Lesenswertes Interview. Nimrod Flaschenberg verlässlich eine Stimme der Vernunft.

A 3 year postdoc at the Institute for Social Anthropology in Vienna, with a focus on Southeast Asia. There is no teaching associated with the position – the successful candidate can carry out their own project. Details:

'Do you have a source for that claim?'
'Here's a source.'
'I don't like that source. Do you have another one?'
'Here's another one.'
'Do you have a source for that source?'
'Yes.'
And the next day, you see them asking another person for sources...

Surrounded by fighters, filled with displaced people and haunted by the famine, the city of El Fasher in Darfur is bracing for the worst. “On the precipice of a large scale massacre,” said a senior US official. nytimes.com/2024/04/29/wor…

Trust matters for social mobilization – but what happens to trust during mobilization? In short: it can be built, stabilized, weakened, or even destroyed— find out more in our special issue, eds Federico M. Rossi, Nadine Sika and Jonas Wolff. Intro is OA journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Unabhängig davon, wie sinnvoll Steinmeiers Aussage ist, ist es schon bezeichnend, wer sich scheinbar mit #Kaliberexperte so angesprochen fühlt.

Looking forward to discussing this joint draft paper w/my dear INTERACT Center colleagues Mariam Salehi and Hannah Franzki at Goethe-Universität this week!

Congratulations to the eds. excellent SI Trust and Social Movements irene weipert CoMMonSCopenhagen #FedericoRossi #NadineSika #JonasWolff eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Monday is here which means Friday is just around the corner! m.facebook.com/essentialtrade…

Talking kuffiya: the fact they are sold out in nearly every store in Germany tells you a lot about the disjuncture between official discourse/foreign policy and the public mood on Gaza.

The images from Akkar are evidence of the impossibility to contain radicalisation by betting on military force only. For Israel, air strikes may work in keeping a lid on presence of armed groups in the border region, but backlash to these strikes materialises in cities like Akkar

Very good thread 🧵 on the implications of a potential ICC arrest warrant

William Shakespeare after a trip to Turkey (1610)

Important article by Amos Goldberg. Please note that Professor Goldberg has not had a chance to look over the translation. But it is a reliable rendition of the Hebrew original and he has allowed me to post it.
thepalestineproject.medium.com/yes-it-is-geno…

Wannsee 🩷

'Gerade die deutschen Institutionen, die den größten Einfluss auf die Art des Diskurses haben .. scheinen mehr damit beschäftigt, sich selbst zu »schützen«, als Stimmen zu Gehör zu bringen, die die Vielfalt der Perspektiven in der deutschen Gesellschaft'
spiegel.de/kultur/gaza-un…