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Jon Schubert
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Political anthropology: #infrastructures, #extractives #politics and #climatechange, esp. in #Angola and #Mozambique; find me Allegralaboratory.net and at critical urbanisms @unibas D/F/E/P
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#NewBookDay!
The upside of reviewing two book manuscripts in the first month of the teaching term… 🤩
A pile of books on a table - all urban studies & anthro titles
November 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Stimulating conversations on #extractivism here at #IFEAS Mainz
Poster for extractivism workshop at ifeas uni mainz
October 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Say no! to HE cuts in Switzerland: Aktionstag 1. Oktober
Sign the petition: bezahlbar-studieren.ch
A flyer for the protest day of 1 October against planned cuts to HE in Switzerland. See also: https://bezahlbar-studieren.ch/
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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…with a nice view!
Prague castle, viewed from the old town
June 26, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Fico bastante feliz de ver o meu capítulo sobre o 'Lourencismo' publicado na colectânea #Angola pós-dos Santos (lançamento na #UCAN aos 15-16 de Junho). PM > pdf
(English version to follow shortly)
Book cover: Angola pós-dos Santos (yellow cover, Presidents dos Santos and Lourenço clasping hands victoriously, underlaid by a map of Africa)
June 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ the #GrammarPolice never sleeps!
(from free "news" site baseljetzt)
a screenshot of a headline on free news site Baseljetzt.ch with an embarrassing grammar mistake (Gabriel Nigon wird neuer Präsident*en* der Basler LDP)
May 21, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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re-posting the info about our upcoming #LiquidUrbanism conference @unibas.ch @vpodunibas.bsky.social @srgbasel.bsky.social @zasb.unibas.ch
Event info: urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e...
Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1aZZ...
a green conference poster for the event mentioned, with a picture of a neighbourhood street submerged in water, block houses to the left and back with palm fronds and blue sky in the background. a QR code leads to the registration form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aZZPbriJUOmBHdVIBbvT_JixamUbqxPyx67JFmviggQ/viewform?edit_requested=true
May 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Teaser abstract (as no further edits needed) — no book ref in the article title, but plenty in the text, forthcoming in #EPD.
Abstract for Article 'Unseeing urban divides in Luanda and Maputo', by Jon Schubert and Jason Sumich: Taking China Miéville’s novel "The City & The City" as our point of departure, we develop the idea of “unseeing” as a central cultural skill to make sense of, and live with, contemporary urban inequality. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Luanda and Maputo, we posit unseeing as a useful heuristic to capture the processes by which divisions between disparate urban lifeworlds are produced and upheld. While unseeing is a necessary, entrained social practice to live with the contradictions of contemporary capitalism, urban life also offers opportunities for moments of “breach” that reveal both the forces that reassert social division and the potential of practices that seek to force people to see rather than unsee.
May 8, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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#LiquidUrbanisms 12-13 June in Basel urbanstudies.philhist.unibas.ch/en/studies/e.... Register at: forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9....
Conference poster for the Liquid Urbanisms Conference, 12-13 June. Register at: https://forms.gle/6JDL4sN4qeZ9ZztK6.
April 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Perry Anderson on Regime Change in the @lrb.co.uk
Screenshot of text: ‘mathematisation had long anaesthesised much of the discipline of economics against original thought of any kind’
April 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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#Berne
Photo of a sticker on a lamppost in Bern: « what a strange world where nazi salutes are pro-Israel and humanitarian law is antisemitic »
March 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Look what the postman just brought! 🤩
Book: C. Gastrow’s ‘The Aesthetics of Belonging. Indigenous Urbanism and City Building in Oil-Boom Luanda’
March 24, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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If you see this, drop a pic from the last place your passport was stamped.

New York City (USA)
A painted sign advertising the services of a psychic in Manhattan
December 13, 2024 at 7:37 AM
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…consider donating some of yours to Allegra Lab for urgent site updates. Allegralaboratory.net/donate
August 21, 2024 at 5:47 AM
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A postcard that reads: anthropologists make too much money. Please…
August 21, 2024 at 5:43 AM
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Reposting from another platform.
a call for applications from the St. Gallen Collegium: collegium.unisg.ch
August 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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It’s a wrap! @allegralab.bsky.social #EASA2024
July 27, 2024 at 5:35 AM
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the future is here, and it looks... sad?
screenshot of a mailing for an AI postcard text generator...
May 28, 2024 at 8:05 PM
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When times are dark: hope
May 24, 2024 at 6:57 PM
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TAFKAP.
Image of a Topps football sticker album
April 30, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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#academiclife
Hide the Pain Harold, Panel 1: I'm so happy I submitted four pieces over the past six months... Panel 2: ...and that all reviews came back at the same time.
March 28, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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t.co/TTPMtzXsRS
Wishful thinking, since 1979...
#Angola #EconomicDiversification #OilEconomy
Sean Bean Mordor meme: one does not simply diversify the economy...
March 12, 2024 at 2:00 PM
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December 24, 2023 at 8:34 PM
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#EndofTerm inventiveness!
December 15, 2023 at 2:26 PM
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#endofterm #feedback 🎉💌
A table with a bunch of post-it notes on it
December 12, 2023 at 4:43 PM