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Kregg Hetherington

@krether.bsky.social

Environmental anthropologist and director of the Concordia Ethnography Lab. Latest book: The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops.

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Franรงois Legault set out to bridge Quebecโ€™s divides. He ended up widening them The Quebec Premierโ€™s resignation marks the logical conclusion of his dramatic fall from grace
14.01.2026 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to Tell the Difference Between a Lone Wolf and a Coordinated Effort by the Radical Left If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, itโ€™s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf. If a right-wing activist is gunned ...

If a social media addicted billionaire says โ€œThe left is the party murder,โ€ itโ€™s an indisputable fact.

If a think tank founded by the Koch brothers concludes that right-wing terrorism is responsible for far more deaths than left-wing terrorism, they were just cherry-picking.

19.09.2025 12:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 96    ๐Ÿ” 27    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

18.07.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73625    ๐Ÿ” 18789    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1474    ๐Ÿ“Œ 832
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Kafka-land at UC Berkeley The 160 members of the university notified that their names were forwarded to the DOEโ€™s Office for Civil Rights were not informed of any specific allegations against them.

Judith Butler's response to their name being turned over to the federal government by UC Berkeley as part of a Trump administration antisemitism investigation is well worth reading: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

16.09.2025 20:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 73    ๐Ÿ” 33    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A Time for Climate Justice: A Response to David Suzukiโ€™s interview with iPolitics โ€” Concordia Ethnography Lab JONATHAN WALD This post responds to a recent iPolitics interview with David Suzuki where he expresses that โ€œitโ€™s too lateโ€ for climate change. Instead of arguing for optimism, this post argues that c...

www.ethnographylabconcordia.ca/ethnoblab/a-...

01.08.2025 15:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

Headline: ICE came for their neighbor so these Tennesseans formed a human chain to protect him

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

16.04.2025 02:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 68973    ๐Ÿ” 22542    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 793    ๐Ÿ“Œ 888

๐Ÿ“’[Cluster Article] in Tapuya Vol. 7

Read โ€œThe patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their placeโ€๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿšœ

By Kregg Hetherington @krether.bsky.social

At ๐Ÿ”— doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

10.03.2025 20:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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James Ferguson, professor of anthropology and former department chair, dies at 65 James โ€œJimโ€ Ferguson played a pivotal roles in the department's history and will be remembered for his remarkable character, kindness and contributions to the field.

A huge loss for us all. An important voice on the political economy and power of inequality falls silent.

20.02.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Necessary but Never Sufficient: Rethinking Facts from Latin America This collection is a reflection on the changing nature of facts, written by authors who do their thinking from Latin America. Conceived during a ...

So happy to share our recent bilingual series with Cultural Anthropology on "Rethinking Facts from Latin America." Thanks for valiant co-editors @aballes2.bsky.social and @edenmedina.bsky.social, and our partners over at @tapuya.org @vivavivette.bsky.social.

13.02.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Our conversations were quite interesting -- the hegemony of English works in so many different ways.

13.02.2025 14:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's in response to this dynamic that we decided to launch our Theorizing the Contemporary series in both languages simultaneously. Initially we had proposed authors post in English or Spanish, but found almost (but not quite) everyone preferred English, for different reasons.

13.02.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โญ Cluster Introduction "Los hechos nunca andan solos: The Future of Facts in Latin America"

by Andrea Ballestero, Kregg Hetherington & Eden Medina

Read at ๐Ÿ”— doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2421655

#FutureofFacts #OpenAccess #Tapuya7
@aballes2.bsky.social @krether.bsky.social @edenmedina.bsky.social

16.12.2024 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Cluster Article โ€œThe patent and the freezer: putting agrarian facts in their placeโ€๐ŸŒฝ๐Ÿšœ

By Kregg Hetherington (@krether.bsky.social)

Read at ๐Ÿ”— doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2363093
#GreenRevolution #facticity #conservation #infrastructure #AgrarianScience #OpenAccess #Tapuya7

16.12.2024 19:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Tomorrow at EHESS Raspail, with Birgit Muller, Le lien alimentaire: la gouvernance des semences au Paraguay et au Canada. Rm AS1_23

15.12.2024 09:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ€˜There will be nothing leftโ€™: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina One year into Javier Mileiโ€™s presidency, scientists are exiting the country in the face of big budget cuts.

โ€˜There will be nothing leftโ€™: researchers fear collapse of science in Argentina www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.12.2024 19:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
Publications โ€“ Future of Facts in Latin America

Check out this special issue of Tapuya! Edited by @aballes2.bsky.social, @edenmedina.bsky.social and myself, along with a bunch of fabulous contributors.

10.12.2024 18:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ร€ Paris vendredi!

07.12.2024 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Storying Monocrop Infrastructure: A Conversation on Governance, Scale, and Failure | Engaging Science, Technology, and Society

This great conversation I had with Sophie Chao about our respective plantation books is now up on ESTS. Thanks to Sophie for leading the chat and seeing this publication through!
estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

05.12.2024 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Finding you all in here is an unexpected gulp of fresh air!

20.11.2024 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

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