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Benjamin Hegarty

@benjhegarty.bsky.social
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medical anthropologist | global health | trans studies | author of The Made-Up State | Asia and Pacific Health @KirbyInstitute I FIAS Fellow Institut d'études avancées de Paris & Affiliate Oxford Anthropology 24-25

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Urban Affairs Association (UAA) @uaanews.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
NEW JUA #ARTICLE: The made-up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia, by Benjamin Hegarty www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @bhanlonurban.bsky.social
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ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A new #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast episode just dropped w/ @thurka149.bsky.social talking about her new @uncpress.bsky.social book Landscapes of Care @nilc.org @immcouncil.org @nipnlg.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @americananthro.bsky.social globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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The Lowy Institute @lowyinstitute.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter. www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpret…
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Reality bites: Why the global dengue epidemic matters to Australia
The mosquito-borne disease is more than a health emergency – it symbolises the injustice of climate change.
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Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Brilliant essay on hepatitis B and its antigen by Michelle Bootcov
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Science, Technology, & Human Values @sthv.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Making Do | Stanford University Press
Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...
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Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Thinking about the history of feminist anthropology in Australia, and what it says about the contemporary university. Drawing on papers from a roundtable at ANU in 2019, this @histanthro.org SFS includes six mostly unrecorded accounts of anthropology circa 1970s-80s histanthro.org/notes/theory...
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Theory as Reproduction: Histories of Doing Feminist Anthropology in Australia
The relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at t…
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...
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Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Our wonderful new book forum just out on Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology in Medicine Anthropology Theory - with smart and generous contributions by Frederic Keck @fredkeck.bsky.social, Ros Williams @ros-w.bsky.social, Beth Greenhough and Trevor Engel
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Medical Anthropology @medanthropology.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History
The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article expl...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I see there's an opening panel discussion, followed by apéritif! In Paris. Wish I could join them...
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Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Potentially an interesting workshop on 'symbiotic viruses' at the Collège de France, March 4-5 - an excellent line up. I'm keen to learn how they revive an old trope... #STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum @benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social
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IEA de Paris @ieadeparis.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🦠 Que nous apprennent les virus sur nous-mêmes ? Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses". 4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab 5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg
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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Very much looking forward to this conference on Symbiotic Viruses organised by @fredkeck.bsky.social and @benjhegarty.bsky.social on March 4 & 5
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Timothy Neale @tdneale.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...
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Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
At the 6 month mark of my fellowship on symbiotic viruses @ieadeparis.bsky.social - brilliant year so far working with colleagues in Paris in virology, anthropology, health and medicine. My office is located above where Baudelaire lived for a short time. And now it’s springtime in Paris…
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