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Liana Chua

@lianachua.bsky.social
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#SocialAnthropology #Borneo #religion #indigeneity #environment #more-than-human #conservation #Anthropocene #MalayWorldStudies, Cambridge University

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology "The Hall of Mirrors: Spying, Surveillance and Ethnographic Method" has been published! View the TOC for this Special Issue and more: bit.ly/4b7WLB0 @lianachua.bsky.social
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🐕‍🦺🐴🐦‍⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org
Pink background, black silhouettes of animals and the letters MM . Text says  ‘a transformative reimagining of Multispecies mutualisms’
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
For #AnthropologyDay, we're pleased to offer a 35% #SALE off ALL #Anthropology books purchased via our website! Get these discounts automatically when you shop, no discount code required. Shop now: bit.ly/4rlAcPv #academicsky #booksale
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
The introduction of our forthcoming special issue by Casper Andersen and me is now out: "Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation" www.cambridge.org/core/journal... Check the thread below for the articles as they are published.
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Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
Becoming Independent: Institutions and Epistemologies of History Writing in the Age of Decolonisation
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Moritz Mihatsch @mihatsch.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
I'm really excited to announce that the next article of our special issue. @bengohstoschool.bsky.social article titled: “Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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“Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”:  A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s | Itinerario | Cambridge Core
“Asia, not the European in Asia, must be our theme”: A Partial Decolonisation of Malayan History at the University of Malaya in the 1950s
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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Apply by 7 Jan to join our Malaysian & Malay World Studies community: - Tunku Scholarship for Malaysian PhD/MPhil students: caths.cam.ac.uk/tunk... - Philip Bowring Scholarship for any postgrads studying history/geography/culture of Malay World: caths.cam.ac.uk/bowring @lianachua.bsky.social 1/2
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The latest Open Access issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! View the TOC for this Special Issue on "Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility and Displacement," here: bit.ly/4qLWERG @lianachua.bsky.social @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social @heikedrotbohm.bsky.social
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
New special issue, Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology is now out & open access as part of @berghahnbooks.bsky.social's Open Anthro initiative! 'Making Place with Plants: Intimacy, Mobility & Displacement', guest edited by Hilal Alkan & Sandra Calkins 👇 🌱 www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Looking forward to discussing Melissa Leach & James Fairhead's 'Naturekind' with @brambuscher.bsky.social , @arikkershenbaum.bsky.social & Rebecca Kilner this evening! Book launch at 5.30 pm, @pembroke1347.bsky.social Auditorium - lnkd.in/e8AzFxxy (Spoiler: it's goooood!)
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Francis Masse @geofrancismasse.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
CfP Political Ecology Conference Beyond the Usual Suspects: The Expanding Cast of Conservation Actors Submit a contribution on emergence/enrolment of new, unlikely, overlooked actors in conservation! @brocksaglio.bsky.social @charisenns.bsky.social @pollenetwork.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdehbxsc
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Leaving Cologne and #DGSKA2025 full of ideas and #anthropological excitement. Wonderful to see old friends and meet new people - and look forward to continuing the conversation on un/commoning!
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Looking forward to our conversation on #more-than-human un/commoning @dgska.bsky.social...though I think (hope!) it's 30 Sept at 9 am 🙂
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Edward Aspinall @edwardaspinall.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
My take on the recent protests in Indonesia www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...
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Mass protest and the two worlds of Indonesian politics - New Mandala
A subculture of opposition survives beyond Jokowi
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
It's been such an honour and pleasure to run the #Tunku Fund at @stcatharines.bsky.social and work (+makan!) with our amazing Malaysian students. Click 👇 to learn more about our scholars and upcoming #PhD and #MPhil scholarship opportunities @cam.ac.uk!
