Ben Hildred
@bhildred.bsky.social
Anthropologist of Sport at Durham. Director of INSA (sportanthro.bsky.social). Researching sport & social change. Cricket & Reconciliation in Sri Lanka.
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v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...
Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation of Leisure in Trincomalee - Eidolon Journal
by Vindhya Buthpitiya This essay by Vindhya Buthpitiya is the result of her research supported by the inaugural Eidolon Grant, awarded in 2024. Studio East: Everyday Photography and the Militarisation...
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September 8, 2025 at 5:09 PM
v happy to be working on new projects, in ‘new’ island places, fortutiously intersecting in one of my favourite towns, Trincomalee: on the conflated histories/present of militarisation & leisure in Ceylon/Sri Lanka + the making of place through photography everydayphotography.org/journal/stud...
Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
My chat about Cricket and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka with @bhildred.bsky.social & Nick Brookes:
youtu.be/zgqJHFawN7k
youtu.be/zgqJHFawN7k
Can Cricket help Sri Lanka on it's path to Reconciliation
YouTube video by Cricket Smash
youtu.be
August 18, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Huge thanks to Mark & Nick - I really enjoyed chatting to them about my research last week!
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
Conversations like these remind me that working in Sri Lanka was an honour, and get me excited about the future of cricket on the island. If anyone wants to learn more, get in touch.
I'm really happy to announce our new edited volume, Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age!
You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290.
Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.
You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290.
Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.
July 16, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I'm really happy to announce our new edited volume, Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age!
You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290.
Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.
You can order the book here: vernonpress.com/book/2290.
Educators, please consider adding it to your reading lists and ordering to your libraries.
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Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
Disney Reportedly Planning Full Reboot of the INDIANA JONES Franchise
It looks like Indiana Jones might actually be headed for the reboot treatment. According to a recent report from DisInsider , Disney and Lucasfilm are considering a full relaunch of the iconic adventure...
buff.ly
July 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Indiana Jones will be played by a rotating cast of three adjuncts who answer to two different associate deans
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This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
July 1, 2025 at 4:45 PM
This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)
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Together with @bhildred.bsky.social, @arthurgaillard.bsky.social & others we shared insights from the book - I talked a bit about my chapter 'Doing Vulnerability in the Digital Age: On Researching Discrimination in Football Fandom'. Curious about the book? Get it here: vernonpress.com/book/2290 3/3
Anthropology in Sporting Worlds - Edited Volume
Knowledge, Collaboration, and Representation in the Digital Age
vernonpress.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Together with @bhildred.bsky.social, @arthurgaillard.bsky.social & others we shared insights from the book - I talked a bit about my chapter 'Doing Vulnerability in the Digital Age: On Researching Discrimination in Football Fandom'. Curious about the book? Get it here: vernonpress.com/book/2290 3/3
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Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
Support Needed for SAPIENS Magazine and its Staff Union!
We, SAPIENS staff, write to our supporters with an urgent request for support. We were informed this week that our funder, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, may choose to close SAPIENS Anthropology Magazine...
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May 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Help save SAPIENS magazine! The Wenner-Gren Foundation, our funder, may decide to close the magazine in the coming weeks. But the Board of Trustees hasn't made its final decision. A letter from you could help! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...
First things thrown in over a year, and in an awesome new studio - turns out most of the Anth department are potters…
March 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
First things thrown in over a year, and in an awesome new studio - turns out most of the Anth department are potters…
Really excited to promote our 2nd #sportanthro Conference, coming this summer in Belgium. The CFP is open till the 19th March.
If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.
If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.
February 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Really excited to promote our 2nd #sportanthro Conference, coming this summer in Belgium. The CFP is open till the 19th March.
If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.
If you’d like to learn more, go to www.sportanthro.org/join to join our mailing list.
