💩Publication day! Underbelly is an ethnography of #globalhealth , exploring how global health—its actors, structures, and systems—perpetuates the challenges to health equity. 🧵mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547765/…

Today, I introduced a Resolution of No Confidence in Chancellor Block to UCLA's academic senate. It was blocked by filibuster, but we're going to try again next week. We're not done fighting.

Here's the full text of what I would have said if I hadn't been cut-off

This is her speech, then. In the claps and screams and beaming smiles, is a recognition of the message she would have shared at the podium. At the end of the day, they couldn’t stop her from sharing it.

Over 300 anthropologists (and counting) call out American Anthropological Association leadership for its weak stances on Palestine and refusal to take direction from last summer's supermajority membership vote for boycott. Warns of no-confidence vote if things don't change.
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

As students across the country are pushing hard for universities to divest from Israel and stop the genocide, college and university administrations are cracking down hard.

Save the date! May 22, 2024, Proposal Writing for the Wenner-Gren Foundation: Applying for a Dissertation Fieldwork or a Post-PhD Research Grant, A Workshop co-sponsored by SOAS GLOCAL. Time: 9:00 AM and 9:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada).
Info: buff.ly/3yaGWZO

Historian here, we remember the Kent State Four OTD 1970.

'The far more important question for us today is not whether students should be allowed to protest, but whether a nation should be allowed to perpetuate genocide—and whether the rest of the world can afford to do nothing.'

Chicana/o and Central American Studies @ UCLA in full solidarity w students. 'we felt the beautiful collective spirit of intl solidarity they were building and were proud to see them take academic lessons on decolonial theory and put it into praxis' chavez.ucla.edu/2024/05/03/cca…

socgen.ucla.edu/2024/05/03/sta…

More soon.

You can guarantee whatever the NYPD are doing to students at CUNY right now is worse than at Columbia. Media need to be giving us a live feed of both sieges.

Friends, please, please amplify. The NYPD are now raiding City College. Reports are hundreds of cops. Please, I know that what happened at Columbia tonight is sickening--but this is Part II. And our @cuny students are largely working class students of color.

📕Mark your calendar! On May 16th, Allegra will host a conversation on Sally Merry's work bringing together leading human rights scholars on the occasion of the release of 'The Complexity of Human Rights' (Brill Law) edited by Philip Alston. Link here 👇
allegralaboratory.net/the-complexity…

#AnthroTwitter : do you think Anthro PhD students looking for jobs should attend the AAAs this year? I don’t want to give bad advice to students asking.

(Aside, my advice to any faculty whose departments still expect prospective job candidates to attend would be, please don’t.)

Wow! I just stumbled across this online. The publication date is still months away but I can’t believe it is becoming real. ucpress.edu/book/978052040…

Disability Worlds, a new book by Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, chronicles and theorizes over a decade of ethnographic research in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds.

Mark your calendar! On May 14th at 11:00 AM EST, SAPIENS will be holding a Public Scholars Training Fellowship Q&A. Please join us to learn about the program and how to apply!
Register: buff.ly/3vwdgFD
Info: buff.ly/3vCOd3D

On May 16th, Allegra Lab will host a conversation on Sally Merry's work, bringing together leading human rights scholars on the occasion of the release of 'The Complexity of Human Rights' (@Brill_Law), edited by Philip Alston.
🔗 here 👇
buff.ly/3xh2C66

'...but I don’t recall reading anything written by openly neurodivergent, disabled, or chronically ill anthropologists.'

I'm glad that I came across this very interesting blog post by Lorena Gibson about ethnography and disability.
anthropod.net/category/field…

Bombarded with the equivalent of 1 Hiroshima bomb a day for 1/2 a century, Pacific people have long been subjected to man-made cataclysm. In The Ocean on Fire, Anaïs Maurer analyzes the Pacific lit that incriminates the environmental racism behind radioactive skies & rising seas