David Henig

The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later Unexploded U.S. shells killed four people in February alone, after the Trump administration cut funding to demining efforts.

“In the long run, the abrupt withdrawal or decrease of U.S. support could permanently undermine UXO programs in the region if alternative funding and programs fail to fill the void," said Sera Koulabdara, the chief executive of Legacies of War.

theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...

A still life of prizes: Reynard the Fox book, A Fox for All Seasons journal open at a map of Flanders, a toy fox, Dorset tea and biscuits.

🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊

"It also betrays us into an insensibility toward the very idea of war, so that we are less prone to be aware of how totally disgusting real wars really are." ( #IanHacking ) #war

#War is everywhere .... "Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed ways. The willingness to describe fierce disagreement in terms of the metaphors of war makes the very existence of real wars seem more natural, more inevitable, more a part of the human condition. 1/

@davidheniguk.bsky.social this one is for you

Thank you 🙏🏽 I’ve been already invited to an Iftar dinner tonight. But let’s plan something. And also walking Stanislav please 🐕🐕🐕

Exploring my new neighbourhood #Finsburypark #sabbatical @ericgordy.bsky.social ?

Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals Taking Habermas’ 2023 statement on Palestinians-Israel as the point of entry, this article examines his concept of critique. Against the dominant view of him as a philosopher of ‘universalism’ and ...

@a-d-n.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Finally visited PRE-ARCHITECTURES exhibition and got to see @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @davidwengrow.bsky.social & the Nebelivka Project - mind blowing work #prearchitecture #ixelles

Two of my favourite books spotted together during a 🐕 walk in #Brussels #changingthecourseofhistory @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

He met with an ethnosupremacist two decades after the Bosnian genocide. 7 years later Trump tasked him with dismantling USAID. In one way or another it almost always goes back to them hating Bosnians and/or Palestinians

@drflachsophone.bsky.social thanks so much for the shout-
out 😜

Winter hedgerow with trees, and birds flying over. Sun rising on the horizon

Pale Sunrise - linocut by Sussex based artist and printmaker, Annie Soudain

More of this artist's gorgeous artwork here: anniesoudain.co.uk

#art #winter #snow #linocut #trees #birds

The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...

I've been thinking about intersections of historical record, material culture, and family silence and part of it is now an essay here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...

The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...

Our editor, Ana Sekulić, delves into her collection of heirloom clothing, unraveling stories of craftsmanship, labor, and impact of modernity.
"Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er

‘the work of understanding, unlike the urge to know, requires an endless commitment to the activity of thinking; it requires one to always be ready to begin again’ … couldn’t start my sabbatical with a better book @samantharhill.bsky.social #consolationofphilosophy #thinkingsolitude

What Remains

On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...

Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱

Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?

Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!

Yes!!!

Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below

The Crying Child : On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons | Current Anthropology: Vol 61, No S22 This article sketches key concerns surrounding the digital reproduction of enslaved and colonized subjects held in cultural heritage collections. It centralizes one photograph of a crying Afro-Caribbe...

"What does it mean for an archive or collection to provide open digital access to materials representing violated subjects who did not necessarily consent to being documented?"

--Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child"

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Our new article is out now: "Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction" (open access). It takes a critical #envhum approach to biological research on animal cultures and asks how humanities scholars might contribute to these discussions in a time of extinctions.

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Excited to present bits of my new written material at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Brussels. The talk will cover everything from techno-mushrooms, bombturbation, reworlded craters, to guerilla demining. #anthropology #multispecies #environment #semiotics

The burnout and administrivia that dominates the life of faculty these days can be measured by the length of this complete syllabus from my mother’s class in 1988.

Might have taken her five minutes to write.

very sad news about the passing of Thomas Hylland Eriksen😢#anthropology

Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist

Plastic waste is everywhere. Countries have one more chance to agree on a solution Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.

Anarchism and Principle of Play | Los Angeles Review of Books Steven Shaviro reviews David Graeber’s posthumous essay collection “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …”

lareviewofbooks.org/article/anar...

French organizations Carbone 4 + ECF launch this essential report on "imported emissions".

It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate.

www.carbone4.com/files/Public...

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