Branwyn Poleykett

One of the weirdest experiences transitioning to the Netherlands... last year I spoke to a lot of colleagues who were motivated to strike but felt they couldn't cope with the "increased workload" it would bring

I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!

Proposals for a Caring Economy Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...

"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS

Happening next week!

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...

Agency In anthropology, agency is broadly defined as the socio-culturally mediated capacity to act. Classically, the concept has been used to analyse how people try to influence, or change, their lifeworlds ...

Can #agency be reduced to notions of personal choice, #freedom, and #autonomy? Find out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency #anthropology #sts #anthrobluesky

Thank you so much! A very promising first half of a syllabus here...

Hi Adam, could you recommend a short text laying out this argument that might work well for teaching?

Playing the Field - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management […]

“How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management board game hatched by Bakudapan Food Study Group, an eight-woman collective founded in 2015 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.”