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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 16/02/2026

Conference call for papers: Art, tradition, environment. Qinghai China, 13-18 Sep. 2026. Exploring mutual importance of place and the creation of art and maintenance of artistic traditions. Includes multiday fieldtrip to Rebgong, a Tibetan Buddhist monastery town. islanddynamics.org/conferences/...

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 12/12/2025

Conference: 'Art, tradition, environment: Folklore in place', Qinghai, September 2026. Exploring mutual importance of art and place. With visits to Hui Muslim sites in Xining and multiday fieldtrip to Tibetan Buddhist monastery town of Rebgong. folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3562-ar...

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 24/09/2025

Conference announcement: 'Supernatural animals, mystical beasts, and uncanny creatures: Folklore in place', 9-13 November 2026, Guangzhou, China -Deadline for abstracts: 28 February 2026- folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3461-su... #folklore #animals #China #legends #myths

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 29/08/2025

New article: 'Ritual labour and maintenance of tradition in a village temple: An occupational folklore approach to Chinese religion', published with Qi Pan in 'Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore'. #folklore #China folklore.ee/folklore/vol...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 19/05/2025

Conference call for papers: 'Knowing place through film and audiovisual media', 9-12 February 2026, Alta, Norway Academic conference on how films, series, and other audiovisual media and arts serve to represent, imagine, understand, and produce place and home. folkknowledgeplace.org/post/3087-kn...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 08/05/2025

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'If Islands Did Not Exist, It Would Be Necessary to Invent Them: Grappling with Divergent Ascriptions of Islandness in Island Studies' By Adam Grydehøj, Ping Su, Ulunnguaq Markussen, & Asinate Mausio islandstudiesjournal.org/article/137602

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 07/05/2025

Island Studies Journal celebrates its first two decades with the publication of Volume 20, Issue 1. This issue consists of 13 articles on islands in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Atlantic, including a special section on 'Islands in speculative fiction'. islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/12263

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 28/03/2025

this is amazing. just came across the Xinsheng project, an initiative by 1.5 gen Chinese Americans and college students to counter right-wing misinformation rampant on WeChat. www.xinshengproject.org/about

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Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project?
Over the past few years, WeChat has gained a reputation for circulating right-wing political mis- and disinformation. This has been particularly harmful to the Chinese diasporic community, who have had limited access to reputable, in-language reporting.
Xīn Shēng Project (formerly WeChat Project) provides alternative, progressive perspectives on the most widely circulated issues on WeChat and beyond: affirmative action, policing, systemic racism, LGBTQ+ issues, and more. Our bilingual articles cross the language, generational, cultural, and informational barriers within our community and families

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 19/03/2025

Blue Humanities has just launched: bluehumanitiesjournal.org. Studies of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other aquatic spaces. This peer reviewed, non-fee charging open access journal has its intellectual roots in Asia’s long tradition of thinking with water and has its editorial office is in Hangzhou.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I'm teaching a class on Jews and the problems of racialization next year, and I'm realizing that I'm going to have to teach these two Elon Musk tweets juxtaposed to each other.

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 06/02/2025

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Understanding Islandness Effects through the Challenges of Water Infrastructure: A Case Study on the Kinmen Islands' By Mei-Huan Chen doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 06/02/2025

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Economic Globalisation and the Islands of the Indian Ocean: An Econometric Analysis' By Zafiira BeeharryYaşam Demir islandstudiesjournal.org/article/1259...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 10/01/2025

Beewolf Press is launching the diamond open access journal 'Blue Humanities' in 2026. With its roots in Asia and its editorial office in Hangzhou, the journal is dedicated to critical studies of marine, river, lake, wetland, and other water-related environments. More information coming soon!

