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I'm not doing this again, see my tweets from 2016 Plus ça change

one more thing I’ll say is to be kind to yourself and to others today. And to remember that community is made not elected.

📢 Call for Papers for the #ASA2025 panel 'Catastrophic thinking, and thinking about catastrophe: constructing an anthropology of the ‘end-times’ for the colonised and displaced' ⏰CfP closes 23:59 GMT, 18 November 2024 See below for more info👇

Book note--Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-to-Five Emergency by Melissa Gatter. 2013. Anthropologist Melissa Gatter reveals a power system meant to aid refugees in fact suppresses them and forecloses futures. Melissa Gatter AUC Press - @aucpress.bsky.social aucpress.com/9781617970979/

A beatiful piece by Shannon Mattern that matters now more than ever: "...breakdown is our epistemic and experiential reality. What we really need to study is how the world gets put back together." (2018) placesjournal.org/article/mainte… Places Journal

Today, in a landmark verdict, a jury found government contractor CACI liable for the torture of Iraqi men at Abu Ghraib in 2003-04 and ordered it to pay each of the three plaintiffs $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages. ccrjustice.org/home/press-cen…

The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies BRISMES is still raising money to support higher education in Gaza, to be used in line with the priorities of the Emergency Committee of Universities in Gaza. Please RT/share/donate if you can: gofundme.com/f/the-brismes-…

Who is resilience for? What is the usefulness of calling refugees resilient? Should we avoid the term altogether? I've attempted to think through these questions in my article in Ethnos, building on important scholarship by thinkers like Julian Reid - check it out👇

📰Melissa Gatter from Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient & proposing a new way for academics & development practitioners to approach the term. Available #OpenAccess in Ethnos: buff.ly/2p4Mj7C

Has Assad's downfall in Syrian changed anything for Syrians displaced in Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey? Charlotte Al Khalili and I share the perspectives of people in all three contexts for The Conversation, and the situation is…complicated 👇 theconversation.com/syria-after-as…

📰 Melissa Gatter from University Of Sussex questions the term resilience in humanitarianism, asking whether it is useful to call refugees resilient and proposing a new way for academics and development practitioners to approach the term. #OpenAccess in Ethnos >> buff.ly/tVP4pyT