MESA calls upon President Donald J. Trump and the US government to demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the immediate and unconditional lifting of the siege on the Gaza Strip, and the prevention of human rights abuses in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. mesana.org/advocacy/lette…

My students get impatient when I insist that language matters. That words have the power to build or tear down worlds, to illuminate truths or distort meanings. To render some lives & bodies as worthy of compassion and others as mere demographics. #CeasefireNOW #FreePalestine

This new Curated Collection from the editors of the Cultural Anthropology journal shares their statement & collects past CulAnth articles under the topic "War on Palestine," incl. those that pre-date the journal's move to open access—now free for 3 months. journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/c…

The capitalist world economy has never been epitomised by skyscrapers in Manhattan or London, but by coltan mines in the DRC and bombed-out refugee camps in Gaza—places where people are exploited and dispossessed in order to maintain regimes of accumulation and imperial hegemony.

Urbicide in #Gaza ,the systematic murder of the city, does not halt at human beings, animals, plants, buildings and vital infrastructures. It contaminates the city's underground, flooding it with sea water. And devours its archives and memories. The declared goal is annihilation.

TODAY is #StrikeForGaza & we continue to amplify the voices that are silenced by the increasingly right-leaning structures of power that govern public spaces and our universities in the Global North. Follow our thematic thread #FramingGaza. allegralaboratory.net/category/thema…

Janet Abu Lughod was called provocative for labelling 🇫🇷colonial planning in🇲🇦 Urban Apartheid. To pretend the genealogy of besieged Gaza does not stretch back to the Venice Ghetto, whence it was exported to settler colonial projects across the new world, is pure white ignorance

What a world that this needs to be stated by a court and not our conscience….

ReCNTR is hiring! Join us as part-time Center Manager. Looking for someone who can help with the daily operations of the center, finances, grant applications, events and communication. Apply here : careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Leiden-Par…

On 12 March (Tue), we're co-presenting an illustrated talk and conversation with J.P. Sniadecki, moderated by Cristiana Strava. His (co-directed films Foreign Parts and El Mar la Mar will screen that day; JP is also our respondent for our first ReCNTR lab this week eyefilm.nl/en/whats-on/et…

The unchecked privilege of this message to the wider #Harvard community is equal to 💩 You know what would actually be painful? Seeing your home & every educational infrastructure razed to the ground, while everyone you know is either dead or dying #encampment #AllEyesOnRafah

HIND’S HALL Now Available on Streaming. All Proceeds to UNRWA. macklemore.co/HINDSHALL

Today, after a constructive and fruitful discussion between the rector of Universiteit Leiden and the chair of Campus The Hague with SfP and LSP, we agreed on several concrete steps the University will take regarding its ties to Israeli Universities. We will publish the details tomorrow.

Tomorrow, Leiden University will publish details of steps she will take regarding its ties to Israeli universities. On our website, you can now find a short preview: universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2024/0…

Omar Barghouti, founder of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott addresses Leiden students outside the occupied building

I had a lot of fun working with the AnthroArt collective & Margherita Miani, the illustrator👩‍🎨 that brought color to my ethnography on the risks of green washing through urban upgrading projects in Morocco. theanthro.art/greening-casab…

Academics love talking your ear off about their work & I am no exception. Tune in New Books Network (@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social) and NB Anthropology 📚 if you also wanted the TL;DR podcast version🎙️for my ethnography about urban inequality and the criminalization of the urban poor in 🇲🇦 newbooksnetwork.com/precarious-mod…

James Baldwin, 1968: “Every bombed village is my hometown.”

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention reminds the world that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister of Israel is a genocidaire. Israel is a genocidal state supported by a genocidal society. This means that the genocidal killing of Palestinian and now Lebanese people will continue to spread.

Come join us for the final event of artist-researcher Inas Halabi's residency. The residency was a 2-month collab between ReCNTR and 1646 studio in Den Haag. During the event Inas will share aspects of her work for her new film project. More details:recntr.nl/2024/12/inas-h…