Prof of Cult and Soc Anthro, Dir of LACS at @unil / Leverhulme Trust Visit. Prof at @oxford_anthro (23-24) / writing about #lithium and green energy aporia
Excited to announce that I've signed a contract with @ucpress to publish my new book on lithium, resource politics, and the contradictions of the green energy transition. Very much looking forward to working with Kate Marshall and the rest of the excellent UC Press team!
Thanks to Critique of Anthropology for publishing our special issue on "Contesting Transitions." Amazing, boundary-pushing articles by all our authors and a visionary afterword by @DominicBoyer and @CymeneHowe / @Enviro_Ant@env_and_society@EthicsEnergy
https://t.co/0BCoQnxQkN
Delighted to have an article in the Anthropological Quarterly special issue on "Mining the Energy Transition." I analyze Bolivia's lithium project through its sociomaterial and semiotic dimensions. https://t.co/ct0pdcDhqv
@oxford_anthro@Enviro_Ant@EthicsEnergy@Petrocultures
The 6th and final Academic Tradecraft workshop is now online: "On Learning to Love the Questions Themselves." All the videos are available at the Oxford anthro channel. @LeverhulmeTrust@EASAinfo@PublicAnthropol@theasainfo@allegra_lab
https://t.co/4eIgfl2R64
The 5th AT workshop is now online: "Making Lemonade from Lemons: Dealing with Disappointment in Academia." Learn about the "reverse Anna Karenina phenomenon" and hear me tell my own sad story 😢 @LeverhulmeTrust@EASAinfo@PublicAnthropol@theasainfo
https://t.co/UZMM5mYBOK
TOMORROW ➡ 'Academic Tradecraft: Lemonade from Lemons: Dealing with Disappointment in Academia'
@anthrogoodale outlines strategies for coping with disappointments of an academic career, exploring their paradoxical benefits.
📅12.15pm, 64 Banbury Rd
Open to students & staff only
Larissa Vetters @MaxAnthropology and I are excited to announce the upcoming Leading Works in Law & Anthropology
Endorsed by stellar scholars Deepa Das Acevedo @EmoryLaw @l_eslava @AnthroGoodale and 11 chapters to discover! https://t.co/haqJZgFAed
Job alert (Part II)! Our new professor Clara Devlieger (currently at the LSE) is recruiting a PhD student in anthro with interests in the body, health, care, sensory anthro, and migration, among others. 5 year position, resources (still) excellent. 1/2
https://t.co/epTcSBYUgT
Job alert! We are recruiting a new Ph.D. student in cultural and social anthropology in LACS with interests in env. anthro, anthro of energy, climate justice, and extractives. 5 year position, excellent resources. 1/2
https://t.co/8qdUlLLEQy
The latest Academic Tradecraft workshop is now available. I explore the various dimensions of acad. self-curation, the benefits, risks, and even radical potential of different platforms @oxford_anthro@LeverhulmeTrust@EASAinfo@PublicAnthropol@theasainfo
https://t.co/aDkeBDh4Id
Honored to be part of this collection along with @richardawilson7, Jack Snyder, César Rodríguez-Garavito, Fred Myers, Pablo de Greiff, Samuel Martínez, @RushDoshi, Judith Kelley, Beth Simmons, Hilary Charlesworth, @SRjudgeslawyers, @saralmdavis, Jane Cowan, and @JulieBillaud
Huge thanks to @PhilipGAlston for organizing and then seeing this volume through to publication. The collection "provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights . . . perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry."