Thomas Cousins
@thomcous.bsky.social
Anthropologist. Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor of the Anthropology of Africa. Tutorial Fellow @StHughsCollege. School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Work on health, the living, the ordinary, post-TB, labour, South Africa
Jane Guyer’s generative capacity
www.journals.uchicago.edu
August 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/st-hughs-fel... An honour to be working with Prof Rachel Tanner @sthughscollege.bsky.social
St Hugh’s Fellows team up to tackle tuberculosis - St Hugh's College
Professors Rachel Tanner and Thomas Cousins are working with a new inter-disciplinary Oxford consortium to develop novel therapies for drug-resistant tuberculosis.
www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
May 6, 2025 at 8:33 AM
www.st-hughs.ox.ac.uk/st-hughs-fel... An honour to be working with Prof Rachel Tanner @sthughscollege.bsky.social
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An amazing book by an incredible group of authors - on a theme that could not be more timely.
(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)
(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
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April 30, 2025 at 12:43 AM
An amazing book by an incredible group of authors - on a theme that could not be more timely.
(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)
(Full disclosure: it’s in my Infrastructures book series. But it really is great!)
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“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253)
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Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
direct.mit.edu
April 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
“No object or living being is fragile in itself. What matters is when, why, and by whom it is considered and treated as fragile: through which mode of attention, by which gestures and instruments, according to which collectives, in which situation, and among which interdependencies.” (p. 253)
🔥🔥🔥
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Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
An original essay collection that explores the generative dimensions of fragility, which can help reveal new life-affirming politics and ethics.At a time w
direct.mit.edu
April 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today is publication date for our Fragilities volume!
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
"At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, the book is an invitation to think from fragility to build life-affirming politics and ethics"
It's got an amazing line-up & it is open-access! 🤓
the horror: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
Oxford and OpenAI launch collaboration to advance research and
The University of Oxford has announced plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) offering and capabilities with OpenAI.
www.ox.ac.uk
March 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
the horror: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-03...
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Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/
Mitra-Varuna - HAU Books
An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty By Georges Dumézil Edited and with a New Introduction by Stuart Elden Translated by Derek Coltman
haubooks.org
March 10, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Georges Dumézil, Mitra-Varuna: An Essay on Two Indo-European Representations of Sovereignty, translated by Derek Coltman, edited by Stuart Elden, afterword by Veena Das – HAU books, December 2024
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/
Now available open access
haubooks.org/mitra-varuna/
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📣 Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
Intrepid Women
Due for publication 8th March 2025 Introducing the extraordinary women who broke through the proverbial glass ceiling to carry out revolutionary field research in distant parts of the world ‘unsuitabl...
bodleianshop.co.uk
March 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
📣 Out now! 'Intrepid Women'
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
This fascinating book explores the lives and work of several pioneering women who undertook revolutionary anthropological field research around the world.
More info: bodleianshop.co.uk/products/int... #IWD @pittriversmuseum.bsky.social @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social
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A French colleague in the physical sciences asked me how best to support US science: by attending conferences in the US, or by boycotting them?
I don’t know how to answer.
But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.
I don’t know how to answer.
But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.
"Stand Up for Science", les scientifiques se mobilisent vendredi 7 mars pour défendre la recherche et les universités
Vendredi, des rassemblements et des marches sont organisés en France par la mobilisation Stand Up for Science. Des scientifiques veulent défendre la liberté académique en France et aux Etats-Unis.
www.sciencesetavenir.fr
March 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A French colleague in the physical sciences asked me how best to support US science: by attending conferences in the US, or by boycotting them?
I don’t know how to answer.
But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.
I don’t know how to answer.
But I do know we all need to March for Science today. The French have already begun.
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Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
February 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Please join us @oxford-anthro.bsky.social this Friday for Week 6 of our Department Seminar with @branwyn.bsky.social who will be presenting her paper ‘Staple Strategies: Food crisis and the struggle for millet in Senegal’. More info here: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/event/staple...
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St Hugh’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Michele Acton will be its 10th Principal. Acton is currently Chief Executive of the RSM (@roysocmed.bsky.social) and will assume the role of Principal in September 2025, when Lady Elish Angiolini KC steps down.
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal
February 26, 2025 at 12:11 PM
St Hugh’s College, Oxford, is delighted to announce that Michele Acton will be its 10th Principal. Acton is currently Chief Executive of the RSM (@roysocmed.bsky.social) and will assume the role of Principal in September 2025, when Lady Elish Angiolini KC steps down.
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal
bit.ly/StHughs10thPrincipal
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Join us for these fantastic events happening across the School next week! ⬇️
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Join us for these fantastic events happening across the School next week! ⬇️
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social
There's a wide range of topics to explore, with speakers from across our department, @ox.ac.uk & international institutions.
Details: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/events
@oii.ox.ac.uk @compasoxford.bsky.social
Keynote done. Great conference
November 7, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Keynote done. Great conference
Off to Anthropology Southern Africa today. #workofrepair
November 5, 2024 at 6:55 AM
Off to Anthropology Southern Africa today. #workofrepair
My monograph, The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa. June 2023, published by Fordham.
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The Work of Repair
In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the...
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October 1, 2024 at 10:41 AM
My monograph, The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa. June 2023, published by Fordham.
bit.ly/3VZn4Aq
bit.ly/3VZn4Aq
Starting with a clean slate on a new platform. Will be work-focused, basically. Will start with a thing about my recent book.
October 1, 2024 at 10:40 AM
Starting with a clean slate on a new platform. Will be work-focused, basically. Will start with a thing about my recent book.