David Henig
@davidhenig.bsky.social
Czechoslovakia;companion species to a border terrier; AnthroHistory; @UtrechtUniProf; editor #History&Anthropology; writes on war ecologies@military waste; #polycrisis; planetary thought; agnotology@indeterminacy; coffee@jazz addict; @HFGuggenheim scholar
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LURKING COLD WAR: Life Through Historical Communion by Stavroula Pipyrou has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/48rPQ5d
Review by @davidhenig.bsky.social
#PoliticalAnthropology #ConflictStudies #History #Anthropology
Find out more here: bit.ly/48rPQ5d
Review by @davidhenig.bsky.social
#PoliticalAnthropology #ConflictStudies #History #Anthropology
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
LURKING COLD WAR: Life Through Historical Communion by Stavroula Pipyrou has now been published!
Find out more here: bit.ly/48rPQ5d
Review by @davidhenig.bsky.social
#PoliticalAnthropology #ConflictStudies #History #Anthropology
Find out more here: bit.ly/48rPQ5d
Review by @davidhenig.bsky.social
#PoliticalAnthropology #ConflictStudies #History #Anthropology
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“In the long run, the abrupt withdrawal or decrease of U.S. support could permanently undermine UXO programs in the region if alternative funding and programs fail to fill the void," said Sera Koulabdara, the chief executive of Legacies of War.
theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...
theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...
The Vietnam War Is Still Killing People, 50 Years Later
Unexploded U.S. shells killed four people in February alone, after the Trump administration cut funding to demining efforts.
theintercept.com
May 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“In the long run, the abrupt withdrawal or decrease of U.S. support could permanently undermine UXO programs in the region if alternative funding and programs fail to fill the void," said Sera Koulabdara, the chief executive of Legacies of War.
theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...
theintercept.com/2025/04/30/v...
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🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊
May 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
🦊 Competition time! To celebrate the beginning of summer, I'm giving away a signed edition of my Reynard the Fox, a Fox for All Seasons journal, packets of Dorset biscuits & tea to honour my other main character Old Fox & a charming & fluffy fox companion! Simply like, repost & follow to enter! 🌷🦊
#War is everywhere .... "Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed ways. The willingness to describe fierce disagreement in terms of the metaphors of war makes the very existence of real wars seem more natural, more inevitable, more a part of the human condition. 1/
April 16, 2025 at 10:07 AM
#War is everywhere .... "Metaphors influence the mind in many unnoticed ways. The willingness to describe fierce disagreement in terms of the metaphors of war makes the very existence of real wars seem more natural, more inevitable, more a part of the human condition. 1/
March 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Finally visited PRE-ARCHITECTURES exhibition and got to see @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @davidwengrow.bsky.social & the Nebelivka Project - mind blowing work #prearchitecture #ixelles
February 25, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Finally visited PRE-ARCHITECTURES exhibition and got to see @forensicarchi.bsky.social & @davidwengrow.bsky.social & the Nebelivka Project - mind blowing work #prearchitecture #ixelles
Two of my favourite books spotted together during a 🐕 walk in #Brussels #changingthecourseofhistory @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
February 20, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Two of my favourite books spotted together during a 🐕 walk in #Brussels #changingthecourseofhistory @davidwengrow.bsky.social @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social
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He met with an ethnosupremacist two decades after the Bosnian genocide. 7 years later Trump tasked him with dismantling USAID. In one way or another it almost always goes back to them hating Bosnians and/or Palestinians
Peter Marocco, tasked by Trump with dismantling USAID, secretly met Milorad Dodik in 2018, going against US policy, per @propublica.org. "He had it in for Bosnia,” a former USAID official said, “and I didn’t know why at the time.”
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
www.propublica.org/article/usai...
Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign ...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2025 at 9:10 AM
He met with an ethnosupremacist two decades after the Bosnian genocide. 7 years later Trump tasked him with dismantling USAID. In one way or another it almost always goes back to them hating Bosnians and/or Palestinians
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I've been thinking about intersections of historical record, material culture, and family silence and part of it is now an essay here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...
The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans
Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:34 PM
I've been thinking about intersections of historical record, material culture, and family silence and part of it is now an essay here: www.womenwritethebalkans.com/essays/the-w...
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Our editor, Ana Sekulić, delves into her collection of heirloom clothing, unraveling stories of craftsmanship, labor, and impact of modernity.
"Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er
"Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er
The Weight of Wool — Women* Write the Balkans
Ottoman and Habsburg coins turned into jewelry; the remnants of successive empires worn on the women’s chests. In some cases, the đerdans are so elaborate that they almost entirely occlude their weare...
www.womenwritethebalkans.com
December 10, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Our editor, Ana Sekulić, delves into her collection of heirloom clothing, unraveling stories of craftsmanship, labor, and impact of modernity.
"Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er
"Somewhere along the way, that unquestionable link to history was broken by progress, preponderance of synthetic fabrics, and violence." tinyurl.com/5eaa75er
‘the work of understanding, unlike the urge to know, requires an endless commitment to the activity of thinking; it requires one to always be ready to begin again’ … couldn’t start my sabbatical with a better book @samantharhill.bsky.social #consolationofphilosophy #thinkingsolitude
December 10, 2024 at 10:49 AM
‘the work of understanding, unlike the urge to know, requires an endless commitment to the activity of thinking; it requires one to always be ready to begin again’ … couldn’t start my sabbatical with a better book @samantharhill.bsky.social #consolationofphilosophy #thinkingsolitude
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On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
What Remains
4columns.org
December 10, 2024 at 7:48 AM
On the poetry of Hannah Arendt, for 4Columns. 4columns.org/dillon-brian...
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Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
CALL FOR ARTICLES 📣
Special issue of Southeastern Europe
"Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures"
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, and @katkusic.bsky.social
Abstracts and bios submission: by 2025/01/31
bit.ly/CFPPolEcoSEE
Share widely!
Special issue of Southeastern Europe
"Political Ecologies of Southeastern Europe: Legacies, Transformations, and Futures"
Guest editors: Dženeta Hodžić, Ognjen Kojanić, and @katkusic.bsky.social
Abstracts and bios submission: by 2025/01/31
bit.ly/CFPPolEcoSEE
Share widely!
December 9, 2024 at 1:05 PM
Super excited to share a CfP on political ecologies in SEE 🌱
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
Our guiding q's are: What do the political ecologies of SEE look like? What are the legacies that the field draws on, how is the field transforming, and what are its possible futures?
Get in touch if you have an idea and please share!
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Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below
The Environmental Humanities November 2024 issue came out a week ago, but I haven't had a chance to post a thread on it yet! I wanted to bring this massive amount of new #envhum scholarship to your attention.
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
A thread...
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
A thread...
December 2, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Really happy to be in such wonderful company in Environmental Humanities #envhum! Huge thanks to @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social and Franklin Ginn for their guidance and patience throughout the editorial process. Thread on the full issue below
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"What does it mean for an archive or collection to provide open digital access to materials representing violated subjects who did not necessarily consent to being documented?"
--Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
--Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
The Crying Child : On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons | Current Anthropology: Vol 61, No S22
This article sketches key concerns surrounding the digital reproduction of enslaved and colonized subjects held in cultural heritage collections. It centralizes one photograph of a crying Afro-Caribbe...
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 1, 2024 at 11:23 AM
"What does it mean for an archive or collection to provide open digital access to materials representing violated subjects who did not necessarily consent to being documented?"
--Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
--Temi Odumosu, "The Crying Child"
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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Our new article is out now: "Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction" (open access). It takes a critical #envhum approach to biological research on animal cultures and asks how humanities scholars might contribute to these discussions in a time of extinctions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
December 1, 2024 at 4:51 AM
Our new article is out now: "Animal Cultures at the Edge of Extinction" (open access). It takes a critical #envhum approach to biological research on animal cultures and asks how humanities scholars might contribute to these discussions in a time of extinctions.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Excited to present bits of my new written material at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Brussels. The talk will cover everything from techno-mushrooms, bombturbation, reworlded craters, to guerilla demining. #anthropology #multispecies #environment #semiotics
December 1, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Excited to present bits of my new written material at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Brussels. The talk will cover everything from techno-mushrooms, bombturbation, reworlded craters, to guerilla demining. #anthropology #multispecies #environment #semiotics
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The burnout and administrivia that dominates the life of faculty these days can be measured by the length of this complete syllabus from my mother’s class in 1988.
Might have taken her five minutes to write.
Might have taken her five minutes to write.
November 27, 2024 at 6:13 AM
The burnout and administrivia that dominates the life of faculty these days can be measured by the length of this complete syllabus from my mother’s class in 1988.
Might have taken her five minutes to write.
Might have taken her five minutes to write.
very sad news about the passing of Thomas Hylland Eriksen😢#anthropology
November 27, 2024 at 9:22 PM
very sad news about the passing of Thomas Hylland Eriksen😢#anthropology
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Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
November 26, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Very excited to share that the journal where I serve as an Associate Editor has arrived on BlueSky. Welcome American Ethnological Society / American Ethnologist! @amethno.bsky.social
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
#AnthroSky #Anthropology #AmericanEthnologist
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Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.
Plastic waste is everywhere. Countries have one more chance to agree on a solution
Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Negotiations over a U.N. treaty to cut plastics have been bogged down. Environmental groups blame the oil and gas industry.
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French organizations Carbone 4 + ECF launch this essential report on "imported emissions".
It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate.
www.carbone4.com/files/Public...
It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate.
www.carbone4.com/files/Public...
www.carbone4.com
November 20, 2024 at 8:07 AM
French organizations Carbone 4 + ECF launch this essential report on "imported emissions".
It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate.
www.carbone4.com/files/Public...
It's essential because a significant part of global emissions are embedded in trade and interdepencies, raising questions about responsibilities and partnerships for climate.
www.carbone4.com/files/Public...