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Cultural & medical anthropologist. Biopolitics, the body, disasters, trauma, cosmologies. Research in Thailand, Japan, Italy. EuroSEAS board member. Assoc Prof @ Uppsala University. Psychodynamic therapist in training. She/Her. https://tinyurl.com/mt9w4fsc
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Distribute widely! SANT 2025 conference in Lund 10-12 April. I am organizing a panel together with Ben Kasstan on "Un/doing Comfort, Dis/comforting Bodies: Slashing and Assembling Health, Care, and Anthropological Knowledge". CfP now OPEN until 23 February www.soc.lu.se/en/sant-2025

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This ⬇️

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An important conference for all #medanthro, and in Vienna, not least.

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For those joining BlueSky for the first time, here is a great primer by the Verge. Lots of useful tips on taking control of your newsfeed, setting up an algorithm that suits you, starter packs, and much more! Welcome to Blue Sky! www.theverge.com/24295933/blu...

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So - what's going on here, you might ask. This is Farhana's response to a post referring to two natural scientists - a physicist and an earth scientist - who are asking questions about humans - to each other. Farhana suggests (rightly) that these questions would be better put to social scientists 1/

submitted 102 days ago • 21 comments

I have assembled an initial Southeast Asia starter pack. Do let me know if you think you should not be on the list or if you should be included. #SoutheastAsia go.bsky.app/2mwrXEg

submitted 102 days ago • 11 comments

As the Editor in Chief of the journal Anthropologica, I'm thrilled to share that our new issue "Global Vaccine Logics" with special guests Janice Graham and Oumy Thiongane is now available open access on our website: cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

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Actual serious countries that are democracies require someone to be a government employee, & confirmed by the parliament, in order to conduct foreign policy. We, however, don’t seem to any longer care about the law, constitution, or democratic accountability, bc we are a deeply unserious country.

submitted 104 days ago • 39 comments

Terrific essay by Rachel Nolan reviewing Exit Wounds @ucpress.bsky.social and Soldiers & Kings for @londonreview.bsky.social www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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The University of Trento will host the 10th Edition of the Conference on Ethnographic Research. If you are a researcher in social sciences and humanities, STS, political sciences and others, consider applying. I have attended several times and enjoyed the conference and associated events a lot!

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Latest thing (in press) is a ch. "Beyond #COVID19: Caring by words in #longcovid discourses in #Japan and #Sweden". On what do they look similar and on what else do they differ? uclpress.co.uk/book/covids-... coming April 2025. I can't wait to get it. Manderson and Burke are amazing editors.

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Here's a start at a Starter Pack for #medanthro, broadly defined. Some of these folks might not call themselves medical anthropologists, but if they study health, healing systems, or human biology in context, I've included them. Let me know who else should be added to the list. #anthrosky

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