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You asked & here it is. “Life Cycle” my first documentary film on bicycling, air pollution & urban mobility in India. 42 min English subtitles. Screen & share. m.youtube.com/watch?v=V4eljw…

📢: 3x postdocs on extractivism & animism in #SoutheastAsia w/Judith Bovensiepen's @ERC_Research Resource Spirits project, Austrian Ac of Sciences. Great opp for #anthropologists of/from Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines - incs fieldwork funding oeawnr.onlyfy.jobs/job/9imyjik1

Great to see the Liverpool & Oxford Sts can cycleway open to the public & in use. A game changer to re-engineer such a major city artery, with plenty of buses, to accommodate a cycleway. Bravo @clovermoore.bsky.social #jessmiller & @cityofsydney team #publicsydney

‘You all are Bangladeshi. You are speaking Bengali means you are Bangladeshi’. Delhi, Gurgaon, Gujarat, Odisha: BJP-ruled states across India are raiding Bengali migrant bastis and accusing workers -- almost always falsely -- of being Bangladeshi. scroll.in/article/108446…

The making of Muslim ghettos in Calcutta, 1946–64 - Jonayed Rousan Mandal, Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay @Ritajyoti_B 2025 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00…

Delighted to share our co-edited special issue "Re-Orienting the Himalayan Borderlands" with in the SAMAJ - South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal (Open Access): journals.openedition.org/samaj/9869 It has been a wonderful process and set of conversations! Image credits: self

If you want to know what happened to Nehar Bibi & others at Foreigners Tribunals in Assam, do get the extremely reasonably priced Indian edition of #JunglePassports by @arpitayodapress. It is not easy to observe judicial proceedings.

Launching in Melbourne today. All welcome:

We are hiring an Assistant Professor in Visual Anthropology at the University of Sussex! ⁦@SussexAnthropol⁩ ⁦@SussexGlobal⁩ ⁦@SussexUni⁩ jobs.ac.uk/job/DNV571/ass…

🚨📣Out now, our special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation on ‘New Worlds of Logistical Labour’, co-edited with @laurenkatekelly & @internet_chris, with 10 papers spanning research across 5 continents. Check it out!!😊✊

How gig workers struggle between flexibility and insecurity? What are the challenges faced by gig workers in ensuring social security, minimum wages, and protection from exploitation? My piece for @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/upsc-c…

lacs of people live out their lives in calcutta without realising just how beautiful the city's eastern wetlands are, especially during the monsoons luckily most of the best bits are only accessible on foot/by bicycle

The Critical Urbanism Program, U of Basel, the Urban Institute, U of Sheffield, and Soc-Cultural Anthropology, Leiden will conduct a School of Urban Popular Economy in Nairobi from Feb 2-6, 2026. Fully funded opportunities for 11 early career scholars. If interested contact:

Special issue on Materializing #Land edited by Rachel Sturman is #CSSAME @DukePress is soon forthcoming and here is my epilogue: the authors are pushing the land question in new directions shorturl.at/lQy9Y read on: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/advanc…

Believe and walk the journey of decolonisation, repatriation, and healing. Naga delegation begins historic repatriation of ancestral remains from Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum nagalandtribune.in/naga-delegatio…