Jonathan Alderman
@jonathanalderman.bsky.social
Anthropologist; Latin Americanist; Bolivianist. Research interests include: Indigenous autonomy/plurinational citizenship, ritual, religion, infrastructure, materiality, houses.
Delighted to announce my article "Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia", co-authored with my long-time research collaborator Feliciano Patty has just been published by JLACA
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The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology | Wiley Online Library
An educational initiative called Aynikusun in northwest Bolivia, run by rural Indigenous communities with the assistance of a Belgian agronomist, significantly transformed social relations between Sp...
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September 2, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Delighted to announce my article "Quechua and Aymara Textbooks in an Autonomous Education Project in the Kallawaya Region of Bolivia", co-authored with my long-time research collaborator Feliciano Patty has just been published by JLACA
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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📕BLAR's (44:2) BOOK REVIEW📕
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
May 21, 2025 at 8:21 AM
📕BLAR's (44:2) BOOK REVIEW📕
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
5. Frederik Schulze (@unicologne.bsky.social) reviews The Social and Political Life of Latin American Infrastructure (2022 @uolpress.bsky.social), edited by @jonathanalderman.bsky.social and Geoff Goodwin.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
HAPPENING NOW: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was just taken into custody while protesting outside the Delaney Hall ICE detention center
May 9, 2025 at 10:10 PM
"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."
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Targeting students is one of the first moves in the fascist playbook. Always has been.
March 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Targeting students is one of the first moves in the fascist playbook. Always has been.
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"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
March 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
"My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law."
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Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
Destroying the West in order to save it
When all reform leads to revolution
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March 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Crawling out of the slimy entrails of Mar-a-Lago on election night, Douglas Murray declared triumphantly that Trump was going to ‘show what American leadership on the world stage actually looks like’.
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
A protection racket is what it looks like. open.substack.com/pub/jamesblo...
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An essay made with only first sentences, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles.
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
<em>American Anthropologist</em> | AAA Anthropology Journal | Wiley Online Library
You are reading the first sentence of this essay. In fact, outside of this abstract and a brief introduction, there are only first sentences in this essay, all collected from anthropology monographs ...
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December 6, 2024 at 6:20 PM
An essay made with only first sentences, all collected from anthropology monographs and articles.
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Truly hypnotic. I love it. A feast for the feet(notes).
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation.
It's a landmark win for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
It's a landmark win for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
Belgian Ruling a Landmark Win for Reparations Movement
On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparat...
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December 4, 2024 at 6:46 AM
On December 2, the Brussels Court of Appeal found the Belgian government guilty of crimes against humanity in Congo during Belgian colonial rule and ordered it to pay compensation as a form of reparation.
It's a landmark win for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
It's a landmark win for the reparations movement.
www.hrw.org/news/2024/12...
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This capitalist world of nation-states is built on scapegoating people classified as “migrants”
Anti-migrant politics in S. Africa is causing hunger, fear, and death
The possibility of a just future rests on rejecting the distinction between “citizens” and “migrants”
Everywhere
aje.io/0alwob
Anti-migrant politics in S. Africa is causing hunger, fear, and death
The possibility of a just future rests on rejecting the distinction between “citizens” and “migrants”
Everywhere
aje.io/0alwob
Miners trapped underground in South Africa: What’s the latest?
Officials have arrested a group of 14 people who emerged unassisted, including a teenage boy.
aje.io
November 27, 2024 at 5:49 AM
This capitalist world of nation-states is built on scapegoating people classified as “migrants”
Anti-migrant politics in S. Africa is causing hunger, fear, and death
The possibility of a just future rests on rejecting the distinction between “citizens” and “migrants”
Everywhere
aje.io/0alwob
Anti-migrant politics in S. Africa is causing hunger, fear, and death
The possibility of a just future rests on rejecting the distinction between “citizens” and “migrants”
Everywhere
aje.io/0alwob
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MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 AM
MILF = Manuscript I’d Like to Finish
My article "¿Si esto no es el pueblo, el
pueblo dónde está?
Discursive Disagreement in
the 2019-2020 Post-electoral
Conflict in Bolivia" has just been published in The Bolivian Studies Journal bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/bsj/arti.... Just in time for the lead up to the next election!
pueblo dónde está?
Discursive Disagreement in
the 2019-2020 Post-electoral
Conflict in Bolivia" has just been published in The Bolivian Studies Journal bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/bsj/arti.... Just in time for the lead up to the next election!
