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David Henig

@davidhenig.bsky.social
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Czechoslovakia;companion species to a border terrier; AnthroHistory; @UtrechtUniProf; editor #History&Anthropology; writes on war ecologies@military waste; #polycrisis; planetary thought; agnotology@indeterminacy; coffee@jazz addict; @HFGuggenheim scholar

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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, multi-generational, legacies? This OA Introduction traces some possible coordinates @multispecies.bsky.social @ceobs.org @militaryemissions.org www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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War ecologies and their seductions: an introduction
How can we engage ethnographically with the often overlooked toxic and explosive effects of war and their harmful, frequently multi-generational, legacies? The oversight is notable because war wast...
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
LURKING COLD WAR: Life Through Historical Communion by Stavroula Pipyrou has now been published! Find out more here: bit.ly/48rPQ5d Review by @davidhenig.bsky.social #PoliticalAnthropology #ConflictStudies #History #Anthropology
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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
“In the long run, the abrupt withdrawal or decrease of U.S. support could permanently undermine UXO programs in the region if alternative funding and programs fail to fill the void," said Sera Koulabdara, the chief executive of Legacies of War. theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...
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The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later
Unexploded U.S. shells killed four people in February alone, after the Trump administration cut funding to demining efforts.
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Anne Louise Avery @annelouiseavery.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊
A still life of prizes: Reynard the Fox book, A Fox for All Seasons journal open at a map of Flanders, a toy fox, Dorset tea and biscuits.
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
#War is everywhere .... "Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed ways. The willingness to describe fierce disagreement in terms of the metaphors of war makes the very existence of real wars seem more natural, more inevitable, more a part of the human condition. 1/
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Exploring my new neighbourhood #Finsburypark #sabbatical @ericgordy.bsky.social ?
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
@a-d-n.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Habermas as an ethnic thinker Par Excellence: on critique, Palestine and the role of intellectuals
Taking Habermas’ 2023 statement on Palestinians-Israel as the point of entry, this article examines his concept of critique. Against the dominant view of him as a philosopher of ‘universalism’ and ...
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Finally visited PRE-ARCHITECTURES exhibition and got to see @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @davidwengrow.bsky.social & the Nebelivka Project - mind blowing work #prearchitecture #ixelles
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Two of my favourite books spotted together during a 🐕 walk in #Brussels #changingthecourseofhistory @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
He met with an ethnosupremacist two decades after the Bosnian genocide. 7 years later Trump tasked him with dismantling USAID. In one way or another it almost always goes back to them hating Bosnians and/or Palestinians
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Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Pale Sunrise - linocut by Sussex based artist and printmaker, Annie Soudain More of this artist's gorgeous artwork here: anniesoudain.co.uk #art #winter #snow #linocut #trees #birds
Winter hedgerow with trees, and birds flying over. Sun rising on the horizon
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Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I've been thinking about intersections of historical record, material culture, and family silence and part of it is now an essay here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...
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The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans
Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...
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Women* Write the Balkans @womenwritebalkans.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Our editor, Ana Sekulić, delves into her collection of heirloom clothing, unraveling stories of craftsmanship, labor, and impact of modernity. "Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er
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The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans
Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
‘the work of understanding, unlike the urge to know, requires an endless commitment to the activity of thinking; it requires one to always be ready to begin again’ … couldn’t start my sabbatical with a better book @samantharhill.bsky.social #consolationofphilosophy #thinkingsolitude
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Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
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What Remains
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Katarina Kušić @katkusic.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱 Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures? Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD @amaliasl.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"What does it mean for an archive or collection to provide open digital access to materials representing violated subjects who did not necessarily consent to being documented?" --Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child" www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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The Crying Child : On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons | Current Anthropology: Vol 61, No S22
This article sketches key concerns surrounding the digital reproduction of enslaved and colonized subjects held in cultural heritage collections. It centralizes one photograph of a crying Afro-Caribbe...
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Thom van Dooren @thomvandooren.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Our new article is out now: "Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction" (open access). It takes a critical #envhum approach to biological research on animal cultures and asks how humanities scholars might contribute to these discussions in a time of extinctions. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Excited to present bits of my new written material at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Brussels. The talk will cover everything from techno-mushrooms, bombturbation, reworlded craters, to guerilla demining. #anthropology #multispecies #environment #semiotics
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Morgan Robertson @morganrobertson.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The burnout and administrivia that dominates the life of faculty these days can be measured by the length of this complete syllabus from my mother’s class in 1988. Might have taken her five minutes to write.
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
very sad news about the passing of Thomas Hylland Eriksen😢#anthropology
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Jesse Hession Grayman @kopyor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social #AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
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NPR @npr.org · 25/11/2024
Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.
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Plastic waste is everywhere. Countries have one more chance to agree on a solution
Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.
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Sokol Lleshi @sokol-lleshi.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Anarchism and Principle of Play | Los Angeles Review of Books
Steven Shaviro reviews David Graeber’s posthumous essay collection “The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World …”
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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
French organizations Carbone 4 + ECF launch this essential report on "imported emissions". It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate. www.carbone4.com/files/Public...
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Sometimes writing starts with drawing 🤪 ✍️ #warecologies #research #writing #ethnography
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...
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Police track down unlikely shoe thief from Japanese kindergarten
Officers installed security cameras to get to the bottom of the thefts, and ended up uncovering a four-legged culprit
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ginkgos are spectacularly on the turn rn: gold-on-blue above, chrome-yellow fallen fans below. Ginkgo biloba is a profoundly ancient species. The group of trees it belongs to pre-dates the dinosaurs. These trees watched us arrive—and they will watch us leave. Send Ginkgo-photos if you’re so minded.
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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Some time ago, NASA hired me to write about stuff humanity had flung into the heavens, far beyond Earth. They published it in 2018. This is it, a 372-page reference on every spaceship sent to deep space (cover by explorer & filmmaker extraordinaire @arielwaldman.com): www.nasa.gov/history/hist...
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Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“It does not have to be this way.” The rallying cry & leitmotif of the great David Graeber, whose work & vibrancy we need now more than ever. Here’s @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, beautifully, on DG’s anarchism, self-organisation, voluntary association & mutual aid. www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...
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‘It does not have to be this way’: the radical optimism of David Graeber
As a new collection of his writing is published, Rebecca Solnit remembers her friend, the late activist and anarchist who believed ordinary people had the power to change the world
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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The metaphors of artificial intelligence
A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m still buzzing after #RobertGlasper gave me a high five yesterday … so much needed positive energy and good vibes in these dark times
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I’m back on @bsky.app and (probably) for good
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Chris de C B @panthropology.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Perfect start to the year, a couple of glasses of Tripel Karemeleit and a long muddy walk with the excellent @davidhenig.bsky.social
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
The contributors to "Conspiracy/Theory," edited by Joseph Masco and Lisa Weedon, evaluate the relationship between critical theory & conspiracy theory as the basis for political thought. Read the introduction for free now! www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
Cover of Conspiracy/Theory, edited by Joseph Masco and Lisa Wedeen. The right edge of the cover has a red, vertical stripe. The rest of the cover features an abstract black background with dark gray wave-like details.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 21/11/2023
The rise in use of killer drones on battlefields worldwide has ignited debate over how or whether to regulate their use and spurred concerns about the prospect of eventually turning life-or-death decisions over to artificial intelligence.
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From Land Mines to Drones, Tech Has Driven Fears About Autonomous Arms
Concern about weapons that can kill without a human decision is not entirely new.
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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 21/10/2023
Some good news in these dark times. Afterlife of Ottoman Europe: Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina is here! sup.org/books/title/... menasky 🗃️
The Afterlife of Ottoman Europe
Muslims in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina 
https://sup.org/books/title/?id=33140
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 02/10/2023
Super excited about this conversation - Living with War Pollution Across the Globe - that will take place next week in Amsterdam. I will be speaking about the legacies of depleted uranium and the politics of ignorance and uncertainty (as a form of soft pollution)
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 01/10/2023
A glimpse into Brussels’ technosphere- 2000 km of sewer pipes are underneath the city, along with rodents who apparently eat ~33% of human food waste in the sewer system that would otherwise get clogged more often … Sunday visit in the Sewer Museum #Brussels
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Ana Sekulić @anasekulic.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Exciting news! Join us for a keynote talk with Kapka Kassabova on November 17 👇Help us spread the word! This is a hybrid event and registration link is available here: pitt.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Lecture poster featuring lecture description and book cover of Kapka KAssabova's Elixir: In the Valley and the End of Time. 
Lecture: An Alchemical Journey, November 17th, 2023, at 10 am EST.