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Reviewing academic texts, I find myself repeating a mantra. So here is for everyone, what my (PhD) students get to hear: 1) think of your reader 2) demonstrate first, then declare 3) use active language 4) write short sentences 4) treat humans - including yourself - not as actors #anthropology

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 06/01/2025

'Hao Dong Xi' (2024), a comedy about being a middle class, divorced mother (and other forms of womanhood) in urban China. Society sets women impossible standards, and knowing this doesn't mean knowing how to fix it. The lesson: You don't need to be perfect to be OK. www.imdb.com/title/tt3180...

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Her Story (2024) ⭐ 8.0 | Comedy, Drama, Romance

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 19/12/2024

New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place': '"I have become a warrior in the Xiang Army" : Legacies, nostalgia, and identity in Chinese regional hip-hop' By Xihuan Hu folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 14/12/2024

New 'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Down with the tide: How wilderness and islandness are represented in two novels from Ireland and Iceland' By Chiara Mastronardo folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1270...

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 11/12/2024

In 'Encountering folk, knowledge, and place', Yaso Nadarajah and I introduce our motivations for and the background of this new, and radically open, journal project: seeking new ways of knowing in the pluriverse. doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Encountering Folk, Knowledge, and Place | Published in Folk, Knowledge, Place

By Yaso Nadarajah, Adam Grydehøj. It is precisely our situation in place that makes it so difficult to avoid parochialism and narrow thinking—and makes it so necessary to grapple with relations betwee...

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Dr Helen Dawson @helendawson.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Join the Island Studies conversation! #wedoislands go.bsky.app/HnTxhpJ

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 02/12/2024

New article in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place': 'Belonging to the land: Indigenous Māori narratives of home and place' By Cinnamon Lindsay-Latimer, Tanya Allport, Mel Potaka-Osborne, & Denise Wilson folkknowledgeplace.org/article/1257...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 27/11/2024

'Island Studies Journal', Volume 19, Issue 2 has just been published: islandstudiesjournal.org/issue/11123 15 papers on islands around the world, including special sections on 'Island transport challenges' and 'Policy-oriented research and island management'.

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 23/11/2024

I have visited similar places, including one very grim example in Pingtan. This kind of speculative tourism development continues, and it points to deep flaws in project conceptualisation and financial management. We need research-led tourism policy. www.sixthtone.com/news/1016241

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They Built an Entire ‘Ancient Town.’ Practically Nobody Came.

The vast Dayong Town complex cost over $300 million to build, but only receives about 20 visitors per day.

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 20/11/2024

New 'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Insular Perspectives of the State: Territorial Policy and Management as Seen From Guaitecas' By Álvaro Román, Katherine Bassaletti, & Javiera Larraín doi.org/10.24043/001... Guaitecas, islandness, Chile, local politics, centre-periphery dynamics, #islands

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 20/11/2024

A few years late, I have come across Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa's great article 'Decolonizing seascapes: Imaginaries and absences on an island hub', published in 'Postcolonial Interventions' in 2021. doi.org/10.5281/zeno....

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Decolonizing Seascapes: Imaginaries and Absences on an Island Hub

This paper calls for the need to go beyond an understanding of oceans, seas and littoral spaces as merely territories that feature in post/colonial imaginaries of exploration, trade and conquest. In g...

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pannonica @acinonnap.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

More context for the Flann O'Brien quote from The Third Policeman (1967) that I've been using as a metaphor for how we can perceive the heinous attacks on trans rights, and how cis folks and others might not understand how not only will their rights also be violated, *it's already happening*

excerpt (part 1 of 2) from the Flann O'Brien novel The Third Policeman:

'Why did your spear sting when the point was half a foot away from where it made me bleed?’
‘That spear,’ he answered quietly, ‘is one of the first things I ever manufactured in my spare time. I think only a little of it now but the year I made it I was proud enough and would not get up in the morning for any sergeant. There is no other spear like it in the length and breadth of Ireland and there is only one thing like it in Amurikey but I have not heard what it is. But I cannot get over the no-bicycle. Great Crikes!’
‘But the spear,’ I insisted, ‘give me the gist of it like a good man and I will tell no one.’
‘I will tell you because you are a confidential man,’ he said, ‘and a man that said something about bicycles that I never heard before. What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.’

