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Branwyn Poleykett

@branwyn.bsky.social
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Medical/environmental anthropologist, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Research on global and planetary health, Sahelian grains, and everyday eating in Dakar

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Branwyn Poleykett @branwyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The anthropology department at the University of Amsterdam is advertising a fully funded PhD position for a candidate from and/or with heritage in the Caribbean and South American regions historically shaped by Dutch colonialism and trans-Atlantic slavery werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Anthropology PhD Position for Candidates from Former Dutch Colonies in the Americas
<p><span>Do you come from, or have heritage in the Caribbean or South American regions shaped by Dutch colonialism and slavery? Are you interested in pursuing a PhD in anthropology at the University o...
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Jan Mendes @janmendes.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
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Proposals for a Caring Economy
Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...
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Ethemcan Turhan @muhalefetserhi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Happening next week!
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Lys Alcayna-Stevens @lysalcayna.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
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Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology @anthroencyclo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Can #agency be reduced to notions of personal choice, #freedom, and #autonomy? Find out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency #anthropology #sts #anthrobluesky
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Agency
In anthropology, agency is broadly defined as the socio-culturally mediated capacity to act. Classically, the concept has been used to analyse how people try to influence, or change, their lifeworlds ...
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
“How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management board game hatched by Bakudapan Food Study Group, an eight-woman collective founded in 2015 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.”
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Playing the Field - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management […]
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