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Anthropology and Social Change
@anthciis.bsky.social
Ⓐctivist Ⓐnthropology MAs + PhDs
🌍 Journal: https://jwsr.pitt.edu/
📕 Books: https://blog.pmpress.org/kairos/
🏴‍☠️ Lectures: https://www.ciis.edu/news/david-graeber-memorial-lectures
Join an academic department with a distinctive commitment to solidarity with populations and struggle, critiques of capitalist and colonial dominance, and the nation state! Graduate empowered to help build a better world we all know as possible! 2/2
June 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist Anthropology? Sign up for the Info Session, June 30, 5pm Pacific Time: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... 1/2
Anthropology Degrees - Info Session 6/30/2025 | CIIS
Attend an info session on June 30, 2025 to learn about the Anthropology & Social Change online Ph.D. and M.A. degree programs at CIIS in San Francisco.
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June 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
…readings but include multiple modes of engagement that reflect a commitment to learning outside systems of domination. This will most certainly include some unlearning as well.” 8/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
…on anti-blackness, The Standing Rock curriculum, and recent material from the Abolitionist Collective, and others. Students will also research and produce curricula that are relevant for communities where they are located. Note that curricula are not limited to… 7/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Whether or not the university education system on the whole will reinvent itself accordingly, we can draw on its resources to learn with and contribute to community based political education. In this seminar we will read such existing curricula as We Charge Genocide Again… 6/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
…intervening in the university curriculum was to save lives. We could say that higher education is again (or still) in crisis, a crisis of legitimacy and relevance for large portions of the world population. 5/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
From the Future Pedagogies Course:
“Nesbit Crutchfield, member of the 1968 San Francisco State Universitys student strike which led to the creation of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies university departments in the United States, recalls that their primary reason for… 4/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
If higher education is in crisis, we take that as an opportunity to shed destructive assumptions and to re-imagine horizons of possibility from the ground up. Join our info session to learn more! 3/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Sign up for our next info session, April 15, 5:30pm pacific time: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr...
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Join a department-wide commitment to solidarity with populations, training in theory generated by social movements, and a singular emphasis on nonstate spaces. 2/8
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April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Got a political project with populations in struggle? Interested in a low-residency MA+PhD that seeks to unlearn as well as to learn, pushing outside the limitations and norms of higher education as imagined within a colonial and capitalist framework? 1/8
April 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
From our course, Alternative Economic Systems “This course offers a critical examination of economic possibilities, alternative production systems, and subjectivities that can be considered “postcapitalist” in that they strive to transcend what is conceivable within the current socioeconomic order.”
April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist Anthropology? Sign up for the April 15, 5:30pm Info Session to learn more! www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... Train in ethnography with populations in struggle, graduate with the tools to help make a better world
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April 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
From our course, ANTH 6111 Migration, Borders, and Citizenship.

“This course situates the migration crisis within a global frame, and attends to migrant and refugee struggles, showing how the modern border is an important elements of the worldwide regulation of human mobility.”
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Interested in our low-residency MA+PhD in activist anthropology, which centers anticapitalist methodologies? Sign up here for the April 15 5:30pm Pacific Info Session: www.ciis.edu/events/anthr... Train in ethnography with populations in struggle!
https://ciis.edu/events/anthrop…
April 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM