Elise Hjalmarson's Avatar

Elise Hjalmarson

@elihjal.bsky.social

Sharpening the tender point of hope ✏️ Anthropologist + Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley SNF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow | Co-convenor of AnthroMob πŸ“š Book reviews editor at @allegralab.bsky.social

39 Followers  |  45 Following  |  8 Posts  |  Joined: 03.02.2025  |  1.7133

Latest posts by elihjal.bsky.social on Bluesky

Post image

A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la SocietΓ  Italiana di Antropologia Culturale

25.09.2025 09:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture - Allegra Lab Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is

Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social

25.09.2025 07:46 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British EmpireΒ  - Allegra Lab Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge

In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"β€”a sobering reality that stands the test of time.

16.09.2025 07:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab Andreas Malm. 2024.Β The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth.Β London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures

Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social

09.09.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
EASA AnthroMob Network

It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.

09.09.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
AnthroMob 2025 Workshop Registration Thank you for registering to attend the 2025 AnthroMob Workshop, "Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodiment and Emotions," in The Hague from 11-12 September. The workshop is organized by the EA...

Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

12.08.2025 09:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social

23.06.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what β€˜resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future

New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world...
allegralaboratory.net/collective-t...

07.05.2025 09:30 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Colonizing Palestine: The zionist left and the making of the palestinian nakba - Allegra Lab Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.

Clare Maxwell engages with @areejsabbaghkhoury.bsky.social's compelling new book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba in this timely review πŸ‡΅πŸ‡Έ @stanfordpress.bsky.social
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!

05.05.2025 06:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Workers Can Say Goodbye to Heat Protections Under Trump For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block fede...

This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...

02.05.2025 15:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."

30.04.2025 15:26 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney

Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social

28.04.2025 16:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney

Thrilled to see @andreaboccardi.bsky.social's insightful review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires in press at @allegralab.bsky.social, the first from our latest book review series!
allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ...

28.04.2025 16:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.

New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky

27.01.2025 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
Call for Papers β€œContesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America” | CEU Democracy Institute

🚨 Call for papers 🚨

"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"

Central European University, 22-23/9/2025

Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos MelΓ©ndez

democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...

07.02.2025 09:33 β€” πŸ‘ 19    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!

11.02.2025 14:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies - Allegra Lab Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than 13 years of

In press today! In "Lessons from Tahrir for Activists and their Allies", Alice Wilson thoughtfully engages with Rusha Latif’s book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution in the context of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad's fall from power.

03.02.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

@elihjal is following 20 prominent accounts