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Anthony Bak Buccitelli @abbuccitelli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Hey folklorists, help me add to this folklorist starter pack. Suggest accounts and I’ll try to add them: go.bsky.app/HnHejQX

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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/04/2024

this took a long time. I'm so happy to share my latest paper in @risjnl.bsky.social, looking at racial entanglement, masculinism, and gendered East/West binaries in global reactionary discourse (via another look at Chinese anti-baizuo discourse). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

This is a man who has obsessively, incessantly claimed to defend Jews when he was standing with the Israeli government. Now he is siding with perhaps the most dangerous antisemite in America. This is a perfect example of how so many of these warriors don’t care for Jews, but love using us.

Ritchie Torres & @RitchieTorres
I do not know Elon Musk, never met him, and therefore have no personal feelings about him. But I never quite understood how he came to be the favored punching bag of the far left.
Whether you approve of him or not, whether you agree with him or not, the man is leading two of the most innovative companies on earth. But for SpaceX, the US would be losing the space race against China. But for Tesla, the EV industry in the US would be a shell of itself.
The country thrives on intrepid innovators like Elon Musk. Why antagonize him so intensely that you drive him into Trump's corner and make a permanent enemy out of him? Politics should be a game of addition, not subtraction.
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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 17/11/2024

Looking forward to attending the 2024 Folk, Knowledge, Place Conference in Singapore next month! islanddynamics.org/2024-folk-kn...

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2024 Folk, Knowledge, Place Conference – Island Dynamics

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 17/11/2024

'Island Studies Journal' article: 'The Correlation between Asian Port Cities and Traditional Portuguese Urban Forms Based on Map and Machine Learning Analyses' By Yile Chen, Liang Zheng, & Jianyi Zheng doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 17/11/2024

'Folk, Knowledge, Place' article: 'Teaching Places and Teaching Place' By Michael A Lange doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Richard Fitch @tudorcook.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

A medieval manuscript illustration from the British Library royal ms 20 a ii f3r.
Image shows a medieval king in a green gown and wearing a crown. He is stood within a burning castle with arms in the air and a look of 'oh dear' on his face

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Josh Inwood @geogjosh.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

go.bsky.app/LaF8njG

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Sam Kinsley @samkinsley.uk · 12/11/2024

Part Deux go.bsky.app/KkXvsnP

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Kristof Smeyers @kristofsmeyers.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Hello, here's a starter pack for folklore research, do let me know if you want in!

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Andrea Ghiselli @andreaghiselli.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I made a starter pack for people interested in Chinese politics, economy and foreign policy! Share, follow, and write here if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/NZzqdpY

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 16/11/2024

My recent article reflecting on some seriously weird experiences studying isolation as a BA student. doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 16/11/2024

Faced with the prospect of trying to read a 643-page book on my laptop, I finally bought an eBook reader. I am very happy with my Onyx Boox Note, which is perfect for sitting in the window and taking in Chün-fang Yü's 'Kuan-yin: The Chinese transformation of Avalokitesìvara'.

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 16/11/2024

'Island Studies Journal' article: 'Chinese White Dolphins in the Anthropocene: Human-Animal Relations among the Islands of the Pearl River Delta' By Kejun Du, Xiqin Liu, Tingyu Shi, & Shuneng Zhong doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Beewolf Press @beewolfpress.com · 15/11/2024

Marco Casagrande's article 'Perceptions of Lampedusa as an Immigration Hub: Four Populations in One Small Island Place?' has been published in 'Folk, Knowledge, Place'. doi.org/10.24043/001...

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Adam Grydehøj @grydehoj.com · 15/11/2024

Conference call for papers: 'Placemaking across time: Histories of spatialised knowledge', 6-9 October 2025, Næstved, Denmark, islanddynamics.org/placemaking-... Places are formed through human knowing and experience, individual and collective. #conference, #Denmark, #folklore, #geography

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