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 26/06/2025
We are hiring! Fully tenured associate professorship in environmental history! We are looking for someone who can be a strong contributor to the history group, to a new #envhum related MA program (if all goes well), and to @greenhouseuis.net. #envhist
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Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801) | University of Stavanger
Job title: Associate Professor in Environmental History (281801), Employer: University of Stavanger, Deadline: Thursday, August 7, 2025
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
rdcu.be/etL5R A really interesting, nuanced take on indigenous names for the #Tapanuli #orangutan: when does it make sense to use them, and when might more 'neutral' terms be better for their #conservation? h/t @peopleprimate.bsky.social
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Indigenous names matter, too: Tapanuli orangutan names reflect local community perceptions
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Alexandrina Vanke @alevan.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A new blogpost on how to use line and graphic drawing in ethnography and more broadly in social research 👉🏽 alexandrinavanke.com/2025/06/11/s... #ethnography #drawing #sociology #anthropology #geography #creativemethods #research
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Seeing between the lines: how drawing opens up new horizons in social research
The recent requests from academic journals to peer-review submissions on drawing as a method and an invitation to give a guest talk on drawing in social research have made me reflect on my experien…
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
📢: 3x postdocs on extractivism & animism in #SoutheastAsia w/Judith Bovensiepen's 'Resource Spirits' project @erc.europa.eu @oeaw.bsky.social. Great opportunity for #anthropologists of/from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines - incs fieldwork & conference funding oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/9imyjik1
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POSTDOC (F/M/X) in Social Anthropology
OeAW - Discovering the futureAs a central non-university institution for science and research, the Austrian Academy of Sciences - OeAW has the task of "promoting science in every respect". F...
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Fernando Domínguez Rubio @fdrubio1977.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume! "At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics" It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
The latest issue of The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology has been published! This #OpenAccess special issue is entitled "Documents, State Affects, and Imaginings at Times of Bureaucratic Impasse." View the TOC here: conta.cc/4ijFFRt @lianachua.bsky.social
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Job announcement #2! 12-month research & teaching Associate for recent #SocialAnthropology PhD grads @uniofcam.bsky.social - mostly supervisions and MPhil seminars. Includes mentorship & funding for conference/workshop organisation 👇 www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50660/
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Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate (Fixed term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Associate (Fixed term) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Job alert! 3-yr #SocialAnthropology postdoc on #multispecies succession, working w/ Prof Rebecca Cassidy @uniofcam.bsky.social from Oct 2025. Lots of scope for customisation - see www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50699/
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Post-doctoral Research Associate in Social Anthropology - Multispecies Succession (Fixed Term) - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Post-doctoral Research Associate in Social Anthropology - Multispecies Succession (Fixed Term) in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
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St Catharine's College @stcatharines.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Welcome to the official Bluesky account for St Catharine's College in Cambridge or (as we're affectionately known) Catz! We look forward to sharing updates about our community very soon. You can also find us on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X/Twitter and TikTok.
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
📢Job alert - Associate Prof in Social #Anthropology @ox.ac.uk - particular interest in gender and sexuality, environment, race or religion www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/article/asso...
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Associate Professorship in Social Anthropology
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Olga Ulturgasheva @olgault.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Vanessa Grotti on LinkedIn: We are very excited to be hosting Olga Ulturgasheva from the University of…
We are very excited to be hosting Olga Ulturgasheva from the University of Manchester at the Social and Cultural Anthropology Lab in Ravenna this Friday 7th…
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Talk by Prof Shawn McHale at Cambridge Uni! Friday March 7 17.00-18.30 GMT: "Peace, Violence, and #Buddhism: The First #Indochina War (1945-54) in the #Cambodian- #Vietnamese Borderlands" at Dept of #SocialAnthropology on Free School Lane - all welcome!
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Really looking forward to this workshop that i'm co-convening on how to evaluate and engage constructively w/ #multimodal forms of #ethnographic expression! 'Ethnographic Expressions: Evaluating multimodal forms' 25-26 March 2025 at CRASSH crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/45745 1/4
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
Photo of From r-l Alasdair Cochrane Rosaleen Duffy Bob McKay and Eva Haifa Giraud
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Matthew Wolf-Meyer @mw-m.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
I’ve tried to put together a non-exhaustive list of anthropologists on bluesky together. Did I miss anyone? Should I add you? go.bsky.app/GYEM3YK #anthropology #anthrosky
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Are you an #envhum scholar looking to make a difference for the field? Become a co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities! We need a new set of 2 co-editors to replace Franklin & I from Jan 2026. See the call here: environmentalhumanities.org Contact us if you have any questions.
