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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

An MA and PhD course this Fall 2026, with Prof. Targol Mesbah!

Climate crisis protest with dozens of canoes blocking an oil tanker, including a Palestinian flag in the foreground. Lettering reads “Political Ecology: critical approaches to anthropology of the environment, and Socio ecological change”

Text: “ in the last century we have entered a period of unprecedented environmental transformations leading to what many scholars believe is the biosphere on the brink”

Book covers: Uncommon Ground by William Cronin, Ecology of Everyday Life by Chaia Heller, Understories by Jake Kosek, Staying with the Trouble by Donna Haraway

Text; this course explores political psychology as an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Socio ecological processes of change

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

James Kelman! See his new book and all our Kairos editorial imprint titles on @pmpress.bsky.social @pmpressuk.bsky.social here: pmpress.org/index.php?l=... 📹James Kelman on Self Determination on YouTube

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Registration open now! www.healthautonomyconvergence.com

Flyer with a Black and white photo of a mid 20th century protest, with an ethnically diverse range of participants, mostly femme, with shirts bearing slogans such as silence = death, and signs saying “no mandatory testing of physicians,” “heal the system” etc.

Text above reads: “Health autonomy convergence June 12-14, San Francisco a national convergence for healthcare workers to come together, share experiences, and continue to the work of building a network of radical care. Healthautonomyconvergence.com. Registration opens April.

Text below reads: “ organized by havoc hosted by the department of anthropology and social change at CIIS”

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The 5th annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture! Pre-register for the event, here: ciis.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Event flyer. Background photo with the late David Graeber seated cross-legged in his office, a serene expression, books on either side, a potted plant in the window and a lamp behind him. In the foreground, the four logos of the organizing departments and orgs: Elizabeth Bruyere School, Rojava University, ICSyH BUAP, and CIIS. John’s photo in lower-right, a wild silver-haired Caucasian man with a wry smile. Text in lower left reads, “co-production of: Elizabeth Bruyere School of Social Innovation; Rojava University; Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities BUAP; and Anthropology and Social Change at CIIS.”

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Set reminders to tune in live: m.youtube.com/@anthciis/st... 1/4 The Building Blocks of a New World “Öcalan expresses a series of concepts that in the 21st century are increasingly becoming the building blocks for the political construction of a new world.” —⁠Antonio Negri

Event flyer. Mostly-obscured Kurdish mural in the background of a femme figure holding an autumn, leafless tree in her upturned left hand. In the foreground, circle shaped professional photo of the speaker, a light skinned bespectacled figure in black, arms folded. Text reads: “ anthropology, and social change visiting scholar series presents the building blocks of a New World talks on Rova Revolution February 9-11 530 to 7:30 PM free Namaste Hall 1453 Mission St., San Francisco three talks! Questions: smaccracken@ciis.edu Reimar Heider Feb 9 a series of concepts: surprising twists Feb 10 building blocks: democratic, confederalism, Jineolojî and the queen of sciences Feb 11 construction of a new world: organize, organized, autonomy, education, and self-defense

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Academy of Social Science @the-academy.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Andrej Grubačić, founding Chair of the Department of Anthropology and Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and founding member of the Academy of Social Science, issued a statement and video message in solidarity with Rojava.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

1/4 “We are indeed in the midst of a systemic transition. The world of endless accumulation—the civilization we call capitalism—is approaching its demise. We are inching toward a tributary system defined by political accumulation and blunt force… english.anf-news.com/news/attack-...

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Attack on Rojava is an attack on hope

As a result of various international agreements and directives behind the scenes, the Syrian transitional government of Ahmed al-Sharaa and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) have declared war on the Democ...

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Curious about our MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up for the Tuesday 5pm Info Session, here: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... . 📹Prof. Targol Mesbah for the inauguration of Academy of Social Science

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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

I was invited to deliver the keynote speech for a three-day conference on Michael Burawoy. Another verse of a long goodbye to my dearest colleague, friend, and comrade… Thanks to Portuguese sociologists for organizing this conference. Details of the conference 🧵

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

“Contradicting this idea that feminism is no longer relevant, gendered rhetoric is now a primary mode of bolstering state power. Insidiously, feminist language is being reappropriated to justify the erasure of feminist ideas and feminist history.”

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The History of Women’s Studies Is a History of Conflict

Women’s studies programs in the United States are threatened by authoritarian pressure. For example, the Ohio legislature restricts how marriage and abortion can be presented in the college ...

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Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

“Gaitán’s murder is the climax of the book, a death foretold, an event so compressed with hope that its explosion sent historical shrapnel in all directions.” In a new interview at PB, Greg Grandin discusses the execution of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán. www.publicbooks.org/a-second-enl...

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“A Second Enlightenment”: Greg Grandin on Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity

“My books try to explain a tension.”

