Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Necropolitics: Social Death and Remaking the Social - Four Authors in Conversation 29. July 2026, 12-14, Rotunde Cartesium and Online (for Zoom: please send an e-mail to mihir@uni-bremen.de). www.uni-bremen.de/en/kultur/pr... 162
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026CfP: Urgency in a polarized world nomadit.co.uk/conference/e... How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a mode of action? We scrutinize the multiple meanings, mobilizations, and consequences of urgency. #EASA2026 #anthropology #anthroskynomadit.co.ukP151: Urgency in a polarized worldThis panel focuses on “urgency” as an analytical lens. How do the dimensions of urgency shape societies, both as an analytical framework for crises and as a 041
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Some great insights about Heimat, un/commons, and the respons/ability of ethnography in the wake of fascist resurgences #dgska2025 @dgska.bsky.social Universität zu Köln 030
Reposted by Mihir SharmaSimone Pfeifer @simonepfeifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Read this in preparation of the roundtable of the task force anti-racism of the @dgska.bsky.social By @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social Sina Emde @mihiress.bsky.social & @cwhittaker.bsky.social Join the roundtable: nomadit.co.uk/conference/d... Tuesday, 30 September, 2-3:30 & 4-5:30 pmnomadit.co.ukP057: Who is afraid of anti-racism? Intersectional justice and inclusive futures in anthropologyRenewed calls to address racism within anthropology have often been met with resistance. This roundtable discusses how the discipline could be better aligned with anti-racism, tackle the rise of racis... 053
Reposted by Mihir SharmaJeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 30/10/2023Hey, kennen alle Berliner*innen eigentlich den Newsletter für Veranstaltungen in der Hauptstadt von @enzensberger.bsky.social und @patrikgraeb.bsky.social? readinglistberlin.substack.com Lohnt sich!readinglistberlin.substack.comReading List Berlin | Theresia & Patrik | SubstackAn entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin. Click to read Reading List Berlin, by Theresia & Patrik, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers. 272
Reposted by Mihir SharmaMittelweg 36 @mittelweg36.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Welche Folgen hatte & hat es, dass Soziologen imperialen Praktiken nicht nur ideell vorgearbeitet haben, sondern an ihrer Umsetzung auch institutionell beteiligt waren? Wie präsent ist die Vergangenheit in der Gegenwart des Faches – Nach den Imperien? www.hamburger-edition.de/zeitschrift-... 0146
Reposted by Mihir SharmaOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/02/2025"...the share-price-motivated and buyback-driven public corporation, the extractive private-equity model, and the more exploitative closely held firm that dies with its founder all aim to take out as much money as possible, without much consideration for the future." jacobin.com/2021/04/take...jacobin.comTake Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling ClassFor more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it. 524447
Reposted by Mihir SharmaBen Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 16/02/2025I solemnly swear that I had nothing to do with the creation of this graphic. But now that I’ve seen it I have to pass it on, lest it permanently haunt my dreams 25010
Reposted by Mihir SharmaKatharina Schramm @ksch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025Out now: our conversation about Genetic Ancestry and the Colonial Legacies of Race. Thanks to Ernesto Schwartz-Marin for facilitating the discussion. www.frontiersin.org/journals/gen...links.email.frontiersin.orgFrontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue 0136
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 12/01/2025americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo... #anthroskyamericanethnologist.orgCall for Proposals: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart - American Ethnological SocietyIn The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical 060
Reposted by Mihir SharmaAleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 12/11/2024In my new article, I suggest that we need a historically situated political economy perspective to understand the mainstreaming of the far-right - I show this via an analysis of the post-Brexit border regime in Britain: academic.oup.com/ips/article/...academic.oup.comColoniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after BrexitAbstract. The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a 12913
Reposted by Mihir SharmaPatrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/12/2024I had a great time talking @danieldenvir.bsky.social of The Dig about the UHC CEO killing; inequality and mystified violence; gun violence and "healthcare" as indifferent, overlapping systems of human disposability; the history of "attentants"; morbid symptoms, the death drive, and much morethedigradio.comAssassin Nation w/ Patrick BlanchfieldFeaturing Patrick Blanchfield on assassination and political violence: from the routine to the extraordinary; authored by the state, capital, the left, the right, the unwell and alienated; as an anxie... 611232
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 13/12/2024"Who's afraid of anti-racism?" This is not a rhetorical question 💁🏽♂️ please consider applying for this round table and sharing the post: Merci beaucoup 🙏 051
Reposted by Mihir SharmaAsiya Islam @asiyaislam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024The latest @sociologicalreview.bsky.social Magazine issue is out and it’s about ‘Waste’. It offers a range of reflections on waste, wasting away, and wasted lives, thinking about gender, race and capitalism. 0115
Reposted by Mihir SharmaHelen Schwenken @hschwenken.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Amit Balmiki on the interlinkage of caste-deskilling-tourism-migration in Pokhara/Nepal: "many of the traditional waste workers ...'migrated to other countries, mostly Saudi Arabia and other countries, in search of better livelihoods. That is why we started working as sweepers.'” 022
