Andrew Brandel
@aobrandel.bsky.social
Anthropologist; politics of language; translation; literature; anticolonialism; ordinary language philosophy
New book is out now:
https://utorontopress.com/9781487543693/moving-words
New book is out now:
https://utorontopress.com/9781487543693/moving-words
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I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
August 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am sad to learn of the passing of Brinkley Messick, a great scholar and ethnographer, a dear colleague with whom I worked very closely with for more than a decade. Here he is at a panel celebrating his wonderful book *Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology* in 2018.
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“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication.
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
My latest.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
“If the universities—or in this case a university press—are not willing to stand up for what is core to their mission, I don’t know what they’re doing. What’s the point?”
Extremely grateful to Maëline Le Lay for this review in Cahiers de littérature orale
journals.openedition.org/clo/14406
journals.openedition.org/clo/14406
Brandel Andrew, 2023, Moving Words. Literature, Memory, and Migrati...
L’ouvrage d’Andrew Brandel se présente comme une exploration dans tous les sens du terme. Il s’agit d’abord d’une exploration extrêmement stimulante de ce que signifie faire de la littérature aujou...
journals.openedition.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Extremely grateful to Maëline Le Lay for this review in Cahiers de littérature orale
journals.openedition.org/clo/14406
journals.openedition.org/clo/14406
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Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist
By Andrew Brandel
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June 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Re-envisioning Book Reviews — American Anthropologist
By Andrew Brandel
tinyurl.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Since everyone is online today, it seems like as good a time as any to remind everyone to send me proposals or initial ideas for book review essays for @amanthro.bsky.social. Open to all kinds of creative and critical ideas!
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4f2987rc
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R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o : The Language of Languages - Tin House
Today’s guest, novelist, storyteller, essayist, playwright, scholar, translator, and perennial front-runner for the Nobel Prize in Literature Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, is an iconic figure in postcolonial tho...
tinhouse.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:03 PM
R.I.P. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...
ICYMI here's Ngũgĩ's appearance on the show where we explored the many ways he has fought against the "normalized abnormality" of the colonial world, in language & writing, and in the world at large
tinhouse.com/podcast/ngug...
Incredibly embarrassing to cede this clearly bad faith premise about intellectual diversity. “Heterodox faculty” is a well-known, paper thin veil for anti-intellectualism. So disgraceful if unsurprising that liberal academics are giving this cover.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...
Johns Hopkins works to bolster intellectual pluralism across the university
Partnership with American Enterprise Institute scholars includes collaborative research, teaching, and graduate pipeline projects; other initiatives aim to increase heterodox faculty across the univer...
hub.jhu.edu
April 26, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Incredibly embarrassing to cede this clearly bad faith premise about intellectual diversity. “Heterodox faculty” is a well-known, paper thin veil for anti-intellectualism. So disgraceful if unsurprising that liberal academics are giving this cover.
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...
hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/21/j...
Starting the quarter with the 1843 Brief an Ruge. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s really a moment for it
March 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Starting the quarter with the 1843 Brief an Ruge. Can’t shake the feeling that it’s really a moment for it
@modernlanguage.bsky.social hmm, suddenly very concerned about democratic norms, free speech, and the urgency of the moment.
February 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
@modernlanguage.bsky.social hmm, suddenly very concerned about democratic norms, free speech, and the urgency of the moment.
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The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...
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February 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
Magazine Homepage | CUSAS
www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
Magazine Homepage | CUSAS
www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk
February 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Contributed a piece to the Lent Edition of the Cambridge Social Anthropology Magazine on the theme of Fiction/s, edited by their thoughtful and creative graduate students
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a pandemic project is now out: a special issue on prison literatures in the middle east, eds. anne-marie mcmanus & brahim el guabli docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol25... walaa quisay and i wrote a short programmatic piece on how (not) to think about prison islam. i learned a lot from the other pieces
comparative cultural studies comparative literature media studies digital humanities | Vol 25 | Iss 1
docs.lib.purdue.edu
January 21, 2025 at 4:04 PM
a pandemic project is now out: a special issue on prison literatures in the middle east, eds. anne-marie mcmanus & brahim el guabli docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/vol25... walaa quisay and i wrote a short programmatic piece on how (not) to think about prison islam. i learned a lot from the other pieces
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veena das - what even the cowherds and women know: everyday life and its promise www.academia.edu/126710656/Wh... a prospective retrospective
What Even the Cowherds and Women Know:Everyday Life and Its Promise
In this commentary I interrogate the implicit picture of anthropological knowledge as vulnerable to errors because its primary scene is taken to be an encounter with an alien society. Using a method o...
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January 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
veena das - what even the cowherds and women know: everyday life and its promise www.academia.edu/126710656/Wh... a prospective retrospective
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I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world
Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica | The Art Institute of Chicago
The first major exhibition to survey Pan-Africanism’s cultural manifestations gathers together some 350 objects, spanning the 1920s to the present, made by artists on four continents: Africa, Nor...
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December 28, 2024 at 8:23 PM
I’m not remotely unbiased but this show is so, so good—incredible to see a big museum show with this kind of conceptual coherence through hundreds of pieces from across a century and much of the world
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I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM
I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
December 2, 2024 at 12:52 AM
I've recently joined the American Anthropologist team led by the incomparable @labspeceth.bsky.social as an Associate Editor. One of our goals for this coming year is to re-envision book reviews. Starting in 2025, we will be moving toward soliciting longer, critical review essays.
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Winter issue is coming soon!
November 22, 2024 at 11:22 PM
Winter issue is coming soon!
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I'm sorry not to be at AAA this year (I have a conflict this week). Next year, I'll be back in person, but for now, drop by the Ingram table for our recent books, and check out our virtual exhibit.
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November 20, 2024 at 3:52 PM
I'm sorry not to be at AAA this year (I have a conflict this week). Next year, I'll be back in person, but for now, drop by the Ingram table for our recent books, and check out our virtual exhibit.
Can’t believe no one’s come up with a starter pack of anthropologists of literature who are into Wittgenstein
November 18, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Can’t believe no one’s come up with a starter pack of anthropologists of literature who are into Wittgenstein
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If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros.
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
Andrew Brandel on his book, Moving Words
Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader and anthropology towards many new openings. If I were to p…
campanthropology.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros.
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros.
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
Andrew Brandel on his book, Moving Words
Setrag Manoukian: Your fantastic book is rich in both stories and concepts–both of Berlin and from Berlin–detouring the reader and anthropology towards many new openings. If I were to p…
campanthropology.org
November 15, 2024 at 3:47 PM
If anyone is looking for some distraction today, I had an incredibly enjoyable conversation with Setrag Manoukian about my @utpress book for @CaMPanthros.
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
campanthropology.org/2024/11/04/a...
Incredibly grateful that my book Moving Words received an honorable mention for the DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies @thegsa.bsky.social
www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadg...
www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadg...
DAAD/GSA book prize, literature & cultural studies | German Studies Association
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September 29, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Incredibly grateful that my book Moving Words received an honorable mention for the DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Book in Literature and Cultural Studies @thegsa.bsky.social
www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadg...
www.thegsa.org/prizes/daadg...