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New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Carolyn Lesjak reviews Fredric Jameson in NLR 154: ‘In contrast to “the private lives of currently fashionable autofiction”, the works discussed here “try to write the collective, or at least register the crisis of the individual attempting to do so.”’ newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

Front cover of a book titled Inventions of a Present by Fredric Jameson

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

Curious about mostly online our activist Anthropology MAs+PhDs? Sign up for the Sept 5, 4pm Pacific Time Info Session with our founding department chair, Andrej Grubačić: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... Train in Anthropology informed by methodologies from Anarchism to Marxism.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Brands Me and my marketing to gay friends: gays:

Image of a fit Caucasian masc person decked out in matching rainbow pants, blazer, umbrella, sunglasses, and necktie over a bare chest, making an exuberant “let’s party” gesture.

News photo of the anti-ICE rioters in L.A. ducking LAPD teargas behind a makeshift barricade made of repurposed pink metal park furniture.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

If “end-stage capitalism” were a single picture.

Dog-killing, prison photo op taking “ICE Barbie,” Kristi Noem in her “police ice” labeled drab uniform, with her infamous Rolex on her left wrist. In the forefront, a large mockup of the watch labeled with its retail price, $45,000.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In our Societies Against the State course this Spring, we are studying the Kurdish Freedom Movement all semester! . Curious about our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up today to join the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

An “alternate timeline” meme of the (imprisoned in real life) beaming Kurdish Freedom movement leader Abdullah Öcalan in a green button up shirt appearing implausibly on the cable tv program “The Daily Show.” Host John Stewart gestures for the camera toward our PM Press book, Building Free Life: Dialogues with Öcalan, a yellow book with Öcalan’s face on the cover.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

📹Subcomandante Marcos removes his mask! . Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology, including research in solidarity with populations in struggle? Sign up for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology? Sign up here for the April 15, 5:30pm Pacific Time online Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... 📹Department friend @davidgraeber (RIP🖤) from davidgraeber.org on the Paradox of Sovereignty

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

New Degree option just dropped! Looking to finish a BA? Maybe get an accelerated MA with us in Activist Anthropology? See link below for info on CIIS accelerated degree programs! . www.ciis.edu/academics/ac... 1/8

“Why not both” meme format with cute femme kid and yellow subtitles saying “why don’t we have both?” Above in bold white capitals: “anarchism? Communism?”

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Wednesday! ciis.zoom.us/j/98062486957 Celebrate David Graeber’s birthday with us! 4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture with Eyal Weizman. Bookmark the above Zoom link. . “Conditions of Life Calculated...” on the Gaza Genocide 1/10

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

IWW Bay Area newest shop, APTP Workers are facing union busting tactics from management and could use your support! ❤️🐈‍⬛

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https://www.bayareaiww.org @bayareaiww.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

APTP Workers encourage your support by attending the MLK event. Support the cause, support the workers! There’s no call for a boycott!

Stylized poster of MLK at the head of a line of marchers, a reporter holding a microphone to his mouth to take his comments. Text reads “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.”—MLK. Join us at the march to reclaim MLK’s radical legacy. Monday, January 20 | 11 am 14th & Broadway, Oakland

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Rojava Under Pressure: Women’s Revolution As A Beacon Of Hope In Uncertain Times. See the full video here, now with simultaneous translation into English: youtu.be/gRBeoYolDOg

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Rojava Under Pressure: Women’s Revolution As A Beacon Of Hope In Uncertain Times

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Anarchist methodologies in Anthropology. It’s definitely a thing: Scott, Clastres, Graeber. And in fictions of Anthropology, LeGuin. . What’s rare (maybe unprecedented?) is an entire graduate department like this. . Join us at the CIIS Spring Open House to learn more: www.ciis.edu/events/sprin...

James Scott, Pierre Clastres, Ursula LeGuin, and David Graeber in the stars. A news headline below reads “Project 2025 mainly led by ex-Trump officials, leaked videos reveal” Large macro meme-text reads “my idols are dead” above, and “my enemies are in power” below

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Decolonizing Knowledge and Science. Breaking Isolation and Weaving Solidarity with the Universities of North and East Syria/Rojava Feb. 20 Symposium: csua-paris.org/online-sympo...

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CSUA - Paris

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Meghan Bodette @meghanbodette.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

No more stop-gap solutions in northeast Syria. Time to solve the whole problem and make the Kurdish issue a matter of democratic politics on both sides of the border. www.kurdishpeace.org/research/con...

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In Northeast Syria, Solve The Whole Problem – Kurdish Peace Institute

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Meghan Bodette @meghanbodette.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Starting at 9:25, my colleague Aras Yussef at the Kurdish Peace Institute's Qamishlo office explains how Kurdish communities are seeing the fall of Assad and advances by Turkey-backed militias. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Newshour - Anger and retribution in Syria - BBC Sounds

Syrians have been destroying remnants of the Assad regime, including the tomb of Hafez

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The fall of the Syrian regime has created new crises and new opportunities in the Middle East. As Kurds in Syria celebrate the end of a regime that has rendered countless Kurds stateless and denied the existence of a Kurdish identity, language and culture… 1/5

