Rachel Smith

Anthropology of Free Trade - American Ethnological Society Nothing Found

Worth checking out: @amethno.bsky.social's new online collection featuring ten essays on the anthropology of free trade: americanethnologist.org/online-conte...

A screenshot of a slide featuring a variety of logos of scholar presses: OpenBook Publishers, Meson Press, Punctum books, African Minds, media studies press, Mattering Press, UCT press, Chinhoyi University of Technology, Bookhub Platform, SciElo Books, Aberdeen University Press, langiage science press, University of Westminister Press, MayFly, Open Humanities Press, OpenEdition Books

We were delighted to get a shout-out from @joedeville.bsky.social recognising us as a scholar-led press working to improve the scholarly publishing landscape in today's #OAWeek webinar from @openlibhums.org on Mainstreaming Diamond Open Access

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Africa's Last Colonial Currency - Pluto Press How the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in Africa

I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books.

www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...

More than 1,000 Amazon workers warn rapid AI rollout threatens jobs and climate Workers say the firm’s ‘warp-speed’ approach fuels pressure, layoffs and rising emissions

"1,000 Amazon employees have signed an open letter expressing “serious concerns” abt AI development, saying that the company’s “all-costs justified, warp speed” approach to the powerful technology will cause damage to "democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth.”

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

At last, some properly rigorous reporting on the vampiric management consulting behind proposed cuts at Edinburgh Uni.

Grab some garlic, read and weep.

Our new issue of @transformanthro.bsky.social is out! Featuring an editorial by me and Christen Smith, unpublished manuscripts and translations from Marlene Cunha, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Ellen Irene Diggs, and articles by Pyar Seth and Nala Williams. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/tra/2025...

Building the Human Economy: A question of value? The author has always been sceptical about the use of value theory in anthropology. Here he considers its scope in relation to a project linked to the publication of The Human Economy: A Citizen’s Gui...

Vale Keith Hart (1943–2025),
an influential figure in economic #anthropology who passed earlier this month.

Suomen antropologi published his 2010 keynote lecture "Building the Human Economy: A question of value?" given in Helsinki. The lecture is now available in full digital #OpenAccess.

Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations (Roadsides Journal Article)

The new issue of @roadsides.bsky.social includes my photo essay "Roads, Marketplaces and Plantations" in #PapuaNewGuinea.

I discuss how the unequal relations and struggle between plantation companies, workers and peasants are materialized in enacted through food and #infrastructure.

#anthropology

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

AI in education is being treated as an unbelievable, better-than-Covid opportunity for profitmaking by the exploitative, predatory, extractive edtech industry

If you care about the future of University of Edinburgh, call or email your local MSP on Monday:

Monday, 17 November: Call your MSP. UCU has prepared a briefing here, but you can also simply call and tell your story. These cuts will affect the whole city.

www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/lobby-your-m...

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

graphical illustration showing the distribution of seats under FPTP based on todays yougov poll. under PR there is a wider spread of seats across parties, while under FPTP, it displays a massive landslide of seats for the Яeform Party.

Dear Britain:

Your polls look very "European" and NOW would be a really really really really really really really good time to switch to PR.

➡️ RFM: 26% | 170 (+74)
🟥 LAB: 19% | 124 (-110)
🟦 CON: 18% | 118 (-38)
🟩 GRN: 15% | 98 (+55)
🟧 LDM: 14% | 91 (+10)
🟨 SNP: 3% | 19 (+2)
🔲 PLC: 2% | 12 (+7)

Higher Education, where consultants advocate death as a means for survival and everyone else knows they're simply murdering everything.

Very sad news. Arts and Humanities are vital.

Why is it that when trying to cut costs, university execs go for the arts and humanities subjects that are frequently cheaper to teach and bring in strong income?

Don’t they realise this will create less income and cause additional cuts in the future?

Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: Anthropology of Labour Network Webinar Join us for the upcoming Anthropology of Labour Network webinar on experiences of academic precarity. 12 November, 17-19 CET. With Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, Mariya Ivancheva, Roberto Mozzachiodi and...

📢 Varieties of academic precarity across (and beyond) Europe: @easainfo.bsky.social Anthropology of Labour network Webinar TOMORROW w/ Bhargabi Das, Martin Fotta, @mariya-ivancheva.bsky.social , Roberto Mozzachiodi & Aslı Vatansever ! easaonline.org/event/variet...

A titan. humanityjournal.org/issue7-1/ref...

The latest OPEN ACCESS volume of Museum Worlds has been published! View the TOC for Vol. 13 here: bit.ly/47Gl3zG

Featuring research by:
@jordankistler.bsky.social
@tattersdill.bsky.social
@clairewintle.bsky.social
@fengschoeneweiss.bsky.social
@mnystudio.bsky.social
@tibetcurator.bsky.social

New article alert 🔬📚 "...labor management practices associated with soft skills have as much to do with old ways of disciplining labor as new and highlights the co-constitution of labor anxiety and racial ideologies", writes Sydney Pullen in "Don't Complain." @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social 👏 📣

"Academia is precarious" - a statement most (if not all) of us have come to experience in one way or another. The EASA Anthropology of Labour Network invites you to a webinar on experiences of academic precarity on 12 November.

We encourage you to attend this timely event.
Info in the comments.

Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library South Carolina's Black Belt counties are perennial targets of economic development programs. Economic development personnel focus on industrial recruitment and workforce development to remedy the eco...

In “Don't Complain”: Labor Anxiety, Racial Ideologies, and Moral Micromanagement in Rural South Carolina Sydney Pullen situates the neoliberal turn towards “soft skills” training programs w/in historical context, showing how they represent continuity of racial ideologies and racialized labor regimes

Banner with the words "Last chance to Save St Fittick's Park" and a picture of protesters against the industrialisation of the park

Last chance to save St Fittick's Park!

Today, Aberdeen's Planning Committee will be discussing the latest planning application for the development and industrialisation of St Fittick's Community Park - Torry's last remaining green space.

I strongly oppose the development. Read more in the thread

guy said, “Do you like Marx?” I said, “I haven’t met him.” Guy said, “No, no, he’s dead.” “Wow, what happened?” “No, no, he died long ago.” I thought the guy Marx had just died. So then, “Why are you asking me if he died long ago?” “No, he wrote a lot. He wrote that poor people should not be poor.” I said, “Sounds amazing.” I’m giving you a sense of how naïve I was. After they left, I went to the library to look for Marx. So that was my introduction to Karl Marx. BS: The FBI. MM: The FBI. Then, of course, I took a class on Marx. Couldn’t just get Marx out of the library. But,

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

The university is threatening cuts on a massive scale with little to no justification. Truly surreal moment in HE.

Code Work How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences

Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

A Baleful Legacy | David A. Bell Enlightenment writers who proposed ways of improving and even perfecting the human species laid the theoretical foundations of modern racism.

Review of William Max Nelson's new book Enlightenment Biopolitics: A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens @nybooks.com www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."

"AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy."

... and for Honourable Mention from the judges of the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize! Congratulations to
Hemangini Gupta!