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Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung (MPIfG) @mpifg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

🚨 Call for Applications: Postdocs We’re looking for postdoctoral researchers for the following research areas and topics: - Political Economy - Economic Sociology - Technology and Statehood - Wealth and Social Inequality 🗓️ Application deadline: Dec. 11 📢 Please share widely! s.gwdg.de/UzLEpr

Job Opening: Postdoctoral Researchers. Application Deadline: Dec. 11, 2026

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Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe @sosnowskikrabbe.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Out now is my review of @ryandavey284.bsky.social’s recent monograph The Personal Life of Debt. Highly recommend reading Davey’s work! Please find the link to the review: rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Link to the (open access) monograph: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/the-personal...

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The Personal Life of Debt

The Personal Life of Debt - Coercion, Subjectivity and Inequality in Britain; The first full-length ethnography of debt problems in Britain, this book uses long-term fieldwork on a southern English ho...

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Mathias Sosnowski Krabbe @sosnowskikrabbe.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Send this special issue to those who claim that economic anthropology has already peaked. It tells you something about gleaning, challenges liberal notions of property, and gives food for thought about value: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Who gets the remainder? The ethics and politics of gleaning

We offer a new way of thinking about remainder economies in this special issue on ‘gleaning’ (the practice of claiming leftovers). We trace how people in many different places and times justify tak...

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Felix Stein @felixundstein.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

The Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology is looking for a new Editorial Team. You can apply here: docs.google.com/document/u/1... Could you please share this call? @anthroencyclo.bsky.social @aaas.org @anthrofuentes.bsky.social @appliedanthro.bsky.social @histanthro.org @polar-journal.bsky.social

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Lorna Richardson @lornarichardson.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Writing an entirely new module on critical approaches to digital media & AI. I'll post a few links from my prep as I go. This is an excellent eye opening documentary from DW about the exploitation of Kenyan AI annotation workers, who are exposed to horrific material & bear the psychological scars

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How big AI companies exploit data workers in Kenya | DW Documentary

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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Great share--thank you! Check out the latest #OpenAccess issue of Focaal: Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology below ⬇️

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Andreas Streinzer @kompostmoderne.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

"Ethnographies of Deservingness" is now published as paperback 🥳 we are happy and proud and now, it is also significantly less costly (and we have a 25% discount code, I'll share via DM)!! @berghahnbooks.bsky.social @easainfo.bsky.social www.berghahnbooks.com/title/TosicE...

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Ethnographies of Deservingness: Unpacking Ideologies of Distribution and Inequality | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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