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agadarancia.bsky.social
@agadarancia.bsky.social
Anthropologist; assistant professor at @AnthropoUdem; author of "Living right" @PrincetonUniversityPress 2024; studies and writes about social movements, activism, (neo)fascism, nationalism and religion


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"Liberal parties have failed and we need a real democratic socialist alternative that can advance the interests of working-class communities, environmentalists and other progressive forces with a shared vision for a better world."

nowthenmagazine.com/articles/jas...
Jason Hickel - "We need a real progressive alternative – a democratic ecosocialist movement"
In the run-up to his event at this year's Festival of Debate, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel speaks to Alice Flanagan about degrowth and his hopes for mass mobilisation across the globe.
nowthenmagazine.com
May 1, 2025 at 6:14 AM
“What of our dreams today, under the influence of the algorithms?”
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
The Dream of the Raised Arm | Zadie Smith
It’s no wonder those who lived under the Third Reich suffered ceaseless nightmares. What of our dreams today, under the totalitarianism of the online algorithm?
www.nybooks.com
April 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
April 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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This is beautiful - as scientists are fired or lost their federal funding, Silenced Stories generates awareness and advocacy. #CantFireScience

If you have a story, share it here: forms.gle/XnC9kyp9uTaZ...

silencedsciencestories.com/the-scientists

@silencedscience.bsky.social
April 5, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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‘Argentinians are showing others who wish to resist the advance of far right governments – in Latin America, the US or Europe – how it can be done.’

Forrest Hylton on anti-Milei protests in Argentina, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
Forrest Hylton | ‘The streets are ours, Milei’
Javier Milei’s popularity and legitimacy have been significantly eroded since he came to power in 2023, as pessimism...
www.lrb.co.uk
April 3, 2025 at 9:45 AM
« American college administrators and lawyers are responding to Trump’s bullying as if it were an opportunity to carry out ‘reforms’ – and as if they were secretly relieved that their hand has been forced by the Leader. »

Submission www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Adam Shatz | Submission
There’s nothing surprising about Trump’s attack on the universities, or on the liberal law firms that he also...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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‘What sort of reconstruction, by now inevitably a radical one, of actually existing liberal democracy would be required to put an end to the oligarchies it has spawned?’

Perry Anderson on regime change in the West, online early from the next issue: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Perry Anderson · Regime Change in the West?
Where amid this turmoil does neoliberalism stand? In emergency conditions it has been forced to take measures –...
www.lrb.co.uk
March 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
March 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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At University of Cambridge, I was asked if I maintain a sense of optimism about climate change. My answer:

Yes, because unlike cancer, where we often don't know the cause and don't have a cure, we know exactly why global temperatures are rising and how to stop it. We just need the political will.
February 26, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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For #AnthroDay @anthropologieudem.bsky.social had @knomascus.bsky.social presenting on ecological and anthropogenic determinants of lemur genomic diversity and @agadarancia.bsky.social presenting her new social movements lab to a packed house in Café Anthropo. A-1 day with some A-1 colleagues!
February 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
‘The last five years have been a real smack in the face for anyone who was hoping that initiatives in the late 2010s were a real harbinger of change.’

@brettchristophers.bsky.social on how fossil fuel companies are failing to ‘keep it in the ground’, on the podcast:
www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
Podcast: Brett Christophers and Thomas Jones · Have we surrendered to climate breakdown?
www.lrb.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:21 PM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS & ROUNDTABLES 

Join us in Montreal, where waters and people have long met, for the 2025 Conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) on the theme of “Confluences” (May 7-10, 2025).

Please, submit your proposals by FEB 7 by visiting event.fourwaves.com/casca2025/pa...
CASCA 2025 – McGill, Montreal
Fourwaves - CASCA 2025 – McGill, Montreal
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February 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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On the migration of the scientific community to Bluesky:
www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪
Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform
Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.
www.nature.com
January 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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I am a climate scientist and this is correct ⬇️
Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.
January 9, 2025 at 3:06 AM
« This brings us back to my earlier question of why pro-Palestine scholars are being invited when it would have been so much simpler and less dramatic not to engage us(…)If calling this a genocide makes us valuable to these institutions, it is because they are sensing the cracks in their narrative»
Avgi Saketopoulou challenges us to look beyond institutional word games and euphemisms, asking: ‘At what point will refusing to call a genocide what it is become untenable?’
An unflinching exploration of reality, denial, and complicity. #TruthSadism #HumanRights

thebattleground.eu/2024/11/28/j...
Just Say Genocide
The Problem of Truth Sadism
thebattleground.eu
January 2, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This is a chilling account, chilling also due to the fact that the story on all those “ordinary good guys” sounds so familiar
‘Gisèle Pelicot’s decision is astonishingly brave, not least because the culture she is condemning also produced the lawyers who have been questioning her and the journalists covering the case.’

Sophie Smith on the Pelicot trial:
Sophie Smith · Sleeping Women: On the Pelicot trial
Gisèle Pelicot doesn’t conceive of her now ex-husband or the other men who raped her as ‘bad apples’, aberrations...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:37 AM
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Every time you share a "The Conversation" post I want to remind you that they have a multi-million dollar annual budget and pay writers zero dollars, including adjuncts and grad students. We cannot rely on exploited labor to achieve a better public humanities.

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A Better Conversation | David M. Perry
Get more from David M. Perry on Patreon
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December 16, 2024 at 3:42 PM
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In preparation for a conversation about education & anti-Zionism later today, I pulled out the 3 books that taught me about Palestine, resistance, & liberation when I was a teenager in the 90s. These books by Palestinian writers saved my life. They also taught me how to be an anti-Zionist.
November 19, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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“We can throw a wrench into the war machine”: Why pro-Palestine Canadian authors are boycotting the Giller Prize
Comics artist and illustrator Michael DeForge, an organizer with CanLit Responds and No Arms in the Arts, on protesting the award’s lead sponsor’s stake in Israeli arms manufacturing
"We can throw a wrench into the war machine": Why pro-Palestine Canadian authors are boycotting the Giller Prize - Toronto Life
1,077,815 Torontonians can’t be wrong.
torontolife.com
November 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Tomorrow in New Haven!
November 18, 2024 at 2:42 AM
Can’t wait to hear about your students’ responses - thank you !
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."
November 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM
October 26, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Looking forward to it!
March 17, 2024 at 12:38 AM