Society for Cultural Anthropology
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Society for Cultural Anthropology
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Challenging the boundaries of the discipline since 1983. Account managed by a volunteer team of Contributing Editors. Posts this week by Social Media Team.
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We are happy to announce the new editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology!
Bridget Guarasci and Sarah E. Vaughn, Amelia Moore, Eleana Kim and Ryo Morimoto will serve from 2026 to 2029!
Journal submissions are open!
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February 16, 2026 at 10:54 PM
We are happy to announce the new editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology!
Bridget Guarasci and Sarah E. Vaughn, Amelia Moore, Eleana Kim and Ryo Morimoto will serve from 2026 to 2029!
Journal submissions are open!
February 16, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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“I Heart SfAA” is coming & will focus on supporting global mini-conferences that expand access for #SfAA members worldwide.

Save the dates: Feb. 9-13. Together, we're bringing SfAA to the world & the world to SfAA.

More: appliedanthro.org/i-heart-sfaa/

#AppliedAnthropology #IHeartSfAA #SfAAGlobal
January 28, 2026 at 11:44 AM
How did the Covid-19 pandemic lay bare and exacerbate changes in work and labor? Our latest Hot Spots series is a global look at how labor has changed as a social form and object of study.
February 1, 2026 at 4:09 PM
In Elana Resnick's research on race and waste in Bulgaria, "containability is a fantasy of material and social boundedness—that people who collect waste, racialized as nonwhite, can be sequestered out of white purview." www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Sustaining Containability: A Conversation with Elana Resnick
In this interview, Elana Resnick reflects on the evolution of her research on recycling and waste in Bulgaria. She highlights the longer historic...
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January 26, 2026 at 10:54 PM
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The community warning, defense, and mutual aid we're seeing in Minneapolis is the product of years of responding to state violence. Amazing essay from @nplusonemag.com : www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
January 23, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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ICE is sending these kids to the concentration camp in Dilley, Texas, where they're preparing to have so many children that they're opening a new school there. They're actively hiring teachers now. I reported on it last month. We have to get people out of there.
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Great backgrounder on today's state-wide economic shutdown in Minnesota against ICE violence. “The goal of the Day of Action is to expand the coalition, get more and more people and organizations involved so that we can be more powerful the day after.” truthout.org/articles/wit...
With Twin Cities Under Siege by ICE, Minnesota Moves Toward a General Strike
An economic blackout on January 23 could be the first general strike in Minnesota in nearly 100 years.
truthout.org
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"It is precisely the long experience of organizing against [local police] violence that prepared activists in these cities to resist ICE." Robin D.G. Kelley on the ongoing attack on immigrants and the popular resistance to it, in @bostonreview.bsky.social: www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...
Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror
An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 23, 2026 at 3:05 PM
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Reminder, the priority deadline is February 1 for the Call for Editor of Dispatches from Applied Anthropology (Dispatches), a rebooted, public-facing digital magazine of ideas, impact, and #SfAA news.

All info for this new editorial opportunity here:
appliedanthro.org/news/call-fo...

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January 23, 2026 at 11:49 AM
What we're reading and thinking about—this series on immigration in first year of the first Trump era, and how much things have changed or stayed the same: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Im/migration in the Trump Era
One year into the Trump presidency, when our core values of multiculturalism, cross-cultural understanding, international diversity, and racial i...
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January 23, 2026 at 2:35 PM
In this interview, anthropologist Rishabh Raghavan reflects on the role of refusal not only in his work theorizing labor and toxicity in southern India, but also in his interactions with his interlocutors - fishermen who refused certain lines of inquiry. www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
On Refusal and Toxic Industrialization: An Interview with Rishabh Raghavan
In this interview, Rishabh Raghavan discusses his encounter with everyday life in Ennore, as residents contest authoritative discourse on polluti...
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January 21, 2026 at 11:33 PM
How might helping someone die enact care? Our latest AnthroPod episode discusses the ethics, stakes, and care raised by assisted suicide and voluntary death—featuring Miki Chase, Dwai Banerjee, Sophia Jaworski, and Miranda Tuckett: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
The Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Voluntary Death
In this episode, we dive into the series of debates that have emerged around assisted suicide, both within and outside the boundaries of medico-l...
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January 21, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Sad news today. Fabian’s “Out of Our Minds” was one of the books I read when I was first getting interested in expeditions as an MA student, it definitely helped nudge me on the path I’ve been on for the last 15 years.
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
January 19, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Two sociologists in the Guardian today:
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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From the archives: "The present and the future demand that we work as insurgents, as fugitives: across real and imagined borders and against pessimisms of the will, but perhaps not the intellect."
January 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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So sad to hear! I'm an anthropologist, working on social time and Fabian's writing influenced my work a lot. RIP🖤
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
January 19, 2026 at 1:54 AM
From the archives: "The present and the future demand that we work as insurgents, as fugitives: across real and imagined borders and against pessimisms of the will, but perhaps not the intellect."
January 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Two sociologists in the Guardian today:
January 18, 2026 at 9:14 PM
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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The National Science Foundation sign on our Eisenhower Av building is now gone.

The NSF mural in the foyer is removed and torn off in sheets.

We were supposed to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the agency in May 2025. That never happened.
January 18, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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just a stunning thinker
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
January 18, 2026 at 4:07 AM
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Fabian’s concept of coevalness is one of the core anthropologic concepts for me and changed my entire methodological approach to research.
RIP German anthropologist Johannes Fabian, who passed away last Tuesday. Fabian was most widely known as the author of "Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes its Object" (1983), a then-radical & still-influential critique of anthropological writing, knowledge-making & fieldwork relations. RIP.
January 16, 2026 at 11:27 PM