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Armanc Yildiz
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Author | Anthropologist | Postdoc @ Humboldt Uni | Researching Anthroposophy, spirituality & science | Editorial hats @Culture&Religion + @amanthro.bsky.social | Tarot, knitting & 🐾 Donna's human
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Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social · Nov 25
Anthropologists! 📝✨ The Highlights section of the American Anthropologist is open for pitches—especially from early-career scholars. Got a fresh take? Share your ideas with us!

www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

#Anthropology #CreativeEthnography @labspeceth.bsky.social
Call for Pitches for the Highlights Section — American Anthropologist
Anthropologists! Specifically, early career anthropologists! Queer, feminist, trans*, BIPOC, neurodiverse anthropologists, anthropologists with disabilities, those with working-class backgrounds, fi...
www.americananthropologist.org
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My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?"

I told him to read more Fanon
January 14, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:
A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.
January 14, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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Heated Rivalry (1935)
HOCKEY PLAYERS KISS <photographs of one women in a coat kissing another woman on the cheek> The W.A. WOMEN'S HOCKEY team returned to Perth today. The picture shows Miss May Pearce who was one of the team's outstanding players being greeted by her friend, Miss Edna Keane. --The Daily News, 9 Aug 1935
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 AM
armanc.bsky.social
Wasn’t the worst terror attack in Australia’a history its foundation?
omarsakr.bsky.social Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 1d
Adelaide Writers Week is officially cancelled, with all remaining board members stepping down. This is a travesty. Not only did they refuse to reverse course and save the festival, they “apologised” to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah… and then once again tried to justify their decision by citing Bondi.
We recognise and deeply regret the distress this decision has caused to our audience, artists and writers, donors, corporate partners, the government and our own staff and people. We also apologise to Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah for how the decision was represented and reiterate this is not about identity or dissent but rather a continuing rapid shift in the national discourse around the breadth of freedom of expression in our nation following Australia's worst terror attack in history. We acknowledge and are committed to rebuilding trust with our artistic community and audience to enable open and respectful discussions at future Adelaide Writers' Week events.
January 13, 2026 at 7:02 AM
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Working on whiteness from an ethnographic perspective? Aleksandra Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to panel P141 at #EASA2026!

Deadline: 26.01.2026

@easainfo.bsky.social

Info and submisson via: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...
P141: Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies
Whiteness is not only a matter of skin colour. Its complexities, however, are often lost in polarised discourses which ignore or essentialise it. This panel
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January 12, 2026 at 12:47 PM
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An impeccable summary by Alex Shams—long, but essential and monumental. When it comes to the Middle East, intricacies matter. You cannot be lazy about being informed; otherwise, by definition, you are not informed.

So, a must-read:
Our Man for Tehran
The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.
www.bostonreview.net
January 11, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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liberals are always nostalgic for social movements that they were on the wrong side of.
January 11, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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January 11, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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I hope this is in no way interpreted as any kind of support for Trump’s deranged Greenland plan but given there’s a conversation about the future of Greenland, it should be noted that Denmark has in many ways treated Greenlanders disgracefully.
Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned - BBC News
The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
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Five ways to deny a genocide
January 10, 2026 at 12:52 PM
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OH MY GOD
Academic Politics at Their Most Counterproductive The American Historical Association is being torn apart over members’ views on Israel. The Review | Opinion By David A. Bell December 16, 2025 The annual meeting of the American Historical Association used to be a pretty staid affair. At the first one I attended, in Washington in 1987, I brought along my girlfriend then, a journalist, and I still remember her initial reaction: “I’ve never seen so many badly dressed middle-aged men together in the same place in my life.” These men, mostly hired to tenure-track positions before the (first) collapse of the academic job market in the 1970s, treated the conference as a class reunion of sorts, jovially greeting old friends. A very different vibe came from the graduate students who were there for first-round job interviews — often held in hotel bedrooms with candidates and search committees alike perched awkwardly on the edge of beds.
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
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it is literally none of these things
January 9, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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I also had a great time talking to @armanc.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic.... He really pushed me to think on my feet.
January 8, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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I had a great time recording an episode with Julia Elyachar (@jeelyachar.bsky.social) on @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social to discuss her new book, On the Semicivilized (@dukepress.bsky.social).

Give it a listen! 🎧

newbooksnetwork.com/on-the-semic...
Julia Elyachar, "On the Semicivilized: Coloniality, Finance, and Embodied Sovereignty in Cairo" (Duke UP, 2025) - New Books Network
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January 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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Israeli soldiers invaded Birzeit University today in the West Bank, halting classes to fire live ammunition at students, wounding at least 11 people. Why? A student demonstration in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners, and a film screening of the Voice of Hind Rajab.
January 7, 2026 at 12:47 AM
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Wasn’t this a “complex” situation when it happened to Venezuela 2 days ago? Somehow the inviolability of borders is clear now 🤔
chadbourn.bsky.social Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 7d
Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.
6 January 2026 Joint Statement on Greenland Statement by President Macron of France, Chancellor Merz of Germany, Prime Minister Meloni of Italy, Prime Minister Tusk of Poland, Prime Minister Sánchez of Spain, Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Frederiksen of Denmark on Greenland. Arctic security remains a key priority for Europe and it is critical for international and transatlantic security. NATO has made clear that the Arctic region is a priority and European Allies are stepping up. We and many other Allies have increased our presence, activities and investments, to keep the Arctic safe and to deter adversaries. The Kingdom of Denmark - including Greenland - is part of NATO. Security in the Arctic must therefore be achieved collectively, in conjunction with NATO allies including the United States, by upholding the principles of the UN Charter, including sovereignty, territorial integrity and the inviolability of borders. These are universal principles, and we will not stop defending them. The United States is an essential partner in this endeavour, as a NATO ally and through the defence agreement between the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States of 1951. Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland.
January 6, 2026 at 12:42 PM
armanc.bsky.social
It’s funny how for Germans when white people occupy another country it’s a “complex” situation
hahauenstein.bsky.social Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 10d
Multilateralismus: tot.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
January 3, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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hahauenstein.bsky.social
Multilateralismus: tot.
Völkerrecht? Kulisse.
Was zählt: Macht und Gewalt.
Venezuela? der jüngste Beweis.
January 3, 2026 at 9:47 PM
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I was a teenager taking introduction to international politics during the invasion of Iraq and I am so deeply sad about the series of events that have led to me getting ready to teach introduction to international politics to a bunch of teenagers during the invasion of Venezuela
January 3, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Look at the US interventions. ugh
January 3, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Aus Gründen
juergenzimmerer.bsky.social Jürgen Zimmerer @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social · Dec 23
Die Welt des Hochimperialismus kommt zurück, nicht die bipolare. Wie absurd, dass Hamburg Senat gerade jetzt @coloniallegacy.bsky.social auflöst. Gerade jetzt braucht es krit. Auseinandersetzung mit dem Imperialismus, seinen Ursachen und Folgen. Auch seiner globalen Katastrophe in den Weltkriegen.
January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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A cross-national analysis finds that as governments become more populist, academic freedom declines
doi.org/10.1017/S153...
December 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Tucson residents fought back against Amazon’s secretive plans to build a data center in the desert — and won.

But now, in a blatant attempt to override the City Council and the will of the people, Amazon and the project’s developer is pushing ahead anyway.
December 2, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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"it's something to do" 🖤✨
junlper.beer onion person @junlper.beer · Aug 7
i’ve been watching old lou reed interviews and i’m obsessed with this 50 year old interview and his response to being asked if he identifies as a transvestite or homosexual
December 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM