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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

For @scbsswg.bsky.social, I wrote an essay on why policing strategies such as cost-driven language and punitive measures don't work in human-primate conflict and other conservation projects. Read here: scbsocialscience.org/why-policing... #conservation #politicalecology #humanprimateconflict

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I presented my dissertation chapter on Malaysia's competing visions of green connectivity and infrastructural forms as state developmentalism ambitions at the 21st Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies. Thank you panelists for a generative conversation! #urbanisms #ecology #NUS

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I am honored to have won a 2026 dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation @wennergrenorg.bsky.social!! Having an unwavering spirit of curiosity pays off! Project: "Navigating Malaysia's Fragmented Frontiers: Primates, Privatized Property, and the Post-Plantation Landscape"

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

2026 AAAs CfP: "Edge Ecologies: Surplus, Scarcity, and Environmental Governance in East Asia", abstract deadline is April 20th! If metabolic drift, scales of loss and proliferation, socio-ecological histories, and developmental authoritarian regimes speak to you, please consider submitting!

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm honored to be organizing and presenting at our roundtable entitled "Asian/American Hauntings: Ghosts in/as Multispecies Theory." With @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social and Sophie Chao facilitating, we will contend with power dynamics of multispecies theory and racialized discourses of 'Asianness'.

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I'm honored to announce my ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia will be funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute's Emslie Horniman Scholarship. Thank you @anthrofuentes.bsky.social and my dissertation committee for their kindness and intellectually generous support!

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

For Anthropology News, I wrote on human encounters with free-ranging monkeys in Malaysia. Language, not in the abstract, but enacted and embodied through intimate encounters plays a part in sometimes pushing for or deterring the notion of care. Read here: www.anthropology-news.org/articles/ret...

The article's title is bolded and written, "Rethinking Deterrence as a Continuum of Care". In the background, a dusky langur monkey sits on a utility pole.

On the left, there is a text description of care, the current issue, for Anthropology News. On the right, two macaques engage in social grooming.

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Kymberley Chu @dialecticprimates.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

Call for Papers: Princeton University Anthropology will be hosting the “Instruments of Obligation” conference in April 2025! Abstract submissions due January 12, 2025. Open to all graduate students in all disciplines! For more information, please visit: obligations.anthropology.princeton.edu

A webpage entitled "Department of Anthropology Conference Instruments of Obligation". In the center depicting a photo, three people facilitate a meeting at the United Nations Headquarters.

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