Ping-hsiu Alice Lin
@alibinglin.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Anthropology @Havard | Gems, labor & geological histories in Afghanistan-Pakistan
www.pinghsiualicelin.com
www.pinghsiualicelin.com
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After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
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From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
“Close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.”
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:09 AM
“Close reading is not magic. Its power lies in argument: always vulnerable, nothing simpler and yet nothing harder. And to clarify my stakes: the way that close reading is powerful is that it lays claim to power.”
Cambridge and Boston folks, join us today at 3pm for the Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series as we welcome Professor Nathalie Peutz from NYU Abu Dhabi and Radcliffe Fellow (AY 2025-26).
October 30, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Cambridge and Boston folks, join us today at 3pm for the Harvard Anthropology Seminar Series as we welcome Professor Nathalie Peutz from NYU Abu Dhabi and Radcliffe Fellow (AY 2025-26).
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The racial contract is technopolitical, and you can see all apartheids from space.
More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA.
Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi...
Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert
More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA.
Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi...
Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert
Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
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October 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The racial contract is technopolitical, and you can see all apartheids from space.
More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA.
Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi...
Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert
More rage about the depredations of racial capitalism in Residual Governance, available in OA.
Tambien en español, acceso abierto: qillqa.ucn.cl/index.php/qi...
Bientôt en français chez EHESS, aussi en accès ouvert
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Reposted by Ping-hsiu Alice Lin
In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
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September 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
In our latest Under the Rubric, Along the Imperial Spectrum, Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Victoria Fomina discuss what can be learned about #empire by reading their articles together. #History
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/09...
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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...
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“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
By Bhakti Shringarpure. In a candid interview, Olivier Fanon reflects on the legacy of his father Frantz Fanon at 100 years and speaks intimately about his late mother, Josie.
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July 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
“If you want to claim Fanon, do something: Act." - Olivier Fanon
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...
www.radicalbookscollective.com/p/if-you-wan...
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Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
July 17, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Rümeysa Öztürk describes the library in the prison where she was held for 45 days for co-authoring an op-ed
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“Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Vincent Brown · What Universities Owe
When challenged to justify past investment in slavery – or current investments in, say, fossil fuel extraction or arms...
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July 16, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“Higher education has customarily influenced people to advocate for a freer, fairer and more peaceful world, even while universities have hesitated and hedged their bets, always with an outstretched hand and a finger to the wind.”
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
EE2026: Infrastructures of Energy – Call for panel abstracts | Energy Ethics
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March 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Join @mettehigh.bsky.social, @energy-ethics.bsky.social and myself in St Andrews for Energy Ethics 2026. Excited to reflect on how much has changed in the ten years since our original conference. Info on submitting panel abstracts & registering: energyethics.st-andrews.ac.uk/ee2026/ee202...
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Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
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The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
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June 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now.
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Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now.
limn.press/article/pref...
July 9, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Limn 12 Spotlight Series
Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now.
limn.press/article/pref...
Sarah Besky, Alex Nading, & Jason Cons open Limn 12 by deepening what it means for Limn to tell climate stories from the inside out.
Limn 12 - Climate's Interiors. Out now.
limn.press/article/pref...
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Escape to the Country, by Sarah Besky & Yojak Tamang
Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn
#Himalaya #Tourism
Part of the Climate's Interiors issue of Limn
#Himalaya #Tourism
Escape to the Country - Limn
How has agrarian crisis transformed the interiors of the Himalayan foothills?
limn.press
June 3, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Durba Mitra's fabulous new book is now live! Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!!
Excited to see the website is now live for my forthcoming book, The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism (PUP, March 2026)
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Future That Was
How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present
press.princeton.edu
June 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Durba Mitra's fabulous new book is now live! Congrats @durba.bsky.social!!!
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan | Comparative Studies in Society and History | Cambridge Core
After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan - Volume 67 Issue 3
doi.org
July 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
From colonial surveys to contemporary gem rushes: how do stones become valuable across geological time? First article from my PhD, "After Exploratory Geology: Gemological El Dorado in Global Afghanistan," now out in @csshjournal.bsky.social (open access!)
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
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Read more about the issue's authors, including Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv, Koreen M. Reece,
Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido,
Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here:
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido,
Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...
Volume 67, Issue 3 – Comparative Studies in Society and History
Meet the authors of the 67-3 issue, July 2025.
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June 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Read more about the issue's authors, including Marcin Wodziński, Uriel Gellman, Gadi Sagiv, Koreen M. Reece,
Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido,
Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...
Dennie Oude Nijhuis, Marc A. Hertzman, Marco Garrido,
Serkan Yolaçan, Ping-Hsiu Alice Lin, and Thomas R. Trautmann, here:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/cssh/2025/06...
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New article!
Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
@harvardcmes.bsky.social
Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
@harvardcmes.bsky.social
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 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
New article!
Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
@harvardcmes.bsky.social
Many of us who sell our labor power sometimes struggle with diminished “bodyworkability”—from overwork, accidents, toxicity, or disasters—but what happens when that condition is assessed for medical recognition as a disability?
@saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social
@harvardcmes.bsky.social
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Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Until we are all free: Leftwing media and left internationalism - Red Pepper
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
www.redpepper.org.uk
June 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Writers, editors and artists from the global south must be part of left media futures, writes Sanaa Alimia
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
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Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
May 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Proud to see Ping-hsiu Lin's article out now in
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
@csshjournal.bsky.social! Open access too!
doi.org/10.1017/S001...
cc @harvard-jchs.bsky.social
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Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
March 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Even if you think Paul Weiss and Columbia made the only choice available to them in the circumstances (and that's not what I think, to be clear), you have to recognize that there's no future for our democracy if every powerful institution approaches official extortion in this way.
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Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
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⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
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December 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Happy publication day to this book! After working on this project for a decade plus, I’m grateful for the opportunity to share this work with the world (and with it the wisdom of working people in Trinidad and Tobago).
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
⛽️👑🎭🇹🇹
@UChicagoPress
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…
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House Approves "Nonprofit Killer" Bill, Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act
House Approves Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act
The House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that would empower the Treasury Department to revoke the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit it deems has provided material support to a terrorist organization....
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November 22, 2024 at 5:00 PM
House Approves "Nonprofit Killer" Bill, Most Dangerous Domestic Anti-Terrorism Bill Since PATRIOT Act
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Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
Substitution
Substituting one thing for another–things, people, habits–happens all the time. Substitution is so mundane that it can easily be taken for grante...
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November 18, 2024 at 8:05 PM
Excited that this series on substitution, co-edited by Alice Rudge, Véra Ehrenstein, and myself, is now live. “Substitution constitutes a method for tracing continuities amid seeming change, disruption amid seeming continuity, and possibility within constraint.” culanth.org/fieldsights/...
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Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the
American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster.
📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
@labspeceth.bsky.social
American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster.
📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
@labspeceth.bsky.social
#ElifIremAz — American Anthropologist
five poems and one intermission from The Black Shape of Living by e. irem az Please download the PDF to read the poems without losing their form. PLACE Soma Coal Basin,...
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November 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Elif Irem Az's beautiful-yet-heartbreaking ethnographic poetry is featured this week in the Highlights section of the
American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster.
📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
@labspeceth.bsky.social
American Anthropologist website, exploring the miners' lives in the aftermath of a disaster.
📖 Read it here: americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
@labspeceth.bsky.social