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Mihir Sharma

@mihiress.bsky.social
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Anthropologist, writer, and researcher Political anthropology, antiracism, social movements, climate justice, temporality, ethics Translator (German <-> English) Mitglied, GEW #anthrosky he/him

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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Necropolitics: 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...
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
CfP: 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 #anthrosky
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P151: Urgency in a polarized world
This 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
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Some 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
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Simone Pfeifer @simonepfeifer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Read 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 pm
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P057: Who is afraid of anti-racism? Intersectional justice and inclusive futures in anthropology
Renewed 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...
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Jeremy Bartels @jeremybartels.bsky.social · 30/10/2023
Hey, 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!
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Reading List Berlin | Theresia & Patrik | Substack
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin. Click to read Reading List Berlin, by Theresia & Patrik, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Mittelweg 36 @mittelweg36.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Welche 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-...
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Olúfẹ́mi 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...
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Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class
For more than three centuries, something has been going horribly wrong at the top of our society, and we’re all suffering for it.
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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I 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
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Katharina Schramm @ksch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Out 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...
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Frontiers | Genetic ancestry and the colonial legacies of race in genomics: a cross-disciplinary dialogue
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo... #anthrosky
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Call for Proposals: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart - American Ethnological Society
In The Vulnerable Observer, anthropologist Ruth Behar notes “anthropology that doesn't break your heart just isn't worth doing anymore.” The theoretical
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Aleks Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
In 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/...
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Coloniality, Race, and Europeanness: Britain’s Borders after Brexit
Abstract. The scholarship on the politics of immigration often frames governments’ responses to far-right mobilization as a return to border closures and a
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Patrick "Inverted Vibe Curve" Blanchfield @patblanchfield.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I 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 more
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Assassin Nation w/ Patrick Blanchfield
Featuring 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...
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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 🙏
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Asiya Islam @asiyaislam.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The 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.
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Helen Schwenken @hschwenken.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Amit 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.'”
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Now 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
Poster design for the Historical Materialism Athens conference, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide', to be held between 24–27 April 2025 at Panteion University.
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🔴 Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung @rosaluxstiftung.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Kämpfe 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
Sharepic mit dem Zitat: "Über 75% der Bevölkerung in Deutschland sind für eine Legalisierung von Abtreibungen. Das steht in einem starken Widerspruch zur aktuellen Gesetzeslage, welche Abtreibungen nach Paragraf 218 des Strafgesetzbuchs kriminalisiert."
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
My 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...
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MAGA 2.0 w/ Quinn Slobodian & Wendy Brown
Featuring 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...
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C.H.Beck Literatur @chbeckliteratur.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Wir verlosen zusammen mit @karstenschubert.net 6 Exemplare von seinem Buch "Lob der Identitätspolitik". Um mitzumachen folgen Sie und und reposten diesen Beitrag. Viel Glück!
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Two 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... ✊🏾✌🏾
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Acti04: Unwritten narratives of activism
This 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...
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Mein 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.
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HIV-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.
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
New essay by @agadarancia.bsky.social for @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/ideas/how-th... #anthrosky
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How the far right moved from the margins
Despite 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...
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
David Graeber (@davidgraeberinst.bsky.social) and Nika Dubrovsky (@nikadubrovsky.bsky.social), Cities Made Differently (@mitpress.bsky.social, 2024; #skystorians, #history, #urbanhistory) mitpress.mit.edu/978026254933...
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Cities Made Differently
Full 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...
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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
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Orel Beilinson @orelb.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Mark 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."
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Ferat 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.
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.
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Jared Margulies @jaredmargulies.bsky.social · 16/09/2024
www.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.
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Geographies of Racial Capitalism with Ruth Wilson Gilmore An Antipode Foundation film
YouTube video by Abolition Journal
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 13/11/2024
Where 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...
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Julia Leser @jleser.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Kommende 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
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Keeanga-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.
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Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
Featuring 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.
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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Why 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...
Four hand-drawn, colored squares contain a person standing on a stag; a person with a nose and mouth in the chest, eyes in the shoulders, and no head; a person with a face in the chest and no head; and a person holding up a very long lip.Viewed from the back, a humanlike figure wears a skin and looks over his shoulder. The caption reads, “Caliban Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration.”
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
My 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-...
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In 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.
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Rosana Pinheiro-Machado @pinheiromachado.bsky.social · 10/10/2024
I 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/...
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“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
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Karl Dietz Verlag Berlin @karldietzberlin.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Am 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
Ankündigung zu den Adorno-Vorlesungen: Loïc Wacquant (University of California, Berkeley, und Centre Européen de Sociologie et de Science Politique, Paris): “Rethinking the Penal State”. Termine: 27./28./29.11.2024, jeweils 18:30 Uhr. Ort: Campus Bockenheim, Hörsaal IV, Frankfurt
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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 06/10/2024
The 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-...
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State Power and Capital in the Climate Crisis | 5 | A Theory of Fossil
Imperialism 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
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analyse & kritik @analysekritik.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
Im 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...
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»Wir sind nicht geschichtslos«
Politikwissenschaftler*in Tarek Shukrallah hat einen Sammelband herausgegeben, in dem es um Bewegungsgeschichten von Queers of Color in Deutschland geht
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 05/10/2024
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Bernardo Jurema, Green Brazil? — Sidecar
Lula and the Amazon.
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🏴S T R E P S I R R H I N I🏴 @strepsirrhini.bsky.social · 03/10/2024
Essential reading from @farhana.bsky.social
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John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 19/09/2024
William 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....
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A climate fit for capitalism: ordoliberalism’s political ecology and German environmental politics
This article critically examines contemporary German environmental politics through its connections with ordoliberalism. Ordoliberalism is a branch of neoliberalism that prescribes a strong state t...
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Anthropology of Global Inequalities Research Group @anthroglobineq.bsky.social · 05/02/2024
Join 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...
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London 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...
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James 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:...
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Diego Ballestero @dballestero.bsky.social · 21/01/2024
On 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!
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Nasima Selim নাসিমা সেলিম @nasimaselim.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
My 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...
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Breathing Hearts: Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Panel 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/...
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