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Environmental Humanities – A journal published by Duke University Press
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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
✴️ Archipelagos (AES spring conference) ✴️ MIT, Cambridge, MA March 20–22, 2025 How can archipelagos & “archipelagic thinking” help us grapple w/pressing global challenges across cultures, geographies, climates, disciplines, & methodologies? More info here: ⬇️ americanethnologist.org/meetings/spr...
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AES 2025 Archipelagos - American Ethnological Society
This in-person spring conference at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, invites scholars to explore how "archipelagic thinking" can address contemporary global challenges.
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
The #Cambridge Journal of #Anthropology's 2nd issue of 2024 is now out! Special issue on #Policing #Fakes by guest eds Julia Hornberger & Sarah Hodges, and the 2022 #StrathernLecture by Ruben Andersson @ox.ac.uk. All #OpenAcess - grab some ❄️ reading now www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journal...
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Rosaleen Duffy @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
A brilliant new paper on conservation patriarchy - must be widely read: ‘We conclude that patriarchal norms and structures within conservation must be questioned and dismantled to make conservation more effective and just’ www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Mapping the patriarchy in conservation - npj Biodiversity
npj Biodiversity - Mapping the patriarchy in conservation
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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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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our @GLO_ERC special section, '#Heroes and #Villains in the #Anthropocene', is finally out in @EnvHumanities! We explore ideas of heroism & villainy + politics of blame in an age of planetary crisis and ask how these can be reworked for the present read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
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Introduction | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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Jonny Turnbull 🇺🇦 @jonnyjjt.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
🐄🌬️ Our new paper on bovine #metabolism is out today in the new issue of Environmental Humanities! Adam Searle, Katie Oliver & I discuss how cows figure in metabolic interventions into the climate writ large. read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta... @admsrl.bsky.social @katiecmoliver.bsky.social
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Climate Cattle | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
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Luísa Reis Castro @anthrobite.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Okay folks, I also compiled a list of environmental / multispecies anthropologists. #EnviroAnthro #AnthroSky #Anthropology It's VERY incomplete, so please let me know who I missed, or if you'd like to be added. [Or, of course, if you'd like to be removed from this list.] go.bsky.app/Hax2cvh
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Looking forward to Wednesday's WHR Rivers Lecture at Cambridge University by David Scott (anthropology.columbia.edu/content/davi...) - 'The Provocation to Biography: Writing the Life of Stuart Hall'. Details: socanth.cam.ac.uk/events/whr-r...
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David Scott | Department of Anthropology
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Liana Chua @lianachua.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Applications for the Tunku Scholarship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge Uni, are open until 6 Jan 2025! We support outstanding Malaysians doing PG degrees in the #arts, #humanities & #socialsciences. For more info: caths.cam.ac.uk/research/tunku. Please share!
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The Tunku research community | St Catharine's College, Cambridge
St Catharine's Tunku Abdul Rahman Fund exists to “encourage the development of the humanities and the social sciences in Malaysia” by offering grants and studentships for the country’s most promising ...
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@peopleprimate @peopleprimate.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
We're new to Bsky. social. Give us a follow if you're interested in human-primate interactions. here's our website. human-primate-interactions.org
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IUCN SSC PSG Section on Human-Primate Interactions
The IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions is an interdisciplinary collaboration to improve understanding of human-primate interactions.
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
CFP Storytelling for Environmental Futures. Stavanger, Norway, 7-9 August 2024. Application deadline 15 January 2024. “Storytelling for Environmental Futures” wants to interrogate how storytelling about the future and in service of the future works. nordic-envhum.org/anest/cfp-st...
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CFP Storytelling for Environmental Futures – Nordic Environmental Humanities
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