Branwyn Poleykett
@branwyn.bsky.social
Medical/environmental anthropologist, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. Research on global and planetary health, Sahelian grains, and everyday eating in Dakar
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I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!
March 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m co-hosting a workshop on Black death and mourning via Black family narratives @framerframed.bsky.social on April 9 (17-20:00). In discussion with @julianisenia.bsky.social, Nawal Mustafa, and Camille Sapara Barton. Please join and circulate!
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"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
Proposals for a Caring Economy
Offers much-needed care models beyond capitalist constraints For too long, questions of care provision and inclusion have been shaped by economic justificati...
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March 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
"Proposals for a Caring Economy" comes out this spring. I often hope that a book will become irrelevant by the time it's published. Sadly, this little book is more relevant than ever. It offers a set of ethnographically-driven policy recommendations, suitable for any reader. bit.ly/4iS1tUS
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Happening next week!
March 14, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Happening next week!
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
February 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
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Can #agency be reduced to notions of personal choice, #freedom, and #autonomy? Find out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency #anthropology #sts #anthrobluesky
Agency
In anthropology, agency is broadly defined as the socio-culturally mediated capacity to act. Classically, the concept has been used to analyse how people try to influence, or change, their lifeworlds ...
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January 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Can #agency be reduced to notions of personal choice, #freedom, and #autonomy? Find out here: www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/agency #anthropology #sts #anthrobluesky
There are still a few tickets left for our upcoming workshop ‘Food as Commons in the Planetary Netherlands” on November 8 at the Institute of Social History, there will be brilliant speakers and lots of opportunity for participation & exchange
Food as Commons in the Planetary Netherlands
A one day interactive and participatory workshop examining histories and contemporary practices of food commoning in the Netherlands.
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October 18, 2024 at 9:09 AM
There are still a few tickets left for our upcoming workshop ‘Food as Commons in the Planetary Netherlands” on November 8 at the Institute of Social History, there will be brilliant speakers and lots of opportunity for participation & exchange
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“How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management board game hatched by Bakudapan Food Study Group, an eight-woman collective founded in 2015 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.”
Playing the Field - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management […]
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October 15, 2024 at 2:38 PM
“How does a food crisis occur? What factors create conditions of scarcity? What can be done about it? These questions sit at the heart of The Hunger Tales, a resource-management board game hatched by Bakudapan Food Study Group, an eight-woman collective founded in 2015 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.”
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If you do decolonial research, you can become a scholar in residence at the University of Amsterdam. Scholars from (formerly) colonized countries are especially encouraged to apply:
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Call for Scholars in Residence - Decolonial Futures
Decolonial Futures opens a call for applications for Scholars in Residence for the academic year 2024-2025
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September 10, 2024 at 12:41 PM
If you do decolonial research, you can become a scholar in residence at the University of Amsterdam. Scholars from (formerly) colonized countries are especially encouraged to apply:
decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...
decolonialfutures.uva.nl/content/news...
2 PhD positions at on #sustainability experimentations in European horticultural greenhouses #anthrosky #politicalecology
2 PhD Positions to Investigate Sustainability Experimentations in European Horticultural Greenhouses
2 PhD Positions to Investigate Sustainability Experimentations in European Horticultural Greenhouses
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September 21, 2024 at 6:46 AM
2 PhD positions at on #sustainability experimentations in European horticultural greenhouses #anthrosky #politicalecology