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Ben Hildred

@bhildred.bsky.social
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Anthropologist of Sport at Durham. Director of INSA (sportanthro.bsky.social). Researching sport & social change. Cricket & Reconciliation in Sri Lanka.

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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Terrible Queen portrait, but a wonderful one of Dame Edna Everage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Vindhya Buthpitiya @vindi-b.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...
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Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal
by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week! Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
I'm really happy to announce our new edited volume, Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age! You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290. Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 01/07/2025
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Jasmin Seijbel (she/her) @jasminseijbel.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Together with @bhildred.bsky.social, @arthurgaillard.bsky.social & others we shared insights from the book - I talked a bit about my chapter 'Doing Vulnerability in the Digital Age: On Researching Discrimination in Football Fandom'. Curious about the book? Get it here: vernonpress.com/book/2290 3/3
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Anthropology in Sporting Worlds - Edited Volume
Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age
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Bridget Alex @bridgetalex.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
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Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
First things thrown in over a year, and in an awesome new studio - turns out most of the Anth department are potters…
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Really excited to promote our 2nd #sportanthro Conference, coming this summer in Belgium. The CFP is open till the 19th March. If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.
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International Network of Sport Anthropology @sportanthro.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
We're extremely excited to share the Call for Papers for our 2nd International conference, held this year at KU Leuven, Belgium, on 5-6 June. Please share widely! To find out more, visit www.sportanthro.org/conference
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Eve Livingston @everebecca.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
As nice as it is to see you all full of energy and announcing new projects, I need some representation for those of us who have crawled into 2025 unwell, slow and uninspired. My year will be starting properly next week thank you 🙏
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Merry Christmas to me, for finally finishing the edits on this! I would not wish the task of indexing a book on my worst enemy. 'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
When did it just become a *thing* to watch videos without headphones? Trains are full of people flicking through tiktok these days... one guy was watching a full football match
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Hannah Brown @mamatommy.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This had almost passed me by, but it seems the recent #LKA U-19s games are the first time that two players from Jaffna have been in the national team at the same time? Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.
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David Storey @davidstoreygeog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Reflections
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Marcus Luther @marcusluther.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
To be very clear, as a teacher I don't want "time-saving AI tools." I want time.
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Duncan Stone @drcricket.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Published by the @acscricket.bsky.social, this looks a good read from Tony Watts. Certainly one for those of us who enjoy #cricket and how #socialclass has influenced the game.
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Martha Lincoln @heavyredaction.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Anthropology: The Critical Cup?: Hegemony and Resistance in Drinking Vessel Practices
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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
It's that time of year. (Cred is the inimitable Bjenny Montero)
Four-panel cartoon. A frog lies sleeping while snow falls outside. The frog realises it's snowing, makes a cup of coffee, and then happily watches as it falls.
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
The starter packs have been *so* helpful for getting my feed going. Looking forward to having something like a real academic twitter again!
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Kerim Friedman 傅可恩 @kerim.one · 20/10/2024
@mw-m.bsky.social's list of anthropology accounts go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK
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abi slade @abislade.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
glad to see the cricket shitposting community moving over here from twitter
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Ben Hildred @bhildred.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Cannn anyone tell me how to find everyone again 😅
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