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Letizia Letha Bonanno
@letha-b.bsky.social
Social anthropologist doing ethnography and disegnetti about industrial labour and steel plants in Italy&Romania.
Punk HC/ Bande dessinée.
Co-Editor @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social
Visual editor @otherwisemag.bsky.social
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We are excited to announce the winner of the Eric Wolf Prize for the Best Graduate Paper (2025).
The winner is: Yanping Ni "China’s Dust Archives: Black Lung, Testimonial Surplus, and the Ghosts of Reform."
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Congratulations to Winner of 2025 SAW Book Prize

Hector Beltran's Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands, Princeton University Press, 2023.

Honorable Mention
Hemangini Gupta’s Experimental Times: Start-up Capitalism and Feminist Futures in India, U of California Press, 2024.
October 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
If you’re a disappointed & disappointing ethnographer, this article may resonate with you: it’s about fieldwork and ethnography, drawing and the politics of writing, and well, performative success in anthropology.
If you want to read it but have no access, drop me a message 💥

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October 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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There is now an entry on "Humanitarianism" at @anthroencyclo.bsky.social (co-authored by me and @malayfiroz.bsky.social)!

We worked to make it an accessible resource for readers unfamiliar with humanitarianism & anthro.

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#Anthropology #Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism can be broadly understood as a concern with human suffering and a moral desire to alleviate it. It manifests not only through discrete acts of helping, but also through a set of practi...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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In the time of twin transitions, a significant reminder to labour studies and labour anthropologist, "The trouble was I had my back to future – and this is the sixth ethnographic fallacy – studying the present as a point of arrival rather than a point of departure"
Ethnographic fallacies: reflections on labour studies in the era of market fundamentalism - Michael Burawoy, 2013
Michael Burawoy reflects back on 40 years of industrial ethnography in Zambia, the USA, Hungary and Russia to discover the mistakes he made and, thus, to infer ...
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January 24, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Happy to share my article
“Vignettes from Athens: On drawing, ethnography, and being a bad anthropologist”, published in the Multimodal Ethnography section of Anthropology and Humanism.
It is a bit of strange perhaps harsh one, full of disegnetti at least.

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#ethnography
Anthropology and Humanism | AAA Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article explores the entangled practices of drawing and ethnographic fieldwork through a series of illustrated vignettes from Athens. Written from the perspective of a self-described “bad anthro...
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October 6, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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A new article from AWR!

In 'Visualizing Transborder Lifeworlds in the Polish-German Border Region' Iepke M. Rijcken, @piotrgoldstein.bsky.social, & Maksymilian Awuah reflect on transborder lifeworlds using photography and sound recording as a research method.
Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
The work of migrants and transborder commuters in rural and peripheralized localities is often considered invisible or, in fact, actively ignored. This multimodal essay reflects on transborder lifewo...
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September 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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New from AWR!
Check out 'New Ways of Life: Cultivating Balance at a Tech Start-Up During Lockdown' by Lily Rodel
Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article draws on digital ethnographic fieldwork to examine how the pandemic-induced shift to remote work prompted workers at a London tech start-up to engage in ethical reflections on their new ...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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About drawing practice, wide board and Corbusier architecture in @otherwisemag.bsky.social. Thank you @letha-b.bsky.social for inviting me, it's a great honour!
To all, Happy reading!
September 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Have you ever thought about the contributions that the wives of academics make to their husband’s work and how those contributions are acknowledged?

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Thanks for Typing: Acknowledging the contributions of sociologists’ wives
The Thanks for Typing Podcast is part of Ros Edwards’ and Val Gillies’ research journey uncovering the hidden impact of social researchers’ wives. In this 6 episode podcast series, they explore how wi...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Our editor-in-chief @redprof.bsky.social talking with Proshanto Dhar about his new book Slavery and Capitalism for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social .
David McNally, "Slavery and Capitalism: A New Marxist History" (U California Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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September 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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New AWR article!