Kapka Kassabova's writing eschews a narrow register of academic writing and explores different chronotopes of nourishment, from The Red Riviera of the Black Sea coast to the
and the valley of the river Mesta, abundant with local practices of healing.
Join us for a discussion about situated, in-depth histories of well-being, care, and nourishment as we collectively contemplate the potential of the Balkans as a space of nourishment.
This Keynote address is part of the conference Balkans As a Place of Nourishment, taking place from November 16-18th in Jena, Germany.
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 23/09/2023
Long stretch, but always found the rather subtle installation at Berlin's Bebelplatz commemorating the 1933 book burning taking place there one of town's most haunting experiences: An unsuspicious window in the middle of former Opernplatz giving view to bookshelves in the ground. Empty bookshelves.
Photo of a window in the ground showing empty bookshelves below.
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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 20/09/2023
My new article challenges what I see as an over-investment in “coevalness” in contemporary ethnographic theory and practice.
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 18/09/2023
This English language secondhand bookshop in Brussels is an absolute gem 📚
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 12/09/2023
‘the major problems in the world are the result of the difference between how nature works and the way people think’ (G. Bateson) .. My favourite part of the first teaching week- discussing with my students An Ecology of Mind: A Daughter's Portrait of Gregory Bateson www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygqx...
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An Ecology of Mind, The Gregory Bateson Documentary
An Ecology of Mind is a film portrait of Gregory Bateson, celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist, systems theorist, and filmmaker, produc...
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Leyla Amzi-Erdoǧdular @leylaamzi.bsky.social · 05/09/2023
Everyone, @ahmeterdogdular.bsky.social is here. Give him a follow.
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 30/08/2023
(Antwerp) under construction … a spirit of Sebald’s Austerlitz
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David Henig @davidhenig.bsky.social · 29/08/2023
Mood of the day
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weird medieval guys @weirdmedieval.bsky.social · 27/08/2023
bees, england, ca. 1200
a medieval drawing of three beehives, each with a straight line of bees arcing down toward its entrance. Each bee resembles a hand grenade with wings
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