Elise Hjalmarson
@elihjal.bsky.social
Sharpening the tender point of hope ✏️
Anthropologist + Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley
SNF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow | Co-convenor of AnthroMob
📚 Book reviews editor at @allegralab.bsky.social
Anthropologist + Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley
SNF Postdoc.Mobility Fellow | Co-convenor of AnthroMob
📚 Book reviews editor at @allegralab.bsky.social
My hometown recently became North America's third UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. It receives thousands of migrant farmworkers each year, who struggle to put food on their own tables. Where's the accountability? In a statement released today, Rama Okanagan calls for accountability.
No Honour in UNESCO Designation Built on Farmworker Exploitation
On International Migrants’ Day, migrant justice collective Rama Okanagan responds to Kelowna’s designation as UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy: “Where is the honour in the rampant abuse of farmwo…
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December 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
My hometown recently became North America's third UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy. It receives thousands of migrant farmworkers each year, who struggle to put food on their own tables. Where's the accountability? In a statement released today, Rama Okanagan calls for accountability.
Traveling to Cuba today and carrying more than usual, thanks to the incredible show of solidarity in response to my call for support with bringing urgent essential goods to the island. More here: www.elisehjalmarson/solidarity-w...
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Traveling to Cuba today and carrying more than usual, thanks to the incredible show of solidarity in response to my call for support with bringing urgent essential goods to the island. More here: www.elisehjalmarson/solidarity-w...
A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale
September 25, 2025 at 9:10 AM
A thoughtful welcome for all of us arriving in Matera for SIAC ✊🌹 the writing is on the wall… Convegno di la Società Italiana di Antropologia Culturale
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Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social
Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture - Allegra Lab
Matan Kaminer. 2024. Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Matan Kaminer’s new book is
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September 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Newly published: In his review of Matan Kaminer's 2024 book on the Thai farmworkers toiling on Israeli vegetable farms, Paul Kohlbry suggests that the book has much to teach us "about the workings of settler colonialism and capitalist domination in the world today." @stanfordpress.bsky.social
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In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"—a sobering reality that stands the test of time.
Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire - Allegra Lab
Yael Berda. 2022. Colonial Bureaucracy and Contemporary Citizenship: Legacies of Race and Emergency in the Former British Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge
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September 16, 2025 at 7:34 AM
In this succinct and timely review, @marinegauthier.bsky.social's engages with Yael Berda's new book at the intersection of empire, borders, and colonial administration to show that "citizenship in postcolonial states functions as a mobility regime"—a sobering reality that stands the test of time.
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Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth - Allegra Lab
Andreas Malm. 2024. The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth. London. New York: Verso Urgency is the word that best captures
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September 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Peruse the latest book review in our series on Settler Colonialism, Borders, and Empire: our author engages with Andreas Malm's conception of technological genocide in The Destruction of Palestine is the Destruction of the Earth @versobooks.bsky.social
It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.
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September 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's Tuesday, and this week has already been a blur: yesterday, I travelled from the orchards above Lausanne to Brussels, and tomorrow, Sonja Ruud and I are off to The Hague to co-convene @easainfo.bsky.social's 2025 AnthroMob workshop! It's hybrid and all the details are on our event website here.
Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
AnthroMob 2025 Workshop Registration
Thank you for registering to attend the 2025 AnthroMob Workshop, "Feelings on the Move: (Im)mobilities, Embodiment and Emotions," in The Hague from 11-12 September. The workshop is organized by the EA...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Calling anthropologists working at the intersection of mobilities, emotions, affect, and the body! Join us online or in person Sept 11-12 in The Hague for AnthroMob's biannual workshop. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social
Readers familiar with events in Gaza will not find surprises in Didier Fassin's text, yet "there is is a cumulative power to re-reading a sustained reconstruction of our sordid present", writes Mona El-Ghobashy in her review of Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza.
Their Life Has Been Taken; Their Death is Denied - Allegra Lab
Didier Fassin. 2024. Moral Abdication: How the World Failed to Stop the Destruction of Gaza. London: Verso. Israel’s nearly two-year assault on Gaza and
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June 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A poignant review of Didier Fassin's damning new book was published this morning on @allegralab.bsky.social by Mona El-Ghobashy @versobooks.bsky.social
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New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world...
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Collective Thinking, Collective Action - Allegra Lab
Our students and colleagues often raise the question of what ‘resistance’ should look like in the current moment (in case this is being read in the future
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May 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
New editorial out in which we, @allegralab.bsky.social editorial collective, discuss what collective action should look like in today's authoritarian world...
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Clare Maxwell engages with @areejsabbaghkhoury.bsky.social's compelling new book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba in this timely review 🇵🇸 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!
Colonizing Palestine: The zionist left and the making of the palestinian nakba - Allegra Lab
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press.
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May 5, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Clare Maxwell engages with @areejsabbaghkhoury.bsky.social's compelling new book Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba in this timely review 🇵🇸 @stanfordpress.bsky.social
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!
as part of our series on settler colonialism, borders, and empire!
This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...
Workers Can Say Goodbye to Heat Protections Under Trump
For years, David Keeling oversaw health and safety operations at companies where workers fell ill and died in extreme heat. If confirmed as the head of OSHA, he could help their campaign to block fede...
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May 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
This is an appointment to watch like hawks. The head of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration will decide what kinds of heat protections labor merits in regions with skyrocketing temperatures, and summer is fast approaching...
In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
Socialism Is For Humanity
The ultimate aim of socialism is as simple as it is beautiful: the freeing of all people from domination, replacing stunted dreams and alienation with human flourishing and boundless creativity.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In the words of Rosa Luxemburg: "To be a human being means to joyfully toss your entire life 'on the giant scales of fate' if it must be so, and at the same time to rejoice in the brightness of every day and the beauty of every cloud..."
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Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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April 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Hot off the press at Allegra Lab, @andreaboccardi.bsky.social 's review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book on the entanglement of settler colonial practices between Japan and Brazil refutes the Manichean divide between the West and the Rest: allegralaboratory.net/collaborativ... @ucpress.bsky.social
Thrilled to see @andreaboccardi.bsky.social's insightful review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires in press at @allegralab.bsky.social, the first from our latest book review series!
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Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires - Allegra Lab
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California Press. Sidney
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April 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Thrilled to see @andreaboccardi.bsky.social's insightful review of Sidney Xu Lu's new book Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires in press at @allegralab.bsky.social, the first from our latest book review series!
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New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
CFP: Happy 50th Birthday, Medusa! Celebrating Women's Writing
With this focus issue of MAI: Feminism and Visual Culture, we aim to further the dialogue on women's writing: words, and artistic practices.
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January 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
New CFP alert! Celebrating Women's Writing seeks a reassessment of women’s words and cries out to hear their diverse voices as they make critical contributions to society, culture, and politics. Creative and academic submissions are welcome maifeminism.com/cfp-happy-50... #academicsky
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🚨 Call for papers 🚨
"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"
Central European University, 22-23/9/2025
Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...
"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"
Central European University, 22-23/9/2025
Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...
Call for Papers “Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy: Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America” | CEU Democracy Institute
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February 7, 2025 at 9:33 AM
🚨 Call for papers 🚨
"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"
Central European University, 22-23/9/2025
Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...
"Contesting the Far Right, Safeguarding Democracy:
Comparative Insights from Europe and Latin America"
Central European University, 22-23/9/2025
Organised by @dafnoukos.bsky.social & Carlos Meléndez
democracyinstitute.ceu.edu/articles/CfP...
Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!
In his review of Mirjam Twigt's Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope Among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan, Abdulla Majeed highlights the role of digitality in (dis)connecting and (dis)ordering refugees' lives.
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan - Allegra Lab
Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and existential
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February 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Another excellent review from @allegralab.bsky.social's series on Mobilities and Migration by Abdulla Majeed at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies!
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In press today! In "Lessons from Tahrir for Activists and their Allies", Alice Wilson thoughtfully engages with Rusha Latif’s book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution in the context of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad's fall from power.
Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies - Allegra Lab
Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than 13 years of
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February 3, 2025 at 2:56 PM
In press today! In "Lessons from Tahrir for Activists and their Allies", Alice Wilson thoughtfully engages with Rusha Latif’s book Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution in the context of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad's fall from power.