Giordano Marmone
@gmarmone.bsky.social
Anthropology of Globalization Associate Professor @unistra.fr University of Strasbourg
I work on performance, digital technologies and populism, but I’m here mainly to discuss the miseries of politics in Italy, France, Kenya and the United States.
I work on performance, digital technologies and populism, but I’m here mainly to discuss the miseries of politics in Italy, France, Kenya and the United States.
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Volume 69 Issue 3 | Ethnomusicology | Scholarly Publishing Collective
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I’m happy to share the publication of my latest article in the journal Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social, titled “Performing Change and Preservation: How Pop Songs Became Ritual Music Among the Pastoral Samburu of Kenya.”
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It was only a matter of time. The Italian government has turned against the universities as well. The pretext is the @unibo.it's refusal to establish a program for army officers. U of B is being described as "the headquarters of a political party." The truth: there is no money to pay the lecturers.
Meloni: “Inaccettabile che l’Università di Bologna neghi un corso per gli ufficiali dell’Esercito”
La premier sulla polemica sollevata dal generale Masiello: “Decisione incomprensibile e sbagliata, gesto lesivo dei doveri costituzionali”. L’ateneo: “Si chied…
bologna.repubblica.it
December 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
It was only a matter of time. The Italian government has turned against the universities as well. The pretext is the @unibo.it's refusal to establish a program for army officers. U of B is being described as "the headquarters of a political party." The truth: there is no money to pay the lecturers.
In France, we got ahead of the game by further precarizing academic positions and multiplying by ten the tuition fees for non-European students (who mainly arrive from the African continent).
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
In France, we got ahead of the game by further precarizing academic positions and multiplying by ten the tuition fees for non-European students (who mainly arrive from the African continent).
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Cette image aurait dû déjà susciter une réaction de la hiérarchie policière et du ministre de l'Intérieur. Or c’est silence radio.
November 29, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Cette image aurait dû déjà susciter une réaction de la hiérarchie policière et du ministre de l'Intérieur. Or c’est silence radio.
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I’m happy to share the publication of my latest article in the journal Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social, titled “Performing Change and Preservation: How Pop Songs Became Ritual Music Among the Pastoral Samburu of Kenya.”
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...
Volume 69 Issue 3 | Ethnomusicology | Scholarly Publishing Collective
scholarlypublishingcollective.org
November 24, 2025 at 11:31 AM
I’m happy to share the publication of my latest article in the journal Ethnomusicology @sem-office.bsky.social, titled “Performing Change and Preservation: How Pop Songs Became Ritual Music Among the Pastoral Samburu of Kenya.”
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...
scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/etm/issu...
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Even Kenyan political parties don’t do things like this.
November 20, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Even Kenyan political parties don’t do things like this.
A student association is proposing to name a room at the Univ. of Ferrara after C. Kirk, a person who was completely unknown in Italy until his murder. Minister Matteo Salvini reposted the news with a clapping emoji. One must conclude that he shares Kirk’s hostility toward democracy and civil rights
November 11, 2025 at 11:27 PM
A student association is proposing to name a room at the Univ. of Ferrara after C. Kirk, a person who was completely unknown in Italy until his murder. Minister Matteo Salvini reposted the news with a clapping emoji. One must conclude that he shares Kirk’s hostility toward democracy and civil rights
Shame on the Italian government led by Giorgia Meloni. They repatriated, on a state flight, a torturer of migrants in order to save him from an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. Now Almasri has been arrested in Libya. What squalor: neo-fascists and accomplices of bandits.
L’ex capo della polizia giudiziaria libica è stato arrestato a Tripoli con l’accusa di avere torturato una decina di persone e averne uccisa almeno una. L’Italia lo aveva rilasciato. Leggi l'articolo di Annalisa Camilli.
Che significa l’arresto di Almasri in Libia
L’ex capo della polizia giudiziaria libica è stato arrestato a Tripoli con l’accusa di avere torturato una decina di persone e averne uccisa almeno una. L’Italia lo aveva rilasciato. Leggi
www.internazionale.it
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Shame on the Italian government led by Giorgia Meloni. They repatriated, on a state flight, a torturer of migrants in order to save him from an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court. Now Almasri has been arrested in Libya. What squalor: neo-fascists and accomplices of bandits.
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Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.
