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Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier

@alexandrinebf.bsky.social

Multimodal anthropology, infrastructure, sound, Cuba. Filmmaker. Based at the University of Victoria. Editor in Chief of Anthropologica. Sailing.

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🎶 Calling all musicians 🎶

Compose an original piece using ONC's underwater sounds to win a spot on a new album, "Sailing the Sonic Sea" distributed by EarthSonic Record Label!

Learn more 🎵 sailingsonicsea.com/how-to-contr...

20.05.2025 18:15 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Alterecologías En la modernidad, la idea “especie” se ha establecido como la unidad básica para pensar y organizar la ecología. La taxonomía moderna ha generado...

Acabamos de publicar, "Alterecologías", el primer forum escrito íntegramente en español publicado por la revista Cultural Anthropology. Editado por @anibalarregui.bsky.social y Gemma Orobitg culanth.org/fieldsights/...

24.04.2025 16:15 — 👍 19    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 1
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attend our colloquia this week to hear Dr. Dzifa Dordunoo (Associate Professor, School of Nursing, UVic) speak on :
"Decoding scientific racism in the 21st century"

events.uvic.ca/anthropology...

31.03.2025 04:58 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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In parallel to the "Sailing the Sonic Sea Event" (Salish Sea, Victoria BC June 5-8), we are launching a CALL FOR COMPOSITIONS based on Ocean Network Canada's underwater bank of sound recordings! A selection of the compositions will appear on the album curated by EarthSonic Project!

25.03.2025 21:11 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 1
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On board: Navigating the choppy waters of B.C.'s herring fishery Black Press Media climbs aboard commercial fishboat to explore decades-long battle over Salish Sea roe harvest

A refreshing story on the bc herring fishery. www.vicnews.com/local-news/o...

15.03.2025 18:54 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Plastic waste in bird nests can act like a tiny time capsule Expiration dates help biologists trace the building of some avian homes back in history—in one case to 1991

Plastic waste in bird nests can act like a tiny time capsule | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

05.03.2025 20:07 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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This new @anthropologica.bsky.social issue is so timely: "Sounding the Alarm" is now available open access on our website cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...
Le nouveau numéro d'Anthropologica est maintenant disponible sur notre site web!

04.03.2025 15:04 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As for Protocols <b>Available online now and in print on March 4, 2025</b> Explicitly—or not—protocols determine much of what we do. Far exceeding traditional notions of “good manners,” protocols are systems of langua...

The Vera List Center (my favorite thing abt The New School) has published a ✨ book abt PROTOCOLS, broadly conceived! I contributed a chapter on sonic protocols 🔔🔊🎵.

The 📘 is open-access + purchase-able in print, and we've got a launch event @ TNS on March 21! event.newschool.edu/asforprotoco...

20.02.2025 01:01 — 👍 48    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1
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Excited to share the beautiful poster by artist Morgan Holder to promote our event "Sailing the Sonic Sea" (funded by SSHRC Connection) that will take place on the Salish Sea and at the University of Victoria @uvic.bsky.social @uvicanthro.bsky.social in June 2025. Stay tuned!

31.01.2025 19:16 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 1

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23.01.2025 01:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My favourite read of the holiday👇🏼a penetrating afro-futurist story about an underwater society built by descendants of pregnant enslaved women who could breath underwater. It’s also about memory, colonialism, the pain and trauma left by history, relationships between us and more than us. A must read

07.01.2025 03:39 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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US Senate report finds CIA mishandled employee cases of Havana syndrome Workers who reported symptoms of the illness often faced delayed or denied care and struggled to access benefits

Despite more than 1500 reports of Havana Syndrome (HS) in the world, the cause remains unclear. First reported in Havana in 2016 among US and CDN diplomats. New report says that diplomats struggled to access benefits. Denielle Elliott and I wrote a piece about this - published soon! Stay tuned!

29.12.2024 02:06 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Alexandrine Boudreault-Fournier and Mélissa Gauthier: Inflation as pressure: coping mechanisms from Eastern Cuba Image 1: Snapshot of Yoani Sanchez’s Twitter post, December 16, 2020. Source: “Mecardo negro en Cuba ya da señales de inflación: un carton de huevos a 300 pesos cubanos

Our take on #inflation as pressure in #Cuba based on the price of eggs and other proteins
www.focaalblog.com/2024/12/10/a...

10.12.2024 20:30 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is my land Film directed by Djuna Lou Nagasaki, Hannah Giroux, Erin Chernikhowsky and Jaiden Halldorson during the 2023 Cuba Ethnographic Field School organized by the Department…

Students participating to my field school in Cuba created this 4 minutes long beautiful film about Rosalina, a Cuban mother working in the Cooperative La Esperanza in Eastern Cuba ⭐️ vimeo.com/1034809757

30.11.2024 21:03 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1

It seems salmon hats are back in fashion again!

www.iflscience.com/wearing-a-sa...

28.11.2024 00:13 — 👍 33    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
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Nous sommes fiers de notre modèle de publication en libre accès : tous les articles sont accessibles sur notre site Web, y compris les archives, et les auteurs conservent les droits d'auteur sur leur travail.

cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

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21.11.2024 09:46 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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We are proud of our open access publication model: all articles are accessible on our website, including archives, and authors retain copyright of their work.

cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

@alexandrinebf.bsky.social

21.11.2024 09:46 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Please add me to the list. Thank you!

18.11.2024 03:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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As the Editor in Chief of the journal Anthropologica, I'm thrilled to share that our new issue "Global Vaccine Logics" with special guests Janice Graham and Oumy Thiongane is now available open access on our website: cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/an...

15.11.2024 21:57 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

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