Sandro Simon

Multimodal Anthropologist. 🐚 Multispecies Moral Economies in Watery & Dry Ecologies (🇸🇳) @CologneEnvH & @anthrodelta.

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🧵Thread of almost all of my works as on https://t.co/iXpmjCJJ05 🎉

https://t.co/eKpE4CXFTo

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🎉 New paper out with Ethnos 🎉

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To 'develop' mollusc gleaning in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, NGOs push for domestication – bringing humans and molluscs from an ‘archaic’ and ‘wild’ ‘outside’ into a ‘modern’ and ‘cultivated’ ‘inside’.

https://t.co/yvMX58NVuH

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This is a joint project by the Universities of the Western Cape, Aga Khan, Ghana & Cologne. I stay/become affiliated with the GSSC (https://t.co/47j9mM5OCn), MESH (https://t.co/8O94Lhufsa) and the CRC Future Rural Africa (https://t.co/Afud5FTiFn). Hence, great people all around!

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New Position! I'm now, a.o., PostDoc & Co-Coordinator of the VW Foundation project "Medium-Scale Farmers in Rural Africa: Transformations in Belonging, Property, Kinship & Power". We'll dig into endogenous investments, class formation, masculinity etc. -> https://t.co/J9HtborRTx

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My first poem 'One Hundred Souls' is out in this wonderful collection of anthropoetry at the edge of the human!

For the Open Access version see https://t.co/BQoDESyVkP

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✨The German Handbook of Environmental Anthropology is out!
I’m happy to have contributed a chapter on multimodal ethnography together with one of the book’s editors ⁦@KathrinEitel⁩.

https://t.co/EJ8b5aYm6s

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https://t.co/NN15Jjemj2

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✏️ Happy this one is out – our reflections on our collective ethno-graphic comic in the making. Together with other wonderful contributions it is part of 'River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media'. https://t.co/6aa6P9AIi9 DM if you don't have access.

[Sandro Simon @SandroBSimon]

🧵Thread of almost all of my works as on https://t.co/iXpmjCJJ05 🎉

https://t.co/eKpE4CXFTo

[Sandro Simon @SandroBSimon]

🎉 New paper out with Ethnos 🎉

🧵
To 'develop' mollusc gleaning in the Sine-Saloum Delta, Senegal, NGOs push for domestication – bringing humans and molluscs from an ‘archaic’ and ‘wild’ ‘outside’ into a ‘modern’ and ‘cultivated’ ‘inside’.

https://t.co/yvMX58NVuH

[Sandro Simon @SandroBSimon]

2016. Fragile Ground, Contested Soil: Dynamics of Tenure and Policy in the Bamenda Wetlands. In: Boehi, M., Ramutsindela, M. and Miescher, G. (eds.): The Politics of Nature and Science in Southern Africa. Basel: Basler Afrika Bibliographien. 281-308. https://t.co/obpUJ1o5Bg

[Sandro Simon @SandroBSimon]

✏️ Happy this one is out – our reflections on our collective ethno-graphic comic in the making. Together with other wonderful contributions it is part of 'River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media'. https://t.co/6aa6P9AIi9 DM if you don't have access.

[Sandro Simon @SandroBSimon]

Grateful to be welcomed so warmly again in the Sine-Saloum Delta and happy to be able to bring something small along (https://t.co/3ggxmaSRyp).

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@BafiKush Wir hatten doch Taxi Köln-Berlin abgemacht?

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Sadly, a number of wonderful people close to me in Senegal passed away during my work. The dissertation is dedicated to them. And on the day of my defensio, my fourth reviewer, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, died. May the earth be light to them all.

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Handed in & defended this multimodal beast, all summa cum laude. Good times! 🎉🍾

It’s accompanied by a long list of acknowledgments, first & foremost to my interlocutors & hosts. But also to many colleagues, creative partners etc. I’m glad for the support & companionship.

[Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky]

'It does not have to be this way': the radical optimism of David Graeber - The Guardian - https://t.co/VgmppNNtRt #GoogleAlerts

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@pgkeil Congrats!

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@CameliaDewan So sorry to hear, Camelia. Sending good wishes.

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@DillingMarius @Julius_Ktxt Indeed. Danke.

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@Julius_Ktxt @Julius_Ktxt und @DillingMarius, wie bezieht ihr solche Daten (https://t.co/JrVAXDZSX6, siehe auch die Forschung von Klaus Dörre) in eure Befunde zur wirtschaftlichen Lage ein? Dank.

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Warm reunion with Senegalese friends (a.o. celebrating & discussing my dissertation on their homeplace) in the southern Spanish sea of plastic.

An abysmal place predicated on exploitation & deprivation. But along the hardship, there is so much resistance & lateral solidarity.✊

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Anthropologists doing what they are best at: annoying other people.

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En route to #EASA2024.

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“We‘re anthropologists and we are happy to flock your city plagued by overtourism and drought.“

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we've been reading texts by @daughterofsahel or @RitaKesselring & @GregorDobler & @Stefan_Anthro, among others, so thanks to you too.

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Semester is done and so is my seminary ‘Capitalism in Africa’. What a joy to teach and learn from such caring and critical young minds.