In 'Redivisions of Work: Manufacturing Labor and Training in Switzerland's Knowledge Economy' Johanna Mugler argues anthropological studies of work and education in de-industrial settings should examine the social critique of industrial work in concert with its aesthetic critique.
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The promise of knowledge society is clean, creative, and expressive work. Technological advancements would relieve humans from the tedium and hardship of labor, and access to knowledge and expansion ...
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September 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
From the river to the sea 🍉 🍉🍉

Thanks so much to Samir Harb for his beautiful and important and needed and timely work
September 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I’m happy I had the chance to curate this entirely graphic issue for @otherwisemag.bsky.social and work together with talented artists and researchers.
Checked it out - We are sure you’ll love it as much as we do!

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#graphic
#storytelling
OUR NEW ISSUE IS OUT! GRAPHIC IS OUT!

In this issue there is no conclusion to be drawn. No lesson to be learnt. Just fragments. Traces. Half-dreamt sketches of being and becoming.

Graphic was curated by Letizia Bonanno

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September 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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In this new AWR article, Riddhi Bhandari & Siddhi Gyan Pandey examine how India's digital self-help gurus help cultivate entrepreneurial citizenship through the 'work of mourning', and the 'work of dreaming'... anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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This paper analyzes the content of India's digital self-help gurus (SHGs), who are popular online figures in India, and engages a varied online audience across multiple social media platforms. We exa...
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August 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Deadline September 1st!
Grad students working on labor 👀 Check out this call for submissions for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf Prize. The recipient will receive a $250 and an invitation to develop the paper for publication in AWR @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social saw.americananthro.org/pub/2025-wol...
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August 28, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Calling all graduate students who do research on the topic of the anthropology of work (broadly defined)! You have 2 weeks to apply for the @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Eric Wolf prize. Details in the link below:
Graduate students, the Society for the Anthropology of Work (SAW) invites you to submit your scholarly work to the Eric Wolfe Prize. Submissions are due on September 1, 2025.

Please email your submissions to (lirani+wolf@ucsd.edu).

See the cfp below!
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2025 Eric R. Wolf Prize: Call for Submissions
The Prize honors excellence in graduate student research. We especially invite papers that integrate political economy and bold political action into the analysis of social life.
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August 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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🚨 Call for Applications: Economic Anthropology is seeking 2–3 new editorial board members.
⏰ Deadline: 29 Aug 2025
✉️ Apply: ds.bhl@cbs.dk
🔗 Details: easaonline.org/jobs-calls/c...
Help shape the future of the journal!
August 18, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Issue 3, on Surveillance and Care, builds on a discussion which began at @americananthro.bsky.social in 2002 to explore ways that surveillance and care play upon each other in ethnographic research and what we might learn from them. www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...
Medical Anthropology
SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology
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August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM
“Un cerotto mal riposto sopra la crisi del fordismo, il turismo di massa è sempre stato descritto come la soluzione alla deindustrializzazione”

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Senza tempo né soldi: il turista non è un alieno | il manifesto
Diritti (Commenti) Il dibattito sul calo delle presenze turistiche nelle località balneari ricorda un vecchio adagio portoghese che recitava così: «Non si può desiderare il sole sull’aia e la pioggia ...
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August 10, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Wonder who is selling their soul to work at ICE? Here you go!

Thanks to @prisonculture.bsky.social for the link!
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
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July 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“We believe that the weakness of all women is based on the fact that all of us women are wearied and exhausted at the very outset by the 13 hours of housework that no-one has ever recognized, that no-one has ever paid for.”
Dalla Costa on why general strike should be broadened to include housework
A General Strike - Mariarosa Dalla Costa
A speech arguing for the concept of the general strike to be broadened to include housework, given at a 1974 celebration of International Women’s Day in Mestre, Italy. Originally published in All Work...
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July 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS!

Society for the Anthropology of Work and Anthropology of Work Review invite applications to the SAW Community of Writing Fellows, a 8-month writing mentorship program running September 2025 to April 2026. Applications due August 15, 2025 to Jennifer Shaw at jeshaw@tru.ca.
July 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
“Bodyworkability describes the medico-legal substitution of body parts with quantified units of standardized ability to work”

Check out Elif Irem Az’s wonderful article “Bodyworkability” in @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social

#anthropology

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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
This article is part of the special issue Laboring from Ex-Centric Sites: Disability, Chronicity and Work, Anthropology of Work Review 46(1), July 2025, edited by Giorgio Brocco and Stefanie Mauksch.....
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July 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM