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Jonas Bens

@jonas_bens

anthropology professor @unihh | #law #politics #colonialism #capitalism | The Sentimental Court (@CambridgeUP, 2022) | The Indigenous Paradox (@PennPress, 2020)

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Heute die letzte Stunde meines Seminars "Anthropologie und Materialität" 1337. Tolle Diskussionen mit klugen MA-Studierenden, spannende Einblicke von Charlot Schneider, Laibor Kalanga Moko und diese inspirierenden Texte, u.a. von Daniel Miller @NavaroYael BrunoLatour.

Heute die letzte Stunde meines Seminars "Anthropologie und Materialität" <a href="/unihamburg/">1337</a>. Tolle Diskussionen mit klugen MA-Studierenden, spannende Einblicke von Charlot Schneider, <a href="/LaiborK/">Laibor Kalanga Moko</a> und diese inspirierenden Texte, u.a. von <a href="/DannyAnth/">Daniel Miller</a> @NavaroYael <a href="/BrunoLatourAIME/">BrunoLatour</a>.
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Today's the last session of my anthropology seminar "Race and Racism in the Americas" Universität Hamburg. Intense discussions with a wonderful group of students and these thought-provoking books, among others by Donna Goldstein Savannah Shange Angela Stuesse Circe Sturm.

Today's the last session of my anthropology seminar "Race and Racism in the Americas" <a href="/unihh/">Universität Hamburg</a>. Intense discussions with a wonderful group of students and these thought-provoking books, among others by <a href="/DonnaMGoldstein/">Donna Goldstein</a> <a href="/savannahshange/">Savannah Shange</a> <a href="/astuesse/">Angela Stuesse</a> <a href="/CirceSturm/">Circe Sturm</a>.
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Very happy that my book "The Indigenous Paradox: Rights, Sovereignty, and Culture in the Americas" Penn Press has been included in Cynthia Radding's insightful review essay about "Indigenous Histories across the Americas" in Latin American Research Review. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Jacqueline McAllister Kenyon College has written this wonderful review of my new book 'The Sentimental Court: The Affective Life of International Criminal Justice' Cambridge University Press - Academic for the #AfricanStudiesReview. Have a look! Universität Hamburg Affective Societies. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

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Check out my new chapter on #affect and #emotion in the upcoming "Oxford Handbook of #TransitionalJustice" Oxford Academic edited by Jens Meierhenrich, Alex Hinton, and Lawrence Douglas. Affective Societies Universität Hamburg. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…

Check out my new chapter on #affect and #emotion in the upcoming "Oxford Handbook of #TransitionalJustice" <a href="/OUPAcademic/">Oxford Academic</a> edited by Jens Meierhenrich, <a href="/AlexLHinton/">Alex Hinton</a>, and Lawrence Douglas. <a href="/sfb1171/">Affective Societies</a> <a href="/unihh/">Universität Hamburg</a>. academic.oup.com/edited-volume/…
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Gerade eine Rezension für dieses wunderbare Buch von Henrike Kohpeiss @hkohpeiss.bsky.social (Affective Societies) fertiggeschrieben und an Soziopolis abgeschickt. Ein ganz tolles Buch, das die kritische Theorie der Frankfurter Schule, die Affekttheorien und die dekoloniale und Black-Studies-Theorien zusammenbringt!

Gerade eine Rezension für dieses wunderbare Buch von <a href="/H_Kohpeiss/">Henrike Kohpeiss @hkohpeiss.bsky.social</a> (<a href="/sfb1171/">Affective Societies</a>) fertiggeschrieben und an <a href="/Soziopolis/">Soziopolis</a> abgeschickt. Ein ganz tolles Buch, das die kritische Theorie der Frankfurter Schule, die Affekttheorien und die dekoloniale und Black-Studies-Theorien zusammenbringt!
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Looking forward to this interesting discussion of Marie Wuth's und Valentin Clavé Mercier's new edited volume "Decolonizing Political Concepts" (Routledge, 2024), together with my colleagues Abosede P. Ipadeola and Stephan Schmid. philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/philosophische…

Looking forward to this interesting discussion of Marie Wuth's und Valentin Clavé Mercier's new edited volume "Decolonizing Political Concepts" (Routledge, 2024), together with my colleagues Abosede P. Ipadeola and Stephan Schmid. philosophie.uni-hamburg.de/philosophische…
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Great performance on May 5, 2024 LICHTHOF Theater. Ultimate Safari by Flinn Works - inactive and my great colleague Laibor Kalanga Moko critically discusses the ongoing land grabbing of Maasai territory by tourism companies under the guise of conservationism. flinnworks.de/projekt/ultima…

Great performance on May 5, 2024 <a href="/LICHTHOFhamburg/">LICHTHOF Theater</a>. Ultimate Safari by <a href="/Flinnworks/">Flinn Works - inactive</a>  and my great colleague <a href="/LaiborK/">Laibor Kalanga Moko</a> critically discusses the ongoing land grabbing of Maasai territory by tourism companies under the guise of conservationism. flinnworks.de/projekt/ultima…
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Our Research Network "Pluralizing the Value of Things" holds its second workshop in Berlin on June 4. Tune in to Stephen Hugh-Jones' hybrid keynote lecture ‘Value, Valuables, and Values: Northwest Amazonian Treasures from Maloca to Museum’ ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-inst…

Our Research Network "Pluralizing the Value of Things" holds its second workshop in Berlin on June 4. Tune in to Stephen Hugh-Jones' hybrid keynote lecture ‘Value, Valuables, and Values: Northwest Amazonian Treasures from Maloca to Museum’ ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-inst…
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From June, 3-5, 2024, we had our 2nd workshop of our DFG public | @[email protected] "Pluralizing the Value of Things" Universität Hamburg at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and a keynote by Stephen Hugh-Jones on value, valuables and values in Amazonia: ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/a…

From June, 3-5, 2024, we had our 2nd workshop of our <a href="/dfg_public/">DFG public | @dfg_public@wisskomm.social</a> "Pluralizing the Value of Things" <a href="/unihh/">Universität Hamburg</a> at the Ethnologisches Museum and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin and a keynote by Stephen Hugh-Jones on value, valuables and values in Amazonia: ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/en/forschung/a…
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Inspiring community workshop yesterday with my wonderful colleagues Laibor Kalanga Moko and Paola Ivanov. Together with Maasai representatives we discussed colonial violence and restitution regarding the collections in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. sfb-affective-societies.de/en/teilprojekt…

Inspiring community workshop yesterday with my wonderful colleagues <a href="/LaiborK/">Laibor Kalanga Moko</a> and <a href="/paola_ivanov/">Paola Ivanov</a>. Together with Maasai representatives we discussed colonial violence and restitution regarding the collections in the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. sfb-affective-societies.de/en/teilprojekt…
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I'm advertising a position as a research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg with the opportunity to pursue a PhD in anthropology. Application deadline: October 25, 2024. uni-hamburg.de/stellenangebot…

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Join us on 10 Oct. 2024 at 4.30pm when Christine A. Hastorf UC Berkeley will give a (hybrid) keynote lecture on "Andean chthonic powers and long-lived worldviews" in our research network "Pluralizing the Value of Things". ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-inst…

Join us on 10 Oct. 2024 at 4.30pm when Christine A. Hastorf <a href="/UCBerkeley/">UC Berkeley</a> will give a (hybrid) keynote lecture on "Andean chthonic powers and long-lived worldviews" in our research network "Pluralizing the Value of Things". ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/ueber-das-inst…
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With Jonas Bens at #vad2024 in #bayreuth . It rains nonstop, but luckily there’s cake and loads of interesting panels! Most happy to present a paper on the Ugandan classroom as a space of political contestation this evening!

With <a href="/jonas_bens/">Jonas Bens</a> at #vad2024 in #bayreuth . It rains nonstop, but luckily there’s cake and loads of interesting panels! Most happy to present a paper on the Ugandan classroom as a space of political contestation this evening!
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New sign! I couldn’t be happier to now be a permanent member of this inspiring department Universität Hamburg with all these wonderful colleagues – as Heisenberg Professor of Anthropology.

New sign! I couldn’t be happier to now be a permanent member of this inspiring department <a href="/unihh/">Universität Hamburg</a> with all these wonderful colleagues – as Heisenberg Professor of Anthropology.
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Wonderful screening of „Ash Wednesday“ last Tuesday in our weekly Anthropology Colloquium Universität Hamburg discussing with the two filmmakers Barbara Santos and João Pedro Prado about how to represent state and police violence in Brazilian favelas in artistic form: imdb.com/title/tt236567…

Wonderful screening of „Ash Wednesday“ last Tuesday in our weekly Anthropology Colloquium <a href="/unihh/">Universität Hamburg</a> discussing with the two filmmakers Barbara Santos and João Pedro Prado about how to represent state and police violence in Brazilian favelas in artistic form: imdb.com/title/tt236567…
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Consider submitting a paper for the workshop "Politics as Affective Encounters" at the next DGSKA conference by Leonie Benker and me. We investigate recent trends towards materiality and affect in political anthropology. Deadline: January 15, 2025. nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgs…

Consider submitting a paper for the workshop "Politics as Affective Encounters" at the next DGSKA conference by <a href="/Leonie_Benker/">Leonie Benker</a> and me. We investigate recent trends towards materiality and affect in political anthropology. Deadline: January 15, 2025. nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgs…
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Check out my new article „Revisiting Forum Shopping: Navigating Normative Orders, Navigating Sentiments“ in Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis - in an issue honoring the work of my friend and colleague, the late Keebet von Benda-Backmann: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out my new article „Revisiting Forum Shopping: Navigating Normative Orders, Navigating Sentiments“ in Legal Pluralism and Critical Social Analysis - in an issue honoring the work of my friend and colleague, the late Keebet von Benda-Backmann: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Die Literatur in meinem Seminar „Anthropologie des Staates“ dieses Semester an der Uni Hamburg. (Weiterführende Literatur im zweiten Bild). Heute ist die vorletzte Sitzung mit einer ganz wundervollen Gruppe schlauer Studierender!

Die Literatur in meinem Seminar „Anthropologie des Staates“ dieses Semester an der Uni Hamburg. (Weiterführende Literatur im zweiten Bild). Heute ist die vorletzte Sitzung mit einer ganz wundervollen Gruppe schlauer Studierender!