Dominik Mattes
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Dominik Mattes
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Social and Cultural Anthropology | Freie Universität Berlin
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The Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social needs our solidarity. Planned budget cuts by the city and university leadership threaten the vital, critical work coming out of this space. Let’s not let it go quiet. #SaveBerlinAnthropology
May 30, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social gegen Kürzungen und Rechtsruck!
June 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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The Ethnological Museum Berlin has issued a press statement in support of retaining all professorships in social and cultural anthropology at Freie Universitität Berlin. This is also essential for the future of ethnological museums in Germany ⬇️
June 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Herzlichen Dank an den Vorstand der @dgska.bsky.social für das deutliche Unterstützungsschreiben angesichts der drohenden Kürzungen, durch die die Existenz unseres Instituts @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social insgesamt bedroht wäre 🙏
June 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Gestern protestierten unsere Studierenden bei einer Sitzung des akad. Senats gegen die Kürzungspläne der FU Berlin, die unser Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie unverhältnismäßig hart treffen würden. Vielen Dank an alle, die sich solidarisiert haben. It means a lot! 💜✊
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June 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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Finally my article is out with Feminist Anthropology! 💃💊

Based on ethnographic fieldwork, I analyze HIV/AIDS hauntings and the temporal politics of PrEP: "Care, and the less of it: Haunted gestures and the affective economy of pharmaceutical HIV prevention"

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April 10, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Our "Public Anthropology" reader is out - and it has become such a beautiful book! 😍🌞 #openaccess
June 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Join us on Wed., June 18th, for Esra Özyürek's talk on her book "Subcontractors of Guilt: Holocaust Memory and Muslim Belonging in Post-War Germany" at FU Berlin or online. Much looking forward to a timely debate!
June 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Anthropology at FU Berlin, one of the best SocAnth departments across Europe, is under threat at a time when we most need anthropology
June 2, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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At a time when there is a shift to right-wing and authoritarian forces and an increasing hostility towards the social sciences and humanities, social and cultural anthropology is more important than ever:
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Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology at FU Berlin receives overwhelming support from students and colleagues in the face of massive budget cuts
At the beginning of last week, I received some devastating news: the President’s Office at Freie Universität Berlin has proposed eliminating the third professorship at the Institute of Social and Cult...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Read some reflections on the affective and ethical tensions I faced during my ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania, which I was very happy to publish @allegralab.bsky.social

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The Temporality of Violence — Affect, Atmospheres and contested Frameworks in the Study of Colonial Collections  - Allegra Lab
We are a group of five, three men and two women, sitting in the shade of a Maasai hut in Oltukai, northern Tanzania. One of the men is pointing at me
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February 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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@domattes.bsky.social and I are hiring a student assistent for our research project on affect, religion and the climate justice movement based @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social

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March 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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What a joy to see this out! My warmest thanks to the authors of the excellent contributions, my wonderful co-editors, and the entire team at intercom for their tireless support! And lots of inspiration for the readers to radically think and do health otherwise!!
March 14, 2025 at 9:05 PM