Benjamin Hegarty
@benjhegarty.bsky.social
medical anthropologist | global health | trans studies | author of The Made-Up State | Asia and Pacific Health @KirbyInstitute I FIAS Fellow Institut d'études avancées de Paris & Affiliate Oxford Anthropology 24-25
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Benjamin Hegarty
@benjhegarty.bsky.social
· Mar 29
At the 6 month mark of my fellowship on symbiotic viruses @ieadeparis.bsky.social - brilliant year so far working with colleagues in Paris in virology, anthropology, health and medicine. My office is located above where Baudelaire lived for a short time. And now it’s springtime in Paris…
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So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
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“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia
Reality bites: Why the global dengue epidemic matters to Australia
The mosquito-borne disease is more than a health emergency – it symbolises the injustice of climate change.
www.lowyinstitute.org
September 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
“While very hot regions may see transmission decline, cooler areas such as coastal and northern Australia could become more vulnerable,” writes Philippa Nicole Barr in The Interpreter.
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia
https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/reality-bites-why-global-dengue-epidemic-matters-australia
Brilliant essay on hepatitis B and its antigen by Michelle Bootcov
Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys (by Michelle Bootcov)
This paper explores recursive journeys of a blood-borne virus through a Derridean hauntological lens. I trace the spectral presence of the hepatitis B virus and its antigen, and their ghost-like routes...
www.at-commons.com/pub/wyvbup7c...
This paper explores recursive journeys of a blood-borne virus through a Derridean hauntological lens. I trace the spectral presence of the hepatitis B virus and its antigen, and their ghost-like routes...
www.at-commons.com/pub/wyvbup7c...
Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys
www.at-commons.com
September 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Brilliant essay on hepatitis B and its antigen by Michelle Bootcov
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New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
For the Health
of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge - Benjamin Hegarty, 2025
Transgender health, and the scientific and medical knowledge underpinning it, has been transformed over the past two decades. Since the 2000s, coalitions of act...
journals.sagepub.com
September 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
New OnlineFirst review article: "For the Health of All: Global Transformations in Trans Knowledge" by Benjamin Hegarty @benjhegarty.bsky.social #transgender #health #liberalism #genderaffirmation #depathologization journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Making Do | Stanford University Press
Cape York is a remote and biodiverse peninsula in northeastern Australia that has been inhabited by Aboriginal communities for thousands of years. Since colonization, much of the peninsula has been us...
www.sup.org
September 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
So pleased to see Mardi Reardon-Smith's book "Making Do: Conservation Ethics and Ecological Care in Australia" is out any minute now. Grab a copy + tell your librarian to grab a copy! @mardirs.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/anthro...
Thinking about the history of feminist anthropology in Australia, and what it says about the contemporary university. Drawing on papers from a roundtable at ANU in 2019, this @histanthro.org SFS includes six mostly unrecorded accounts of anthropology circa 1970s-80s histanthro.org/notes/theory...
Theory as Reproduction: Histories of Doing Feminist Anthropology in Australia
The relationship between feminism and anthropology has never been straightforward. The launch in 2020 of Feminist Anthropology, the journal of the Association for Feminist Anthropology section at t…
histanthro.org
July 24, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Thinking about the history of feminist anthropology in Australia, and what it says about the contemporary university. Drawing on papers from a roundtable at ANU in 2019, this @histanthro.org SFS includes six mostly unrecorded accounts of anthropology circa 1970s-80s histanthro.org/notes/theory...
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Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...
June 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Looking forward to the Zoonosis as a Historical and Anthropological Question conference @standrewsanthro.bsky.social next week! wwrat.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/zoonosis-as-...
Our wonderful new book forum just out on Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology in Medicine Anthropology Theory - with smart and generous contributions by Frederic Keck @fredkeck.bsky.social, Ros Williams @ros-w.bsky.social, Beth Greenhough and Trevor Engel
June 12, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Our wonderful new book forum just out on Emma Kowal’s Haunting Biology in Medicine Anthropology Theory - with smart and generous contributions by Frederic Keck @fredkeck.bsky.social, Ros Williams @ros-w.bsky.social, Beth Greenhough and Trevor Engel
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The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Research, HIV/AIDS, and Turning Waria into a Key Population in Indonesia: An Ethnographic Oral History
The history of HIV/AIDS is often told from the Global North, a viewpoint that is naturalized in policies and programs that privilege biomedical models of treatment and prevention. This article expl...
www.tandfonline.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The history of #HIV #AIDS is often told from the Global North. @benjhegarty.bsky.social & co take us to an Indonesian transgender community (waria) to show how ethn. accounts of other HIV/AIDS histories can help us rethink fundamental global health concepts.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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I see there's an opening panel discussion, followed by apéritif! In Paris. Wish I could join them...
February 12, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I see there's an opening panel discussion, followed by apéritif! In Paris. Wish I could join them...
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Potentially an interesting workshop on 'symbiotic viruses' at the Collège de France, March 4-5 - an excellent line up. I'm keen to learn how they revive an old trope...
#STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum
@benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social
#STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum
@benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Potentially an interesting workshop on 'symbiotic viruses' at the Collège de France, March 4-5 - an excellent line up. I'm keen to learn how they revive an old trope...
#STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum
@benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social
#STS #histstm #medanthro #medhum
@benjhegarty.bsky.social @fredkeck.bsky.social
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🦠 Que nous apprennent les virus sur nous-mêmes ?
Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses".
4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab
5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg
Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses".
4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab
5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg
February 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
🦠 Que nous apprennent les virus sur nous-mêmes ?
Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses".
4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab
5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg
Les 4 et 5 mars, @benjhegarty.bsky.social (UNSW Syndey, IEA de Paris) et Frédéric Keck (CNRS, LAS) organisent une conférence suivie d'une journée d'étude intitulées "Symbiotic viruses".
4 mars 👉 cutt.ly/yrqmmWab
5 mars 👉 cutt.ly/1rqmmVvg
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Very much looking forward to this conference on Symbiotic Viruses organised by @fredkeck.bsky.social and @benjhegarty.bsky.social on March 4 & 5
March 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Very much looking forward to this conference on Symbiotic Viruses organised by @fredkeck.bsky.social and @benjhegarty.bsky.social on March 4 & 5
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Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...
forms.gle
March 19, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Call for Participants: 1-day in-person workshop here in Naarm/Melbourne on "Emergency Climates." Social science, humanities, STS scholars + others - come discuss the meaning of “emergency” today. Organised by me + Andy Lakoff (USC), CfP closes 11 April 2025 (soon!): forms.gle/yRSoxuFYSDA3...
At the 6 month mark of my fellowship on symbiotic viruses @ieadeparis.bsky.social - brilliant year so far working with colleagues in Paris in virology, anthropology, health and medicine. My office is located above where Baudelaire lived for a short time. And now it’s springtime in Paris…
March 29, 2025 at 7:54 AM
At the 6 month mark of my fellowship on symbiotic viruses @ieadeparis.bsky.social - brilliant year so far working with colleagues in Paris in virology, anthropology, health and medicine. My office is located above where Baudelaire lived for a short time. And now it’s springtime in Paris…