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agrowingculture BREAKING: ISRAEL DESTROYS PALESTINIAN SEED BANK UNIT CALL FOR SOLIDARITY

Israeli forces have raided and demolished the Palestinian seed bank in occupied Hebron, West Bank. They used heavy machinery to destroy the seeds and the equipments required to store them.

Israel’s war is against Life itself.

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I always feel this weird mixture of grief-cum-pride, both an analytical grasp of class and an intimate affective reaction, whenever I understand that people who are my age and have extremely productive academic careers have most likely grown up to parents who are also writers/professors/academics

Some of the bottles of rice and formula and flour Egyptians threw into the sea have actually made it to Gaza - now people in Cyprus and Lebanon are joining the effort, with scientists from all over the world virtually assisting them in figuring the time and location to do so based on the currents. 💚

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

Irgendwo im Zeitungsviertel liegt, halb versteckt, ein erstaunlich gut gefüllter Friedhof, wo all jene kritischen Artikel zur israelischen Besatzungs- und Kriegspolitik ruhen, nachdem sie durch direkte Zensur, endloses Hinauszögern und ganz objektive redaktionelle Entscheidungen getötet wurden.

This scheme is still open, and includes Palestine:

Does anyone have any book/article recs on the methodological and ethical questions of studying up (i.e., ethnographic studies of politicians, corporations, government employees)?

I'm starting my second major ethnographic research project after the PhD and I can't really tell yet what it is (shifting to a new subfield, doing ethnography as a "researcher" not just a student, less time contraints in terms of outcomes but also life in your mid 30s), but this is challenging!

Our commentary on reproductive genocide in Gaza has now been featured on the SRHM podcast so you can hear a conversation with Hala and me on Spotify and Apple Podcasts:

open.spotify.com/episode/1QjF...

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Our commentary is here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Yeah I have to think about addressing it much more before they write their essays.. any tips?

Someone needs to write about the affective implications of AI knowledge production; after marking a bunch of essays that were either fully or partially written by AI, I feel dumb/numb, angry, and exhausted. They make me crave human mistakes, typos, unfinished thoughts, a wonky structure etc. 😭

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening.

That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk.

Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Starvation in Gaza, key findings

Palestine: A Sociological Issue Cairsti Russell, Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour and Yasmin Gunaratnam in conversation Part of The Sociological Review Foundation’s Conversations series, this 8 May 2025 event explored the role of sociology in responding to genocide in Gaza, student resistance, campus securitisation, an...

📣 Palestine: A Sociological Issue
8 May, 18:30 Rafeef Ziadah, Ashjan Ajour, Cairsti Russell & Yasmin Gunaratnam on #GazaGenocide, resistance & reclaiming campuses.
Hosted by @TheSocReview + SISP
Register: thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...
#FreePalestine #Sociology #AcademicSolidarity

As I'm finalizing my book manuscript, I was looking for photos from fieldwork and found this one of watermelons lined up en route to Ramallah 🍉 ❤️💚

Theme This year’s lab, Anthropo-scenes , will be an experiment in ecodramaturgy , bringing together speculative ethnography, Black geographies, decolonial thought, landscape architecture, and...

Applications are open for our summer lab in the Greek mountain. This year's theme is "Anthropo-Scenes: Restaging Climate Dramas for Environmental Justice". Call open till Sunday 4th May. Pls share!

www.pelionsummerlab.net/theme1.html

I'm giving a talk at the University of Edinburgh in May! Open to staff and students in Social Anthropology, but I'm staying for the weekend and am happy to connect with other colleagues as well (it's my first time visiting!)
www.edcma.sps.ed.ac.uk/news-events/...

Femonationalism, gendered anti-Muslim racism and reproductive anxiety: Perspectives from the United Kingdom and Germany - Christy Kulz, Naaz Rashid, 2025 Focussing on two different Western European nation states, the United Kingdom and Germany, we explore the apparent paradox of liberal feminist support for right...

*new publication* in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social Finally, this article I wrote with Dr Christy Kulz is out
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I wrote about Israel’s ballistic destruction of Gaza & how colonial explosive violence has left its mark on critical social thought @sociologicalreview.bsky.social

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

UPDATE: Palestine Studies Search is back up! They could delay us and annoy us, but they could not keep us down.

Please apply, share with friends, cannot wait to meet our new colleagues.

hrsa.cunyfirst.cuny.edu/psp/erecruit...

Starker Beitrag von Hanna Al-Taher und Benjamin Schütze zu Deutschlands verlogener Nahostpolitik: "Was Taten betrifft, ist deutsche Nahostpolitik genozidal und pro-ethnischer Säuberung. Nur wird es weniger offen formuliert als von Trump."
taz.de/!6071887/

Nachdem Ärzte ohne Grenzen, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, ECCHR, die UN, Forensic Architecture und zahlreiche Genozid-Forscher:innen das Vorgehen Israels in Gaza als Völkermord einstufen – solche Sätze zu formulieren, ist irgendwie … beeindruckend?

In less than 24 hours, Israel has killed 420 Palestinians and injured over 500. US media is asking whether maaaaaaybe they broke the ceasefire. I can’t with this world.

“More than a human can bear”: Israel's systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other forms of gender-based violence since 7 October 2023

Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel

www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

So sad to learn of Sandra's death. She was a dear friend and constant inspiration. In the intellectual vanguard of postcolonial science studies, Sandra never ceased pushing us to think more critically, more radically. How I miss those days hanging out in Venice Beach...
#STS #postcol

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue

A new Special Section in issue 73.2 The Sociological Review journal featuring contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun, Rafeef Ziadah.

thesociologicalreview.org/announcement...

#palestine #gaza

More tickets for Sophie Lewis‘ lecture on Friday are available! Come come - I really enjoyed reading the book and I’ll bring some case studies of German/Zionist feminists against liberation
@reproutopia.bsky.social @xineyaophd.bsky.social @ucl-gfrn.bsky.social @victoriacmangan.bsky.social

African Activism in Anticolonial Cairo In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world. Alex White examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.

In the 1950s-60s, the African Association in Cairo became a hub for anticolonial activists from across the world.

@alexjwhite.bsky.social examines the role of transnational activists who shaped the anticolonial movement.

www.historyworkshop....

Judenhass: Antisemitismusbeauftragter fordert Einsatz des Verfassungsschutzes an Universitäten - WELT Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte der Bundesregierung, Felix Klein, will antisemitische Umtriebe an deutschen Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Die kritiklose Blindheit ...

Der Antisemitismusbeauftragte Felix Klein will Universitäten stärker durch den Verfassungsschutz beobachten lassen. Zustimmung äußerte Klein zu Trumps Plan Gazas Zivilbevölkerung zu vertreiben: „Ich halte es nicht für verkehrt, radikal und einmal völlig neu zu denken“
www.welt.de/politik/deut...