Letizia Letha Bonanno
@letha-b.bsky.social
Social anthropologist doing ethnography and disegnetti about industrial labour and steel plants in Italy&Romania. Punk HC/ Bande dessinée. MSCA PF @univie.ac.at
Co-Editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Visual editor @otherwisemag.bsky.social
Co-Editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Visual editor @otherwisemag.bsky.social
Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
Where Have All the Workers Gone? Re-Imagining Labor in the Post-Pandemic World
This Hot Spots series zooms in on the images and re-evaluations of work/labor and changing position of workers in the aftermath of the pandemic. ...
www.culanth.org
February 1, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
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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...
www.culanth.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:33 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/...
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New book officially out 🚨
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
An Introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought
Over the past three decades, Italian thought has emerged as a major field within continental philosophy. But what are the latest developments since Italian theo…
www.bloomsbury.com
January 22, 2026 at 10:41 AM
New book officially out 🚨
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
If you ever wanted to know what Italian philosophy has been up to in the last 10-20 years, look no further. “An introduction to Contemporary Italian Thought” is out today with chapters on cyberfascism, technology & work, pandemic biopolitics, and posthumanism.
Yes - I got that but thanks for the clarification!
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Yes - I got that but thanks for the clarification!
Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates. But to truly stop the damage requires going further: it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make safe
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 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Recent polling shows the majority disapprove of how ICE operates. But to truly stop the damage requires going further: it means eradicating the security logic that ever made people think that arming a secret police on an ethnic cleansing mission could ever make safe
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'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Use of fixed-term posts ‘stifling more critical research’
Scholars with short contracts seen as more likely to favour doing ‘safer’ work, with ‘serious ramifications’ for their disciplines
www.timeshighereducation.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:08 AM
'“Embedded precarity” in higher education is diminishing research quality as staff on short-term contracts favour “safer” work to secure future employment, according to the author of a new report.'
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
Royal Geographical Society maps important connections between precarity and research topics. 1/3
“Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement “
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
Not All Women | Dayna Tortorici
The point of all this cataloging — which is less schematic in Lewis’s presentation than my summary suggests — is to help us recognize traces of enemy feminism when we encounter them in the present. An...
www.nplusonemag.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
“Feminism is the political theory and practice that struggles to free all women. Anything less than this vision of total freedom is not feminism, but merely female self-aggrandizement “
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/rev...
by the way, ANUAC is the journal of the Italian Association of Cultural Anthropology!
January 13, 2026 at 7:39 AM
by the way, ANUAC is the journal of the Italian Association of Cultural Anthropology!
Please consider sending an abstract for the ANUAC special issue “The anthropology of prediction:Knowledge, divination&algorithmic futures” edited by Maria Spagnoli and Giuseppe Tateo. Drop the editors a short abstract of 300 words by 1 February 2026.
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)
January 13, 2026 at 7:34 AM
Please consider sending an abstract for the ANUAC special issue “The anthropology of prediction:Knowledge, divination&algorithmic futures” edited by Maria Spagnoli and Giuseppe Tateo. Drop the editors a short abstract of 300 words by 1 February 2026.
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)
See you published in 2026 (or perhaps perished)
@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026
CfP closes on 26 Jan 26
See you in Poznan!
#anthropology
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026
CfP closes on 26 Jan 26
See you in Poznan!
#anthropology
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
The editorial collective of @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social and the #Anthropology_of_Labour network invite contributions exploring how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and giving rise to new forms of resistance and solidarity #EASA2026
@easainfo.bsky.social
@easainfo.bsky.social
P159: The Work of Resistance: Possibilities for Labour in Polarising Worlds [Anthropology of Labour (AoL)]
This panel sponsored by the Anthropology of Labour Network and the journal Anthropology of Work Review will explore how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and givin...
nomadit.co.uk
January 6, 2026 at 5:49 PM
@anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026
CfP closes on 26 Jan 26
See you in Poznan!
#anthropology
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
Editorial Collective invites contributions to P 159 “The work of resistance: possibilities of labour in polarizing worlds” at #EASA2026
CfP closes on 26 Jan 26
See you in Poznan!
#anthropology
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
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The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Venezuelan president Maduro captured and flown out of country following ‘large scale’ US attack, Trump says – live
US president says ‘the United States of America has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela’
www.theguardian.com
January 3, 2026 at 10:06 AM
The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...
Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 1, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Happy to share this open access article I co-authored with Dimitrios Theodossopolous
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“On the Compositional Relationship of Text and Image in Graphic Anthropology” anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
“Handling her Italian, imagining the language as a peach or a fig, she felt the risk of overdoing it, of spilling juice all over the place. As a translator himself, Pavese must have known this feeling”
Claudia Durastanti
granta.com/obituary-of-...
Claudia Durastanti
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Obituary of a Soft Porn Translator
‘Using “ostrica” for vagina sounded bad in Italian, not representative enough, so clitorises became pearls. They were gone now too. Sex had once been a jewelry store, a jewelry store built on top of a...
granta.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:29 AM
“Handling her Italian, imagining the language as a peach or a fig, she felt the risk of overdoing it, of spilling juice all over the place. As a translator himself, Pavese must have known this feeling”
Claudia Durastanti
granta.com/obituary-of-...
Claudia Durastanti
granta.com/obituary-of-...
“Research had long lost its luster for me, though I appreciated the lifestyle. Research was the game I had to play to maintain this lifestyle. Exciting, it was not, but sometimes I’d enjoyed aspects of it. Now it felt insufferable.”
more than you ever wanted to know about my midlife crisis 🫣
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/pleasur...
www.roifaineantpress.com/post/pleasur...
"Pleasure and Desire in Mid Life" by Hadas Weiss
Pleasure and Desire in MidlifeIn November of last year, I was bubbly with excitement about my life. By December, I was a weepy, barely functional mess. Nothing changed over that month. The excitement ...
www.roifaineantpress.com
December 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“Research had long lost its luster for me, though I appreciated the lifestyle. Research was the game I had to play to maintain this lifestyle. Exciting, it was not, but sometimes I’d enjoyed aspects of it. Now it felt insufferable.”
Les deux maîtres de BD dialoguent dans Gaza en ruines, reviennent sur le 7 octobre 2023 et la réplique disproportionnée de Nethanyahou. Avec à l’arrivée un constat amer : peut-on encore espérer une solution juste plutôt que finale ?
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/13...
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/13...
BD : Joe Sacco & Art Spiegelman « Never again !... and again… and again » - Regarder l’émission complète | ARTE
La galerie Martel expose les planches et les dessins préparatoires de « Never Again », une bande dessinée de trois pages écrites à quatre mains par Joe Sacco et Art Spiegelman. Dans celle-ci, les deux...
www.arte.tv
December 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Les deux maîtres de BD dialoguent dans Gaza en ruines, reviennent sur le 7 octobre 2023 et la réplique disproportionnée de Nethanyahou. Avec à l’arrivée un constat amer : peut-on encore espérer une solution juste plutôt que finale ?
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/13...
www.arte.tv/fr/videos/13...
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Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.
Book Review: A Thousand Tiny Cuts - Society for the Anthropology of Work
A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh (2023)
anthrowork.org
December 18, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Check out this book review in Exertions (SAW’s short-form web publication): Radhika Moral's review of A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security Across the Bangladesh-India Borderlands, by Sahana Ghosh. If you would like to review a book, please reach out to our editors.
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Rounding out our list of most-read articles published in 2025 is Jose Leonardo Santos's "'Eliminate anthropology': Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse" #Anthropology
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Rounding out our list of most-read articles published in 2025 is Jose Leonardo Santos's "'Eliminate anthropology': Attitudes toward social science in the public discourse" #Anthropology
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
doi.org/10.1111/aman...
