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Anthropologist (interdisciplinary): (im)mobilities, informality, humanitarianism, migration, transnationalism, networks, sports, humor | Assistant professor at University of Oviedo | first gen, dad, surfer, growing organic vegetables
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Hoy, miércoles 21 de mayo, continúa el 1er Encuentro de Antropología Joven, organizado por la Red de Antropología Joven de la Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español (ASAEE). 🕕 De 18:00 a 19:30 (hora peninsular española) 🌐 Online, sin inscripción previa 🔗 Enlace: meet.google.com/xkm-bghi-adr

Three words (meditate, stop, freedom), make your sentence

ASAPE (Asociación Asturiana de Antropología y Patrimonio Etnológico) acaba de publicar el informe "Talleres par repensar el patrimonio",con ponencias, debates y un decálogo elaborado en los talleres celebrados en 2024 en Somiedo (Asturias, España) #antropología #anthropology doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Happy #AnthroDay my fellow anthropologists! Here’s to studies of ethnicity, inequality, cultures and cultural differences, gender, racism, advocacy, senses of belonging,diversity, social justice, marginalised minorities, stereotypes,and all the other important topics of our discipline #anthropology

Datos: Los inmigrantes usan menos la sanidad pública, cobran menos y sufren mayor abandono escolar que los españoles vía @eldiarioes www.eldiario.es/1_b8200c

In a world dominated by screens (and pdf.s) is great to receive a hard copy of your own article.

Encerrados 22 horas al día, la acogida de refugiados en el cuartel de Carabanchel: “Era como una prisión” elpais.com/espana/2025-...

Buena entrevista para arrancar de lunes mañanero, no hay que bajar los brazos: Carlos Hernández: "Si algo nos enseñaron los años 30 es que a la ultraderecha no se la apacigua, se la combate" vía @eldiarioes www.eldiario.es/128_b7cdda

I am an anthropologist from Eastern Europe. I am among the many in global public health who are deeply critical of the power structures within global health and global aid. But precisely because of where I'm from I have no illusions about what a US withdrawal from this realm means. 1/

JUST PUBLISHED: kritisk etnografi – Swedish Journal of Anthropology, 2024, 7(1) “Infrastructures and Environments in Late Industrialism,” guest editors Chakad Ojani, Susann B. Ullberg & Asta Vonderau. kritisk etnografi is open access. Always. Everywhere. And for Everyone. kritisketnografi.se

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Rest in peace James Ferguson

I am very much looking forward to starting my ERC project RESTATE about how refugees perceive and engage with the state throughout their displacement journeys, and how these perceptions shape their roles as political actors in September 2025. I am going to hire 2 postdocs and 1 PhD later this year!

Ayer falleció el antropólogo Enrique Luque Baena. Descanse en paz. Fue profesor en Madrid y tiene textos interesantísimos. Siempre pienso que leer sus escritos es la mejor forma de honrar el trabajo de los que nos han dejado: dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/auto...

The new issue of American Ethnologist (@amethno.bsky.social, 52.1, Feb 2025) features a forum titled "I was Wrong" featuring contributions from Veena Das, Hugh Gusterson, Carole McGranahan, Gil Hizi, Erin Routon, Meredith G. Marten, and Laura A. Meek. 1/3 #AnthroSky #Anthropology

Un honor presentar el mío trabayu investigador ayeri nel Congresu Mundial de Cultura Asturiana (CMCA25), entamáu pola Academia de la Llingua Asturiana (ALLA) @alladixital.bsky.social cola collaboración de la Universidá d'Uviéu y el Principáu d’Asturies.

Us convidem a aquest taller organitzat pel Grup Ciutadanies de l'ICA : Una altra acadèmia és possible? Construint una mirada crítica i resistent a la Fast Academy des de l’antropologia 🗓️11 de febrer 🕧 18.00h 📍Casp 43, baixos, Barcelona antropologia.cat/event/taller...

The Cultural #Anthropology #Methods Program launches their international #curriculum: https://methods4all.org/camp-international/ "Spanning 15 methods modules, these 50 lectures offer the best methodological guidance"

By compiling multiple sources of data, we reach the astonishing figure of 71,000 migrants who have died or been missing at the European border since the early 90s. A hecatomb caused by the migration policies of European countries.

Convocatoria abierta hasta el 31 de enero de 2025. #PremiosASAEE antropologiavisual.net/convocatoria...