Reposted by Mihir SharmaHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'. The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org 06423
Reposted by Mihir Sharma🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Kämpfe für körperliche Selbstbestimmung sind weltweit seit Jahrzehnten zentral. Eine aktuelle Kampagne fordert die Legalisierung von Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen. Unser Dossier beleuchtet Geschichte, Kämpfe & globale Perspektiven. 👇 www.rosalux.de/weg-m... #WegMit218 #Abtreibung 1157
Reposted by Mihir SharmaDaniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 29/11/2024My 2.5 hrs w @quinnslobodian.com and Wendy Brown discussing Trump’s triumphant return and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MAGA movement that surrounds him on @thedigradio.bsky.social www.thedigradio.com/podcast/maga...thedigradio.comMAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy BrownFeaturing Quinn Slobodian and Wendy Brown on Trump’s triumphant return to power and the freakish, obscene, billionaire-dominated, capitalist reactionary, Christian nationalist, contradiction-ridden MA... 1013449
Reposted by Mihir SharmaC.H.Beck Literatur @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Wir verlosen zusammen mit @karstenschubert.net 6 Exemplare von seinem Buch "Lob der Identitätspolitik". Um mitzumachen folgen Sie und und reposten diesen Beitrag. Viel Glück! 42231
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Two days left to apply for this panel on "unwritten narratives of activism" at #SIEF2025 in #Aberdeen with @agadarancia.bsky.social PLEASE SHARE 🙏 nomadit.co.uk/conference/s... ✊🏾✌🏾nomadit.co.ukActi04: Unwritten narratives of activismThis panel aims to interrogate the normative understandings behind the category of activist and create space for discussing untold and unwritten narratives of activism. We invite contributions which d... 193
Reposted by Mihir SharmaYossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Mein neuer Artikel über das Team von @cgaebler.bsky.social, das an der Berliner Charité auf der Suche nach einer HIV-Heilung ist. So weit weg sind wir davon nicht entfernt. Schön, manchmal auch an optimistischen Geschichten zu arbeiten.taz.deHIV-Forschung: Kurz vor der Heilung?Einst bedeutete Aids den Tod, heute ist es eine gut behandelbare Erkrankung. Aber heilen lässt sie sich noch nicht. In Berlin will man das ändern. 2285
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 28/11/2024New essay by @agadarancia.bsky.social for @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/ideas/how-th... #anthroskypress.princeton.eduHow the far right moved from the marginsDespite the fact the global imaginary seems to be saturated with the image of far-right supporters, we have little knowledge on what makes the far-right offer so attractive to a growing number of peop... 0115
Reposted by Mihir SharmaJohn Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024David Graeber (@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social) and Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky.bsky.social), Cities Made Differently (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2024; #skystorians, #history, #urbanhistory) mitpress.mit.edu/978026254933...mitpress.mit.eduCities Made DifferentlyFull of playful graphics, provocative questions, and curious facts, this book asks what makes a city and how we might make them differently.What makes a city... 082
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 15/11/2024"The Southern Questions series features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonisation and its aftermath. It also presents new histories, reportage, and literary criticism devoted to nations and regions in the South" @versobooks.bsky.social 063
Reposted by Mihir SharmaOrel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Mark my words: This is going to become a classic. I particularly liked how it bridged between two rather different parts of Europe (Italy, Poland, Hungary), but it has too many virtues to narrate in a tweet. An instant add to 2+ of my syllabi: "Youth and Politics" & "Beyond the European Mainsteam." 019245
Reposted by Mihir SharmaFerat Koçak @feratkocak.dielinkebt.de · 14/11/2024💥 Die Ampel ist Geschichte. Der Kampf um unsere Zukunft hat begonnen! 💥 Heute um 18h an der HU Berlin Film und Diskussion mit Nam Duy, Ferat Koçak und Sarah-Lee Heinrich, wie wir mit linker Politik wieder einen Unterschied im alltäglichen Leben der Menschen machen können. 292
Reposted by Mihir SharmaJared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 16/09/2024www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM9R... I always show this banger of a video with RWG, and its paired in my PE class with watching as homework 'The Last Black Man in San Francisco' and reading Heynen, N., & Ybarra, M. (2021). On abolition ecologies and making “freedom as a place”. Antipode, 53(1), 21-35.youtube.comGeographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore An Antipode Foundation filmYouTube video by Abolition Journal 143
Reposted by Mihir SharmaHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/11/2024Where Do We Go From Here? Join @naomiaklein.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @astra.bsky.social, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a post-election assessment and conversation Thursday, November 21st at 7:00 pm ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma... 3291108
Reposted by Mihir SharmaJulia Leser @jleser.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Kommende Woche spreche ich in der RV POPULISMUS an der Uni Potsdam über "Wolf Politics" und Rechtspopulismus in Ostdeutschland 🐺 21.11. ab 16 Uhr, Campus am Neuen Palais, Haus 9, HS 1.02 082
