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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Sep 13

My first-ever, single-authored article is out in the Journal of Peasant Studies! Comparing sugar and infrastructure frontiers, it explores how technologies of dispossession shape frontier-making and state power in Indonesia across scale and time.

Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Technologies of dispossession: comparative analysis of frontier-making and state power in Indonesia

This article examines land dispossession in Indonesia through a conjunctural comparison of two frontier regimes: a long-standing commodity frontier in South Sulawesi and a rapidly assembled infrast...

www.tandfonline.com

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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Aug 29

Dire situations in Indonesia right now.

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Protests resume in Indonesia’s Jakarta after ride-share driver killed

Protests turn violent a day after Affan Kurniawan was killed after being hit by an armoured police vehicle in Jakarta.

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Vanessa Lamb @drvanessalamb.bsky.social · Aug 18

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance

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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · Jul 31

Social movements play an essential role pushing for action on climate and nature, and it’s now widely recognised that support from scientists can make them more effective

But not everyone can take to the streets or risk arrest

That’s ok – there’s lots we can do in other ways

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asa-pews.bsky.social @asa-pews.bsky.social · Jul 25

Post-Doc Announcement

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral
Fellowship in Sustainability
2026 Call for Applications
Applications Due: October 20, 2025
Link: www.atkinson.cornell.edu/cornell-atki...
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2026 Postdoc Call for Applications | Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability

Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sustainability 2026 Call for Applications Cornell Atkinson Postdoctoral Fellowships support a cohort of creative, exceptionally talented, and highly motivat...

www.atkinson.cornell.edu

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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Jul 10

Her name is Flüffie.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · Jul 10

"We reiterate the urgency of the Palestinian condition and the role of Palestinian resistance in shaping global anti-colonial thought." Read more from J. Kēhaulani Kauanui and Ather Zia's introduction here: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...

The title of this collection points to our refusal of exceptionalist framings of settler colonialism. Horrifically devastating in terms of the speed and scale of death and destruction of Palestinian life (given the high-tech weaponry and massive amounts of continuous funding by the U.S. government) as a land-centered project, Israel’s “elimination of the native” resembles other settler colonial genocides. The challenge is to make explicit how exceptionalism has historically isolated Palestine (politically and epistemologically) from other cases. We reiterate the urgency of the Palestinian condition and the role of Palestinian resistance in shaping global anti-colonial thought. As The Red Nation put it, “We have always believed Palestine is the tip of the spear in the fight against colonialism, the guiding light toward liberation and decolonization everywhere.” Thus, we center Palestine as an urgent site that compels our analytic (and ethical-political) attention, not as a singular or definitive instance of settler colonialism, but one which is streaming live in real time—revealing the core logics of domination, elimination, dispossession, and replacement that have been underway across diverse geographies and temporalities and in different stages of violent elimination (both historically and in contemporary times).

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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Jul 8

In the first three days, we hosted interdisciplinary offering diverse perspectives on the theories and practices of commons and commoning.

Now that the students are out in the field, we’re excited to see the insights and creative reflections they’ll bring back on Zurich’s urban commons!

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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Jul 8

From green and aquatic spaces to housing cooperatives, water fountains to cultural hubs, participants are engaging in ethnographic fieldwork and producing multimodal research.

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Annisa Sabrina Hartoto @sabrinahartoto.bsky.social · Jul 8

ISEK 2025 Summer School is officially underway!

As part of our Southeast Asia in Motion series, this year’s Summer School brings together students from SEA and the University of Zurich to collaboratively explore Zurich’s urban commons.

#ISEK #UZH #SummerSchool #SoutheastAsiaInMotion #UrbanCommons

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Jun 19

The Canadian Southeast Asian Studies Initiative is accepting applications for a Visiting Scholar. Only a week left to apply!

App Deadline: June 26th
tinyurl.com/y64yh99k

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Scott Feeney @graue.bsky.social · Jun 9

Full list of brave people the Israel Occupation Forces have kidnapped in international waters today

ren they/them @renzaro.com · Jun 9

Yasemin Acar - 🇩🇪
Baptiste Andre - 🇫🇷
Thiago Avila - 🇧🇷
Omar Faiad - 🇫🇷
Rima Hassan - 🇫🇷
Pascal Maurieras- 🇫🇷
Yanis Mhamdi - 🇫🇷
Şuayb Ordu - 🇹🇷
Greta Thunberg - 🇸🇪
Sergio Toribio - 🇪🇸
Marco Van Rennes - 🇳🇱
Reva Viard - 🇫🇷

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · May 23

CFA: The Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University is accepting applications for a part-time Lecturer in Southeast Asian History for the Fall 2025 Tufts Civic Semester! More details are in the image below.

