Ruy Llera Blanes
@ruyllerablanes.bsky.social
Anthropologist (ISCTE, CRIA, In2Past, Portugal)
Angola, Mozambique, Atlantic
Political activism, utopias, memory and heritage
Environmental problems.
Angola, Mozambique, Atlantic
Political activism, utopias, memory and heritage
Environmental problems.
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"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
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On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
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The Impossible Reconstruction
Objects of Repair installation: Architects for Gaza, British Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 There are places where the idea of reconstruction collapses under the weight of repetition. Gaz...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"To work in rubble is not to erase what happened but to stay with it, to treat every fragment as testimony and every scar as instruction."
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
On rubble and the politics of remaining in Gaza
www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/t...
Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026
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Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026 - CEI-Iscte
Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon | 21 - 22 May 2026 Looking at the last two years in the land of Palestine, the Gaza genocide and the
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Call for Papers | Palestine is a Global Issue: Situating the Genocide and Beyond – May 2026
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Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social
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www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Vocabulario para la experimentación etnográfica
Este foro sitúa la experimentación como un impulso creciente en antropología que desborda la escritura permeando el análisis, el trabajo de campo...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Delighted to see this new Theorizing the Contemporary series now published—the second to appear in Spanish, on a wonderfully exciting topic and featuring a brilliant lineup of contributors @culanth.bsky.social
www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
September 2, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Today is the 5th anniversary of David Graber's death.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
And with everything happening in the world, his work is now more relevant than ever before.
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Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.
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Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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August 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
June 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber.
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy.
Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!
Free pdf download available, in English and Portuguese. www.cmi.no/publications...
Angola after dos Santos: An anthology on continuity and change
As Angola celebrates its 50th anniversary as an independent nation, it is timely to provide an assessment of the state of political, s...
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June 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Free pdf download available, in English and Portuguese. www.cmi.no/publications...
Summer school on "African Politics", 30 June - 2 July, Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais. More info:
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June 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Summer school on "African Politics", 30 June - 2 July, Lisbon, Instituto de Ciências Sociais. More info:
www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/escolas/s...
www.ics.ulisboa.pt/en/escolas/s...
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How to communicate climate -- a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social @lacymjohnson.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social and yours truly.... www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
How to Communicate Climate: New Experiments and Methods
With this four-way dialogue among climate researchers in the humanities and social sciences we attempt to unravel various techniques of climate communication. In aiming to reach non-specialist audienc...
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June 3, 2025 at 11:47 AM
How to communicate climate -- a conversation with @naomioreskes.bsky.social @lacymjohnson.bsky.social @cymene.bsky.social and yours truly.... www.regeneration-journal.org/article/id/1...
Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices.
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Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices.
O seu apoio é muito importante. Apoie esta causa. Assine a Petição.
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May 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Manifesto pelo passado, presente e futuro da Palestina. Não somos cúmplices.
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A collective suggestion for a 'forensic' approach to processes of heritagization of violence, based on an on-site discussion in Bissau, and deeply inspired by the work of the @forensicarchi.bsky.social team.
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Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts
In this article, we propose a research agenda towards the critical assessment of processes of memorialisation and heritagization of histories of violence in post-violence and post-authoritarian con...
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May 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
A collective suggestion for a 'forensic' approach to processes of heritagization of violence, based on an on-site discussion in Bissau, and deeply inspired by the work of the @forensicarchi.bsky.social team.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Future of Revolution is out now!
"We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
- Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)
"We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
- Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)
The Future of Revolution
Communism comes from the future, but its hopes haunt our past. Reading revolutionary history from the Paris Commune to the George Floyd Uprising by the light of communist theory, from Marx to C. L. R....
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May 13, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The Future of Revolution is out now!
"We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
- Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)
"We need this book now, and will continue to need it long into the future."
- Natasha Lennard (@natashalennard.bsky.social)
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Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism.
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The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography | Thula
The Routledge Companion to Postcolonial African Historiography explores history's fortunes in Modern Africa south of the Sahara, from the discipline's Golden
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May 8, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Glad to see this book published. My chapter shows how the historiography of anti-colonial mobilisation & war in #Angola & #Mozambique has shifted from Cold War binaries to examine socio-political history & the position of the two states under global capitalism.
