
Chika Watanabe
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Social anthropologist @UoMAnthropology. NGOs, development, humanitarianism, disaster preparedness, temporality. Co-lead @PatchworkEthno. Co-editor @TheJRAI
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https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/chika.watanabe.html 03-10-2015 09:46:58
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Our next Social Anthropology Manchester Monday seminar will be with Omer Aijazi Omer Aijazi's 'Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir'. See you there! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:x1โฆ


Next Social Anthropology Manchester Monday seminar (17th February) is 'Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders' by Cecilia Vergnano! See you there๐.


Our Social Anthropology Manchester seminar TODAY 24 Feb is 'Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town' by Deana Jovanoviฤ. See you there!

Our special section "Storytelling towards solidarity: Creative, hopeful & inclusive climate change education" is in the first issue of Geographical Research for 2025 The 7 articles brings together stories & storytelling methods in diverse global contexts onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17455871/2โฆ


Next Monday's seminar Social Anthropology Manchester is 'Strategic ignorance, forgetting and misrecognition in Parliaments' by Emma Crewe. See you there!


Our next Social Anthropology Manchester Monday seminar is 'Corrosive kinship & forms of healing and care: โForced marriage in the UKโ' by Perveez Mody. See you there!


โIf Khalilโs green card is revoked & he is deported, no one can have any confidence in legal & constitutional protections as a line of defense against arbitrary state violence and punishment. Khalilโs arrest marks an extraordinary fascist escalation.โ theintercept.com/2025/03/10/mahโฆ

Next week's Social Anthropology Manchester seminar is our very own Mateusz Laszczkowski, with 'Territorio is where you meet others': politics of place in an Alpine rebellion". See you there!



๐คฉJoin us for the next Social Anthropology Manchester seminar, 24 March, for Jieun Kim's 'Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of gift, debt and inheritance in South Korea'. See you there!





๐ข Calling all sickle cell patients & guardians in NW England. For the 1st time, the HCC Patient Event is heading to ๐ฅ Alder Hey ๐, Liverpool. Info, fun, connections & food! All Free. Register & more info: bit.ly/4cVOEae #SickleCell #HCCEvent #AlderHey #Liverpool #haem


In addition to genocidal & relentless bombardment, the Zionist entity is creating famine as a weapon of war. Most people I know say they feel hopeless in the face of such horror but something you can do right now is donate to The Sameer Project & help folks in Gaza literally survive

How can your research inform decision-making? Our Senior Social Researcher Dr Dr. Elena Kotsira delivered a specialised workshop for research students and research staff as part of the Careers Beyond Academia event organised by Chika Watanabe, Senior Lecturer & PGR Director at


Congratulations to author Omer Aijazi, whose book ATMOSPHERIC VIOLENCE recently won the Gold Prize in the Social Justice and Social Change Category of the Nautilus Book Awards! bit.ly/4lALFat

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex! โฆSussex Anthropology๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๐ฝโ๐พโ๐ฟโฉ โฆSussex Global๐ณ๏ธโ๐โ๐ฝโ๐พโ๐ฟโฉ โฆUniversity of Sussexโฉ jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV570/assโฆ