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Eva Haifa Giraud
@evahaifa.bsky.social
Academic, soc. studies Sheffield. Animal studies/STS/soc media/activism. Books: What Comes After Entanglement? (Duke UP) & Veganism (Bloomsbury). Ed. Cultural Politics.
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Last four days to send in your abstracts 👇
🌐🚨 CALL FOR PAPERS 🚨🌐

'The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies'

🗓️ 2-3 February 2026
📍 @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

We invite one-word titles (e.g. hallucinating, zooming, obscuring, glitching, generating)

Deadline: 14th November

Full info: digicologies.com/cfp
November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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I have a horrible feeling I forgot to post that registration for this conference about extinction, conservation and the future of our planet is now open. We have an amazing range of speakers, who are listed here, alongside the link to register.

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August 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Are you curious about expanding your social research practice to include nonhuman species, but don’t know where to start? Come and join this immersive three-day workshop at the University of Manchester, with a mix of indoor seminars and outdoor fieldwork: store.southampton.ac.uk/short-course...
June 5, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Nice interview with Greg Hollin about his recent Cultural Anthropology article on pro wrestling, post-truth, and precarious labour: culanth.org/fieldsights/...
The Tragi-Comedy of the Wrestlers’ World: An Interview with Gregory Hollin
Following Gregory Hollin's article, our interview further explores the wrestler’s world and its synecdochical, if not allegorical, connections to...
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February 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I'm honestly struggling to articulate how excited I am to be working on this project with these people - really does feel like a dream come true!
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
February 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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What are the dangers in relying on automated hate speech detection to tackle discrimination online?

Eva Haifa Giraud, Elizabeth Poole, Ed de Quincey and @discodiscourse.bsky.social look at digital racism, Twitter/X and counter-narratives against Islamophobia.

Out now #OpenAccess buff.ly/4a90uwi
January 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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Would you like to spend a few months in Edinburgh in 2025-26 working with our brilliant Environmental Humanities community and, ahem, enjoying the Scottish weather? The application portal for EEHN Visiting Research Fellowships is now open.
January 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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A very interesting article (open access) in @theoryculturesociety.org on non-human animal cultures and extinctions, written by wonderful colleagues, led by @thomvandooren.bsky.social including our PhD Sam Widin. But didn't Darwin and later animal ecologists write on animal cultures?
#envhum #STS
Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction - Thom van Dooren, Matthew Chrulew, Myles Oakey, Sam Widin, Drew Rooke, 2024
Over the course of the latter part of the 20th century the notion that some animals might partake in a cultural form of life has gained growing support in the n...
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January 5, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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As part of "Weather Reports", we've just published the first part of a Stream (Special Issue) on wind as media, model, and experience with Media+Environment.

In our introduction, we ask what shape the Wind Humanities might take: mediaenviron.org/article/1274...
Wind Humanities: An Elemental Media Approach | Published in Media+Environment
By Maximilian Hepach, Ryan Bishop & 3 more. Drawing together work from environmental humanities, media studies, and artistic practice, we propose and contribute to a new elemental field of study: the ...
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January 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Retweeting this very late, so obviously way after Christmas now, but just seen that the open access version is now up :) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
January 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Critical extinction studies starter pack - go.bsky.app/SR3gMpS with accompanying list if you don't want to lose track of people bsky.app/profile/did:...

Please send me a message (here or as a DM) to let me know you want to be on the list
Critical extinction studies
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November 22, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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Cultural Anthropology's latest issue is out! Check out 7 amazing essays on wrestling, revolutionary bureucracy, visual disinformation, riverine geostorytelling, post-flood trauma, the ethics of divine-driven bureaucracy, and cartooning

journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology is the peer-reviewed journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, a section of the American Anthropological Association.
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November 19, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Who doesn't love Cultural Anthropology? The journal is now looking for its next editor/s. Check out the details of the call here: culanth.org/about/about-...
November 20, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Great to see Greg Hollin's article out in Cultural Anthropology! A (depressingly) timely piece on what happens when labour organising is interpreted through a post-truth lens, which weaves together ethnography, contemporary critiques of neoliberalism & the 'zany' journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
The Wrestler and His World: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism | Cultural Anthropology
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November 20, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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This is such a good (and TIMELY) article by Greg Hollin on attempts to unionize pro wrestlers, and what organisation and activism look like in a space when narratives are always openly constructed, contingent an "zany." journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
The Wrestler and His World: Precarious Workers, Post-Truth Politics, and Inauthentic Activism | Cultural Anthropology
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November 20, 2024 at 9:22 AM
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De-mining rats. Stray dogs. Lal Kandhari cows. Marxist cats. And fishy resistance. My review of Animal Studies in 2023 is available here. DM me for the PDF.

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Animal Studies
Abstract. This review essay explores some key contributions to animal studies in 2023. In Section 1, Humanitarianism Beyond Humanism, I consider how Benjam
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November 13, 2024 at 4:08 PM
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🌍 Our book - 'Digital ecologies: Mediating more-than-human worlds' - will be published in December with @manchesterup.bsky.social!

🍃 Editors: @jonnyjjt.bsky.social, @admsrl.bsky.social, Henry Anderson-Elliott & @evahaifa.bsky.social

🫂 Pre-order now: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/
Manchester University Press - Digital ecologies
Digital ecologies - Browse and buy the Paperback edition of Digital ecologies by Jonathon Turnbull
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November 13, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Excited to see cover & paperback listing of Digital Ecologies now up on the MUP site: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526188601/ - it'll be open access too (huge thanks to the University of Sheffield OA fund and University of Liège for supporting it!). Was an amazing privilege to work on!
September 23, 2024 at 1:03 PM
The first special section to mark 20 years of Cultural Politics - 'Unfamiliar Archives' - has just come out; it was a huge pleasure to work on with some of my favourite academic colleagues: read.dukeupress.edu/cultural-pol...
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Volume 20 Issue 2 | Cultural Politics | Duke University Press
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September 18, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Tom's doing really great work, so please do consider dropping him a line if this is relevant to you and you want a chat about it!
CALL FOR RESEARCH PARTICIPANTS

Hey everyone!

I'm currently recruiting participants for my PhD research project - please repost and share far and wide!

Scan the QR code below or drop me a line for more info. Thanks in advance!
March 7, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Lovely to see the editorial work at a lot of @dukepress.bsky.social journals being recognised at this year's CELJ awards - and, from a personal perspective, chuffed that Cultural Politics 19.1, Multispecies Justice, was a runner up for best special issue!
dukeupress.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/c...
January 9, 2024 at 8:10 AM
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Four new grade 8 posts in sociology and social policy at Leeds Uni. Links below!

Disability and social policy

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Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Sociology and Social Policy (Teaching and Resear...
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January 5, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Sorry for not really using this then posting something spammy, but just seen my article on lifestyle movement media, digital veganism, and ethical tensions is now out in the Journal of Cultural Economy: doi.org/10.1080/1753... I've worked on it for ages, so hopefully it's at least a bit useful!
November 28, 2023 at 12:58 PM
As I spent an overly long time drawing a very basic shark, I wanted to share this poster for animal studies / STS seminar series at Sheffield this year! Further info here: sites.google.com/sheffield.ac... Am super chuffed that some *amazing* people are coming to share their work!
October 4, 2023 at 11:50 AM
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The journal Environmental Humanities (which I co-edit) is looking for some new Associate Editors, including new editors for our Living Lexicon series. Applications due by Nov 3. See environmentalhumanities.org for more details.
#envhum
October 2, 2023 at 7:53 AM