Ben Hildred

Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...

v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...

Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!

Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.

Lastly: If you're interested in reviewing the book, please get in touch and I can organise a copy to be sent to you!

I'm grateful to co-editors Sean Heath, Henrike Neuhaus, and Thomas Carter for their hard work and support, and contributors Arthur Gaillard, Gwyneth Talley, Julia Haß, Francesco Fanoli and Jasmin Seijbel. Putting together the final manuscript is far easier when the content is so rich and exciting!

In the book, we show how the #digital age has changed #ethnography on #sport, how it affected our methods, our analysis – and most pertinently – our relationship with our interlocutors.

This book emerged out of discussions in @sportanthro.bsky.social, when we realised the impact digital technologies and media had on our fieldwork in sporting contexts.

I'm really happy to announce our new edited volume, Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age!

You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290.

Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.

Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

Anthropology in Sporting Worlds - Edited Volume Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age

Together with @bhildred.bsky.social, @arthurgaillard.bsky.social & others we shared insights from the book - I talked a bit about my chapter 'Doing Vulnerability in the Digital Age: On Researching Discrimination in Football Fandom'. Curious about the book? Get it here: vernonpress.com/book/2290 3/3

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First things thrown in over a year, and in an awesome new studio - turns out most of the Anth department are potters…

Really excited to promote our 2nd #sportanthro Conference, coming this summer in Belgium. The CFP is open till the 19th March.

If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.

We're extremely excited to share the Call for Papers for our 2nd International conference, held this year at KU Leuven, Belgium, on 5-6 June. Please share widely! To find out more, visit www.sportanthro.org/conference

As nice as it is to see you all full of energy and announcing new projects, I need some representation for those of us who have crawled into 2025 unwell, slow and uninspired. My year will be starting properly next week thank you 🙏

Merry Christmas to me, for finally finishing the edits on this! I would not wish the task of indexing a book on my worst enemy.

'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro

When did it just become a *thing* to watch videos without headphones? Trains are full of people flicking through tiktok these days... one guy was watching a full football match

No, so long as you’ve saved everything and done a normal shutdown first!

Reset the SMC! support.apple.com/en-us/102605...

Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.

This had almost passed me by, but it seems the recent #LKA U-19s games are the first time that two players from Jaffna have been in the national team at the same time?

Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.

Reflections

To be very clear, as a teacher I don't want "time-saving AI tools."

I want time.

Published by the @acscricket.bsky.social, this looks a good read from Tony Watts. Certainly one for those of us who enjoy #cricket and how #socialclass has influenced the game.

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Anthropology: The Critical Cup?: Hegemony and Resistance in Drinking Vessel Practices

We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop

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Holy shit! This looks amazing

This is so cool!