“ online panel, Rojava under pressure: women’s revolution, as a beacon of Hope and uncertain times. Women, freedom, Rosa between Utopia and geopolitical reality panelists: Shiraz Hemo - coordinating member of Kongra Star Foza Yusif - executive board member of the democratic unity party Rohilat Afrin - command of the women’s defense units. Moderation - Meghan Bodette Director of research, Kurdish peace Institute. December 12, 2024 at 19 00 CET online broadcast on the YouTube channel @kongrastar22 “

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@Demo_Ticker_Berlin@todon.eu @demo-ticker-berlin.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

💥Announcement! Thursday 12.12.2024💥 📜 Online panel - Rojava under pressure 📜 Thursday, 12.12.2024 | 07:00 pm | Live Broadcast Live Broadcast on YouTube Chanel: youtube.com/@kongrastar5... 📣 Call: asanb.noblogs.org?p=9625 - @ceni_e.v #b1212 #Riseup4Rojava

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“Stand Up Against McCarthyism: Defend Mohamed Abdou and Palestinian Solidarity” . Conversation between @quiqui.bsky.social and Mohamed Abdou for @haymarketbooks.org . Watch this space for info on Dr. Abdou’s talks with us in San Francisco, early February. . m.youtube.com/watch?v=uuRp...

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Stand Up Against McCarthyism: Defend Mohamed Abdou and Palestinian Solidarity

YouTube video by Haymarket Books

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“I fell in love with Rojava” . Andrej Grubačić with @sardarsaadi.bsky.social and Nazan Üstündağ for Rojava University . m.youtube.com/watch?v=BbGE...

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Beyond Positivism: An Online Lecture by Andrej Grubačić

YouTube video by Rojava University

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Islam and Anarchism! . Check out Mohamed Abdou’s latest on @plutopress.bsky.social . Abdou joins us for three public talks in San Francisco In February, 2025! . Part of our Visiting Scholar Series. . www.plutobooks.com/978074534192...

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Islam and Anarchism

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is ur...

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New edition, soon! “Öcalan’s works make many intellectuals uncomfortable because they represent a form of thought which is not only inextricable from action, but which directly grapples with the knowledge that it is.” —David Graeber author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years pmpress.org/index.php?l=...

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Capitalism: The Age of Unmasked Gods and Naked Kings (Manifesto of the Democratic Civilization, Volume II), Second Edition

The second volume of Öcalan’s five-volume work making the convincing argument that capitalism is not a product of the last four hundred years but a continuation of classical civilization.

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David Graeber Institute @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

If there was one book that you would recommend to someone who is new to politics, but very keen to learn more, what book would that be?

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Watch this space for info on the next David Graeber Memorial Lecture! . Here’s a link to the previous ones including the most recent, from @davidwengrow.bsky.social in the 2023-2024 academic year: www.ciis.edu/news/david-g...

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David Graeber Memorial Lectures | CIIS

Watch and listen to the 2021 and 2022 David Graeber memorial lecture series from the Anthropology & Social Change department.

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Penny Bickle @pennybickle.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

More about our new paper here - interesting discussing how to express the diversity. In the end we went with freedom, following @davidwengrow.bsky.social and David Graeber www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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More equality in Neolithic society than previously thought, say researchers

Early Neolithic genetic data has helped archaeologists understand that there was likely more freedom and equality in Neolithic societies than previously thought.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Throwback to our department chair’s appearance on @thefinalstrawradio.bsky.social thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/categor...

Photo of Andrej Grubačić, a bearded and bald masc Yugoslavian-born department chair, in a white shirt and floral scarf, standing in a room in the University of Rojava.

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Catch David Graeber+Andrej Grubačić’s introduction to this volume, reprinted in @anarchistlibrary.bsky.social, here: theanarchistlibrary.org/library/andr...

N.O. Bonzo book cover art. Stylized woodcut-like foliage in red and black forms an outer border, intercut with black lettering on a white banner that reads, “Mutual Aid: An Illuminated Factor of Evolution.” A corresponding banner at the bottom reads “Illustrated by N.O. Bonzo Introduction by David Graeber and Andrej Grubačić Foreword by Ruth Kinna Afterward by Allan Antliff Postscript by GATS. Center woodcut style image in black and white shows two laborers, one femme and one masc, hands clasped in solidarity. She holds a sickle and he carries a pitchfork. They are each flanked by stylized fruit trees and in the center behind their clasped hand is an abundance of wheat. A banner at the bottom of this center image reads “Peter Kropotkin.”

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Anthropology and Social Change @anthciis.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Throwback to our event with @defendrojava.bsky.social + @dsa-lsc.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy L to R: Debbie Bookchin, Arthur Pye, Andrej Grubačić

Against a backdrop of Rojava flags: Debbie Bookchin, a femme in black with shoulder length black hair; Arthur Pye, a masc in blue button-up, Kurdish scarf, drab cadet cap, and glasses, and Andrej Grubačić a masc in a red cap and red shirt, seated in a panel at a table with the banner: “Defend Rojava: Direct democracy/Women’s Liberation/Social Ecology - Emergency Committee for Rojava - Defendeojava.org

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