@thomcous.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Africa. Tutorial Fellow @StHughsCollege. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Work on health, the living, the ordinary, post-TB, labour, South Africa
www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/st-hughs-fel... An honour to be working with Prof Rachel Tanner @sthughscollege.bsky.social
06.05.2025 08:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An amazing book by an incredible group of authors - on a theme that could not be more timely.
(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)
“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253)
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Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
the path not to go down (mea culpa): www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHGT...
10.03.2025 20:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
the irony (Bodley's librarian wrote this): www.hachette.co.uk/titles/richa...
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the horror: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
10.03.2025 20:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/
📣 Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
A French colleague in the physical sciences asked me how best to support US science: by attending conferences in the US, or by boycotting them?
I don’t know how to answer.
But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
25.02.2025 21:32 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Michele Acton will be its 10th Principal. Acton is currently Chief Executive of the RSM (@roysocmed.bsky.social) and will assume the role of Principal in September 2025, when Lady Elish Angiolini KC steps down.
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal
School events 24-28 February 2025
Join us for these fantastic events happening across the School next week! ⬇️
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social
Thanks @drtianchen.bsky.social !!
07.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Keynote done. Great conference
07.11.2024 13:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I’m giving the first keynote. “The Limits of Repair” on Wednesday morning.
05.11.2024 06:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Theme: Repair, Restoration, Reparation.
www.asnahome.org/images/ASnA_...
Off to Anthropology Southern Africa today. #workofrepair
05.11.2024 06:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
which, very wonderfully, was published in South Africa by Modjaji / Pulani, by the incomparable Colleen Higgs
01.10.2024 10:48 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
My monograph, The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa. June 2023, published by Fordham.
bit.ly/3VZn4Aq
Starting with a clean slate on a new platform. Will be work-focused, basically. Will start with a thing about my recent book.
01.10.2024 10:40 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0