Chika Watanabe

We are organising a lightning panel (5 min papers/provocations) on patchwork ethnography at EASA 2026 in Poznan, European Association of Social Anthropologists. Submit a proposal! We'll make it as interactive as possible so hope to see many of you there in any case ❤️.

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A photo of the book The Global Politics of Exemplarity.

I’m very excited that years of work with Dorry Noyes (@mershoncenter.bsky.social) and a fantastic group of friends and colleagues finally resulted in this, I think, rather beautiful object. The Global Politics of Exemplarity! @normativeorders.bsky.social @prif.org @brisunipress.bsky.social 1/4

Kristen Holfeuer — Patchwork Ethnography

Check out the latest Patchwork Ethnography Conversation with Kristen Holfeuer www.patchworkethnography.com/kristen-holf...

Book contract signed 🎉. Play to Survive: Disaster Preparedness along the Ring of Fire coming in 2026 with Stanford UP. An ethnographic study of people across Japan and Chile teaching preparedness through play, beyond logics of securitization.

My partner mocked up some potential book covers 🤔

It’s happening! Officially the book is out May 13th but you can read the Introduction for free and pre-order using this here discount: EV25VCHOI
#DisasterSTS #Anthropology #SriLanka #SouthAsia #IndianOcean

🤩Join us for the next @UoMAnthropology seminar, 24 March, for Jieun Kim's 'Blood and Citizenship in a Fragmented Nation: Logics of gift, debt and inheritance in South Korea'. See you there!

Next week's @UoMAnthropology seminar is our very own Mateusz Laszczkowski, with 'Territorio is where you meet others': politics of place in an Alpine rebellion". See you there!

Speak out. Organize. Across all the silos. They are testing to see what they can get away with.

Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar is 'Corrosive kinship & forms of healing and care: “Forced marriage in the UK”' by Perveez Mody. See you there!

Next Monday's seminar @UoMAnthropology is 'Strategic ignorance, forgetting and misrecognition in Parliaments' by Emma Crewe. See you there!

Our @UoMAnthropology seminar TODAY 24 Feb is 'Staging the Promises: Everyday Future-Making in a Serbian Industrial Town' by Deana Jovanović. See you there!

James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65 James “Jim” Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.

RIP James Ferguson stanforddaily.com/2025/02/19/j...

Looking forward to supporting this exciting new book series from @manchesterup.bsky.social - details on how to submit proposals in the link below!

Next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar (17th February) is 'Alpine Border Conflict: Migration and Social Polarization in the Everyday Life of Intra-EU Borders' by Cecilia Vergnano! See you there😀.

Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar will be with Omer Aijazi's 'Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir'. See you there! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

📢Postdocs advertised at the University of Manchester! See these 2 calls. Get in touch w/ any of us @UoMAnthropology if you'd like to apply.
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Our next @UoMAnthropology Monday seminar (3 Feb) is 'The CEO’s Two Bodies: Corporate Personhood and the Corporate Persona in Kenya' by Kevin Donovan (U of Edinburgh). See you there! events.manchester.ac.uk/event/event:...

🥳@UoMAnthropology's Monday seminars are back on 27 January! Starting out with Nikita Simpson's talk, 'How do we theorise ecological distress? A view from the Western Himalayas'. @NiksSimpson (in person only). See flyer for details and whole programme.

2024-2025 Final Event

So amazingly proud of my Anthropology of Development and Humanitarianism students @UoMAnthropology for their creativity and thoughtfulness. Check out how they made games to explore anthropological concepts: sites.manchester.ac.uk/anthropology...

Lunch and a walk along the Tyne with @chikaw.bsky.social , Hannah Knox and Adam Reed a lovely way to mark the end of our JRAI editorship. Thanks to all who submitted, reviewed and helped to make it all happen!

Event schedule for the Fear Research Network

The Fear Research Network (FeRN), led by @chikaw.bsky.social and yours truly, brings together researchers interested in the politics, feelings, and practices that converge around fear from historical and contemporary perspectives. tinyurl.com/ycx25kkb Here are some of our upcoming events at UoM

Events — Patchwork Ethnography

🎉We have a contract! @uchicagopress.bsky.social will publish the Patchwork Ethnography textbook. If you're an Early Career scholar, please consider applying to our workshop. We're looking for contributors who can help advance our theorization. Deadline 6 Dec: patchworkethnography.com/events.

The next and final Monday seminar of the term (2 Dec) at @UoMAnthropology is 'Plastic Longevity and Ecological Emotions' by Bridget Bradley, St Andrews. Humanities Bridgeford Street, Hanson Room, 3.15pm. See you there!

Everyone is invited to the next Monday anthropology seminar at the U of Manchester (in person only). 'Corallers of Crises: between the horror and glee of climate inaction', by Andrea Pia. See you there!

Events — Patchwork Ethnography

📣 We’re working on a Patchwork Ethnography textbook and we’re looking to include 10 essays from early career scholars who can help us develop our theorizations further. We plan to run remote workshops to build ideas together. More info and apply here: patchworkethnography.com/events

Dialogues: decolonizing anthropology in/with Japan Click on the article title to read more.

🎉 New @TheJRAI Dialogues on decolonizing anthropology debates from Japan! Remembering that colonialism existed/exists outside “the west” and decolonizing has regional specificities. Great to see this out 🤓. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Dialogues: decolonizing anthropology in/with Japan Click on the article title to read more.

🎉 New @TheJRAI Dialogues on decolonizing anthropology debates from Japan! Remembering that colonialism existed/exists outside “the west” and decolonizing has regional specificities. Great to see this out 🤓. rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

『ペーパーシティ 東京大空襲の記憶』１週間限定上映 日本人が忘れかけている東京大空襲の悲劇。３人の生存者の記憶と証言を、ひとりのオーストラリア人監督が見つめる。

Tokyoites: Paper City is screening this week only in Kikugawa, as the anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid approaches.

Tickets here: stranger.jp/movie/2541/

Excellently worded 💪

In light of the Max Planck Society’s appalling treatment of
Professor Ghassan Hage, I am withdrawing from a speaking event at a Max Planck Institute.

Here is my email to the event organizer explaining why.