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We're extremely excited to share the Call for Papers for our 2nd International conference, held this year at KU Leuven, Belgium, on 5-6 June. Please share widely! To find out more, visit www.sportanthro.org/conference
February 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
We're extremely excited to share the Call for Papers for our 2nd International conference, held this year at KU Leuven, Belgium, on 5-6 June. Please share widely! To find out more, visit www.sportanthro.org/conference
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As nice as it is to see you all full of energy and announcing new projects, I need some representation for those of us who have crawled into 2025 unwell, slow and uninspired. My year will be starting properly next week thank you 🙏
January 9, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As nice as it is to see you all full of energy and announcing new projects, I need some representation for those of us who have crawled into 2025 unwell, slow and uninspired. My year will be starting properly next week thank you 🙏
Merry Christmas to me, for finally finishing the edits on this! I would not wish the task of indexing a book on my worst enemy.
'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro
'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro
December 20, 2024 at 4:45 PM
Merry Christmas to me, for finally finishing the edits on this! I would not wish the task of indexing a book on my worst enemy.
'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro
'Anthropology in Sporting Worlds: Knowledge, Collaboration and Representation in the Digital Age' will be published in 2025 by Vernon Press. #academicsky #sportanthro
When did it just become a *thing* to watch videos without headphones? Trains are full of people flicking through tiktok these days... one guy was watching a full football match
December 10, 2024 at 8:09 PM
When did it just become a *thing* to watch videos without headphones? Trains are full of people flicking through tiktok these days... one guy was watching a full football match
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Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.
avant-garde anthropology article composed entirely from the first sentences of other anthropology texts alert: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs ....
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 6, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Pointless. Hilarious. Bizarrely interesting.
This had almost passed me by, but it seems the recent #LKA U-19s games are the first time that two players from Jaffna have been in the national team at the same time?
Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.
Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.
December 3, 2024 at 6:00 PM
This had almost passed me by, but it seems the recent #LKA U-19s games are the first time that two players from Jaffna have been in the national team at the same time?
Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.
Really great sign of cricket's growing health in the north if so and credit to those developing the game there.
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To be very clear, as a teacher I don't want "time-saving AI tools."
I want time.
I want time.
November 29, 2024 at 4:52 AM
To be very clear, as a teacher I don't want "time-saving AI tools."
I want time.
I want time.
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Published by the @acscricket.bsky.social, this looks a good read from Tony Watts. Certainly one for those of us who enjoy #cricket and how #socialclass has influenced the game.
November 24, 2024 at 12:58 PM
Published by the @acscricket.bsky.social, this looks a good read from Tony Watts. Certainly one for those of us who enjoy #cricket and how #socialclass has influenced the game.
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Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Anthropology: The Critical Cup?: Hegemony and Resistance in Drinking Vessel Practices
Optimist: The cup is half full.
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
Pessimist: The cup is half empty.
Historian: The cup, 1789-1914
November 24, 2024 at 12:44 AM
Optimist: The cup is half full
Pessimist: The cup is half empty
Anthropology: The Critical Cup?: Hegemony and Resistance in Drinking Vessel Practices
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We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
November 23, 2024 at 10:33 AM
We have a properly warped perception of how much various sectors contribute to the UK economy. The fishing industry, which is constantly in the news and to whom politicians of all rosettes regularly play, adds less to GDP than Games Workshop
It's that time of year.
(Cred is the inimitable Bjenny Montero)
(Cred is the inimitable Bjenny Montero)
November 19, 2024 at 8:49 AM
It's that time of year.
(Cred is the inimitable Bjenny Montero)
(Cred is the inimitable Bjenny Montero)
The starter packs have been *so* helpful for getting my feed going. Looking forward to having something like a real academic twitter again!
Since the current Anthropology/Archaeology Starter Pack is full, I have started a second one focusing on active public communicators. Come see us on our accounts or on the Anthropology/Archaeology Feed! 🏺
go.bsky.app/3MxCYy5
go.bsky.app/3MxCYy5
November 16, 2024 at 4:01 PM
The starter packs have been *so* helpful for getting my feed going. Looking forward to having something like a real academic twitter again!
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October 20, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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glad to see the cricket shitposting community moving over here from twitter
November 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
glad to see the cricket shitposting community moving over here from twitter