of the brightest stars of #anthropology" has faded. She will be missed but not forgotten. www.sv.uio.no/sai/om/aktue... #anthrobluesky

Professor Signe Howell har gått bort - Sosialantropologisk institutt (SAI)

En av norsk antropologis klareste stjerner er sluknet.

www.sv.uio.no

January 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM

Fionanimhurchui

@fionamur.bsky.social

Very excited to see our wonderful special issue out soon on #decolonising #refugeeintegration ! Wonderful contributions and clever thinking from a range of geographies and disciplines ! @dcuresearch.bsky.social #forceddisplacement #anthrobluesky

Ethnic and Racial Studies @ersjournal.com · Dec 6

#ERSSpecialIssue

Crafting in Waiting: Social Entrepreneurship and Refugee Labour at the #Frontier

Authors: Evi Chatzipanagiotidou @evichatzi.bsky.social Fiona Murphy @fionamur.bsky.social

Queen's University @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Dublin City University @dublincityuni.bsky.social

December 6, 2024 at 9:38 AM

Tanay Katiyar

@adigitaltanay.bsky.social

#AnthroBluesky

How bored are individuals (esp children + teens) in contemporary small-scale populations? Is there good prior work/ethnographies? Does anyone have anecdotes/observations from their field sites?

@kristensyme.bsky.social @edhagen.net @ehemmott.bsky.social @evolvingmoloch.bsky.social

November 21, 2024 at 8:17 AM

Cari Tusing

@caritusing.bsky.social

See you in Tampa, first thing on Wednesday!
Panel: To Be Seen: Visibility as Praxis in a Neoliberal Age. Paper: We’re all Lafkenche, But Only the Peddlers are Heritage: Politics of Recognition in Seaweed Commercialization, Southern Chile #anthrobluesky

November 19, 2024 at 12:36 PM