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Delhi seasons should henceforth be classified by its air quality rather than temperature: breathable, unbreathable, and beyond-unbreathable.

Spain’s apocalyptic floods show two undeniable truths: the climate crisis is getting worse and Big Oil is killing us My take on the dangers of normalising disaster. theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…

Lots of bad going around #anthrotwitter BUT ALSO a few of us are hosting a book party at the #AAA2024Tampa at earth & bone studio. Friday from 8–late. We'll have food, drinks, music, and catharsis. Good vibes only. Come hang! 📚🥂💃🎉 Ryan Cecil Jobson Aisha Beliso-DeJesus Christien Tompkins

From the forests of medieval Europe, where greyhounds chased down game for royalty, to the frontlines of twentieth-century conflicts, where dogs carried messages, this is the story of how we made the modern dog. #Collared is out now 🐶 profilebooks.com/work/collared/ Chris Pearson

The first Verso Books Palestine Pamphlets are here 🇵🇸 🍉 versobooks.com/en-gb/collecti…

My wonderful, smart, amazing colleague Lynne Huffer has a new book coming out with Duke University Press A collage-style work in fragments (philosophy, memoir, poetry, and original multimedia artworks) dukeupress.edu/these-survivals

📢CSASP Oxford Uni, Oxford School of Global & Area Studies in collaboration with the ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation, offers three visiting fellowships for those based in Pakistan. Deadline: December 16, 2024 southasia.ox.ac.uk/academic-visit… Nayanika Mathur Kate Sullivan de Estrada Asian Studies Centre

Our latest Hot Spots series features 19 essays on the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Published in two sections, you can find them here (culanth.org/fieldsights/se…) and here: culanth.org/fieldsights/se…

Folks in/around Oxford, please join us next week for an event where I’ll be talking about my recently published book - The Backstage of Democracy. Date: Wed, 27th November 2024 Time: 16:00 - 17:30 pm Location: Seminar Room 3, 3 Mansfield Road, OX1 3TB. (Bonus: Wine reception!)

This is finally out, open access: Biocultural Empire - New Histories of Imperial Lifeworlds bloomsbury.com/us/biocultural…

📢🛑 📢please join us! Fri 13 Dec, 12PM EST/7PM 🇵🇸/🇱🇧 time ** On Rendering Uninhabitable: The War on Palestine and Lebanon and its Environmental Effects** w/ Ahmed Abu Shaban, Hadeel Assali, Muna Dajani, Omar oمar, Munira Khayyat munira khayyat منيرة الخياط Register: 👇

📣 New scholarships announced for the DPhil in Area Studies We’re very pleased to offer two departmental awards of £60,000 for incoming students to the DPhil in Area Studies. Application deadline: Jan 28 2025 Find out more: areastudies.web.ox.ac.uk/article/new-sc… #OxfordScholarships

Delighted to close the year with the publication of my book "Lessons in State Capacity from Delhi's Schools". This book is an effort to bring the voices of the frontline state - block officers, teachers, health workers - into the debate on state capacity in India (1/10) 🧵

Thrilled to circulate the cfp for the First STS-IN conference. Delhi, Dec'2025. Check it out. stsin.org/stsinc25/

“Why do engineers propose sand extraction in the already geologically active Himalayas?” In this article, Saumya । सौम्या examines “multiple modes of knowing the sedimentary conditions in the Himalayan rivers that create possibilities for sand extraction.” journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/a…

'Decolonize Mosquitoes' . My recent article has been published at the History Workshop Journal History Workshop It proposes a conversation between animal history and decolonizing methods. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-ar…

Thank you for the movies, Shyam Benegal. Go well.

‘The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening. Because, of course, many women do speak up, have always spoken up, and it is not only “bad” men who ignore them.’ Sophie Smith on patriarchy and the Pelicot trial: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

Our Call for Abstracts is now open! In this hybrid symposium to be held on 28 May, 2025 at Cambridge University, we aim to bring together scholars who engage in the ethnographic method for a collective conversation around movement and method. #CFA thesociologicalreview.org/announcements/…