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@richaxe.bsky.social
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Anthropologist doing features about country life, farmers, milkmen, parliamentarians, democracy, climate change, that sort of thing. Ethiopia, India, SOAS, Sheffield www.soas.ac.uk/about/richard-axelby

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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
4th of June at SOAS - the UK premier of Territory, a film about political brokerage in Sao Paulo directed by Telma Hoyler www.territoriodoc.com/teaserok-v2 @soasanthro.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
@soasanthro.bsky.social Masters students Jacqui and Phyllis visited me in my Sheffield Town Hall fieldsite. We talked about offices, fieldnotes and interviewing politicians for their film about the everyday lives of anthropologists.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Spent the weekend with a brilliant team of researchers from South Omo learning about access to education for agro-pastoralist communities in Ethiopia. #LearningFromSouthOmo
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Great to see these South Omo policy briefs on health, education, culture and tourism, and land, livestock and livelihoods. Produced by our partners IPSS as part of a @soasanthro.bsky.social research programme bit.ly/4sNJrsC bit.ly/4qW2Gi6 bit.ly/3YLGUl8 bit.ly/4pOjcje bit.ly/3Nxuzi0
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Mercy, Mursi but, sadly, no me (though I can join on zoom)
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Vinayak weds Payal
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Whoops
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Landscapes of the Saal Valley, Chamba District, Himachal Pradesh
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SOAS Department of Anthropology and Sociology @soasanthro.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Discover South Omo through the eyes of its people. “Learning from South Omo” showcases community-led research from Ethiopia’s agro-pastoralists. On now at SOAS Gallery, London. Free entry. Curated by @richaxe.bsky.social, Hannah Bennet and Mercy Mulugeta 🔗 soas.ac.uk/event/learning-south-omo
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young that features in the @soasgallery.bsky.social exhibition Learning from South Omo youtu.be/lMA8pJOuxDY?... @soasanthro.bsky.social
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Mursi Voices: A film by Olisarali Olibui and Ben Young
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Today we started the installation of Learning from South Omo at @soasgallery.bsky.social. Opens 14 October 2025 to 13 December 2025 www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/... @soasanthro.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Learning from South Omo - exhibition at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, Addis Ababa youtu.be/00fuNry4sV8?... @soasuni.bsky.social @soasanthro.bsky.social
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Learning from South Omo: Exhibition at Gabre Kristos Desta Centre, July 2025
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Remembering PhD fieldwork - me, Bhagtu and Helen in Chamba, H.P. sometime in 2002 or 2003. Sent to me by Vinayak Dhami (who was about eight when the pic was taken)
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Reclaim Our Moors @reclaimourmoors.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🛑 Stop grouse shooting 📣 Join our walk to protest against this cruel and environmentally destructive practice. 🗓 10.30am on Sunday 10th August 📍Redmires Reservoir Car Park 🥾 Hike ~3km easygoing trail to a meeting point where we will gather for speeches and music
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
At IPSS in Addis where researchers from South Omo are sharing their learnings with an audience of academics, government representatives, and NGOs. Turning outputs to impacts #LearningFromSouthOmo
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Sharing Learning from South Omo - a two day conference with members of agro-pastoralist communities in South Ethiopia. grnpp.org/agro-pastora... @soasanthro.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Very excited about ‘Learning from South Omo’ - an exhibition highlighting new research from Southern Ethiopia. Doors open at the Gabre Kristos Desta Centre this Thursday 16th of July. If you’re in Addis then be sure to drop by. And if you’re not, you can read about it here: grnpp.org/learning-fro...
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
In 2021 people in Sheffield voted to do away with the local system of strong leader governance; in 2025 the national strong leader says ‘sorry, people in Sheffield voted wrong’ @estrangeirada.bsky.social @emmacrewe.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Happening today 5pm in B103 @soasuni.bsky.social Christina Noble talks about her life in the Western Himalaya and launches a new online archive of her photographs dating back to the 1970s www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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Launch of the Christina Noble Archive: An online collection of photographs
Marking the launch of the Christina Noble online archive, Christina will reflect on some of the key images from the collection, and recall the stories behind their creation.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tigray landscapes
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Had an amazing time at Adigrat University for a two day workshop on creative and collaborative approaches to the study of politics. @soasanthro.bsky.social @soasuni.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Screening today at Adigrat University, Ethiopia: ‘Mugut - the wheels of democracy’ starring @andyksheff.bsky.social and the campaign to save Sheffield’s Rose Garden Cafe.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Morning in Tigray
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Taking me back to my PhD research - Aniruddh Sheth of Centre for Pastoralism Research presenting on the political economy of reinventing pastoralism www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
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The political economy of reinventing pastoralism
This talk examines how pastoralism in Himachal Pradesh, India navigates market demand, declining youth participation, and shifting dynamics amid environmental and economic uncertainties.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Listening to the brilliant @laurahammond.bsky.social make sense of her academic journey to professor of development studies at @soasuni.bsky.social
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Celebrating 10 years of Hope For The Future www.hftf.org.uk supporting climate and nature campaigns at all scales to succeed.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Coke bottles are a work of art. Ethiopian ኮካ ኮላ takes that design genius to another level.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I’ve been visiting schools around Omorate in the far south of Ethiopia englishpuhal.blog/2025/02/05/t...
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Andy Kershaw Media @andyksheff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The growing levels of Poverty in the UK should shame us all as revealed in the @jrf-uk.bsky.social 2025 Poverty Report. It is essential reading for us all and proves that poverty is a policy choice we can all change. www.jrf.org.uk/uk-poverty-2... @cpaguk.bsky.social @ukcf.bsky.social
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UK Poverty 2025: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK
This report sets out the nature of poverty in the UK in the run-up to 2024's General Election. It also sets out the scale of action necessary for the Government to deliver the change it has promised.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Happening tomorrow in Addis
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Huge congrats to @posnegorg.bsky.social and all involved in the excellent ‘Stories of Migration’ exhibition. @soasuni.bsky.social Brunei Gallery until 22nd March.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’m back in Jinka in the far south of Ethiopia. With nothing to do today I went for a wander above the town.
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“These processes [globalisation and free market capitalism] made us more similar by creating winners and losers in pretty much the same way across the world. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Behind Trump’s victory lies a cold reality: liberals have no answers for a modern age in crisis | Nesrine Malik
As authoritarians triumph by lying and scapegoating, there is no hope for centrists doubling down on a broken neoliberal system, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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richaxe.bsky.social @richaxe.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I’ll start with this coz it’s new and it’s open access: Open Conversations about creative collaboration and Living Democracy eprints.soas.ac.uk/42856/
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