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Global Historical Anthropology
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The project, in which I have participated from the very start—though not actively, especially in recent years—has come to an end. I think it was an important point of convergence for the intellectual left from Eastern Europe and left a rich archive. A new project is coming soon: redder, more eastern, more organized, reflecting the evolution of the left in the region and the trends that will define the global future.
LeftEast was born 13 years ago. 1679 articles, 663 authors, and 8 summer schools later, it is coming to an end. Thank you to all who contributed! And no farewells from us: in the next couple of weeks we'll be announcing its successor projects!
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LeftEast was born 13 years ago. 1679 articles, 663 authors, and 8 summer schools later, it is coming to an end. Thank you to all who contributed! And no farewells from us: in the next couple of weeks we'll be announcing its successor projects!
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You are warmly invited to join us at the launch of Don Kalb's latest open access book, the sprawling Value and Worthlessness, at the annual meeting @AmericanAnthro Speeches, wine, and fun are provided for comrades, friends, and enemies. @BerghahnAnthro @berghahnbooks
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Congratulations to @MariaSalaru! Her #OpenAccess book An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation published today. Read and download free at: bit.ly/4jzt7qY #Architecture #Romania #UrbanTransformation
ALT A woman walking in the snow along a fence in front of parked vehicles and two apartment blocks. Text reads: An Anthropology of Architectural Transformation, The changing fabric of a Romanian block of flats. Maria Șalaru, UCL Press.
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Sindre Bangstad traces the emergence of the contested working definition of #antisemitism proposed by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) and shows how it is used to curtail #academicfreedom focaalblog.com/2025/03/28/si…
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📰 The latest Open Access issue of @FocaalBlog has been published 🚨
This issue has a special theme section entitled “Managing problem debt in Europe: Financialization, households, and debt apparatuses”.
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“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy 🇩🇰
First blog for 2025 from @FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history.
⌲ By @gorkem_akgoz
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Tune in to the new episode of "Talk On — Debates in Anthropology" Christoph Brumann chats with Xenia Cherkaev about her book 'Gleaning for Communism', which @FocaalBlog has listed among their "One Hundred Indispensable Works for Thinking in Our Times."
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“The Sad Truth” Then and Now: Pasts and Presents of Danish Refugee Policy
First blog for 2025 from @FocaalBlog is an insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history.
⌲ By @gorkem_akgoz
#Refugees #Denmark
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Imagine being forced to choose between an indefinite limbo in a deportation center or returning to a war zone. In The Sad Truth, Helle Stenum exposes this harrowing reality, linking it to Denmark’s broader historical patterns of refugee exclusion and marginalization. In my latest
First blog for 2025 just dropped.
An insightful review into the refugee politics and the role of critical history. Thanks for writing for us, @gorkem_akgoz
#Refugees #Denmark
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In this @FocaalBlog, Adia Benton (@Ethnography911) sums up and reflects on the contributions to the Taxonomies of Difference in Global Humanitarianism feature.
⌲ Edited by @MalayFiroz and @pedrosrlima, @AHN_EASA
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"Amid discussions about rising interest rates, new monetary policy and government price caps...what can anthropology add to the academic study of inflation?" Find out here with essays by different anthropologists on the social life of inflation #OpenAccess @FocaalBlog
New: #Thesociallifeofinflation ed by @sianlazar, Evan van Roeckel and Ståle Wig with texts by Steffen Köhn, Alexandrine Royer, @HarrygPettit, @sianlazar & Dolores Señorans, Eva van Roekel, @AlexandrineBF & Mélissa Gauthier, @rudnyckyj and Quirin Rieder tinyurl.com/4sucexbh
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The 100th issue of @FocaalBlog: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology has been published! 🎉
View the Table of Contents and more for the latest @BerghahnAnthro #OpenAccess issue here ⤵️
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EASA's Anthropology of Humanitarianism (AHN) network have published a special feature in @FocaalBlog based on short contributions by AHN members reflecting on their papers presented at the AHN workshop “Taxonomies of Difference in Global Humanitarianism”
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Exciting Panel Proposal for @SozKultAnthro bi-annual conference 2024 #marxism #anthropology @FocaalBlog
Commoning Marxism? Marxism as Theory and Comparative Practice in Anthropology Workshop P028 conference DGSKA2025 Un/Commoning Anthropology nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgs…
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A very interesting list of "one hundred indispensable works for thinking in our times" by the best social anthropology journal Focaal, which includes "Towards the Abyss" among others
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Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical #Anthropology publishes its 100th issue in 2024! Congrats and a big THANK YOU to past & present editors for their hard work in establishing Focaal as a critical anthropological research journal bit.ly/3ujwAVC #OAWeek @FocaalBlog
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"At the time of the 'backway': Mobility rules and moral breakdown from the standpoint of a rural Gambian community" by Elia Vitturini and Alice Bellagamba. Read now #OpenAccess from Issue 99 of Focaal: bit.ly/3AM26ie @FocaalBlog
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"Italian alliances between commoning and law: Framing new regulations by challenging rules in Naples" by Antonio Vesco and Alexandros Kioupkiolis. Read now from the latest #OpenAccess issue of Focaal: bit.ly/3z5zGz0 @antovesco @FocaalBlog