¿Si esto no es el pueblo, el pueblo dónde está? Discursive Disagreement in the 2019-2020 Post-electoral Conflict in Bolivia
| Bolivian Studies Journal
bsj.pitt.edu
November 25, 2024 at 3:58 PM
My article "¿Si esto no es el pueblo, el
pueblo dónde está?
Discursive Disagreement in
the 2019-2020 Post-electoral
Conflict in Bolivia" has just been published in The Bolivian Studies Journal bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/bsj/arti.... Just in time for the lead up to the next election!
pueblo dónde está?
Discursive Disagreement in
the 2019-2020 Post-electoral
Conflict in Bolivia" has just been published in The Bolivian Studies Journal bsj.pitt.edu/ojs/bsj/arti.... Just in time for the lead up to the next election!
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Are you a Bolivianist? Follow our starter pack, and drop me a note if you'd like to join it! go.bsky.app/Pf4B9yW
November 24, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Are you a Bolivianist? Follow our starter pack, and drop me a note if you'd like to join it! go.bsky.app/Pf4B9yW
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"Catalonia has the highest concentration of water-bottling plants in Spain […] 27 extraction licences have been granted. 'There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than is running in our streams' […] Catalonia had unusually heavy rains in 2020, followed by four years of drought"
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 10:17 PM
"Catalonia has the highest concentration of water-bottling plants in Spain […] 27 extraction licences have been granted. 'There’s more water carried along the roads in lorries than is running in our streams' […] Catalonia had unusually heavy rains in 2020, followed by four years of drought"
A fascinating and important article about the worrying effect of the privatisation of water in Spain.
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My article about multinationals extracting water for bottling while people run short of water to drink
I saw it Latin America and it's now happening in Spain
@theguardian.com
My article about multinationals extracting water for bottling while people run short of water to drink
I saw it Latin America and it's now happening in Spain
@theguardian.com
‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water
Spain is increasingly either parched or flooded – and one group is profiting from these extremes: the water-grabbing multinational companies forcing angry citizens to pay for it in bottles
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 9:19 PM
A fascinating and important article about the worrying effect of the privatisation of water in Spain.
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Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
Gazan Humanitarian Scholarship
We offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK).
www.leeds.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students.
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
**Tell Everyone**
www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...
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Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing:
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Three things I’ve learned about writing
I’ve thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of conversations with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, and on the off chance that this may …
cityfragment.wordpress.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:49 AM
Been thinking about the process of writing lately, partly as a result of chats with different people about how they write. So, apropos of nothing, & on the off chance that this may be of use to someone, here’s three quick things I’ve learnt about writing:
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...
cityfragment.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/t...
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artículo medido y perspicaz sobre la crisis actual en Bolivia por Gabriel Rodríguez García en NACLA
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'...la falta de renovación interna y la ausencia de alternativas que permitan proyectar un futuro más allá del caudillismo.'
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'...la falta de renovación interna y la ausencia de alternativas que permitan proyectar un futuro más allá del caudillismo.'
Bolivia en su laberinto
La crisis económica y política en Bolivia es un síntoma de la decadencia moral del partido Movimiento al Socialismo, que pone en cuestión sus otrora promesas y horizontes revolucionarios.
nacla.org
November 16, 2024 at 3:39 PM
artículo medido y perspicaz sobre la crisis actual en Bolivia por Gabriel Rodríguez García en NACLA
nacla.org/bolivia-en-s...
'...la falta de renovación interna y la ausencia de alternativas que permitan proyectar un futuro más allá del caudillismo.'
nacla.org/bolivia-en-s...
'...la falta de renovación interna y la ausencia de alternativas que permitan proyectar un futuro más allá del caudillismo.'
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I started a feminist anthropology started pack. Let me know if you want to be added. Please share
go.bsky.app/KdiCNZF
go.bsky.app/KdiCNZF
November 12, 2024 at 5:15 PM
I started a feminist anthropology started pack. Let me know if you want to be added. Please share
go.bsky.app/KdiCNZF
go.bsky.app/KdiCNZF
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Seeing some familiar faces on here (and finding out about new people) so made this Postcolonial / Indigenous Studies #starterpack
go.bsky.app/AiSoFL4
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November 15, 2024 at 11:42 AM
Seeing some familiar faces on here (and finding out about new people) so made this Postcolonial / Indigenous Studies #starterpack
go.bsky.app/AiSoFL4
go.bsky.app/AiSoFL4
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Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
November 15, 2024 at 12:59 PM
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome!
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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They should have called this site AFC Twitter
November 15, 2024 at 6:51 AM
They should have called this site AFC Twitter