To apply, email a CV and cover letter to [email protected].

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CRASSH @crasshlive.bsky.social · May 23

🌷 In what ways do scents shape our imagination, and how can we imagine the smellscapes of the past?

Join us on 4 June for ‘Scent and Imagination’, a multidisciplinary symposium on the relationship between scent and imagination involving academic, artistic and practical activities
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Scents and imagination symposium, 4 June 2025.

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Institute for Palestine Studies @palestinestudies.bsky.social · May 21

As Gaza’s infrastructure is reduced to rubble, animals are dying quietly in destroyed zoos and shelters. Hadeel Farhat exposes this often unseen dimension of Israel’s war—where the destruction reaches every corner of life in Gaza.

www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/1657...

What Happened to Gaza’s Zoos Under Shelling and Bombing?

Palestine Square, فلسطين الميدان

www.palestine-studies.org

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · May 19

Just try to process this.

The health ministry has released a new 1,000-page document with the names, ages and other info, of 52,959 Palestinians killed in Gaza.

For the first 100 pages (over 5,000 names), the age is listed at 5 years or younger.

The first 18 pages the age is listed as 0 (under 1 year)

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · May 2

Join @uhcseas.bsky.social for the panel discussion “James C. Scott’s Scholarship on Southeast Asia and Beyond” to reflect on the influence of Professor James C. Scott and his contributions to research and the field of Southeast Asian studies.

May 5 @ 3:00 PM (HST)
tinyurl.com/yc3dt8ah

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · Apr 7

I'm hiring! 2 x PhDs and 1 x PostDoc, to work with me at Uni Zurich on a project investigating how semantic patterns differ by geographic region.
Linguistic typology, data science, spatial analysis, phylogenetic methods, potential fieldwork... REPOST 🙏
www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch/en/jobs.html

Open Positions

www.comparativelinguistics.uzh.ch

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shubhrag.bsky.social @shubhrag.bsky.social · Mar 11

Check this out! Great opportunity for recent PhDs #postdoc #AsianStudies

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Nicolás Palacios @nicolaspalacios.bsky.social · Mar 14

ETH Zürich insists that they take no side on politics, while we are aware that science and technology are political matters.

What would their beloved Albert Einstein say about this? Well, we can read first hand his position on politics 👇
monthlyreview.org/2009/05/01/w...

Monthly Review | Why Socialism?

Is it advisable for one who is not an expert on economic and social issues to express views on the subject of socialism? I believe for a number of reasons that it is.… Clarity about the aims and…

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John Mansfield @johnbasil.bsky.social · Mar 21

Donating to this. When profs are persecuted for speaking truth to power, we need solidarity.
Palestinians are subject to a clear strategy of ethnic cleansing, and I don't want to work in a system where such facts are not allowed to be spoken.

Chad Topaz Queer DEI Race Traitor @chadtopaz.bsky.social · Mar 21

🧵 I'm going to support @thrasherxy.bsky.social's legal defense and you should too. Thrasher was denied tenure at Northwestern Univ. for defending student protestors.

I am saddened but not surprised to hear this story because I have my own history with Northwestern. Keep reading...

#AcademicSky

Donate to Support Dr. Steven Thrasher's Legal Defense, organized by Kathryn Macapagal

We are U.S. university professors and friends of acclaimed journalist Dr… Kathryn Macapagal needs your support for Support Dr. Steven Thrasher's Legal Defense

www.gofundme.com

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Sandra Jasper @sandrajasper.bsky.social · Mar 4

📣 JOB ALERT
PostDoc (3+3 years) and PhD (3 years) in Cultural Geography/Society-Environment Research in the new Society-Environment Research Group at @fau.de
Deadline: 28 March 2025.

More info here:
www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-po...
Do get in touch with any questions!

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Kate Rigby @kateelizrigby.bsky.social · Feb 19

2 doctoral positions in anthropology available @carsoncenter.bsky.social in the ERC-funded project “Changing Environments, Changing Childhoods: A Cross-Environmental Ethnography of Moral Socialization in Three Small-Scale Societies” www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/about_rcc/jo...

Two Funded Doctoral Positions in Anthropology: Project on Environmental Change and Children’s Development - Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society - LMU Munich

www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de

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Dr. Prakash Kashwan @pkashwan.bsky.social · Feb 26

The Dept of Anthropology at UC-Davis is hiring a sociocultural anthropologist scholar with a cutting-edge, ethnographically-grounded research agenda whose work addresses key topics in Palestine Studies. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06996

Assistant or Associate Professor in Anthropology - Sociocultural

University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!

recruit.ucdavis.edu

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