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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Who gets the remainder? www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n2e... The ethics and politics of gleaning. Special Issue forthcoming in History and Anthropology: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Talk On S3E4 | Who Gets the Remainder? Xenia Cherkaev w/ Amiel Bize

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thank you W-G! This SI takes the customary use-right of gleaning as a new optic on social life. Gleaning cracks private property open to collectivist claims, to the indeterminate gap where worthless things are still useful. Who gets the remainder? @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Historical ethnography as method, via: hist of narrative "I" in francophone, anglophone, Soviet ethnography; study of (post-)Soviet public memory; Traverso's "singular pasts" muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic... pm for ft if paywalled )) Out in @kritikajournal.bsky.social @mpisocialanthro.bsky.social

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

––––––– Barbarians at the gate! ––––––– ...value; populism, the right-wing, history, hegemony and common concerns, (auto)biography and the truth of interview... Don Kalb, talking talking with me and Biao Xiang about his new "Value and Worthlessness" (2025) www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwHQ...

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Hidden Histories: Use Value and Theories from the East w/ Don Kalb

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Wondering how "Sesame Street’s progressive values" compare with "300 years of Russian thought”? Curious whether Borat is an example of "Jewish self-hatred"? My essay about how "Washington Hijacked the Muppets": muse.jhu.edu/pub/28/artic... pm me if you're paywalled, I'm happy to share the pdf.

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Andrew Haxby, Biao Xiang and I talk about the "Common Concerns" approach. Also: land prices, investment, inflation, family feuds, Nepal: Kathmandu, lingering accusations that brokers skim more than they ought to and spiraling global conspiracy claims, old and new. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfJQ...

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Suspicion: A Worldwide Crisis of Trust w/ Andrew Haxby

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 28/06/2025

Israel is constructing tunnels that Palestinians will be required to pass through in the heart of the West Bank, making large parts of the occupied territory accessible only to Israelis. The aim is to remove the Palestinian presence around Jerusalem. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

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Israel is building a tunnel to cut off Palestinians from the heart of the West Bank

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

An immigration judge within the Trump DOJ has denied bond to Rumeysa Ozturk, saying she’s a “danger and flight risk.” Her “crime” is cowriting an op-ed urging her school to follow student resolutions to acknowledge the Palestinian genocide & divest from companies tied to Israel.

Respondent Name:
OZTURK, RUMEYSA
To:
Rosenbluth, Martin Mark
P.O. Box 786
Lumpkin, GA 31815
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
EXECUTIVE OFFICE FOR IMMIGRATION REVIEW
OAKDALE IMMIGRATION COURT
A-Number:
Riders:
In Custody Redetermination Proceedings
Date:
04/16/2025
ORDER OF THE IMMIGRATION JUDGE
The respondent requested a custody redetermination pursuant to 8 C.F.R. § 1236. After full consideration of the evidence presented, the respondent's request for a change in custody status is hereby ordered:

X Denied, because
Danger and Flight Risk

• Granted. It is ordered that Respondent be:
• released from custody on his own recognizance.
• released from custody under bond of $
• other:
• Other:

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

"In effect, the universities ceded the ground to Israel and its supporters, allowing them to paint the protesters as antisemites calling for the murder of Jews – and conveniently distract attention from the actual genocide unfolding in Gaza." Adam Shatz on Columbia, liberals, spinelessness.

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 26/03/2025

“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed,” National Security Advisor Waltz wrote. “Excellent,” VP Vance replied.

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The Real Outrage About the Yemen Signal Group Is That It Called for Attack on Civilian Home

“We had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend’s building and it’s now collapsed.”

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 21/03/2025

‘The threat that this is “only the beginning” is broadcast loud and clear, together with the desire for “total victory”, which they appear happy to equate with the annihilation of Gaza’s population.’ Selma Dabbagh on Israel’s renewed strikes on Gaza: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Selma Dabbagh | They’ve started again

I woke up yesterday morning to a message from a friend in Karachi. It just said: ‘They’ve started again.’ I did...

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Historical ethnography, use-value economies, the political consequences of public history: me interviewed by Christoph Brumann for our MPI house podcast about and around my book, Gleaning for Communism: The Soviet Socialist Household in Theory and Practice. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xvI...

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Talk On S2E4 | Gleaning for Communism w/ Xenia Cherkaev

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Xenia Cherkaev @xcherkaev.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

latest from me “Russian Late-Liberalism: Notes Hierarchy, Responsibility, and Legally Ownerless Dogs.” General Anthropology 31 (1–2): 19–22. doi.org/10.1111/gena....

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