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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin

@alibinglin.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology @Havard | Gems, labor & geological histories in Afghanistan-Pakistan www.pinghsiualicelin.com

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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Check out my co-authored essay with Jeff Maskovsky in response to the Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/a-c...
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A Conservative Hit Job in the Age of MAGA - Anthropology News
The Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences is not a neutral audit; it is a tactical hit job on
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nick @unionnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
On the *same day* the Cornell Seven drugged and raped Jane Doe, Cornell banned four students (including the President of Cornell JVP) from campus for three years for nonviolent, pro-Palestine protests. The same Cornell officials let the rapists off with apology essays.
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Geoff Aung @rgnhardliner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Comrades: I have a new piece up for Historical Materialism in which I argue quite directly, thinking with Malm, that the destruction of Palestine is the destruction of Myanmar. Please read, share, etc. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/the-...
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar - Historical Materialism
The question of Palestine in Myanmar is overdetermined by religious affiliation and communal ties. But it doesn’t have to be. There is another way of plotting the links, connections, parallels, and, i...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/04/2026
‘Throughout​ the past two and a half years, Gaza has not only been a demolition zone but a construction site, reshaped according to Israel’s blueprint.’ Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online early from the next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
I have a new essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...
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Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
'The findings are uncomfortable. Students are submitting work they cannot fully explain, facing AI policies that do not function in practice, and responding strategically to assessment systems that reward production over understanding.' 1/3
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Trained to stop learning: How students are experiencing assessment and learning in an age of AI
New research from Wonkhe finds that assessment design – not AI policy – is what determines whether students use AI to learn or to produce. Jim Dickinson and Mack Marshall explain
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Middle East Research and Information Project @merip.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
NEW: Our editors collected 11 short essays on the war on Iran and the region from our contributors and members of our editorial committee. They encompass the political turmoil in Iran to the role of Christian nationalism in the US drive for dominance in the region. READ NOW
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War Across Boundaries–Perspectives on Iran and a Region Under Siege
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched airstrikes on Iran, initiating a war with wide-ranging consequences for Iran and the broader region and devastating effects for their…
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/03/2026
‘War alters political psychology in ways that are rarely linear. Those who loathe the clerical establishment may still recoil at the spectacle of foreign jets in Iranian skies.’ @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Tomorrow at 3pm, in Tozzer Anthropology Building (room 203), join the Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series for Delivering Relief: Water Trucks and the Negotiations of a ‘Cut-Off’ Life in Contemporary Lebanon, a talk by Peter Habib (Weatherhead Scholar Program).
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Me too!
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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
“Some explain the unraveling only by recent history. Besides being intellectually lazy, such explanations obscure a more complex problem: simply put, that it is easier to imagine the end of apartheid than to imagine the end of settler colonialism.” Now online, Panashe Chigumadzi on South Africa:
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The Land Question - Boston Review
It’s easier to imagine the end of apartheid than the end of settler colonialism.
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Excited to check out this new @amanthro.bsky.social commentary piece of theory-in-the-making on emergent eco-fascisms: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
After decades of denial and obstruction, the global Right is increasingly willing to acknowledge that climate change is a threat to lives and lifeways everywhere. Moreover, some seize on the specter ...
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
“Close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.”
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Cambridge and Boston folks, join us today at 3pm for the Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series as we welcome Professor Nathalie Peutz from NYU Abu Dhabi and Radcliffe Fellow (AY 2025-26).
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Gabrielle Hecht 🇵🇷 • she/elle/ella/cis⚔️ • AOC 4USpresident @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
The racial contract is technopolitical, and you can see all apartheids from space. More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA. Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi... Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert
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Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
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kalramnath @kalramnath.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for @scroll.in scroll.in/article/1087...
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Forgotten migrants, unfinished decolonisation: Why Kalyani Ramnath writes about citizenship history
Ramnath’s book ‘Boats in a Storm’ centres on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life.
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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
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Radical Books Collective @radicalbooks.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...
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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
By Bhakti Shringarpure. In a candid interview, Olivier Fanon reflects on the legacy of his father Frantz Fanon at 100 years and speaks intimately about his late mother, Josie.
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Joseph Howley @illdottore.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
After many requests, I finally accessed what turned out to be the saddest and smallest library I have ever seen. I was surprised to find that the books were not categorized by author or Dewey number but size. I tried to find a book before my allotted time ended and picked a cooking book; the second time I got a novel. I began flipping through the pages in search of solace, as books have always been my safe haven. To my surprise, I discovered handwritten notes scattered throughout the book, dated and written by various detainees over time. These messages were filled with reminders of hope, strength, and the assurance that this, too, shall pass. Tears welled up in my eyes as I read their heartfelt expressions. It’s incredible how human beings can find ways to uplift each other, transcending time, space, and borders if they want to and if they choose to. I continued to turn the pages, holding on to the hope of finding brighter moments in this terrifying situation—all thanks to the kindness of people I had never met.
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professorvbrown.bsky.social @professorvbrown.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe
When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...
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Jessica M. Smith @thatminesgirl.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
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EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics
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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026) press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
huge congrats!
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Limn @limnpress.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Limn 12 Spotlight Series Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out. Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now. limn.press/article/pref...
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Jan Brunson @janbrunson.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Escape to the Country, by Sarah Besky & Yojak Tamang Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn #Himalaya #Tourism
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Escape to the Country - Limn
How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?
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Ajantha Subramanian @ajanthasubramanian.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Durba Mitra's fabulous new book is now live! Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!!
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Ping-hsiu Alice Lin @alibinglin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!) doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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CSSH Journal @csshjournal.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Read more about the issue's authors, including Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv, Koreen M. Reece, Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...
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Volume 67, Issue 3 – Comparative Studies in Society and History
Meet the authors of the 67-3 issue, July 2025.
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e. irem az @eiremaz.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
New article! Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability? @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social @harvardcmes.bsky.social
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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch....
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Red Pepper Media @redpeppermag.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Until we are all free: Leftwing media and left internationalism - Red Pepper
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
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Arunabh Ghosh @arunabhghosh.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in @csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too! doi.org/10.1017/S001... cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
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AbdouMaliq Simone @xazaaradjame.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
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From the Editor
Published in Journal of Palestine Studies (Vol. 53, No. 3, 2024)
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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago). ⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹 @UChicagoPress press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/11/2024
House Approves "Nonprofit Killer" Bill, Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act
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House Approves Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act
The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would empower the Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems has provided material support to a terrorist organization....
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Katie Ulrich @katieulrich.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
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Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster. 📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte... @labspeceth.bsky.social
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#ElifIremAz — American Anthropologist
five poems and one intermission from The Black Shape of Living by e. irem az Please download the PDF to read the poems without losing their form. PLACE Soma Coal Basin,...
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