1/ Henry Kissinger tot. Damit im hagiografischen Rauschen der Nachrufe das Wesentliche nicht untergeht: Kissinger war kein grosser Diplomat, Staatsmann o.ä., sondern einer der grössten Kriegsverbrecher der Nachkriegszeit. 🧵

Israel killed Prof. Refaat al-Areer, one of Gaza's most prominent writers, poets & activists who spent his life trying to get Gaza's voice to the outside world. He was killed in a targeted airstrike on his sister's home that also killed his brother, sister & her 4 kids...

I am begging you to watch this six minute CNN clip from a field hospital in southern Gaza — “a window to hell.” At some point, you hear the sound of an air strike. Later, you see the people who were maimed in that strike brought in. Simply horrifying.

Great to see 'Circular Economies in an Unequal World' a volume I co-edited with Dagna Rams out open access with Bloomsbury (print editions out Jan 25th). Check it out! bloomsbury.com/uk/circular-ec…

With China reopening to research & academic exchange, many of us are uncertain what to expect. Join Denise Ho & me for an upcoming webinar series, "Researching China in a New Era," kicking off Jan. 16! Register: rb.gy/w6oksi Details in 🧵

Statement regarding my sacking from Max Planck Society hageba2a.blogspot.com/2024/02/statem…

"I will no longer be complicit in genocide. I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest, but compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it’s not extreme at all. This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal."

Letter from researchers of the Max Planck Institute of Anthropology. Can anyone lose their job over social media posts? Is the institution supporting free enquiry or stifling criticism - only solitude and no freedom for the academic precariate in those institutes?

The decimation of Anthropology at UK universities (Kent 😭; us at Goldsmiths facing becoming unviable due to rendundancies) is incredibly short-sighted. A short 🧵 giving 8 reasons why the world needs anthropology and anthropologists, now more than ever 1/9:

The latest Missing Migrants report reveals that the number of deaths of people en route has only gone up over the past ten years, and a large majority remain unidentified. africanews.com/2024/03/26/mig…

“What happened should go around the world; should shame and blame Germany everywhere.” Israeli film maker Dror Dayan on the police crackdown on the Palestine Congress in Berlin. lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/apri…

To understand Zadie Smith, you have to understand Cambridge. And its special brand of self-regarding gaslighting.

Ahhhhhh "European values"

8月12日，浙江杭州。网传西溪世纪中心小区，保安让兼职大学生外卖员下跪，还对其罚款200元。事后上百名骑手赶到小区为其声援讨说法，现场有大批警察维稳。骑手们质问小区物业“为什么叫骑手跪下”

杭州外卖员抗议获得成效 8月12日晚，有杭州派出所民警向各物业发布内部通知，要求今后在与外卖员沟通接触过程中避免发生激烈冲突，要理性和平相处对待，人性化管理，严禁物业保安对外卖员罚款。 防止类似情况再次发生。

8月13日，美团外卖回应称，在杭州外卖员抗议事件中，公司未对任何骑手采取封号，限制接单等不利于骑手的负面举措。

Just recorded: New episode of "Talk On - Debates in Anthropology" with Christoph Brumann and Philipp Demgenski on his new book "Seeking a future for the past: space, power, and heritage in a Chinese city. China Understandings Today" press.umich.edu/Books/S/Seekin… The video will be out Nov 2024.

The fact that a senior civil servant who specialised in assessing arms exports to Israel has ended his 18-year career because he thinks the Foreign Office "may be complicit in war crimes", and not a single national outlet has reported it, is frightening. We have a captive media.

My new article of just came online in Critical Asian Studies (and it was online when we were having APSA, what nice timing)! See the article here: tandfonline.com/eprint/CIFZMXN… In the article I discuss the important but rarely asked question: how do propagandists understand propaganda? 1/6

We are excited to announce that Patchwork Ethnography will be released as a textbook in 2026. We hope the book will be useful for all of you!