Reposted by Mihir SharmaYossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor erklärt den Wahlsieg Trumps und liefert eine äußerst kluge, wenn auch nicht widerspruchsfreie Analyse des demokratischen Scheiterns. Sehr hörenswert – auch für Linke in Deutschland.thedigradio.comDemocratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta TaylorFeaturing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here. 042
Reposted by Mihir SharmaDr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18/10/2024Why do humans make monsters, and what do monsters tell us about humanity? Monsters are central to how we think about the human condition. 🧵 on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY. Preorder now! 💙📚 🧪🗃 #earlymodern #histsci 1/5 www.surekhadavies.org/humans-a-mon... 912635
Reposted by Mihir SharmaRuha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/10/2024My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...lareviewofbooks.orgThe New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of BooksIn the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern. 8419172
Reposted by Mihir SharmaRosana Pinheiro-Machado @pinheiromachado.bsky.social · 10/10/2024I was interviewed by the amazing Spanish magazine @revistactxt.bsky.social I discuss the market face of the new far right, the crisis of the left in renewing itself, and what is emerging as positive alternatives. +🧶 ctxt.es/es/20241001/...ctxt.es“El nuevo perfil de extrema derecha tiene más cara de mercado que de dictadura”Periodismo libre y de servicio público. Contexto y acción. Suscríbete y defiende la prensa independiente 1395
Reposted by Mihir SharmaKarl Dietz Verlag Berlin @karldietzberlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2024Am 27.–29.11. hält Wacquant 3 Vorlesungen @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social: ifs.uni-frankfurt.de/eventleser/a.... Lesetipp: seine hochaktuelle Studie, wie die Kategorie ›Unterklasse‹ in d. USA zur Stigmatisierung best. Bevölkerungsgruppen politisch + sozial erfunden wurde: dietzberlin.de/die-erfindun... /2 065
Reposted by Mihir SharmaElias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 06/10/2024The book chapter Bernardo and I wrote on Fossil Imperialism is out and available open access! It's part of the Confronting Climate Coloniality volume edited by @farhana.bsky.social, the whole book being very timely unfortunately www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-...taylorfrancis.comState Power and Capital in the Climate Crisis | 5 | A Theory of FossilImperialism has long been used as a category to highlight and theorize the connections between capital accumulation and the exogenous use of state power on its 3287
Reposted by Mihir Sharmaanalyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 05/10/2024Im Interview mit ak spricht Politikwissenschaftler*in Tarek Shukrallah über den neu erschienenen Sammelband »Nicht die Ersten«, der die Bewegungsgeschichte queerer People of Color und Schwarzer Menschen in den Fokus stellt: www.akweb.de/gesellschaft...akweb.de»Wir sind nicht geschichtslos«Politikwissenschaftler*in Tarek Shukrallah hat einen Sammelband herausgegeben, in dem es um Bewegungsgeschichten von Queers of Color in Deutschland geht 0189
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 05/10/2024newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...newleftreview.orgBernardo Jurema, Green Brazil? — SidecarLula and the Amazon. 000
Reposted by Mihir Sharma🏴S T R E P S I R R H I N I🏴 @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024Essential reading from @farhana.bsky.social 1133
Reposted by Mihir SharmaJohn Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024William Callison (@williamcallison.bsky.social) and Tatjana Söding (@tatjanasoeding.bsky.social), "A climate fit for capitalism: Ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics" (Environmental Politics; h/t Adam Tooze, #skystorians, #history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comA climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politicsThis article critically examines contemporary German environmental politics through its connections with ordoliberalism. Ordoliberalism is a branch of neoliberalism that prescribes a strong state t... 1103
Reposted by Mihir SharmaAnthropology of Global Inequalities Research Group @anthroglobineq.bsky.social · 05/02/2024Join us this Wednesday for a lecture titled "Antiracist Genomics (ANTIGEN): from ethnographic insights to speculative design" by Dr. Ernesto Schwartz-Marin, 1800 in GW II S5 at the University of Bayreuth: anthropologyofglobalinequalities.com/2024/02/05/a... 031
Reposted by Mihir SharmaLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 30/01/2024‘Why, when so many of the protests of the 2010s appeared to succeed, is the position in their countries now the very opposite of what the protesters were demanding?’ Online early from our next issue, James Butler on lessons from a decade of mass protest: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukJames Butler · A Circular Motion: Protest, what is it good for?The mass protest decade, or the decade of populism, offered ostensibly propitious conditions for left-wing politics:... 051
Reposted by Mihir SharmaDiego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 21/01/2024On Wednesday 31.01 I will have the great honor of giving a talk at the opening of the Amo Salon. If you are in Berlin and you have time and desire, come and join me! 032
Reposted by Mihir SharmaNasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · 11/01/2024My book is out! Yes! "Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany" published by @berghahnbooks 50% discount on print copies if you buy it directly from the Berghahn website with the discount code "SELI1982". Affordable ebook version: www.berghahnbooks.com/title/SelimB...berghahnbooks.comBreathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany | Berghahn BooksIndependent Publishing since 1994 1138
Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 11/01/2024Panel for #easa2024: Who or what makes an activist? What are the implications of reconsidering genealogies of activism for ethnography? Please apply and share! easaonline.org/conferences/... 1103