📢#AnthroNews invites pitches for its 2025 series, "Signal/Noise". Please submit a 300-word pitch outlining your piece’s central theme, along with a 50-word bio by 2.7.2025. 👉Learn more bit.ly/4auRa6e #CallForPitches #DiscoverAAA #Anthropology #Anthropologist

The entire tech industry right now

An anthropologist explores #laughter as a far more complex phenomenon than simple delight—reflecting on its surprising power to disturb and disrupt. www.sapiens.org/culture/unco...

📢 Llamada a panelistas abierta hasta 18 enero : Congreso #antropología #anthropology ASAEE en La Laguna, Tenerife, España, 2-5 sept 2025. 📌 Organizo un simposio sobre la "crisis migratoria" en Canarias (español-inglés), abierto a propuestas: asaee-antropologia.org/congresos/xv...

El Gobierno declara 2025 como Año del Pueblo Gitano para conmemorar el 600º Aniversario de su llegada a España 👌🏾 www.dsca.gob.es/es/comunicac...

📢 Publicado el nuevo número de "Perifèria, revista de recerca i formació en antropologia": revistes.uab.cat/periferia/in...

Seems like an awfully high percentage of groundbreaking discoveries across the social sciences are established fact in anthropology

Ya está disponible para descargar el librito que hemos editado en homenaje a Antonio Lafuente (con maravillosas ilustraciones de Carla Boserman): digital.csic.es/handle/10261...

Organizamos el simposio "Inteligencias basales? Sobre la irreductibilidad de los mundos animales", para el próximo congreso ASAEE en Tenerife (2-5 setiembre). ¡Abierto a propuestas de comunicación hasta el 8 de enero! asaee-antropologia.org/congresos/xv...

📢The Spanish government has opened the call for 494 Ramón y Cajal 5-year postdoctoral fellowships, open to people anywhere with PhDs between Jan 1 2014 & Dec 31 2022. They need to apply with a research group. We'd love to host someone interested in networks & social cohesion/inclusion/polarization.

‼️Ya podéis programar vuestro año lector del Capitán ‼️ 📚 CATÁLOGO DE NOVEDADES ENE-JUN 2025 📚 Muchas cuestiones a analizar y resolver en un mundo convulso, ¡ahí van nuestras propuestas! 🧵

Are you an EASA member? We encourage you to be part of the Race and Ethnicity Network! easaonline.org/networks/are/

[Self-promotion] “Mobility cause lawyering: Contesting regimes of (im)mobility in the Canary Islands migration route to Europe” just published with my dear colleague Kristín Loftsdóttir. Please reach out to me if you have no access to the article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Llamada a participar en el Simposio "Antropología de la Policía🚔: enfoques etnográficos sobre la institución y la gestión de conflictos", que organizamos Sergio García y yo. 👉 Descripción: asaee-antropologia.org/congresos/xv... 👉+Infor sobre el envío: asaee-antropologia.org/congresos/xv...

Una investigación de Amnistía concluye que Israel "ha cometido un genocidio" en Gaza ow.ly/GcUp50UlqRu

In a nearly 300-page report, Amnesty International concluded that Israel's actions constitute genocide. “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide. It must stop now.”

Temps d'autobombo. Ja en les vostres llibreries de guàrdia. Amb Editorial Bellaterra.

Two positions (PhD and postdoc) at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Barcelona focused on German Agriculture, (Post-)Migration, and Social Identity and Identification. The positions are intended to begin in March, 2025. For more info, email mateufontimugnaini at ub dot edu.

Submit your abstract and join us in Tallinn! 😊

Los próximos días 16 y 17 de diciembre nos juntamos en el @cchscsic.bsky.social para rendir homenaje a Antonio Lafuente por su extraordinaria e incansable labor como historiador de la ciencia y promotor de innumerables iniciativas de ciencia ciudadana. All welcome

Us hi esperem!👇🏿👇🏿👇🏿

Presentació del llibre d’en Joan Frigolé “Llevarse la novia e irse con el novio”, de Joan Frigolé. 📅 12 de desembre de 2024 ⏰ 18,30 👉 Facultat de Geografia i Història. Barcelona @geohistub.bsky.social #antropologia

Just out! Why are anthropologists interested in microbes? Are we witnessing a turn to a new object of study for #anthropology? Find out what I think in this long review of three recent books on the topic in the JRAI rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I am delighted to share our latest piece of research: ‘A global cross-cultural analysis of string figures reveals evidence of deep transmission and innovation’. This was long in the works and is by far the largest project I’ve led to date. A thread: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

The 100th number of "Focaal, journal of global and historical anthropology" re-analyses Wolf's "Europe and the people without history" (1982) -a must read book. This celebratory number also brings a list of 100 indispensable works for thinking in our times: www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...