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Andrew Brandel

@aobrandel.bsky.social
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Anthropologist; politics of language; translation; literature; anticolonialism; ordinary language philosophy New book is out now: utorontopress.com/9781487543693/mov…

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sepoy @sepoy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
Brinkley Messick seated second from the right.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 22/07/2025
“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Extremely grateful to Maëline Le Lay for this review in Cahiers de littérature orale journals.openedition.org/clo/14406
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Brandel Andrew, 2023, Moving Words. Literature, Memory, and Migrati...
L’ouvrage d’Andrew Brandel se présente comme une exploration dans tous les sens du terme. Il s’agit d’abord d’une exploration extrêmement stimulante de ce que signifie faire de la littérature aujou...
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas! Read more here: tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
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Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas! Read more here: tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
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Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist
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David Naimon @davidnaimon.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House
Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Incredibly embarrassing to cede this clearly bad faith premise about intellectual diversity. “Heterodox faculty” is a well-known, paper thin veil for anti-intellectualism. So disgraceful if unsurprising that liberal academics are giving this cover. hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...
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Johns Hopkins works to bolster intellectual pluralism across the university
Partnership with American Enterprise Institute scholars includes collaborative research, teaching, and graduate pipeline projects; other initiatives aim to increase heterodox faculty across the univer...
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Starting the quarter with the 1843 Brief an Ruge. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s really a moment for it
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
@modernlanguage.bsky.social hmm, suddenly very concerned about democratic norms, free speech, and the urgency of the moment.
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
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Magazine Homepage | CUSAS
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
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Magazine Homepage | CUSAS
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
a pandemic project is now out: a special issue on prison literatures in the middle east, eds. anne-marie mcmanus & brahim el guabli docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol25... walaa quisay and i wrote a short programmatic piece on how (not) to think about prison islam. i learned a lot from the other pieces
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comparative cultural studies comparative literature media studies digital humanities | Vol 25 | Iss 1
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basit kareem iqbal @biqbal.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
veena das - what even the cowherds and women know: everyday life and its promise www.academia.edu/126710656/Wh... a prospective retrospective
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What Even the Cowherds and Women Know:Everyday Life and Its Promise
In this commentary I interrogate the implicit picture of anthropological knowledge as vulnerable to errors because its primary scene is taken to be an encounter with an alien society. Using a method o...
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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world
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Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago
The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
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Critical Inquiry @criticalinquiry.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Winter issue is coming soon!
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Thomas Lay @thomas-lay.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I'm sorry not to be at AAA this year (I have a conflict this week). Next year, I'll be back in person, but for now, drop by the Ingram table for our recent books, and check out our virtual exhibit.
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AAA 2024 - Fordham University Press
The American Anthropological Association 2024: Virtual Book Exhibit  Save 25% plus free domestic shipping when you use coupon code AAA2024-FI at checkout. Expires 12/31/24.
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Can’t believe no one’s come up with a starter pack of anthropologists of literature who are into Wittgenstein
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros. campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
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Andrew Brandel on his book, Moving Words
Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader and anthropology towards many new openings. If I were to p…
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros. campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
campanthropology.org
Andrew Brandel on his book, Moving Words
Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader and anthropology towards many new openings. If I were to p…
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 29/09/2024
Incredibly grateful that my book Moving Words received an honorable mention for the DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies @thegsa.bsky.social www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadg...
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DAAD/GSA book prize, literature & cultural studies | German Studies Association
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Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social · 11/12/2023
In this new episode of Academics Write, Andrew Brandel (@aobrandel.bsky.social) talks about his book, Moving Words (2023, University of Toronto Press) how he turned his dissertation into a book, and how to find the right press for a monograph. Check it out 👉 t.co/nypOidpVKD
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Andrew Brandel by Academics Write
Andrew Brandel talks about his book, Moving Words, how he turned his dissertation into a book, and how to find the right press for a monograph.
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
I haven't had a chance to introduce myself yet on this app, but I have a new book out on literature and migration in Berlin, and had a wonderful conversation with Alize Arican about it for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/moving-words
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Andrew Brandel @aobrandel.bsky.social · 19/11/2023
I haven't had a chance to introduce myself yet on this app, but I have a new book out on literature and migration in Berlin, and had a wonderful conversation with Alize Arican about it for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Check it out here: newbooksnetwork.com/moving-words
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Sam Spinner @samspinner.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Next Tues Oct 10 @ 4pm ET (in person & zoom): JHU Anthro discussion about my book "Jewish Primitivism" w/ Clara Han, Talia Katz, Naveeda Khan (all JHU) and @aobrandel.bsky.social (U Chicago). Let's find out what anthropologists think of my book. (...and *what* anthropologists-such an honor!)
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