Tag: social movements
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NO ONE CAN BE BORN TWICE. Website launch of born-twice.de
With a panel discussion of anthropologists (Uni Bayreuth) and activists (Together we are Bremen) on their joint research project. We cordially invite you to the launch of our website born-twice.de on June 28 at 6.30 pm, at the Lichtburgforum, Behmstraße 13, Berlin. Why and how does the eighteenth birthday make such a huge difference in the lives…
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Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin”
The Kick Off event “Anton Wilhelm Amo in Berlin” took place on April 26, 2024 at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt. This event was added last minute to the closing event and publication of the “Remembering Colonialism” (Kolonialismus erinnern). It was not originally part of the city-wide memory concept of “Colonialism” for Berlin, but…
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Far-right anthropologies
by Agnieszka Pasieka Far-right anthropologies One of the things that surprised me most after I began doing research on European far-right youth activists was my research participants’ statements on how much they love anthropology. Not Mussolini, not Christianity, not philosophy, but precisely anthropology. “How dare you?”, I would comment on such statements in my head,…
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Antiracist challenges to the gun violence debate
by Mihir Sharma for Anthropology Now Researchers, activists and artists have demonstrated the devastating intergenerational effects of gun violence, among them trauma and disability/debilitation among survivors and kin of persons shot or killed. Following in the footsteps of work done by Jodi Rios, Keona Ervin, and Barbara Ransby, I conducted fieldwork in St. Louis Missouri…
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Anthropology Lecture Series #3: : Right-wing xenophiles? : discourses on diversity in European far-right communities
by Dr. Agnieszka Pasieka Register here: https://uni-bayreuth.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Ysc–rrD8pEtQhOLinorPUPr8x5huuAZaE Drawing on ethnographic research with Italian and Polish far-right movements, in my talk I aim to shed light on the ways in which members of these movements deploy the notions of “difference” and “sameness” to promote their activism and appeal to broader population. First, I show that far-right…
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What Happens to Race When Empires Crumble?
Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network Meeting, 15-16 December 2021 Our two-day event seeks to connect social and cultural anthropology to the crucial activism surrounding heritage, museums, and public culture in Europe today. The event will gather together activists such as Berlin Postkolonial, the District Six Museum in Cape Town, and scholars such as Professor…
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Reportage: “Gegen die Geopolitik von Deutschland und EU formiert sich transnationaler Protest”
Protest in Berlin an der nigrischen Botschaft, 21 Mai 2021. Foto: Afrique Europe Interact “Die neue Grenzpolitik bleibt sowohl für die nigrischen und algerischen Regierungen als auch für die europäischen Migrationsinteressen profitabel. Dagegen kämpfende Aktivist*innen fordern im Interesse der Menschenrechte eine andere Politik, wie Azizou in Agadez sagt: »Die Anführer*innen der EU-Länder investieren kolossale Summen,…
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Reportage: Allianz gegen Repression
Auszug aus dem Artikel in der Analyse und Kritik, 18 Mai 2021: von Mihir Sharma & Kochob Mihretaab Unterschiedliche Exilgruppen protestieren in Deutschland gegen die äthiopische und die eritreische Regierung “No Justice in Tigray, Eritrea and Oromia – No peace in Ethiopia” war eine der zahlreichen Parolen der Demonstration, bei der Anfang April in Berlin…
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Call for Papers: Migrant and Minority Activism: Between protest movements and everyday engagement
30 September – 1 October 2021, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), Berlin Co-organised by ZOiS and the EASA Anthropology of Social Movements Network, Mihir Sharma & Piotr Goldstein At a time of Black Lives Matter and the proliferation of migrant, refugee and minority protests across the world (Polish women’s, Belarusian, Palestinian, Roma…
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Book Launch
Political Values and Narratives of Resistance: Social Justice and the Fractured Promises of Post-colonial States. Edited By Fiona Anciano and Joanna Wheeler. On 9 June 2021, 3pm – 5pm (SAST)/ 2pm – 4pm (UCT) About the book This book brings together multidisciplinary perspectives to explore how political values and acts of resistance impact the delivery of social justice in post-colonial…
ANTHROPOLOGY OF GLOBAL INEQUALITIES 