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Today = 8th 🎂 of 1st vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social including chapters by @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, & @franziskah.bsky.social: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e...
April 24, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Today = 8th 🎂 of 1st vol of Essays on #Anarchism & #Religion co-edited with @msadams.bsky.social including chapters by @ruyllerablanes.bsky.social, @egalvanalvarez.bsky.social, @justinmeggitt.bsky.social, & @franziskah.bsky.social: www.stockholmuniversitypress.se/site/books/e...
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Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
Il avait signé L'Invention de l'Afrique, un incontournable des études africaines : le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé tôt ce 22 avril 2025 à l’âge de 83 ans en Caroline du Nord, aux États-Unis, où il vivait. Il était l'un des intellectuels africains les plus respectés.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Le philosophe congolais Valentin-Yves Mudimbe est décédé à l'âge de 83 ans
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Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond.
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in JPMS (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in JPMS (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
April 11, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Great issue, not only because there are my fieldnotes about rapper Azagaia's legacy in on-going uprising in Mozambique and beyond.
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in JPMS (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
'To Brother Azagaia: A Letter of Remembrance from Mozambique and Beyond'
Just published in JPMS (UC Press).
🔗 online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article...
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Hemos creado este perfil para que podáis seguir las novedades (y las reactivaciones de la hemeroteca) de “Disparidades.Revista de Antropología” del CSIC, antes conocida como RDTP. Todo el mundo invitado!
La revista de antropología Disparidades, del @cchscsic.bsky.social del @csic.es , abrimos nuestra cuenta en Bluesky: un paso necesario en defensa de una ciencia comprometida con la democracia y los protocolos digitales abiertos. ¡Seguidnos por aquí!
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Disparidades. Revista de Antropología
La Disparidades. Revista de Antropología es una revista electrónica en antropología social y cultural en acceso abierto (ISSN 0034-7981 y eISSN 1988-8457). Está editada por el Instituto de Lengua, Lit...
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April 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Hemos creado este perfil para que podáis seguir las novedades (y las reactivaciones de la hemeroteca) de “Disparidades.Revista de Antropología” del CSIC, antes conocida como RDTP. Todo el mundo invitado!
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Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort ce 26 mars "Covas do Barroso", un film de lutte choral qui remet en scène la résistance actuelle d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mine de lithium porté par la multinationale Savannah.
Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr
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Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr
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« Covas do Barroso », un docu-western sur la face sombre de la transition énergétique au Portugal
Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort le 26 mars un film choral qui remet en scène la résistance d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mines de lithium porté par la multinationale britannique S…
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March 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Le réalisateur Paulo Carneiro sort ce 26 mars "Covas do Barroso", un film de lutte choral qui remet en scène la résistance actuelle d’un village portugais contre un mégaprojet de mine de lithium porté par la multinationale Savannah.
Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr
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Ma recension dans @mediapart.fr
www.mediapart.fr/journal/ecol...
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While greenwashed narratives portray mining for critical minerals as essential for a clean energy future, our video of the week reveals the global mining boom's destruction and the communities that are fighting back.
Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social
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Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social
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March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
While greenwashed narratives portray mining for critical minerals as essential for a clean energy future, our video of the week reveals the global mining boom's destruction and the communities that are fighting back.
Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social
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Feat. @triofrancos.bsky.social at @ucdavisenergy.bsky.social
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This BBC presenter resigned over its pro-Israel bias.
Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.
Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.
March 20, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This BBC presenter resigned over its pro-Israel bias.
Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.
Everyone needs to listen to what @karishmapatel.bsky.social says.
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A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
On March 12, at a rally in front of the New York City courthouse where Mahmoud Khalil’s hearing took place, classicist and Columbia University associate professor Joseph Howley made the follo…
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March 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
A Columbia University Professor Speaks Out Against the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil
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Mañana se cumplen 5 años del inicio del confinamiento. Ayer enviamos esto a producción. En breve, en librerías 😊
March 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Mañana se cumplen 5 años del inicio del confinamiento. Ayer enviamos esto a producción. En breve, en librerías 😊