Tanzania arrests senior opposition figure as hundreds face treason charges
Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.
bit.ly
November 8, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Opposition party Chadema said that its deputy secretary-general, Amani Golugwa, was arrested early on Saturday.
‘Imagine if this happened abroad’ was (and still is, to be honest) one of the most common remarks made by Italian progressives in response to the disgraceful behavior of their conservative ruling class. Now, for the first time, I find myself thinking ‘imagine if this happened in Italy’
Stephen Miller Is Going for Broke
The White House aide equates opposition to Trump’s agenda with terrorism—and pushes for the use of state power to suppress it.
www.theatlantic.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:26 AM
‘Imagine if this happened abroad’ was (and still is, to be honest) one of the most common remarks made by Italian progressives in response to the disgraceful behavior of their conservative ruling class. Now, for the first time, I find myself thinking ‘imagine if this happened in Italy’
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En Italie et en Espagne, la solidarité de la jeunesse, des syndicats et du monde du travail avec Gaza et la Palestine est spectaculaire, à la fois massive et unitaire. Que ce ne soit pas le cas en France devrait nous interroger et nous inquiéter. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
Flottille pour Gaza : en Italie et en Espagne, la solidarité de la jeunesse et du monde du travail
Dans les deux pays, des dizaines de milliers de personnes ont cessé le travail ou manifesté pour dénoncer l’interception des bateaux en route vers Gaza, et marquer leur soutien aux Palestiniens. De n…
www.mediapart.fr
October 4, 2025 at 10:36 AM
En Italie et en Espagne, la solidarité de la jeunesse, des syndicats et du monde du travail avec Gaza et la Palestine est spectaculaire, à la fois massive et unitaire. Que ce ne soit pas le cas en France devrait nous interroger et nous inquiéter. www.mediapart.fr/journal/inte...
The Meloni government's refusal to recognize the state of Palestine has awakened Italian civil society from a long-standing state of torpor. Now, Italy, together with Spain, seems to be leading a peaceful grassroots response to the European governments' inertia.
Italians take to the streets for Gaza flotilla general strike
Tens of thousands of Italians took to the streets across the country on Friday, as part of a day-long general strike called by unions in support of an aid flotilla carrying food to Gaza that was intercepted by Israel this week.
www.reuters.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The Meloni government's refusal to recognize the state of Palestine has awakened Italian civil society from a long-standing state of torpor. Now, Italy, together with Spain, seems to be leading a peaceful grassroots response to the European governments' inertia.
This story about Kimmel reminds me of 2002, when Berlusconi pronounced the so-called « Bulgarian edict » ordering the expulsion from public TV of two journalists and a comedian who were critical of his government. Berlusconi’s sycophants likewise said that the comedian « wasn’t funny »
September 20, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This story about Kimmel reminds me of 2002, when Berlusconi pronounced the so-called « Bulgarian edict » ordering the expulsion from public TV of two journalists and a comedian who were critical of his government. Berlusconi’s sycophants likewise said that the comedian « wasn’t funny »
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“Those of us who lived through the tail end of Moi’s regime have developed a way of speaking politics in code and rumor, hiding the sharpest tips of our pens in fiction, comedy, and music.”
#Kenya
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#Kenya
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In Kenya, Gen Z Battles Corruption and Police Violence
What keeps the Ruto administration running from crisis to crisis remains a complete unwillingness to listen to people and an unswerving commitment to responding to any form of dissent with violence.
hammerandhope.org
August 14, 2025 at 8:44 AM
“Those of us who lived through the tail end of Moi’s regime have developed a way of speaking politics in code and rumor, hiding the sharpest tips of our pens in fiction, comedy, and music.”
#Kenya
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#Kenya
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AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
AI can only replace historians in the sense that it can spit out mediocre, plagiarized narrative that vaguely resembles history. It will never replace *good* historians. Unfortunately, many university presidents and CEOs don’t seem to care about the quality of work being done, only the quantity- 1/2
Just a reminder this list is drawn from a piece written by four researchers for MICROSOFT (data scientists, CS people, economists) who have never stepped foot in an archive/never taken an oral history/studied material culture, by their CVs.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
Unlike them, I do my research, and don't talk out my ass.
August 5, 2025 at 2:58 PM
AI will never locate a new archive. It will never uncover a new source. It will never find a small, privately held collection of papers that can upend what we think we know about the past. It can never work with undigitized sources. It can never do real oral history or ethnography.
Two days ago, Italy marked the 45th anniversary of the fascist terrorist attack at Bologna’s train station (85 dead). To avoid the commemoration, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, former member of the neo-fascist group Meridiano Zero, staged a tribute to the Second Punic War of 216 BC.
August 4, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Two days ago, Italy marked the 45th anniversary of the fascist terrorist attack at Bologna’s train station (85 dead). To avoid the commemoration, Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli, former member of the neo-fascist group Meridiano Zero, staged a tribute to the Second Punic War of 216 BC.
When I was doing my doctoral research, I could spend four or five months in a row living in huts like this. Now, after just two weeks, I’m dead tired and starting to dream about pizza. But I’m not giving up on fieldwork and on the inhabitants of this small village, to whom I owe everything.
August 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
When I was doing my doctoral research, I could spend four or five months in a row living in huts like this. Now, after just two weeks, I’m dead tired and starting to dream about pizza. But I’m not giving up on fieldwork and on the inhabitants of this small village, to whom I owe everything.
Reading that these things still happen in the 21st century is astonishing. In fact, the village in Kenya where I conducted most of my doctoral research was considered by local missionaries to be a place of “first evangelization,” meaning that most of its inhabitants followed a traditional religion.
Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil’s isolated peoples
Solar-powered units reciting biblical passages have appeared in the Javari valley, despite strict laws protecting Indigenous groups
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Reading that these things still happen in the 21st century is astonishing. In fact, the village in Kenya where I conducted most of my doctoral research was considered by local missionaries to be a place of “first evangelization,” meaning that most of its inhabitants followed a traditional religion.
This outrageous disgrace, which is nothing more than an authoritarian threat against the opposition, would be enough to force a president to resign even in Italy, where politicians don’t step down even when they’re photographed having dinner with mafia bosses.
Trump posts bizarre AI video of Obama being arrested: ‘No one is above the law’
President posts fake clip of Democrat being led away by law enforcement amid ongoing controversy over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal
www.independent.co.uk
July 21, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This outrageous disgrace, which is nothing more than an authoritarian threat against the opposition, would be enough to force a president to resign even in Italy, where politicians don’t step down even when they’re photographed having dinner with mafia bosses.
Mother and daughter watch a South American soap opera dubbed in Kiswahili in Jambiani, Zanzibar. A classic example of how mediascapes take shape, following Appadurai’s framework, prompting reflection on their potential effect on deterritorialized imaginations.
July 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Mother and daughter watch a South American soap opera dubbed in Kiswahili in Jambiani, Zanzibar. A classic example of how mediascapes take shape, following Appadurai’s framework, prompting reflection on their potential effect on deterritorialized imaginations.
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The #Kenya police is randomly rounding up young men in various towns and accusing them of terrorism in relation to the July 7 Saba Saba protests.
July 12, 2025 at 12:11 PM
The #Kenya police is randomly rounding up young men in various towns and accusing them of terrorism in relation to the July 7 Saba Saba protests.
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Etats-Unis : emprisonné 100 jours, l’étudiant propalestinien Mahmoud Khalil réclame 20 millions de dollars à l’administration Trump
Etats-Unis : emprisonné cent jours, l’étudiant propalestinien Mahmoud Khalil réclame 20 millions de dollars à l’administration Trump
Détenu de mars à juin outre-Atlantique, le jeune homme accusé d’être un «soutien du Hamas» poursuit à présent le gouvernement américain pour une détention qu’il juge «politique».
www.liberation.fr
July 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Etats-Unis : emprisonné 100 jours, l’étudiant propalestinien Mahmoud Khalil réclame 20 millions de dollars à l’administration Trump
A seaweed farmer walking on the water in Zanzibar
July 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
A seaweed farmer walking on the water in Zanzibar
Back in the field! It has become morally difficult to work on the controversial effects of USAID interventions among mobile pastoralists in northern Kenya. I don’t want to provide ammunition for the follies of the Trump administration. It’s a real dilemma!
July 4, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Back in the field! It has become morally difficult to work on the controversial effects of USAID interventions among mobile pastoralists in northern Kenya. I don’t want to provide ammunition for the follies of the Trump administration. It’s a real dilemma!