And I had the immense privilege to illustrate the book cover 🍉🍉🍉
#OpenAccess! MIGRATION AS ANCHORAGE: Ethnography of a Palestinian Family in London by Michelle Obeid has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/3KaYESJ
#MigrationStudies #Anthropology #ConflictStudies
Find out more here: bit.ly/3KaYESJ
#MigrationStudies #Anthropology #ConflictStudies
December 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And I had the immense privilege to illustrate the book cover 🍉🍉🍉
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Check out @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Anthropology of Work Review's most read article of 2025: “Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness & the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work @anikakoenig.bsky.social & Caroline Meier zu Biesen anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article is part of the special issue “Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work”, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksc...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Check out @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Anthropology of Work Review's most read article of 2025: “Activism Was a Survival Strategy”: Chronic Illness & the Power of Endometriosis Activism as Work @anikakoenig.bsky.social & Caroline Meier zu Biesen anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review.
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).
Books Available for Review - Society for the Anthropology of Work
If you would like to review any of these or other work-related books, please contact Dr. Samuel Weeks at samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu. Descriptions can be found
anthrowork.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:54 AM
If you would like to review a book for Exertions, SAW’s web-based publication, here is the list of titles available for review.
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).
Contact editors Sam Weeks (samuel.weeks@jefferson.edu) and Thea Mercer (theaproxy@gmail.com).
The editorial collective of @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social and the #Anthropology_of_Labour network invite contributions exploring how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and giving rise to new forms of resistance and solidarity #EASA2026
@easainfo.bsky.social
@easainfo.bsky.social
P159: The Work of Resistance: Possibilities for Labour in Polarising Worlds [Anthropology of Labour (AoL)]
This panel sponsored by the Anthropology of Labour Network and the journal Anthropology of Work Review will explore how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and givin...
nomadit.co.uk
December 12, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The editorial collective of @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social and the #Anthropology_of_Labour network invite contributions exploring how different polarisations in the world today are both reconfiguring work and giving rise to new forms of resistance and solidarity #EASA2026
@easainfo.bsky.social
@easainfo.bsky.social
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Contro i DDL antisemitismo e contro la trasformazione della definizione di antisemitismo dell'IHRA in legge. Se sei un3 lavoratric3 o dottorand3 nell'universitá italiana, firma il nostro appello.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
December 12, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Contro i DDL antisemitismo e contro la trasformazione della definizione di antisemitismo dell'IHRA in legge. Se sei un3 lavoratric3 o dottorand3 nell'universitá italiana, firma il nostro appello.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
What constitutes the metric of exhaustion?As Palestinians broadcast the incommensurable devastation of their lifeworlds, their exhaustion can be situated within the longue durée of the Nakba, an ongoing project of displacement, fragmentation, systemic severing of the Palestinian body from its land.
Palestinian Repairs - Samir Harb et al. - The Exhausted
What constitutes the metric of exhaustion? Where might we locate its ground zero?
www.e-flux.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What constitutes the metric of exhaustion?As Palestinians broadcast the incommensurable devastation of their lifeworlds, their exhaustion can be situated within the longue durée of the Nakba, an ongoing project of displacement, fragmentation, systemic severing of the Palestinian body from its land.
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🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
The Emotional Labor Behind AI Intimacy, by Michael Geoffrey Asia.
Imagine confiding your most private fantasies to what you believe is an unfeeling algorithm that cannot judge or remember. Now imagine that on the other side of that conversation is a man sitting in a...
data-workers.org
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
🚨NEW INQUIRY!
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
Imagine sharing your private fantasies with what you believe is a bot that cannot judge or remember. Just that, on the other side, is a man in a one-room home in Nairobi, pretending to be an AI companion.
That man is Michael, and this is his story: data-workers.org/michael/
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Lots of amazing looking panels on themes of work and labour...
📣The call for papers and labs for EASA2026 Poznań is now open. Submit your abstracts until 26 January 2026!
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
More info in the comments.
#easa2026 #anthropology #conference #ApplyNow #anthropologist
December 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Lots of amazing looking panels on themes of work and labour...